Anyone tried the 'Britishness' test???

Question

wow....i was looking at some of the questions on the 'life in britain' test and I can't answer the majority of them let alone someone who's applying for british nationality! and i was born here! some of the questions are naff....try 'em and you'll soon see what i mean.

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

Answer 1

Yes I tried it and can't remember the outcome. Think I ended up more British than my friends who actually are born and raised in England (I never lived there)

Answer 2

I agree with you on this one,,the questions are totally naff and I certainly cannot answer most of them,,I guess this is just another money making scam from the Blair lot,,actually I wonder if Blair himself could answer any of the questions either.
My wife has to take this pathetic test at the cost of £38 each time,,it's just so meaningless and so pointless in the first place.

Answer 3

Weird test. I knew most of the answers and even though it was tempting to say that the answer to the question "What should you do if you accidentally spill the pint of a man in a pub?" was "prepare for a fight in the car park", I kind of guessed that the "correct" answer was "Offer to buy him another pint."

But, I got two of them wrong:
I didn't know that dog licenses had been abolished in 1987, and,
I didn't know that the Father Christmas myth came from

"German/Swedish immigrants to the USA"

I guess that both of these are important knowledge about British culture for immigrants to know.

Answer 4

Tried the second link and got 4/5, but I'd say it was a lot to do with history and I would say I have a slightly better than average knowledge of History for a 22 yr old British gal. How is knowing where scouse is spoken relevent to whether your a suitable resident/worker/citizen? Waste of money thats attempting to please the Daily Express readers.

Answer 5

Dear Mum

Hello from Britain.
I took my Britishness test today and learned lot of useful things.

That bald, fat guy that you see in the documentaries, the one alwys smoking a cigar; he was called Winston Churchill, tried to stop England being invaded by people who had really big ideological differences with this country. Lucky he's not around now isn't it :-)

And there was mention of a woman called Emily Pankhurst, she wanted women to be treated equally to men (have voting rights, not wear veils), she even advocated that women should not be stoned for commiting adultery.....what a nutter. One of her friends through herself under a race horse, I suppose at least I can admire her for that, unfortunately she failed to blow up.

Finally, I learned about something called Democracy, but I don't think it works. Apparently the people who run this country are supposed to represent the population of the country and are accountable to them. What a crazy notion. Anyway, as I said it doesn't work.
I heard that even though 80% of the British people are opposed to immigration their government has tried to increase the numbers of people moving into the country.

Oh one final thing before I go. I had to laugh earlier. I saw one of the British soldiers on tv telling the reporters that he was angry because he had been wounded fighting in Iraq and couldn't afford a house in the UK. Ha! That will teach him to kill our brothers in Iraq. I've never even paid any taxes and the government gave me a house and the 5 kids all have a room each. I always said that violence doesn't pay. Unless it's against an infidel of course and then the payment is divine...and tax free!

Well I have to go now, I need to fill in a form to tell the infidels why I'm too ill to work, I can't decide whether I should tell them it's my back or my ankles.

Look forward to seeing you soon. I'm driving a cab part time to earn a bit of extra money, which I'm putting aside to help pay for a new mosque. Don't forget to tell all the others about the great freebies, with any luck we'll be able to get you and the 200 grandchildren here before Christmas, then we can all collectively protest against the infidels enjoyment of that holiday together.

Mohammed

Answer 6

I was born outside Britain and came to live in Britain in 1979.I became British Citizen in th elate 80's and never needed to take any test.
I personally think you should feel Britishness when you
1) feel paying the TV licence is a good thing
2) paying your tax means the government can help the less fortunate in the society
3)show your bottom when you disagree with someone , kind of kiss my *** gesture
4)start cracking good nature racist jokes and everyone has a good laugh and nobody gets offended. eg, the luckiest Arab in Belfast tonight.
5)agree with the police when they said to each other about you " we look after our own kind , he is not one of us.

Answer 7

A link would have been useful!

But I agree that some of the questions are really strange, and I don't see how they relate to being a good citizen or not!

Answer 8

No. but I think many of the questions are quite daft
However, nothing will beat this one which I filled out
in Italy for a residency permit. One of the questions.
"ARE YOU A TERRORIST?" I was going to fill "only
with the women" my instinct told me better not because
the officer seemed to be scowling.

Answer 9

Well I just took the test and failed it. I guess my dreams of becoming a British bloke what with the tea and crumpets is not going to happen.

Answer 10

I tried the one that rosbif posted a link for. Five questions. I got three right, two wrong and it told me i had 60% and i failed :-)

"What percentage of the UK population is under the age of 19?"

And knowing THAT is what partly defines your "Britishness"?