Poll: UK Citizenship Quiz

[aprildog18]

How might you stop young people playing tricks on you at Halloween?

What kind of question is that?

 

[KapnKerfuffle]

No Dr. Who or Monty Python questions at all. I won't pass it.

 

[artanis_neravar]

Can you pass it? [http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/blog/quiz/2011/oct/11/uk-citizenship-test-quiz]

In case you didn't know, to gain citizenship in the UK you have to take a short test about British culture and history, the above link is adapted from a practice version. Do you think that it's too harsh? What would you change about it, if anything? Did you get the trick-or-treat question right?

Also post your scores. I failed with 15/24, even though I'm a citizen by birth

EDIT: Only 7% of the escapist has managed to pass, that's 18 out of 291 so far.

11/24 Don't know why you would need to know how many children under 19 there are in the UK, The percentage of people in the UK in 2001 who said they were Muslims, or that Information in the census is kept secret for 100 years. I did manage to guess How many parliamentary constituencies are there? by knowing the trick they use for questions like these, and Who is the monarch not allowed to marry? by guessing

 

[Shock and Awe]

Wow, the people around here are typically pretty bright and most of the UK citizens here failed, god forbid they let this go. I got 10 out of 24 but I'm American.

 

[Get_A_Grip_]

Failed, and I'm from Ireland. Wow that test was really hard and the fact that it required 75% to pass it was just insane.

 

[TheVioletBandit]

It's funny how most of you Brits couldn't pass a citizen test for your own country, but then are so quick to stick your nose up, and tell us about how little Americans know about their own history.

Maybe you should make your own thread and see if Americans can actually do better than us Brits...you've sort of missed the point.

The message I was trying to send wasn't that Americans would do any better, quiet the opposite actually. My point was that we are more the same as a people than most want to admit.

 

[Lizardon]

7/24

Well I can't move to the UK any time soon, guess I'll have to stay in Australia. I can pass our test at least.

 

[TheVioletBandit]

It's funny how most of you Brits couldn't pass a citizen test for your own country, but then are so quick to stick your nose up, and tell us about how little Americans know about their own history.

Have you looked at the link in the OP?

Anyway- Americans know shit about their own history. I remember when one of my teachers gave the entire class the actual 100 question citizenship test for the US. We all flunked that shit so hard it physically pained our teacher.

I guess the point of what I was trying to say was unclear. I was trying to point out that we are more the same than most would like to admit for some reason, and instead of stereotyping each other or clinging disparately to some false sense of superiority which I have seen a lot of Brits on this site do, we should see ourselves as one people. In the end were really not that different.

 

[gillebro]

There's got to be something wrong with it if UK citizens are taking this test and getting scores you'd get if you answered every question randomly.

Here's a couple of proper questions:

1) What's wrong?
a) The weather.
b) The queues.
c) The government.
d) All of the above.

2) What's the best way to describe 100 cm?
a) A meter
b) A metre
c) 3.28083989501 feet
d) About a yard.

Bonus mark if you missed either the A or the T out of 'bou'.

3) Chicken Tikka Masala is England's favourite dish. Where does it come from?
a) India.
b) England.
c) Scotland.

Bonus marks for the name of any supermarket other than Waitrose.

4) Name a quality newspaper.
(Trick question: Any answer is wrong.)

5) What are the ingredients of a bacon sandwich?

Proper bacon, two doorsteps, brown sauce Ketchup is acceptable IF it's Heinz. Lose half a mark for lettuce.

6) Seriously, what's wrong?
a) The weather
b) That guy on the news, did you see it? Oooh what a scandal.
c) What the doctor doesn't think I have, but I know I do.
d) All of the above.

7) When should you say sorry?
a) When something is your fault.
b) When something isn't your fault.
c) When something might be your fault.
d) At every possible instance.

8) Look, are you sure nothing's wrong?
a) It's OK, I'll cope.
b) It's fine, I'll cope.
c) Well... - Lose 5 marks.
d) No, nothing is wrong.

9) Sex?
a) Male
b) Female
c) Hurr hurr you said sex - Lose 5 marks
d) I'm sorry, I don't know what you mean.

10)
Two World Wars and One World Cup?
a) Doo dah, doo dah.
b) I don't understand the question.
c) I find that offensive. - Lose 5 marks.
d) Do you really think we should still be harping on about that? - Deportation.

11) Congratulations, you have passed the test.
a) Sorry.
b) Sorry.

Absolute love, for this.

I failed with 11/24, and I'll be needing to take this test at some stage. I might have to study.

 

[putowtin]

18 out of 24, british, proud and... what the hell were some of those questions!?

 

[BristolBerserker]

I'm a British citizen and i only got 16/24. Strangely it was the questions that had completely no relevance to actually being British or living in the UK that i got wrong.

 

[GodofCider]

4. Name a quality news paper, anywhere in the world.

The Addison Independent

Local Vermont newspaper. Still had one of the best lines ever; made headline news too:

Horse falls in love.

(yes it was in fact about a horse that had fallen into what appeared to be deep affection)

-Native Vermonter

 

[lockeslylcrit]

12/24, not bad for being a US citizen. Although the Halloween one was pretty stupid in the context of citizenship.

 

[Munchu]

With 13 out of a possible 24, I fail. My excuse is that I'm not British and it's a miracle I scored more than half right.

 

[05026]

I got 18 out of 24. This was a really easy test, I'm a 17yr old New Zealander who has never been to Europe.

Some things like seeing a solicitor to buy a house I only knew from Grand Designs, but I can't see why a British person couldn't do it.

 

[DaWrecka]

I'm a British citizen and i only got 16/24. Strangely it was the questions that had completely no relevance to actually being British or living in the UK that i got wrong.

Isn't that like a full 75% of the questions there?

 

[ejb626]

Failed. This is probably all basic social studies for you guys but I really didn't the answers to any of it. I pretty much guessed on everything. The only one I put some thought into was the one on who the monarch isn't allowed to marry based on how the royal wedding was in the news a few months ago.

 

[GeneralDefiance]

11/24.....what a stupid fucking test. British citizenship tests should be more like:

1:Today, yesterday and Tomorrow, what will the weather be like:

. Shit

. Shit

. Shit

. Shit.


2.Will you work for less money than (insert downtrodden minority name here)?

.Yes

.What?

.No Abla

.Which way to france?

 

[Cheezeypoofs]

12/24 and not a UK citizen. Guessed on every question too

 

[BristolBerserker]

I'm a British citizen and i only got 16/24. Strangely it was the questions that had completely no relevance to actually being British or living in the UK that i got wrong.

Isn't that like a full 75% of the questions there?

Yep