This is my first time watching a video of yours, and I just wanted you to know that it's nice to see someone taking an interest in british culture. It genuinely warms my heart to see that you are genuinely enjoying learning about my nation. Also, you did quite a respectable job with the quiz, given you don't have the advantage of being raised here!
@ he laughed when the video said ‘hanged’ and then he ‘corrected’ it. So it is directly related to the video. He watches videos to learn, so I’m sure he’d take no issue with this comment😊
The Red Lion name dates back years, When James I & VI (respectively) took the throne of England in the early 1600's he decreed that all places of public importance were emblazoned with the red lion of Scotland, and seen as he is from Scotland (Love my crazy brethren) this included all pubs and inns (Which is another weird fact: People who run a pub/Inn are called publicans, as they serve the public)
Some debate over whether Red Lion or Royal Oak, referring to the tree the future Charles II hid in escaping to France. No matter which is correct all pubs are disappearing at a rapid rate.
@@natalielang6209 My town had over 25 when I arrived 25 years ago now ten and only one of the five in the Main St. surviving. We do have one new pub, built on the old Cinema site but it's a Gastro Pub and separate restaurant upstairs. Even the one pub that only opened one day a year to retain the license is now apartments. One has been shut for over ten years as a dispute over the will of the former Licensee, nothing can be done whilst still in probate. To open a new pub one has to buy two pub licences, new ones only issued under exceptional circumstances. The value of a license now more than the building. A hundred years ago the town had over 150 pubs, some not legal ones though. The rules were brought in on the formation of the Republic of Éire, the Irish Free State just adopted the English Laws, as it was thought that there were too many pubs per head of population. Losing the reputation of drunk Irishmen didn't quite work.
White Star Line is a Liverpool company, that's why Liverpool is written on the back (stern) of the ship but it was built in harland and wolff docks in Belfast.
Well done, Tyler, not too shabby as we say over here in the U.K. The thing about The Tower of London goes like this, two Yeomen of the Guard (Yeoman the official title for what's commonly known as a Beefeater), as one guard approaches another he is challenged, "Halt, who goes there?" to which the reply is, "The keys", "Whose keys?", "The King's keys" (obviously it was once "The Queen's keys"), "Advance The King's keys and be recognised". A 'Pleasure Pier' is a pier which has amusements on it such as shows, booths, gaming machines etc.
Funnily enough I only knew the answer to that first one because Terry Pratchett did a parody of it in one of the Discworld novels. One of the Unseen University ones but I can't think which one off the top of my head
Back in the 60’s or 70’s an American bought London bridge and it was moved to America … when he got it it was the “wrong bridge” LOL , he thought he’d got Tower Bridge …LOL ! Check it out 😊
Hi there Tyler, great reaction As a swede, this was not very easy and also had some lucky guesses of course Managed to get four more than you, some by luck, but very good for a typical average American 👍 Greetings from Sweden
35/35 Woo hoo! The roundabout is a jokey reference to The Magic Roundabout which was a kids' TV series in the 1970s - French stop-motion with English story dubbed over the top - slightly trippy!
I used to live a couple of miles from a Red Lion pub. One half was in Wiltshire with the other half in Hampshire, the border was/is (the building still exists) literally in the doorway so you were in two counties as you entered.
On the On the England/Wales border there was at least one pub which straddled the border. A white line depicting the border was drawn on the floor in the pub. This was important in the days when Wales was dry at certain times with no alcohol permitted to be served whereas England was wet. During the times that Wales was dry the light went out on the Welsh side and all the customers sat and were served on the English side of the border.
Nelson's Column was built to commemorate his victory in the Battle of Trafalgar and is in the centre of Trafalgar Square which is also famous for having hundreds of pigeons .
@@rocketrabble6737 Fair enough but thing is there used to be people selling pigeon food to tourists to encourage pigeons towards them and take some unique and sometimes terrifying photos . That was the point I was trying to make .
I was quite surprised he got that question about Nelson’s Column wrong seeing as you could actually see the base of the column in the photo being shown lol I guess if you don’t know what the column looks like to begin with the photo wouldn’t help much though - I’m sure there’s lots of American landmarks I wouldn’t recognise 🤷♀️
@@emma-janeadamson4099nah give him the credit he is due, the man does a lot of videos around britain and british culture. He would likely get football being what he knows as soccer in this context 😊
My partner uses Pete Tong a lot. @tyler usually you’d get a sentence like, “I’m going up the apples and pears.” Once you hear Cockney rhyming slang in a sentence it’s easy enough to decipher.
@@Narthbor1the one I always struggled to work out was ‘strides’ for ‘trousers’ …I couldn’t for the life of me think what the rhyme was supposed to be but apparently I was misinformed and ‘strides’ is actually Australian slang for ‘trousers’ then ‘Jeckyl and Hyde’ is the rhyming slang for ‘strides’ 🤷♀️ (which makes way more sense 😅)
@ I know they can be tricky 😂. my partner says he knows Jekyll and Hyde as ‘snide’. Which apparently means fake. I would honestly struggle with this one!
@@Narthbor1 hmm…it actually makes more sense if ‘jeckyll and hyde’ means ‘snide’ rather than ‘strides’ because it has the same two-faced/slightly negative kind of connotation so maybe I’m still misinformed about it all 😅 Lots of the time the rhyming slang does seem to have some sort of relationship to the word it’s used in place of - like ‘bread and honey’ for ‘money’ and a land of bread and honey is a land of wealth/plenty etc
It could also be that those piers in particular all had amusements/ arcades and other entertainment on them back in the day. As opposed to a pier that doesn’t.
Mountains are categorised in Scotland by the names of those who listed them. Munros: The tallest mountains in Scotland, over 914.4 meters (3,000 ft) above sea level Corbetts: Mountains between 762 and 914.4 meters (2,500 and 3,000 ft) above sea level Grahams: Mountains between 610 and 762 meters (2,000 and 2,500 ft) above sea level Donalds: Mountains in the Scottish Lowlands over 610 meters (2,000 ft) above sea level Highland Fives: Hills in the Scottish Highlands between 500 and 609 meters above sea level Aonach: A ridged summit with steep sides Bidean: A mountain with a sharp point or pinnacle for its summit Sail: A long slope that ends a chain of peaks Stob: A "post" or "short stick"
@Tyler Rumple well done. All 3 ballgames invented in UK. Weird spelling for "blimming" sounds like he mixed up "all the blinking time" with "all the bloomin time." Quick note if a living being is executed by hanging "he" is hanged not hung, meat is hung. Not Laurence "Oliver" it's Olivier, famous Shakespearian actor and film star.
I’ve only ever heard it said as ‘blimmin’ (like in “blimmin’eck’”) or ‘bloomin’ (as in “bloomin’ell”) lol Not heard ‘blimming’ before I don’t think but I suppose maybe that’s just ‘blimmin’ pronounced properly? 😅
Well thought out Tyler, I'm British and learned at least one new fact from this quiz. Regardless of the official percentage, I think you did pretty well. It was extremely random.
This is not the "Original" London Bridge. The one currently in Arizona is at least the second London Bridge. I used to cross it regularly in my younger days working in "The City". Check out Jay Foreman's London Bridge episode of his Unfinished London Series. 😊
I've been to it when i did route 66 😆. Although the replacement in london is still called London bridge, it is not very impressive. The amount of yanks i hear calling tower bridge, london bridge is astonishing lol
@@ralphhathaway-coley5460 unfortunately an urban legend, he apparently full well knew he was buying the original London Bridge and not the more iconic Tower Bridge, but a funny story nonetheless!
@@shnicky4ever Okay, though I remember at the time it was 'reported' as being a true story. Though that could quite reasonably be accounted for by extrapolation from the fact that so many Americans think Tower Bridge is called London Bridge.
It was apparently banned because the king wanted his subjects to prefer archery as a sport so they could be useful in war. Hence "FORE!" not being a common war cry. (I live mere yards from the historically important Leith Links, which alas no longer extends as far as the beach and no longer has dunes.)
@@scotmark The Scottish Church banned it on Sundays as was a diversion from attending the Kirk on a Sunday, many a Scotsman had a walking cane with a club head as the handle so could practice on the way home from the Kirk, known as a Sunday Stick.
Ceremony of the Keys is indeed about closing The tower of London for the night. We are British: why just close the gate when you can add a ceremony to it as well 😊
It suspect it was, a long time ago, a ritual to ensure that it was always carried out, never overlooked, that the correct guard detail was in place, and eveyone knew it had been carried out properly.
35 munros and counting... I know that's not many but I'm working on it.😂 To add a but more context there are 282 scottish mountains or 'munros' in Scotland. Trying to climb up all of them in a lifetime is called 'munro bagging.' You should do a video on the Scottish Highlands!
Unfortunately, I am a Swindon resident and have the misfortune to have to drive over the magic roundabout often and each time I still hardly know what is happening it’s from hell trust me
As a fellow Swindon resident I don't find it that bad, just treat each roundabout separately..... that said I don't go near it during rush hour. Also 'near' Swindon, trt right in the centre
Jones is quite a common Welsh name, I believe, so that was a bit of a clue (Catherine Zeta Jones). Richard Burton married actress Elizabeth Taylor twice (and I refuse to believe you don't know who SHE is!)
Pleasure piers, they generally have all kinds of games, rides and other entertainment, rifle range, skittle alley, which started in the Victorian era, like "what the butler saw, very racy! A penny in the slot, wind the handle and look see what! Might be a young lady (of 1890 vintage) wearing knickerbockers and you'll probably see above her knee as she peels one up her leg - hells bells, you rarely saw a ladies ankle let alone a knee, whatever next, well worth a penny eh.
Haggis, neeps and tatties are fantastic. I cook my neeps half turnip half carrot boiled and mash with a load of butter and some milk. A monroe are all mountains over 3,000 feet, my dad had climbed every one of them, he had a log of all of them.
Got them all right , no need to guess as I'm british . surprised you did not know Trafalger square , Tower bridge , The Edinburgh fringe festival , or that the Titanic was built in Belfast as they are all popular american tourist destinations . London bridge was famously bought buy americans and reconstructed in Arizona , only to find they bought the wrong bridge .
Southend-on-Sea pier, although it was shortened some years ago I believe due to fires and collisions, is still the worlds longest. There's still a narrow guage railway that will take to the end of its 1.33 miles. My Grand-parents retired close by in the early sixties and as a small child I loved to go to the Southend sea front. Not so great these days as an older adult?
S-O-S pier hasn’t been shortened, there have been numerous fires, boats and ships crashing into it over the years. I watched it burning as an 11 year old in 1976 then again in 1995 when the bowling alley was destroyed by fire . Recently came across the entire history of the pier , well worth reading it’s history is quite amazing
I guessed the Thames, too, based on the fact that it runs through the most inland part of the UK. There's no shame in getting some off these wrong - they're pretty niche!
I got the Munro question right as watched a vudeo about that here on YT ages ago. - but I got the golf / football question wrong so, like you my score was 34/35 !! C'est la vie. :)
Tyler did you know the Tower of London and Tower Bridge are right by each other? Clearly the bridge is called that due to this close proximity and being called after the Tower of London. So close that if you Tower of London, you'll see the bridge from there. I Thought I'd mention it because those 2 questions were quite far apart in the quiz.
I thought you gave a good educated guess regarding the key ceremony. I got it right but that was only from a very vague memory. You come across as a nice guy like the US bass player in my Czech rock band. He's hung up on teeth.
I've seen the ceremony of the keys, it made tears come in my eyes. The bugler playing was so emotional. When they lock the door to the tower, you have to leave by a small door cut into the main door. I was fortunate enough to have worked with a yeoman's wife and she invited me to a one to one tour with a beefeater when all the tourists had left. I also saw the raven keeper call the ravens in for the night. Then, at the end I was invited to a little private pub for food and drinks that is in the grounds of the tower. Its a night I will treasure.
That was a fun quiz. I've never underrstood Cockney Rhyming Slang. This was the one that threw me. 😂 Otherwise I think visiting places has helped me remmeber these answers. A silly memory of mine. I never knew Haggis was banned in USA. You'll have to visit Scotland to try it then.
As the original question was how much you know, you KNEW NINE! The rest, you guessed, which isn't the objective of the whole exercise! NINE (9) out of 35! Not even 26%.
On the Where was the Titanic built question being a random fact - you did see the Titanic Museum on your "Awesome Things to do in Belfast" video. If the idea is to learn, why ignore the explanations given to the answers.
London Bridge has been constructed 3 times the first was destroyed giving us the nursery rhyme London Bridge is falling down , the second was sold to America and the third is still standing .
May I recommend a very good novel that explains a lot about the Tower of London, in a fiction way: License to Quill, by Jacopo della Quercia. Even if it is a novel, and a tragi-comic one, it makes pause to think about such things as the presence of The Crows at the Tower.
I choked on my coffee when Tyler said "I don't know how Laurence OLIVER is" LOL!!!
What hamlet film in 1948
Oh, that, Lord Olivier! 😂
Wuthering Heights 1939 film anyone! 😂
What Narrator of classic "World at War" 1973 Documentary 🤔
sacrilege but this is an age thing not an American one. 🍁
This is my first time watching a video of yours, and I just wanted you to know that it's nice to see someone taking an interest in british culture. It genuinely warms my heart to see that you are genuinely enjoying learning about my nation.
Also, you did quite a respectable job with the quiz, given you don't have the advantage of being raised here!
Thank you very much!
‘Hanged’ is 100% correct in this context. ‘Hung’ is not the past tense when referring specifically to the act of killing someone by hanging.
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@ he laughed when the video said ‘hanged’ and then he ‘corrected’ it. So it is directly related to the video. He watches videos to learn, so I’m sure he’d take no issue with this comment😊
@@glyndavies2334 it’s a topic that was mentioned within the video…how is that not relevant? 🤷♀️
Meat is Hung, Man is Hanged. This was a title of an episode from the Australian television show Blue Heelers.
The Red Lion name dates back years, When James I & VI (respectively) took the throne of England in the early 1600's he decreed that all places of public importance were emblazoned with the red lion of Scotland, and seen as he is from Scotland (Love my crazy brethren) this included all pubs and inns (Which is another weird fact: People who run a pub/Inn are called publicans, as they serve the public)
Some debate over whether Red Lion or Royal Oak, referring to the tree the future Charles II hid in escaping to France. No matter which is correct all pubs are disappearing at a rapid rate.
@tonys1636 So true. I was out recently and I realised that where 10 years ago there were 7 pubs within 5 mins walk of each other, there are now 4.
@@natalielang6209 My town had over 25 when I arrived 25 years ago now ten and only one of the five in the Main St. surviving. We do have one new pub, built on the old Cinema site but it's a Gastro Pub and separate restaurant upstairs. Even the one pub that only opened one day a year to retain the license is now apartments. One has been shut for over ten years as a dispute over the will of the former Licensee, nothing can be done whilst still in probate. To open a new pub one has to buy two pub licences, new ones only issued under exceptional circumstances. The value of a license now more than the building. A hundred years ago the town had over 150 pubs, some not legal ones though. The rules were brought in on the formation of the Republic of Éire, the Irish Free State just adopted the English Laws, as it was thought that there were too many pubs per head of population. Losing the reputation of drunk Irishmen didn't quite work.
Football, rugby, cricket, tennis, golf. All founded in the UK.
And wiff waff according to Boris
Ceremony of the keys means locking up the tower of London
White Star Line is a Liverpool company, that's why Liverpool is written on the back (stern) of the ship but it was built in harland and wolff docks in Belfast.
Well done, Tyler, not too shabby as we say over here in the U.K.
The thing about The Tower of London goes like this, two Yeomen of the Guard (Yeoman the official title for what's commonly known as a Beefeater), as one guard approaches another he is challenged, "Halt, who goes there?" to which the reply is, "The keys", "Whose keys?", "The King's keys" (obviously it was once "The Queen's keys"), "Advance The King's keys and be recognised".
A 'Pleasure Pier' is a pier which has amusements on it such as shows, booths, gaming machines etc.
For an american equivalent of a pleasure pier, think Santa Monica in LA
We did a school trip to the Tower of London so I remembered that one.
Funnily enough I only knew the answer to that first one because Terry Pratchett did a parody of it in one of the Discworld novels. One of the Unseen University ones but I can't think which one off the top of my head
Southend Pier also has a train to the end of the pier and an RNLI lifeboat station.
Actually it's always the Queen's Keys. They are Queen Anne's keys. Not seven hundred years old in the current form.
One Canada Square is also known as Canary Wharf.
Not Laurence Oliver but Olivier ( French pronunciation). Richard Burton very well known actor. Lovely voice.
Married twice to Elizabeth Taylor.
Back in the 60’s or 70’s an American bought London bridge and it was moved to America … when he got it it was the “wrong bridge” LOL , he thought he’d got Tower Bridge …LOL ! Check it out 😊
I believe it was rebuilt over some canal in Arizona.
@@scotmarknot a canal but a man made lake.
Hi there Tyler, great reaction
As a swede, this was not very easy and also had some lucky guesses of course
Managed to get four more than you, some by luck, but very good for a typical average American 👍
Greetings from Sweden
Nice work 😍
As a brit i feel i wouldnt fair as well on a quiz about Sweden 😬
35/35 Woo hoo! The roundabout is a jokey reference to The Magic Roundabout which was a kids' TV series in the 1970s - French stop-motion with English story dubbed over the top - slightly trippy!
Slightly? Dylan was permastoned, man!
I used to live a couple of miles from a Red Lion pub. One half was in Wiltshire with the other half in Hampshire, the border was/is (the building still exists) literally in the doorway so you were in two counties as you entered.
West Dean? I worked there as a teenager. 😄
@@GuntherVonSprout I grew up in Lockerley and East Tytherley.
@ I was in the Grimsteads and cycled over. Small, small world 😄
On the
On the England/Wales border there was at least one pub which straddled the border. A white line depicting the border was drawn on the floor in the pub. This was important in the days when Wales was dry at certain times with no alcohol permitted to be served whereas England was wet. During the times that Wales was dry the light went out on the
Welsh side and all the customers sat and were served on the English side of the border.
Nelson's column with the 4 lions is Trafalgar square...
Nelson's Column was built to commemorate his victory in the Battle of Trafalgar and is in the centre of Trafalgar Square which is also famous for having hundreds of pigeons .
Everywhere's got hundreds of pigeons!
@@rocketrabble6737 Fair enough but thing is there used to be people selling pigeon food to tourists to encourage pigeons towards them and take some unique and sometimes terrifying photos . That was the point I was trying to make .
I was quite surprised he got that question about Nelson’s Column wrong seeing as you could actually see the base of the column in the photo being shown lol
I guess if you don’t know what the column looks like to begin with the photo wouldn’t help much though - I’m sure there’s lots of American landmarks I wouldn’t recognise 🤷♀️
@@vamvam7690I don't think Nelson or his column are on many Americans' radar.
@@robertclark2253that's a little bit of a leap!
All the games were invented in Britain
Was anybody else screaming this at the screen...? I did think he wouldn't get that one, though, because of American football
@@emma-janeadamson4099nah give him the credit he is due, the man does a lot of videos around britain and british culture. He would likely get football being what he knows as soccer in this context 😊
*England.
@@francisedward8713 scotland invented football 👍
@@chrisscott1812 No. England did.
you were PETE TONG on the cockney rhyming slang lol
Is Tyler not already conFUSEd enough?!!
My partner uses Pete Tong a lot. @tyler usually you’d get a sentence like, “I’m going up the apples and pears.” Once you hear Cockney rhyming slang in a sentence it’s easy enough to decipher.
@@Narthbor1the one I always struggled to work out was ‘strides’ for ‘trousers’ …I couldn’t for the life of me think what the rhyme was supposed to be but apparently I was misinformed and ‘strides’ is actually Australian slang for ‘trousers’ then ‘Jeckyl and Hyde’ is the rhyming slang for ‘strides’ 🤷♀️ (which makes way more sense 😅)
@ I know they can be tricky 😂. my partner says he knows Jekyll and Hyde as ‘snide’. Which apparently means fake. I would honestly struggle with this one!
@@Narthbor1 hmm…it actually makes more sense if ‘jeckyll and hyde’ means ‘snide’ rather than ‘strides’ because it has the same two-faced/slightly negative kind of connotation so maybe I’m still misinformed about it all 😅
Lots of the time the rhyming slang does seem to have some sort of relationship to the word it’s used in place of - like ‘bread and honey’ for ‘money’ and a land of bread and honey is a land of wealth/plenty etc
Proud of you Sir! I appreciate how much interest you've taken in my country, well done.
We tend to refer to a pier at the seaside rather than call it a pleasure pier.
It could also be that those piers in particular all had amusements/ arcades and other entertainment on them back in the day. As opposed to a pier that doesn’t.
Mountains are categorised in Scotland by the names of those who listed them.
Munros: The tallest mountains in Scotland, over 914.4 meters (3,000 ft) above sea level
Corbetts: Mountains between 762 and 914.4 meters (2,500 and 3,000 ft) above sea level
Grahams: Mountains between 610 and 762 meters (2,000 and 2,500 ft) above sea level
Donalds: Mountains in the Scottish Lowlands over 610 meters (2,000 ft) above sea level
Highland Fives: Hills in the Scottish Highlands between 500 and 609 meters above sea level
Aonach: A ridged summit with steep sides
Bidean: A mountain with a sharp point or pinnacle for its summit
Sail: A long slope that ends a chain of peaks
Stob: A "post" or "short stick"
Elderly Brit here. I got all but one right! That was the pub one. I’ve known more pubs called The Crown, than called the Red Lion……so I got it wrong!
I have four Red Lions in a 3-mile radius!
I thought it was The Station, as every train station has a pub, usually called the station.
Where I live in the East of England it rains even less than "Every other day". Just looked it up, It's closer to 1 in 4 where I am.
When Tyler shouted 'Whose keys?' I instinctively shouted back 'The King's Keys!'
The Magic Roundabout used to be a children's program on the BBC, surrounded by innuendo about substance abuse. You'll need to watch to understand.
That was a weird-ass show 😅
People used to race Home from work to watch this iconic children's show
@@robkennan8143 Hard to imagine these days.
You're knowledge is improving Tyler ! Although you should look up Richard Burton Laurence Olivier and Nelson's column.🙂
I love this wholesome guy
@Tyler Rumple well done. All 3 ballgames invented in UK. Weird spelling for "blimming" sounds like he mixed up "all the blinking time" with "all the bloomin time." Quick note if a living being is executed by hanging "he" is hanged not hung, meat is hung. Not Laurence "Oliver" it's Olivier, famous Shakespearian actor and film star.
I believe "blimming" is an even milder variation of "blooming" in some regions...
@@scotmark any idea where? I've lived up and down the British Isles and apart from in jest l haven't heard it as a Regional variation.
@ Being used "in jest" counts as valid use. Are there regions you've heard it used that way more than others? I think I've mostly heard it on telly.
I’ve only ever heard it said as ‘blimmin’ (like in “blimmin’eck’”) or ‘bloomin’ (as in “bloomin’ell”) lol
Not heard ‘blimming’ before I don’t think but I suppose maybe that’s just ‘blimmin’ pronounced properly? 😅
@ You're bloomin' right. These un-posh words are rarely actually used in their posh form... 😼
“Whose keys?” Is actually one of the phrases in the ceremony of the keys.
Woohoo👌, I actually caught a video of yours early
Funny we have all three of those pub names in our village... Well one of them is just outside but I'm still counting it.
There is at least one video on RUclips showing what they do at The Ceremony of The Keys, worth a look.....
Did you know that many piers had paddle steamers to take people on boat trips, sometimes to other piers.
I shall try:
1 'Ceremony of the Keys' :)
2 'Southend on Sea' :)
3 'Northern Ireland' :)
4 'Great Bell' :)
5 'the Severn' :)
6 'Stratford upon Avon' :)
7 'Rugby' :)
8 'William Wallace' :)
9 'mashed turnips & potatoes' :)
10 'Wales' :)
11 'Mountain in Scotland' :)
12 'The Shard' :)
13 'every other day, on average' :)
14 'Balmoral Castle' :)
15 'we don't know' :)
16 'The Giant's Causeway' :)
17 'Edinburgh' :)
18 'Belfast' :)
19 'the largest collection of Corgis' :)
20 'stairs' :)
21 'French' :)
22 'a monkey' :)
23 'Nelson's Column' :)
24 'cheese on toast' :)
25 'The Red Lion' :)
26 'The Chronicles of Narnia' :)
27 'football' :( oops!!
28 'The Beatles' :)
29 'Kings Cross' :)
30 'conrains a banned substance' :)
31 'Marlon Brando' :)
32 'in a library' :)
33 'Hadrian's Wall' :)
34 'The Magic Roundabout' :)
35 'Tower Bridge' :)
34/35 oops sorry Scotland - I should've said 'golf' :-/ !! Thankyou. :)
One of my local pubs (sadly closed now), has an unusual name 'The Dog and Sardine'.
The dog probably consumed the sardine and that was that!
I’m surprised you haven’t done a video on The Magic Roundabout in Swindon yet. I’ve driven it once and said never again
I drive through it every day 😅
Well thought out Tyler, I'm British and learned at least one new fact from this quiz. Regardless of the official percentage, I think you did pretty well. It was extremely random.
"I'm hurt by my lack of pub experience" 😂😂😂
The original London bridge is now in Arizona specifically Lake Havasu it has been there about 50\60 years
This is not the "Original" London Bridge. The one currently in Arizona is at least the second London Bridge.
I used to cross it regularly in my younger days working in "The City".
Check out Jay Foreman's London Bridge episode of his Unfinished London Series. 😊
London Bridge was moved to Arizona.
I've been to it when i did route 66 😆.
Although the replacement in london is still called London bridge, it is not very impressive.
The amount of yanks i hear calling tower bridge, london bridge is astonishing lol
The story goes that the American who bought it was somewhat pissed when he discovered he had not bought Tower Bridge as he thought!
@@ralphhathaway-coley5460 unfortunately an urban legend, he apparently full well knew he was buying the original London Bridge and not the more iconic Tower Bridge, but a funny story nonetheless!
@@shnicky4ever Okay, though I remember at the time it was 'reported' as being a true story.
Though that could quite reasonably be accounted for by extrapolation from the fact that so many Americans think Tower Bridge is called London Bridge.
The Scottish played golf on the beach, that's why golf courses have bunkers as a nod to sand dunes.
It was apparently banned because the king wanted his subjects to prefer archery as a sport so they could be useful in war. Hence "FORE!" not being a common war cry. (I live mere yards from the historically important Leith Links, which alas no longer extends as far as the beach and no longer has dunes.)
@@scotmark The Scottish Church banned it on Sundays as was a diversion from attending the Kirk on a Sunday, many a Scotsman had a walking cane with a club head as the handle so could practice on the way home from the Kirk, known as a Sunday Stick.
@@tonys1636
I've seen a few of those sticks on antiques programmes.
Ceremony of the Keys is indeed about closing The tower of London for the night. We are British: why just close the gate when you can add a ceremony to it as well 😊
It suspect it was, a long time ago, a ritual to ensure that it was always carried out, never overlooked, that the correct guard detail was in place, and eveyone knew it had been carried out properly.
For the first time I found myself in line with Tyler when he said "I've never heard of this in my life!"
35 munros and counting... I know that's not many but I'm working on it.😂 To add a but more context there are 282 scottish mountains or 'munros' in Scotland. Trying to climb up all of them in a lifetime is called 'munro bagging.' You should do a video on the Scottish Highlands!
Tower Bridge, with 2 Towers, was designed to compliment The Tower of London, White Tower.
With no disrespect to Tyler or his fine countrymen, I'm always struck by the invisible O they find in Edinburgh.
At least he didn’t say ‘Eddin-berg’ 🤷♀️
Hi Tyler. I have never heard of a ceremony in the Tower of London, and I lived in London in the Eighties.
My SIL was lucky enough to go and see it.
Unfortunately, I am a Swindon resident and have the misfortune to have to drive over the magic roundabout often and each time I still hardly know what is happening it’s from hell trust me
As a fellow Swindon resident I don't find it that bad, just treat each roundabout separately..... that said I don't go near it during rush hour. Also 'near' Swindon, trt right in the centre
American football is just rugby with ad breaks, isn't it? :D
I think of American 'Football' as 'Rugby for Nancy Boys'!
Kna, rains all the bloody time! Especially in Newcastle
Jones is quite a common Welsh name, I believe, so that was a bit of a clue (Catherine Zeta Jones). Richard Burton married actress Elizabeth Taylor twice (and I refuse to believe you don't know who SHE is!)
Pleasure piers, they generally have all kinds of games, rides and other entertainment, rifle range, skittle alley, which started in the Victorian era, like "what the butler saw, very racy! A penny in the slot, wind the handle and look see what! Might be a young lady (of 1890 vintage) wearing knickerbockers and you'll probably see above her knee as she peels one up her leg - hells bells, you rarely saw a ladies ankle let alone a knee, whatever next, well worth a penny eh.
Haggis, neeps and tatties are fantastic. I cook my neeps half turnip half carrot boiled and mash with a load of butter and some milk.
A monroe are all mountains over 3,000 feet, my dad had climbed every one of them, he had a log of all of them.
Got them all right , no need to guess as I'm british . surprised you did not know Trafalger square , Tower bridge , The Edinburgh fringe festival , or that the Titanic was built in Belfast as they are all popular american tourist destinations .
London bridge was famously bought buy americans and reconstructed in Arizona , only to find they bought the wrong bridge .
The Scotch word Turnip translates as Swede in English, and Rutabaga in American.
Southend-on-Sea pier, although it was shortened some years ago I believe due to fires and collisions, is still the worlds longest. There's still a narrow guage railway that will take to the end of its 1.33 miles. My Grand-parents retired close by in the early sixties and as a small child I loved to go to the Southend sea front. Not so great these days as an older adult?
S-O-S pier hasn’t been shortened, there have been numerous fires, boats and ships crashing into it over the years. I watched it burning as an 11 year old in 1976 then again in 1995 when the bowling alley was destroyed by fire . Recently came across the entire history of the pier , well worth reading it’s history is quite amazing
Hilariously, part of the Ceremony of the Keys includes the words, "Whose keys?" To which the answer is, "The King's Keys."
Richard Burton movies include Where Eagles Dare alongside Clint Eastwood and Cleopatra alongside Elizabeth Taylor who he was married to twice .
I think most Americans know Richard Burton's voice from War Of The World s. If nothing else.
@@alankingvideo The computer game not the original film or the radio play .
I live 15 minutes from southend, never usually see it come up in these sorts of quizes 🤣
I guessed the Thames, too, based on the fact that it runs through the most inland part of the UK. There's no shame in getting some off these wrong - they're pretty niche!
I guessed severn, but will freely admit i wasnt confident haha
The only one I didn't know was 'Munro, even though I spent four years of my life at university in Scotland!'
I got the Munro question right as watched a vudeo about that here on YT ages ago. - but I got the golf / football question wrong so, like you my score was 34/35 !! C'est la vie. :)
balls are conventionally spherical - so a rugby ball is definitely odd shaped
Tyler did you know the Tower of London and Tower Bridge are right by each other? Clearly the bridge is called that due to this close proximity and being called after the Tower of London. So close that if you Tower of London, you'll see the bridge from there. I Thought I'd mention it because those 2 questions were quite far apart in the quiz.
New Zealander here, I'll give it a try
1. Ceremony of the keys (guess) correct
2. Southend on sea (guess) correct
3. Northern Ireland (knew it) correct
4. The clock tower (knew it) correct
5. Thames (guess) wrong
6. Stratford upon Avon (educated guess) correct
7. Rugby (too obvious) correct
8. William Wallace (knew it) correct
9. Parsnips & meat patties (guess) wrong
10. Wales (knew it) correct
11. Scottish mountain (guess) correct
12. The Shard (whatever that is) (guess) correct
13. Every other day (so I hear) correct
14. Balmoral Castle (knew it) correct
15. We don't know (knew it) correct
16. The Ogre's Pathway (guess) wrong
17. Edinburgh (guess, I might have heard it in a video) correct
18. Belfast (knew it) correct
19. Largest collection of corgis (I'm sure) correct
20. Stairs (knew it, it's silly) correct
21. French (knew it) correct
22. A statue (wild guess) wrong
23. Tower bridge (guess) wrong
24. I thought it was Welsh rabbit? No idea! A game (guess) wrong
25. The Crown (guess) wrong
26. The Chronicles of Narnia (educated guess) correct
27. Golf (educated guess) correct
28. The Rolling Stones (guess) wrong
29. Liverpool Street (pure guess) wrong
30. Contains a banned substance (same as NZ) correct
31. Laurence Olivier (guess) wrong
32. In charge of cattle (guess) wrong
33. Hadrian's Wall (knew it) correct
34. The Magic Roundabout (knew it) correct
35. Tower Bridge (guess) correct
Amazed that I got them all right as I didn't grow up here in UK!!
This is starting to be like school. Tyler does some UK learning, then does a quiz to test his knowledge
I thought you gave a good educated guess regarding the key ceremony. I got it right but that was only from a very vague memory. You come across as a nice guy like the US bass player in my Czech rock band. He's hung up on teeth.
I've seen the ceremony of the keys, it made tears come in my eyes. The bugler playing was so emotional. When they lock the door to the tower, you have to leave by a small door cut into the main door. I was fortunate enough to have worked with a yeoman's wife and she invited me to a one to one tour with a beefeater when all the tourists had left. I also saw the raven keeper call the ravens in for the night. Then, at the end I was invited to a little private pub for food and drinks that is in the grounds of the tower. Its a night I will treasure.
Well done on the test. Some tough ones that most brits wouldn't know. You need to get over to the UK
That was a fun quiz. I've never underrstood Cockney Rhyming Slang. This was the one that threw me. 😂
Otherwise I think visiting places has helped me remmeber these answers. A silly memory of mine.
I never knew Haggis was banned in USA. You'll have to visit Scotland to try it then.
The Tower bridge! ICONIC! EVERYONE thinks is the London bridge!!! And, I think that roundabouts were created to THIN THE HERD! 🙀😾😿😸😸😸
11:43 - and all three of them hail from the area I live in too!
34/35 it was the rain, I thought it was ‘all the blooming time’. Haha You did well but I’m elderly English.
I dont live too far from Telford where my family goes to a river Severn side pub
Well done Tyler, even I got one or two wrong.
Black pudding is absolutely delicious, so is boudin noir, wouldn't be a full English without black pudding
Hey, Can you do a video on Georgian Architecture or Victorian? They are classical British Architectural styles
You done pretty well.
*Did
I actually live in Rugby, the town in England that the game with strange balls was created in 😊
33/35. Southend - on - Sea.
I kept count for you and you actually got 1 more right than you thought you did 🤣
Rugby football was the first game as far as I know that used a non-spherical ball. American football got the idea of using such a ball from rugby!
Keeping count, I'd say you got twenty-two right, and I estimate to have opted for the wrong answer five times.
As the original question was how much you know, you KNEW NINE!
The rest, you guessed, which isn't the objective of the whole exercise!
NINE (9) out of 35!
Not even 26%.
Southend needs a long pier because it stretches out over the Thames estuary mudflats.
I think your one or two more then me im 7 right now. Ive got 22. More quizzes please
On the Where was the Titanic built question being a random fact - you did see the Titanic Museum on your "Awesome Things to do in Belfast" video. If the idea is to learn, why ignore the explanations given to the answers.
I live on the River Severn in Bewdley, Worcestershire. So yes, it is a thing 🤓
for the first half I was genuinely neck and neck with you as a UK citizen ;( tho I did pull ahead after and ended up with 30/35
@Tylerrumple Do you understand the term "Busman's holiday"?
I'm surprised I got 100% right, I am from Central London, I can hear Big Ben.
Isn't London Bridge in Arizona these days?
London Bridge has been constructed 3 times the first was destroyed giving us the nursery rhyme London Bridge is falling down , the second was sold to America and the third is still standing .
@@robertclark2253 Well, at least it took only three tries and none fell into a swamp. 🙃
I must admit, as a Brit, I'd not heard of a "Munro" before.
May I recommend a very good novel that explains a lot about the Tower of London, in a fiction way: License to Quill, by Jacopo della Quercia. Even if it is a novel, and a tragi-comic one, it makes pause to think about such things as the presence of The Crows at the Tower.
Sorry, Ravens, not Crows! Always get those mixed up.
20:40 you missed the question was NOT a record held by her
Ever come to southend I'll give you a tour 😂
Meaning the most common name in England is Smith
The original London Bridge is now in the USA. It was dismantled and sold many years ago.
32/35 not bad for an Australian
It does rain "all the blimmin time tbh 😂
In British and I got 2 wrong, London Bridge is in Arizona