AMERICAN Takes the Ultimate BRITISH Quiz // Who wrote James Bond?!
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@Falcom Scott Corporation not company.
BBC stands for British Broadcasting Corporation, so I notice a few of these answers are incorrect.
I feel like Lizzy 1 being the last Tudor monarch is a pretty important thing to know, given how her heirless death led to the Union
From off the top of my head:
Willy, Willy, Harry, Ste,
Harry, Dick, John, Harry 3,
One-two-three Neds, Richard 2,
Harrys four-five-six then who?
Edwards Four-five, Dick the bad,
Harrys twain then Ned the lad,
Mary, Bessy, James the vain,
Charlie, Charlie, James again,
William and Mary, Anna Gloria,
Four Georges, William, Victoria,
Edward, George, then Ned the eighth,
Quickly goes and abdicateth,
This leads to George, then Liz the second,
And next is Charles, or so tis reckoned,
And that's the way our monarchs lie,
Since Harold got it in the eye!
WoW... I've never heard (seen/read) that before. Amazing. I hope I can screenshot it - if my Tablet allows!!🤔😊 🏴😳🇬🇧❤️🖖
@@brigidsingleton1596 Obviously since the death of Queen Elizabeth the ending is slightly different and I've read two or three different new variants, however I don't actual;l;y remember any. I even tried making one up myself, but don't remember it. Lol.
@@_starfiend
You have it with 'Charles or so tis reckoned' (following 'Elizabeth the second')
I tried to screenshot it but it's too long to fit my Tablet's screen in one, & taking two & "splicing" them together is beyond my limited "skill-ability"!!! (I hope that's a word!!) It's a shame though...it's a great piece. 🥇🏆
Well Done You for the splendid recitation -
If I had the ability to copy - I certainly would
If I had a l_o_n_g_e_r // deeper screen
& the required know-how - I probably could!
The version I’ve known for ages is slightly different:
Willy, Willy, Harry, Ste,
Harry, Dick, John, Harry three,
One-two-three Neds, Richard two,
Henry four-five-six, then who?
Edward twice and Dick the bad,
Henry twice and Ned the lad,
Mary, Bessy, James the vain,
Charlie, Charlie, James again,
William and Mary, Anna Gloria,
The four Georges, William, Victoria,
Edward the seventh and George the fifth,
Edward the eighth and George the sixth,
And Elizabeth
(Will need to get through a few more monarchs before someone can work out how to continue that.)
@@brigidsingleton1596 My tablet isn't long enough either,but I just took screen shots of different sections and from those made a hand written copy in a notebook. That helps with memorizing it also. It's so impressive it's worth it . :-)
St Georges Day is when someone says ‘ today is St Georges Day’ Everyone then says ‘ is it?’
I know people have said this, but to confirm: BBC stands for British Broadcasting Corporation. 🙂 Some people dispute the flag being called the Union Jack, saying Union Flag is correct except in certain naval circumstances, but this has been dismissed by the Flag Institute
the flag institute say union flag and union jack are correct because too many got jack wrong so both are correct lets not pretend not. To explain a "jack" is a ships flag
I agree with you..the BBC is the British broadcasting corporation!...not company??... unless they changed it??
@@captvimes Flown from the jackstaff (sometimes the mast head.
I always thought it was Corporation. I always thought it was the Union Jack although at some point I had heard this was incorrect.
Jack is flagstaff
You did very well. I knew a few answers you didn't but you knew one or two I had absolutely no idea about. I'm 66 years old, born in the UK and never lived anywhere else. Since when did the BBC become the British Broadcasting Company? Answer - well it was called that until the 1920s but since then it has been the British Broadcasting Corporation. Not many people old enough to remember the Company bit so whoever wrote that question (I would guess) was either not British or is about 120 years old...
1922 to be precise hence the 100 logo on the screens before a programme this year.
I vote for 'not British'. Calling the Crown Jewels 'the jewels of the Crown'. And asking what county Salcombe was in - Salcombe, pop. 3300, ffs! That's the sort of thing you get off a map.
I think you were extraordinary good at that Quiz, considering that you did not go to school here, being born in Scotland most of that stuff we have grown up with. We tend to remember the important information, and much of the rest is trivia.
You can't be expected to know how every obscure town is pronounced, in Scotland we have a town spelled Milngavie that is pronounced Mulguy, and there are loads of others.
You are fearless tackling those quizzes on- line, .and do very well with them, it's a great feature on your vlog.
*extraordinarily. 🙂
and in Lancashire we have Barnoldswick . . . . pronounced Barlick
'BBC' stands for 'British Broadcasting Corporation'. The 'C' originally stood for 'Company', as it was privately owned, but that was only for five years, starting in 1922.
Was just about to post that.
100% correct
the Outlander question is a dead giveaway that this quiz was probably composed by an American
@@prva9347 So was asking what county Salcombe was in. Salcombe, pop. 3300, ffs! That's the sort of question a non-British person would get off a map, a British person would know to use somewhere a bit better known.
Goldeneye was a James Bond Film, but it was also Ian Flemming's home on the Island of Jamaica.
For the Margaret thatcher one I said “The milk snatcher” 🤣🤣🤣 Iron Lady makes much more sense
Thatcher, thatcher the milk snatcher (when she was the education minister)
You did really well, I know a lot of people that would have struggled to get anywhere near as many correct as you did.
6:09 the union jack is usually accepted but some pedantics will insist that it should only be called that when flown from a ship (a Jack or Jack Tar was an old nickname for a sailor) and that if it's flown from anywhere else it's the union flag.
*pedants. Pedantic is an adjective, not a noun. And yes, I have been told before that I am a pedant, LOL.
The first capital of England was actually Colchester back in the Roman period, since the country before then was merely a collection of bickering tribes and peoples who had various allegiances to one another or were in service to the stronger tribes that dominated the isles, although who was dominant was always changing. Camulodunum, later Colchester, was the largest settlement in the South where the Romans landed to conquer the isle of Britainnia. Technically I suppose you could make the case that it's not the capital of 'England', since the idea of England as one united culture and people didn't start taking shape until Alfred the Great.
Winchester was the capital of England in 927 AD. However, Colchester was the 'Roman Capital of England' in 49 AD. So strictly speaking the first capital of 'Britainia' was 'Colchester'
Winchester was the capital of a united England and an England that was known by that name. (So the quiz was technically correct, since "England" only came into existence after the arrival of the Angles and the unification of various kingdoms under one king.)
Colchester was the capital of the Roman Province of Britannia, I think, or perhaps not even that, since it was established as capital in AD 49, only a few years after the Roman arrival and long before the Romans conquered the whole of England. The capital was moved to Londinium after Boudicca's (Boadicea) revolt in the mid 60s, and by AD 87 the Romans had only truly settled the southern part of England - they also spent a lot of time trying to establish rule in Wales - so it is probable that Colchester was never really the capital of the whole of what we call "England".
At least one of these official answers is wrong! It’s the British Broadcasting CORPORATION!
I am impressed with your knowledge about UK and I have feel that you have adapted our British culture very well 😊👏
good video and bbc stands for british broadcasting corporation so the right answer given on test is wrong so who did that quiz does not have a idea either lol
To be fair, it was Company for the first year or two back around 1920, I seem to remember.
@@john_g_harris It was from 1922 to 1927 according to Wikipedia.
LOL ... even I knew that one.
NO WONDER, YOU STRUGGLED, WITH TONY BLAIR, WE'RE STILL TRYING TO WORK OUT IN BRITAIN.
British English uses short vowel sounds in most situations. So "Ben Nevis" is "Ben Nev-iss" not "Ben Neevis"
A lot of these were really hard, you did better than a lot of people would!
union jack is when its flown from the stern of a ship, the jack stand. otherwise its official title is the union flag
I think you did fantastically well, I got a couple wrong too and I'm the wrong side of sixty and lived here all my life.
Glad your getting out and about now, you probably came here at the worse time possible, during the pandemic, but that's behind us now. Enjoy the rest of summer it's all too short here.
Elizabeth I was known as 'the Virgin Queen', which goes some way to explain why she was the last Tudor. Mind you, on reflection Mary I and Edward VI didn't have kids either.
Firstly, I have to say you are incredibly brave to do this sort of quiz. Secondly, you did incredibly well, far, far better than most native born UK citizens. Don’t run down your abilities. Thirdly, the person who wrote the quiz was not a Brit, as some of the language was incorrect, so even more kudos to you for correctly interpreting some of the questions. Big round of applause (& just for once, no irony or sarcasm intended). ❤
Definitely. 'The jewels of the Crown' - wtf? Or what county Salcombe was in (population 3300 - by my guesstimate there must be 10,000 towns that size or bigger, there are a thousand with pop.9000 or more. Why would a quiz-taker know the county location of 10,000 places?)
@@cr10001 It's quite a well-known holiday resort and day trip destination.
Your knowledge of British stuff is
very good.
British Broadcasting Corporation
'Goldeneye' is the name of the house in Jamaica where Ian Fleming wrote the 007 books.
You did really well, I was cheering you along.
By the way you got the gunpowder plot 1605 correct, you said you got it wrong. (I think)
I think you've done really well and were very brave to do this in public. There were a couple of these I didn't know.
Congratulations. In my experience many Brits of your age would not have done any better. You really must get around more, especially to the north of England.
I think she would put a lot of Brits to shame!
100%. It's so sad when Americans visit the "UK" but then only stick to London / the South, sometimes with a quick trip to Scotland. The North is right here!!
I'm from the Netherlands and only been to England once (London in 1987, I think).For the rest I watch UK television a lot via satellite. I know nothing about counties, kings or politics but some things may have been mentioned on tv and stuck.... I got 51 correct. I'm kind of proud. 😃
I've spent several holidays in Holland and what surprises me the most is that most Dutch people speak excellent English. Once I heard Dutch people conversing in English, I asked why and was told it was easier to speak than Dutch.
@@frankgibson1335 well, they may have known there was an English speaker present, because for the Dutch, our own language is really much easier. But we're taught English very young at school, so we can switch back and forth very quick
At least one of the questions gave the wrong answer.....BBC stands for British Broadcasting Corporation, not Company.
That is the first time i have ever seen Mam Tor come up in a question. It's the only mountain i've ever climbed, well i say mountain, techically it's a big steep hill in the Peak District. I was a kid when i climbed it, so it counted as a mountain to me at the time lol.
It called the 'Shaking Mountain' because one of its slopes is very unstable. They tried to build a road across it, but it kept collapsing as the slope shifted, and the repairs (several feet thick in some places) were so expensive they eventually abandoned it as a bad job.
The question on what is the most watched UK TV programme is a trick misleading question.Average viewing figures per episode is under 3 million, but because it's shown 4 nights a week boosts figures.But strictly gets average 9million with 11million for the final.
I wonder how many folk like me never watch either?😂
No, that's not true. The viewing figures are given for each day separately. And quite often the 10 O'Clock News gets more than anything.
BBC is corporation not company. Great video you have the knowledge
BBC British Broadcasting Company? I don't think so. It's the British Broadcasting _Corporation_ .
Kayln you did so well !! How many Of us British could answer anything near a Quiz on the United States ? So yeah good job 👍👏🇬🇧
I could because the UK and US have a connected history and speak the same language.
Don't know Lilly Allen? How blessed she is.
"I'm surprised at how much I know" Dear god , after living here for over 50 years, I think you beat me on that quiz - well done lady
Salcombe is a beautiful seaside town in Devon. Very expensive. Anything ending in ‘ combe’ will almost certainly be in the West Country and most probably in Devon or Cornwall. Come and visit
Re, the second biggest city - it could be either Birmingham or Manchester, depending on how you define it! (eg city council or metropolitan area)
The viaduct is pronounced Glen- *finn* -un. And the tallest mountain is Ben Nevis, just a few miles away!
Salcombe is a really obscure town for them to pick! I would be amazed if more than one British person in 10 had heard of it.
River Severn is just pronounced like "seven".
BBC is British Broadcasing *Corporation*
If you define by city council, then London is actually the smallest city in England.
@@katbryceno the City of London is the smallest city, not London.
I have the exact same gripe about Salcombe. I guessed Devon, wasn't sure (coulda been Somerset or Dorset), *and* I like geography *and* I'm familiar with the south-west. So yes, I'd be surprised if more than one in ten had even heard of it - and then asking 'which county' is really making it difficult.
Please note...........Lord Nelson was not a Spitfire pilot...Lily Collins is Phil Collins daughter and is pretty famous.
You did better than me and I've Lived here all my life and I'm 50+.
You can have a bunch of flowers, not questions, which cannot be bunched.
That was fun, I was stuck on some of the same ones as you. By the way, BBC is the British Broadcasting Corporation; it was Company when originally formed in the 1920s but used Corporation after its Royal charter in 1927. So the quiz got one wrong as well :-). (As quite a few people pointed out, I just noticed...)
Need to do a zoom meeting with someone who knows how to pronounce Scottish place names before September😉
That would be a complete waste of time, there is no rhyme or reason pronouncing place names in Scotland, there is a town near me called Avoch which is pronounced Awk, I am sure some Scots can name other anomalies, rules change from place to place.
@@alexmctear5420 but the places Kalyn is going include some she is mispronouncing so could be easily resolved.
Not many people have seen a coronation in their lifetime. The last one was in 1953 which was the Queens’ hence her Platinum Jubilee earlier this year celebrating 70 years on the throne.
Bizarrely I've watched this video to avoid watching the one that is happening now.
Why does RUclips say this comment was made 1 year ago? Confusing.
Please do more, I learn along with you, you never look stupid.....you're HUMAN!
The flag of the UK is actually called the Union Flag. It's the Union Jack only when flying from a ship.
Trivia I learned yesterday ;-)
We happy you tried
I think you did bloody well. How did I miss this video…. I never miss your videos…. I need to reassess my life.
When they asked the Manchester Football one, I started going going Man City, Man Utd, City of Manchester FC then realised the meant Premier League.
Margaret Thatcher's nickname was the 'Milk Snatcher'
Only while she was the education minister not while she was the Prime Minister.
@@sheenamaclean8324 a A Soviet journalist coined iron lady
How could you not have seen Hot Fuzz, the second-funniest film ever?
BBC is British Broadcasting Corporation, not Company.
Lord Nelson secured 100years of peace at Trafalgar. The consequences on the civilized world, had The Battle of Britain been lost are immeasurable. All this condensed into one unanswerable trivia question. The irony being that anyone should care whether lily Allen might be Scottish.
Trafalgar Square. Nelson's Column. :)
I got 4 wrong and I was born & bred here over the last 70 years, so don't kick yourself if you got a couple wrong.
Really enjoyed watching you do this, cheered for you when you got them right, laughed at you when you mispronounced them. (Childish I know). Thanks Girl Gone London.
The union flag, should only be called the union jack when flown on a ship. Otherwise it is called the Union Flag. The second way that you said Ben Nevis is correct.
'BBC' stands for British Broadcasting Corporation (though it was originally 'Company').
Goldeneye was the place where Ian Fleming lived while writing some of the books.
Does the UK also have a land border with France since the construction of the Channel Tunnel? Not sure if a tunnel 'counts' but I guess it is possible to walk from one to the other.
Seeing that you are not British you did extremely well 👏
Ma'am I think you are very brave to do this at all. Bravo & keep going
I think you did pretty well - I'm a native of 40+ years & I struggled with some of that quiz!! Very enjoyable though! 😀
We could probably all do with getting outside a bit more, it's surprising how quickly behaviour changes - you just get out of the habit somehow.... Love the quiz, you did great, some of them were pretty tough I had no idea either!
River is pronounced as in number (7). Who wrote this quiz?
UK flag is the union flag, the union jack is a maritime ensign
BBC is Corporation.
The flag can be referred to as the Union Jack an act of parliament decided in 1906.
@@charlestaylor9424 "Although no law has been passed making the Union Jack the official national flag of the United Kingdom"
@@michaeljames1468 in 1908 parliament approved the admiralty decision and agreed the Union Jack should be regarded as the national flag.
Coronations take place at Westminster Abbey, because the Monarch is head of the church .
Henry viii was a tudor king who had 3 children, Mary I, Edward vi and Elizabeth I. Edward became king after Henry died but only lived to 15 or 16 yrs of age. Mary was 1st born so became Queen. When she died Elizabeth became Queen for 40 or so yrs. She had no children so was the last of the tudors.
Swear down , I nearly died laughing at "I don't know, someone called Dave" 😅 I'm English and that's my final answer too 😊
haha, thanks so much for watching Shaun!
Are you really English? Maybe you don’t know 1066.
@@QPRTokyo I wasn't there . Are you sure you're not 10 years old with that stupid name ?
can i just point out about the largest city after london Question... the best way to remember this is.. london is 020 , birmingham is, 0112, 0113 , Leeds
0114, Sheffield 0115, Nottingham 0116, Leicester.. :)
This is funny, you are an American in the UK, I am a Brit in America. I am a dual citizen too. I had to take the American Citizenship Test, most of which I have now forgotten... I live in Florida, (Pasco County). Cheers mate 👍👍
Very well done! Very few people in the UK can remember monarchs in order, so don't beat yourself up!
When it comes to pronunciation, say what you see. In many cases it'll be right. Eg Glenfinnan is pronounced Glen-fin-an. Very few words ending in 'an' are pronounced the French way with a long 'a'.
By the way, I love general knowledge quizzes and scored 97. 😊
For someone not brought up in England that was a very good performance, in fact some of those would have stumped most Brits. I don't now who compiled that quiz, but it's a credit to you that you don't know some of the emphemeral popular culture rubbish, and some of the answers are plainly wrong: BBC is British Broadcasting Corporation -it stopped being a Company somewhere, I think, before the last war. Gibraltar isn't part of the UK either, it's a self-governing overseas possession of the Crown with its own currency etc., like the Isle of Man and the Channel Islands. Just for the record, you answered "Westminster Cathedral" for one question. There is such a place, but it's a Roman Catholic church, as opposed to the Anglican Westminster Abbey, so definitely no royal occasions there!
As a matter of information BBC stands for British Broadcasting Corporation not Company.
You were right the second time Ben Nevis not Neevis, river Severn say seven with an r in it. The Cairngorms cairn gorms. Fingals cave is the other end of the giants causeway it's the same basalt column's and very famous .
I thought Henry VIII was the last Tudor Monarch and his Daughter was Elizabeth I, so it was an educated guess to say her.
You did very well!
I think you did really well!
Harry Potter questions? Being a mature adult male I have no clue. Who wrote these silly questions?
By the way, I took the British citizen quiz and failed. 51 years old and never left the country lol
The one about Windsor Castle is wrong. Prague Castle is larger and occupied,
I must argue with the "Union Jack" it is actually only the union jack when it is flown on a ship, else it is the "Union Flag".
The river severn is pronounced River 7.
I was born in Wales, lived most of my life in the UK, and you got more of the questions correct than I did, well done :)
I got 83 right it was great fun, I'm 77 and lived in England all my life, but you done very well, you knew some I didn't and vice versa, I knew it was British Broadcasting corporation, it's been a long time before I was born that it was company. I know more about the American states than I do English Counties 😂there are 50 States and the last 2 was Hawaii and Alaska I dont know all our counties or how many I'll have to Google them, I know the smallest is runcorn up near Liverpool I come from Essex.
River severn (river 7) starts north Wales and gos though England to south of Wales or south England
During the second World war when you lovely Americans came to England there was a saying said by us Brits overpaid oversexed and over here ❤🇬🇧😊🤣🤣love yer dalin
I think they are wrong about the 2nd largest city in the UK. If you go by the city council, London is the smallest city in England (there are two smaller cities in Wales), and Birmingham is the largest.
If you go by the criteria that makes London the largest city (the two cities of London and Westminster plus all the London Boroughs), and apply the same criteria to the two cities of Manchester and Salford plus the Manchester Boroughs), it is larger than Birmingham.
Brummies will argue that if you add the three cities of Brimingham, Coventry, and Wolverhampton plus the West Midlands Boroughs, then that is larger than Greater Manchester, but, that is West Midlands, not Birmingham, and there are two distinct urban areas within the West Midlands - Coventry can't be described as a district of Birmingham in the way that Westminster could be described as a district of London.
I'm surprised they didn't ask who was the sixteenth President 😂
It is debatable that with the Channel tunnel we now have 2 land borders. France and England are connected so a land border even if it is under-seas.
The border for the UK is in France now and the French border in the UK, when you board the ferry or train you've already left the country and entered another. That is what caused all the chaos when French Border Control did not have enough staff in the UK. In two countries at once?
Corporation this quiz is obviously from America BBC Corporation My God ❤🇬🇧😥😥😥
you did well on that test congratulations!
Kaitlyn the questionnaire got the meaning of BBC wrong the BBC stands for the British broadcasting corporation not the British broadcasting company. The questionnaire also got the first capital city of Britain wrong also the first British capital City is actually Colchester Essex it was the Roman Capital City of Britain and it is also Britain's oldest recorded town
Also Fingles Cave in Scotland is actually where the Giants Causeway hexagonal basalt rocks rise out of the Irish sea in Scotland. Fingals cave is also the place that inspired Mendholsen to write the music Fingals Cave because of its acoustics.. it is the largest naturel cathedral like structure in the UK with perfect acoustics
Hey Kayln
Thought you'd made your million and done one!
I get what you mean though. I've gone back to living a part time digital nomad lifestyle. Just spent a few weeks in Copenhagen. Off to Venice next month. Live life I say! 😎
hi, just to say I know there are some strange moaners online, and I think you cope well with this. My main reason for the correspondence is, You done well with the quiz, on most, but not all, (to save my self esteem), I've lived in the UK for all of my 69 years and managed to get some wrong, so no self doubts please, Girl Done Good. Robin
Care-n-gorms
You mentioned that you'd never seen a Coronation in your life, which of course goes for most of us, if you don't count watching recordings of the late Queens coronation in 1953, That statement turned out prophetic in hindsight, as we'll all witness one of them in 2023 when King Charles III and Queen Consort Camilla are crowned.
I found myself yelling the answers to assist you hahaha
Round 3, Q7 Jersey is NOT in the UK!! It's a self-governing Crown Dependency. So this question shouldn't even be in the quiz.
This quiz had too many questions on TV, movies and pop music, none of which are particularly about the UK.
And finally, it was never set by a genuine Brit. "The Jewels of the Crown" sounds like it's been translated from German or French, maybe. We call them "The Crown Jewels."
And other errors have already been called out in other comments.
Nor is the Isle of Man, people forget that just because one doesn't need a passport to travel to it or the Channel Islands and Ireland (if a citizen of one of the countries, the CTA) they are not part of the UK.
Neither is Gibraltar, but both are UK overseas territories.
Great, I'm looking forward to this. If I don't score better than you I'll probably just slink away and say nothing. 🙂