'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.
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!
@@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 . :-)
@slim56100 that’s right, but when she died James I and VI ascended the throne, putting England and Scotland into personal union. The act of union just merged them into one country
@@veryblocky This. The 100 year gap is not irrelevant, but the beginning of the end was the lack of heir, so the original point it true. However, it doesn't make it an 'important thing to know' I doubt the stats are great on this and yet all the people who don't know it lead very successful lives. If you watch that stats-related gameshow, pointless, you soon learn how little people know, like 15% of people will put Thatcher in the right decade, 10% will know the correct century for Newton, 5% will know the author of Oliver Twist and 1% will guess literature over peace for Churchill's Nobel prize. Knowing that the royals even had family names and coming up with even just 'Tudor' or 'Windsor', let alone the phrasing 'House of...' is probably a vanishingly small proportion of the UK population, and yet, most people my age will write a pretty effective AI prompt to engineer some code to calculate the correlation of two datasets - and they can almost pay their mortgages each month as a result.
@@danoneill8751 I meant important in the context of the Life in the UK test, which is what people have to take to become naturalised citizens. Just as I know she has studied for and taken it
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...
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.
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.
It is a Union Jack when flown from the Jackstaff which is on the prow of a ship as opposed to an Ensign Staff which is on the stern. Nothing to do with 'Jack Tar'.
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.
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
Also valid, you can have more than one nickname (which means an also name from Dutch een eke ma'am, so I'm sure you can just keep adding as many as you want... A and also B and also C etc)😊
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!
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?)
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.
@@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.
The way the questions were phrased, I would guess this was written in South East Asia, rather than an American person. If you noticed, she had to correct the grammar a few times, and when she did, it wasn't because of USEng vs BritEng differences.
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
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.
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.
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!!
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
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...)
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
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.
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.
Kalyn, you did exceptionally well. Consider this, if this were to be flipped and it was a USA quiz with an English presenter guessing, I seriously doubt they would do as well as you did.
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.
You are genuinely very brave to do this quiz publicly, if you didn't grow up and have your education here. I didn't know a lot of the culture questions like the place Downton is based on
@@sheenamaclean8324i beg to disagree, she shattered that milk a year before I started school and I never heard my grandfather ever call her anything else throughout the 80s 😊
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".
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*
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.
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. 😊
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!
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 👍👍
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.
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.
You did better than many Brits would do. And you were right to rephrase question 8. We don't say "How is X called?". If it's a thing, we say "What is X called?" I think that was written by a Frenchman (Comment s'appelle ... ) or Italian (Come se chiama ... ) or German "Wie heisst ... ?"
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, it's Cay-run-gorrums (or near enough). When you go through the Park on the train, the tiny stations have the station name, then Cairngorms National Park on the signs. The signs also have the names in Gaelic. As you can imagine the Gaelic translation of Cairngorms National Park is not short...sometimes the sign is almost as long as the station🤣. You did very well on this test, I got a few wrong and I'm Scottish born and bred! I would have thought Coronation St was the most watched t.v show for a start and I think I got most of the non-Scottish geography questions wrong. There's a kind of rule of thumb in the heritage sector (I worked in it for many years) that people will only remember three facts from their visit, so don't worry, you're far from being the only one. It's not really about learning facts, it's about enjoying history.
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.
You did yourself down on this one Kalyn, you got the gunpowder plot of 1605 right, but marked yourself wrong. Btw the River Severn is pronounced just like the number 7, it flows past our local library, which was built as a school in 1556, and was Darwin's schoolhouse, it also flows past his childhood home, as it forms an almost complete loop around the town.
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.
You didn't do badly, don't beat yourself up about it .... that's our job 😂 Got a few wrong myself on monarchy and the lake. Yes you need to hear the pronunciation to get it right so very close on one of them!
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 :)
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
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@Falcom Scott Corporation not company.
You have friends? How dare you. You're not supposed to have friends, you're supposed to make videos, FOR US.
'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
We all know what BBC stands for.🍆
Goldeneye was a James Bond Film, but it was also Ian Flemming's home on the Island of Jamaica.
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 . :-)
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
Wrong, The act of union took place in 1707, a hundred years after Elizabeth 1 died.
@slim56100 that’s right, but when she died James I and VI ascended the throne, putting England and Scotland into personal union. The act of union just merged them into one country
@@veryblocky This. The 100 year gap is not irrelevant, but the beginning of the end was the lack of heir, so the original point it true. However, it doesn't make it an 'important thing to know' I doubt the stats are great on this and yet all the people who don't know it lead very successful lives. If you watch that stats-related gameshow, pointless, you soon learn how little people know, like 15% of people will put Thatcher in the right decade, 10% will know the correct century for Newton, 5% will know the author of Oliver Twist and 1% will guess literature over peace for Churchill's Nobel prize. Knowing that the royals even had family names and coming up with even just 'Tudor' or 'Windsor', let alone the phrasing 'House of...' is probably a vanishingly small proportion of the UK population, and yet, most people my age will write a pretty effective AI prompt to engineer some code to calculate the correlation of two datasets - and they can almost pay their mortgages each month as a result.
@@danoneill8751 I meant important in the context of the Life in the UK test, which is what people have to take to become naturalised citizens. Just as I know she has studied for and taken it
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.
St Georges Day is when someone says ‘ today is St Georges Day’ Everyone then says ‘ is it?’
I still don't know when it is.
@@dylanmeyer6614 I think it's Juneteenth of March
BBC stands for British Broadcasting Corporation, so I notice a few of these answers are incorrect.
It's embarrassing that they couldn't get that right. See also: Union Flag.
I thought that, and then wondered when they changed it!
@@StonefieldJim4 Exactly! It is only the 'jack' when flown on ships!
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.
Union Jake as in James 1st England and 6th of scotland how made it by uniting the other country's putting the flags together. Maybe.
It is a Union Jack when flown from the Jackstaff which is on the prow of a ship as opposed to an Ensign Staff which is on the stern. Nothing to do with 'Jack Tar'.
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
I am impressed with your knowledge about UK and I have feel that you have adapted our British culture very well 😊👏
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 really well, I know a lot of people that would have struggled to get anywhere near as many correct as you did.
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)
Also valid, you can have more than one nickname (which means an also name from Dutch een eke ma'am, so I'm sure you can just keep adding as many as you want... A and also B and also C etc)😊
Your knowledge of British stuff is
very good.
'Goldeneye' is the name of the house in Jamaica where Ian Fleming wrote the 007 books.
At least one of these official answers is wrong! It’s the British Broadcasting CORPORATION!
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!
There is no such language as British English. It's just English.
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 will find that "Union Jack" is now in fully approved general use.
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.
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.
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.
@@cr10001 Am an older Brit who is pretty well travelled, but had no clue on Salcombe, that was such a niche question.
@@cr10001 It's in Devon on the coast.
@@ScruffyMisguidedAndBlue People who go to the South-West on holiday would know - which is A LOT.
The way the questions were phrased, I would guess this was written in South East Asia, rather than an American person. If you noticed, she had to correct the grammar a few times, and when she did, it wasn't because of USEng vs BritEng differences.
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)
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.
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.
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.
The flag of the United Kingdom is called the Union Flag. It is only called the Union Jack when flown at sea.
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!!
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
Coming from the Celtic Brythonic Cwm. Meaning valley.
I think you did bloody well. How did I miss this video…. I never miss your videos…. I need to reassess my life.
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 ;-)
I think you will find that "Union Jack" is now in fully approved general use.
'Hot Fuzz' is well worth watching.
At least one of the questions gave the wrong answer.....BBC stands for British Broadcasting Corporation, not Company.
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...)
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
Goldeneye was the place where Ian Fleming lived while writing some of the books.
Please do more, I learn along with you, you never look stupid.....you're HUMAN!
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.
I didn't know quite a few of these. On the other hand I'm 62, so if I haven't needed to know by now I doubt I ever will!
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.
You did better than me and I've Lived here all my life and I'm 50+.
You did well! Lots of natives would struggle especially with things outside their own region.
Ma'am I think you are very brave to do this at all. Bravo & keep going
BBC stands for British Broadcasting Corporation. It USED TO stand for British Broadcasting Company (from 1922 - 1927).
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.
Kalyn, you did exceptionally well. Consider this, if this were to be flipped and it was a USA quiz with an English presenter guessing, I seriously doubt they would do as well as you did.
How could you not have seen Hot Fuzz, the second-funniest film ever?
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.
I think you did really well!
You are genuinely very brave to do this quiz publicly, if you didn't grow up and have your education here. I didn't know a lot of the culture questions like the place Downton is based on
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
@@NIckyFromDunedinthe best one was the French media who coined Liz Truss the iron weathercock 😂
@@sheenamaclean8324i beg to disagree, she shattered that milk a year before I started school and I never heard my grandfather ever call her anything else throughout the 80s 😊
PS still my first thought whenever she's mentioned also
Seeing that you are not British you did extremely well 👏
BBC is corporation not company. Great video you have the knowledge
Don't know Lilly Allen? How blessed she is.
British Broadcasting Corporation
It was originally the British Broadcasting Company, and became the British Broadcasting Corporation in 1927.
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".
Why are you answering a different question though?
"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
I think you did pretty well - I'm a native of 40+ years & I struggled with some of that quiz!! Very enjoyable though! 😀
BBC British Broadcasting Company? I don't think so. It's the British Broadcasting _Corporation_ .
You did really well, well done.
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.
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. 😊
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!
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 👍👍
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.
you did well on that test congratulations!
Trafalgar Square. Nelson's Column. :)
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.
You can have a bunch of flowers, not questions, which cannot be bunched.
You did very well!
You did very well indeed, lass! 👍👏👏👏
I am Australian and like laughing at ignorant Americans. You did better than me. Apologies and respect.
You did better than many Brits would do. And you were right to rephrase question 8. We don't say "How is X called?". If it's a thing, we say "What is X called?" I think that was written by a Frenchman (Comment s'appelle ... ) or Italian (Come se chiama ... ) or German "Wie heisst ... ?"
'BBC' stands for British Broadcasting Corporation (though it was originally 'Company').
You did very well be proud of what you did😊
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! 😎
"The River Severn" is easy to pronounce. It`s "The River 7."
Great, I'm looking forward to this. If I don't score better than you I'll probably just slink away and say nothing. 🙂
We happy you tried
Hi, it's Cay-run-gorrums (or near enough). When you go through the Park on the train, the tiny stations have the station name, then Cairngorms National Park on the signs. The signs also have the names in Gaelic. As you can imagine the Gaelic translation of Cairngorms National Park is not short...sometimes the sign is almost as long as the station🤣. You did very well on this test, I got a few wrong and I'm Scottish born and bred! I would have thought Coronation St was the most watched t.v show for a start and I think I got most of the non-Scottish geography questions wrong. There's a kind of rule of thumb in the heritage sector (I worked in it for many years) that people will only remember three facts from their visit, so don't worry, you're far from being the only one. It's not really about learning facts, it's about enjoying history.
Coronations take place at Westminster Abbey, because the Monarch is head of the church .
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.
I think you will find that "Union Jack" is now in fully approved general use.
I was looking forward to you trying to pronounce Pontcysyllte
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.
I found myself yelling the answers to assist you hahaha
Please note...........Lord Nelson was not a Spitfire pilot...Lily Collins is Phil Collins daughter and is pretty famous.
You did yourself down on this one Kalyn, you got the gunpowder plot of 1605 right, but marked yourself wrong. Btw the River Severn is pronounced just like the number 7, it flows past our local library, which was built as a school in 1556, and was Darwin's schoolhouse, it also flows past his childhood home, as it forms an almost complete loop around the town.
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.
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.
Thank you, that was hilarious
You didn't do badly, don't beat yourself up about it .... that's our job 😂
Got a few wrong myself on monarchy and the lake. Yes you need to hear the pronunciation to get it right so very close on one of them!
Corporation this quiz is obviously from America BBC Corporation My God ❤🇬🇧😥😥😥
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 think you will find that "Union Jack" is now in fully approved general use.
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
I would say you have done far better than most Brits, well done (did that sound patronising, not my intention sorry)
River severn (river 7) starts north Wales and gos though England to south of Wales or south England
You did pretty well about the same as me , my geography was awful as well
British Broadcastin Corporation!
Good video, you did better than me 😂, the C in BBC stands for corporation though…
Well done, I've lived here all my life and got more wrong than you. However I could pronounce all the names 😀