British Citizenship Test, Could you pass ?

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LincolnsBeard

Judgement Day wrote: »

Most English people are so damn parochial that they don't even know what's over the nearest hill.

You have no idea what you're talking about.

golden lane

Judgement Day wrote: »

Most English people are so damn parochial that they don't even know what's over the nearest hill.

parochial.....not really the word, too busy getting on with their lives to bother.........

whats my next car/holiday/house/kids..........important things.........

you just can't get them to talk about history...i have tried and tried......

LincolnsBeard

golden lane wrote: »

parochial.....not really the word, too busy getting on with their lives to bother.........

whats my next car/holiday/house/kids..........important things.........

you just can't get them to talk about history...i have tried and tried......

English history taught in English schools= You screwed over the world but at least you did some good in WW2 to balance it out.

efb

Orim wrote: »

I thought it was 1740s so I was kinda of right, just the wrong century :pac:

Although I just looked it up and there was a famine in the 1740s so I was technically right.

yes, I said 18th C, it says 19th C!!!

Blowfish

efb wrote: »

yes, I said 18th C, it says 19th C!!!

It probably doesn't help that there were two of them, one in 18th, one in 19th. The one in the 18th century is less known for some reason.

Capt'n Midnight

golden lane wrote: »

aint you a clever person.......3 million indians fought in the british forces during the second world war....all of them volunteers....

Not to mention the 3 million who died in the Bengal Famine.

Caiseoipe19

9...although guessed 2 or 3 correctly...

Sappa

They should give this test to the crowd from Geordie shore and see how they do.

Agent Smith

14 out of 15....


I am the son of an Immigrant

MetalDog

Got 11 out of 15 first go, mind you I do have a History degree, so I kinda knew most of the answers. Can't believe I forgot Cromwell overthrew Charles I - I put down James I. D'oh!! :rolleyes:

Pedant

14 out of 15. I'm such a West Brit.

alphasully

11 out of 15, where's my passport. On second thought's I think I'll stick with the one I have

golden lane

LincolnsBeard wrote: »

English history taught in English schools= You screwed over the world but at least you did some good in WW2 to balance it out.

me...i'm from the liberties........golden lane......lol

Capt'n Midnight

Blowfish wrote: »

It probably doesn't help that there were two of them, one in 18th, one in 19th. The one in the 18th century is less known for some reason.

Because in one of them they banned the export of food.

Judgement Day

LincolnsBeard wrote: »

You have no idea what you're talking about.

Okay, I'll bow to your superior knowledge so. :rolleyes:

I always thought that Northern Ireland was considered to be part of Great Britain! Almost certain I saw that with people's addresses.

Judgement Day

Deleted User wrote: »

I always thought that Northern Ireland was considered to be part of Great Britain! Almost certain I saw that with people's addresses.

http://www.shutterstock.com/pic-70356919/stock-photo-united-kingdom-of-great-britain-and-northern-ireland-passport.html

Seaneh

Deleted User wrote: »

I always thought that Northern Ireland was considered to be part of Great Britain! Almost certain I saw that with people's addresses.

United Kingdom of Great Britain AND Northern Ireland.
Kinda suggests it's seperate...

golden lane

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

Not to mention the 3 million who died in the Bengal Famine.

yes.....facts are great........and all the american indian land the irish stole.....oh and killed the indians......shall we go on.....

by the way....seventy percent of the british troops at the time of the bengal famine......were irish........

Seaneh

golden lane wrote: »

yes.....facts are great........and all the american indian land the irish stole.....oh and killed the indians......shall we go on.....

by the way....seventy percent of the british troops at the time of the bengal famine......were irish........

It wasn't the soldiers that caused the famine, it was english policies.

You cannot even in your ****ing dreams hide from that.

stoneill

10 in the UK citizenship test.

2 in the Australian one

Judgement Day

Seaneh wrote: »

It wasn't the soldiers that caused the famine, it was english policies.

You cannot even in your ****ing dreams hide from that.

Yeah, and if the Normans hadn't invaded Britain there would have been no eight hundred years of oppression; and if the poxy Romans hadn't abandoned Britain in the first place we could all be speaking Latin today......

bedrock#1

13 right out of 15

indioblack

Judgement Day wrote: »

Most English people are so damn parochial that they don't even know what's over the nearest hill.

Well this town I'm in, (in England), has always been parochial. When my mother came here to live from Ireland she found it was exactly the same as the place she was getting away from!
Actually I do know what's over the hill - Bath.

Zebra3

You scored 11 out of a possible 15

Congratulations! If this was the real British citizenship test you would have passed the 75% mark. Well done you! Feel free to keep your passport.

Will be hard for most Irish people with no questions on Depremiership or Corrie.

Jimoslimos

9/15

More of a history test tbh. A few contemporary questions would be more appropriate.

golden lane

Seaneh wrote: »

It wasn't the soldiers that caused the famine, it was english policies.

You cannot even in your ****ing dreams hide from that.

never hide from the truth....it rears up and kicks you in the bum....

imperial policies are only enforced by power....soldiers are power....not office wallahs......

what about all the irish who.....stole land from the australian and new zealand native people....

some of my relations there.....as there is in the usa and canada, and everywhere else....

there are even ex slaves with my irish name......wonder where they got that from....

god! the thought....my ancestors were slave owners...

now don't get annoyed.....it is only the truth...

JohnMearsheimer

I got 8. I lived over there for 2 years, good thing I didn't need British citizenship.

A Dub in Glasgo

I got 7... I have lived here for 19 years!

christmas2012

i would get caught out on a few questions,and im sure they would find it difficult too,probably didnt have english history on their school curriculum..its a tough one alright..

validusername1

4.. nice :pac:

mitosis

You scored 11 out of a possible 15

Tope

13 out of 15 - I'm fairly interested in history though, and a couple were lucky guesses.

Jimoslimos wrote: »

More of a history test tbh. A few contemporary questions would be more appropriate.

I gather that the history test is just a part of the overall test; I'm sure there are other sections about current laws and other aspects of modern British life. I'd be curious to see the rest of the test actually, I'd probably do worse on that!

Also I'm kinda surprised to be honest that people here got the famine question wrong – we learned so much about it in school, and it had a huge effect on our recent social history.
(By the way that other famine in the 1740s was caused by an extreme cold spell which effected the harvest; the question in the test was specifically about the potato famine.)

iguana

13 out of 15. Got the Wales one and the craftsmen one wrong. I'm now burning with curiosity to know what the story is with the carpenters. Why didn't they go to England? What was the consequence of them not going? I must know.

Seaneh

golden lane wrote: »

never hide from the truth....it rears up and kicks you in the bum....

imperial policies are only enforced by power....soldiers are power....not office wallahs......

what about all the irish who.....stole land from the australian and new zealand native people....

some of my relations there.....as there is in the usa and canada, and everywhere else....

there are even ex slaves with my irish name......wonder where they got that from....

god! the thought....my ancestors were slave owners...

now don't get annoyed.....it is only the truth...

Fail.

The reason a lot of African Americans have Irish names is, funnily enough, because 1 in 3 African Americans happen to have, dun dun dun, and Irish patriarchal ancestor, same reason why a lot of Black people in South Africa have Irish and Portuguese names, they have Irish and/or Portuguese patriarchal ancestors.

The English sent the Irish to Australlia, they also created the conditions in Ireland that lead to millions leaving this country to escape extreme poverty and military rule.

You can try side step reality and pass the blame but in the case military personal acting on orders form the highest levels of government it would be the heads of state along with the military leaders (all of whom would have been English) who are at fault.

Laura_lolly87

i got 8. bit disappointing seeing as i'm a history student.

Red Hand

11 here, chaps! Pip pip, what ho!

genie

12/15!

bwatson

Seaneh wrote: »

Fail.

The reason a lot of African Americans have Irish names is, funnily enough, because 1 in 3 African Americans happen to have, dun dun dun, and Irish patriarchal ancestor, same reason why a lot of Black people in South Africa have Irish and Portuguese names, they have Irish and/or Portuguese patriarchal ancestors.

The English sent the Irish to Australlia, they also created the conditions in Ireland that lead to millions leaving this country to escape extreme poverty and military rule.

You can try side step reality and pass the blame but in the case military personal acting on orders form the highest levels of government it would be the heads of state along with the military leaders (all of whom would have been English) who are at fault.

Why are you certain they were English? Because you see these acts as terrible you are sure they couldn't have been sanctioned by a Welsh or Scottish politician or civil servant for example? Or do you just not know very much about the dynamics of the UK as a political entity?

Seaneh

bwatson wrote: »

Why are you certain they were English? Because you see these acts as terrible you are sure they couldn't have been sanctioned by a Welsh or Scottish politician or civil servant for example? Or do you just not know very much about the dynamics of the UK as a political entity?

Because the "United Kingdom" was ruled by Englishmen.

mgn

4 and i lived there for 13 years

mahamageehad

5 out of 15 / Really embarrassed to get the first one wrong! :P

Jimoslimos

Tope wrote: »

Also I'm kinda surprised to be honest that people here got the famine question wrong – we learned so much about it in school, and it had a huge effect on our recent social history.

I reckon the large number of people getting the famine question wrong is due to mistaking 18/19th century for 1800/1900s instead of 1700/1800s.

bwatson

Seaneh wrote: »

Because the "United Kingdom" was ruled by Englishmen.

Care to explain your use of inverted commas?

Sulla Felix

11/15
Not sure I see what the big deal is. Most of it is stuff from Junior Cert history and I did that over a decade ago.

charlemont

Pedant wrote: »

14 out of 15. I'm such a West Brit.

No your not !! Your just well educated , Whereas the comment below coming from an Irishman is just shocking.

Deleted User wrote: »

I always thought that Northern Ireland was considered to be part of Great Britain! Almost certain I saw that with people's addresses.

smileyj1987

I got 7 out of 15 , i am actually surprised i did that well .

PizzamanIRL

What a bull**** test. What has most of those questions got to do with living in the UK? So what if you don't know your history, it doesn't mean you shouldn't be allowed to live in the country.

bwatson

charlemont wrote: »

No your not !! Your just well educated , Whereas the comment below coming from an Irishman is just shocking.

Its not "shocking" at all.

Northern Ireland and the Northern Irish people are often regarded as British. The most respected of social and military historians, and the most prominent of political analysts often refer to the UK as Britain, to the people of the UK as the British with regard to all manner of things, from the Second World War to contemporary political disputes.

Geographically, we are not part of Great Britain. Politically, there is no question we are British.