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fiberguy
·14 ... not too bad for a Yank
I am not fit to live here
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Turpinrr
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Beer bottle opener on a Barbour jacket
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steversaurus
·16/24. Not bad for a Canadian I suppose.
Also geez there are 45 of these tests....
Also geez there are 45 of these tests....
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YYTIN
·Got a 19.
I'm French but I like the UK, spent 18months in London 18 years ago and my sister is now married there and I have 2 British nephews.
So all in all I'm not sure I have any reason to brag about this result 😀
Anyway I've no plan to request British citizenship ... yet.
But I've learnt something : William the great built the London tower... One of the easy ones I got wrong.
Edit : we also love tea, the public footpaths, Pubs, English breakfast and rugby ... and I wear Barbour, Crockett&jones and I grow David Austin roses in my garden. I should have a bonus point at least.
I'm French but I like the UK, spent 18months in London 18 years ago and my sister is now married there and I have 2 British nephews.
So all in all I'm not sure I have any reason to brag about this result 😀
Anyway I've no plan to request British citizenship ... yet.
But I've learnt something : William the great built the London tower... One of the easy ones I got wrong.
Edit : we also love tea, the public footpaths, Pubs, English breakfast and rugby ... and I wear Barbour, Crockett&jones and I grow David Austin roses in my garden. I should have a bonus point at least.
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Tayne
·I got 20 out of 24 but having helped a friend study for one of these a few years ago I'd take issue with a few of the questions, I don't always agree with the idolised view of britain and the credit taken for the work of others in those questions.
I'll quite happily trade my British passort for a Scottish one when the day comes.
I'll quite happily trade my British passort for a Scottish one when the day comes.
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SydR
·I got 16 too on test 11.
Did another and got 20.
The history ones usually stump me.
Did another and got 20.
The history ones usually stump me.
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Gav1967
··Tend not to fret too muchI got 20 out of 24 but having helped a friend study for one of these a few years ago I'd take issue with a few of the questions, I don't always agree with the idolised view of britain and the credit taken for the work of others in those questions.
I'll quite happily trade my British passort for a Scottish one when the day comes.
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JimInOz
··Melbourne AustraliaYou get a demerit as a knowledgeable beer drinker, that " huge can punch" is properly known as a Church key.
You'd be pushin' shite uphill to carry this "church key" around in your pocket!
😉
We all had church keys on our keychains etc, but this was an industrial opener made for fast issue to thirsty sailors.
The one on our ship was similar, but larger for the 26oz cans and much more over engineered/agricultural, probably made by one of the shipwrights and it was highly effective.
One of my mates kept his church key on a leather thong around his neck.
At a big BBQ ashore one time, he was involved in a mild disagreement with another mate and subsequently received a punch in the chest. Realising that the church key was just as effective at opening bodies as it was with beer cans he kept it in his pocket thereafter.
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MRC
·I don't always agree with the idolised view of britain and the credit taken for the work of others in those questions.
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Then there is the rather poor use of the English language. Here are some of the questions and one answer from just one test.
Who asked Hadrian's Wall to be built? [How do you ask a wall, and was it self-building?]
A marriage should be entered into with the full and free consent of either of the individuals. [Not both? Tut-tut!]
What is the name of the publication where proceedings in Parliament published? [... are published?]
What war the English kings fought for control of the Holy Land during the Middle Ages? [What was the war the...? And weren't there three wars at least? And didn't the Holy Roman Emperor have a part in them?]
Which of the following is accepted for unfair treatment according to UK laws? [Is accepted treatment, or not accepted? Meaning of question baffled me. The "correct" answer turned out to be "None"]
Which TWO British artist have won film Oscars recently? [artist singular?]
What did Emancipation Act, 1833, abolished? [did the... ... abolish?]
What is Sake Dean Mahomet remembered for? He has introduced the spices to Britain. [the spices? which spices?]
And that's what I noticed, I who didn't learn to spell "engineer" until I was over forty. To be fair I don't know if these are the official questions, I found them on a "practice for the test" website.
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Pastorbottle
·I go along with this, and some of the questions do look a bit like Monty Python's Englishness test asked of Karl Marx. Can't find it again but one question was about the principles of being British. The only answer that corresponded with reality was "Support the local football team." That apparently is the wrong answer.
Then there is the rather poor use of the English language. Here are some of the questions and one answer from just one test.
Who asked Hadrian's Wall to be built? [How do you ask a wall, and was it self-building?]
A marriage should be entered into with the full and free consent of either of the individuals. [Not both? Tut-tut!]
What is the name of the publication where proceedings in Parliament published? [... are published?]
What war the English kings fought for control of the Holy Land during the Middle Ages? [What was the war the...? And weren't there three wars at least? And didn't the Holy Roman Emperor have a part in them?]
Which of the following is accepted for unfair treatment according to UK laws? [Is accepted treatment, or not accepted? Meaning of question baffled me. The "correct" answer turned out to be "None"]
Which TWO British artist have won film Oscars recently? [artist singular?]
What did Emancipation Act, 1833, abolished? [did the... ... abolish?]
What is Sake Dean Mahomet remembered for? He has introduced the spices to Britain. [the spices? which spices?]
And that's what I noticed, I who didn't learn to spell "engineer" until I was over forty. To be fair I don't know if these are the official questions, I found them on a "practice for the test" website.
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Tayne
·I was expecting Tommy Walsh or the crew from Aufwedersein Pet.
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ahartfie
··The black sheep in the Spee-ee-eee-eedmaster flockI didn’t used to be able to spell engineer……now I is one 😁
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Malthus101
·Look at this utter BS:
Just can't help themselves propagandizing, can they?
I quit the test at this point.
Just can't help themselves propagandizing, can they?
I quit the test at this point.
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