Can you pass for British?

[Darat]

Try this quiz, which is apparently based on the latest Home Office booklet advising people seeking to become British Citizens.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/4099770.stm


I got 12 right - and one that I got wrong is because the Home Office got it wrong - so there!

I do have a serious reason for making this thread which is curiosity about whether other Members (especially British) are in tune with the Home Office.


(Edited to add the link to the quiz, which may or may not be helpful.)

 

[richardm]

Eight right out of 24! I'm expecting a knock on the door from immigration control at any moment (and I've lived here all my life).

I did laugh at the "Down the pub" questions though.

 

[Lisa Simpson]

I only got seven right.

 

[Nyarlathotep]

Five right. Apparently I know diddly about being British.

 

[Ian Osborne]

Seven right, but only 15 questions in the test. And they were, in the main, incredibly stupid questions...

 

[richardm]

only 15 questions in the test.

Ah, right, I misread it - the 24 questions are from the full "official" test.

 

[Mojo]

Nine right (out of 15).

 

[Mid]

Well got 10 right, not bad decent 2.1 mark

 

[Darat]

Hmmm... well it seems my thread is exposing some people who have just been pretending to be British, mentioning no names Richard and Ian.

 

[Ian Osborne]

Hmmm... well it seems my thread is exposing some people who have just been pretending to be British, mentioning no names Richard and Ian.

Donner und Blitzen, ve haff bin rumbled!

 

[richardm]

Zey vill neffer take me alife!


Edited to add: Interesting cultural thing that we both independently chose cod German accents!

 

[Jorghnassen]

I got 5 right. Being a member of the Commonwealth isn't enough I guess...

 

[Kerberos]

Nine out of fifteen, I'm apparently more British than certain Brits. Thoufh some of them I answered based on non-British knowledge. Calling 112 in an emergency is fx EU standard, and Santa Cluas comes from the North Pole in DK as well.

 

[IllegalArgument]

I got 10 right, not bad for a yankee.

 

[Grammatron]

I got 10 right.

 

[geni]

I'm pretty sure we aren't on 240 volts any more

 

[roger]

Can you pass for British?

Who'd want to?

 

[headscratcher4]

As usual, sitting in Heathrow...only 6.

 

[Darat]

Re: Re: Can you pass for British?

Who'd want to?

According to our press millions and millions of people are trying to invade our little island year in year out.... (Oh and most of your founding fathers. )

 

[SezMe]

I got only 4!! Does that mean that I, as a southern Californian, do not understand you Brits or that I have been spending too much time at my own personal pub (read, fridge) tonight?