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True Brit test on AOL
Following the Home Secretary's proposal for citizenship education for applicants for naturalization, AOL's UK front page today has a little Britishness test. I wonder if other AUEers of non-British birth might like to try it. (Even though I live in UK, I scored only 8 out of 10, erring on the Beatles and Royal family questions.)
I don't seem to be able to isolate the URL, I'm afraid.
Mike.
I don't seem to be able to isolate the URL, I'm afraid.
Mike.
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[nq:1]Following the Home Secretary's proposal for citizenship education for applicants for naturalization, AOL's UK front page today has a little ... )[/nq] If it's any consolation, this dyed-in-the wool urBrit only got 7 right. Matti
- [nq:1]Following the Home Secretary's proposal for citizenship education for applicants for naturalization, AOL's UK front page today has a little ...
- )[/nq] If it's any consolation, this dyed-in-the wool urBrit only got 7 right.
- Matti
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[nq:1]Following the Home Secretary's proposal for citizenship education for applicants for naturalization, AOL's UK front page today has a little ... though I live in UK, I scored only 8 out of 10, erring on the Beatles and Royal family questions.)[/nq]
If it's any consolation, this dyed-in-the wool urBrit only got 7 right.
Matti
If it's any consolation, this dyed-in-the wool urBrit only got 7 right.
Matti
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[nq:2]Try this:[/nq]
[nq:1]http://webcenter.polls.aol.co.uk/quiz?view=17856&pollId=17892&channel=a ol uk news Ah reading failure on my part. I was talking about a different quiz on the BBC News site the other day, which has been removed now. I got 8 on the AOL one, which seems ra
[nq:1]http://webcenter.polls.aol.co.uk/quiz?view=17856&pollId=17892&channel=a ol uk news Ah reading failure on my part. I was talking about a different quiz on the BBC News site the other day, which has been removed now. I got 8 on the AOL one, which seems ra
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[nq:2]I got 6 out of 10. Good job I'm already here. I'd say it was mostly TIC, clearly being directed towards a late-middle-aged tabloid reader.[/nq]
[nq:1]If it had been an actual test of Britishness, there would have been questions about trains.[/nq]
And the weather. And tea-making.
Mike
M.J.Powell
[nq:1]If it had been an actual test of Britishness, there would have been questions about trains.[/nq]
And the weather. And tea-making.
Mike
M.J.Powell
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[nq:2]If it had been an actual test of Britishness, there would have been questions about trains.[/nq]
[nq:1]And the weather. And tea-making.[/nq]
And Maggie Thatcher.
[nq:1]And the weather. And tea-making.[/nq]
And Maggie Thatcher.
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[nq:2]I got 6 out of 10. Good job I'm already here. I'd say it was mostly TIC, clearly being directed towards a late-middle-aged tabloid reader.[/nq]
[nq:1]Yup. I got 9/10. I can't get it to tell me which one I got wrong, but it was almost certainly the football one.[/nq]
Also 9/10. It turns out that I got the 'last successful invasion' answer wrong - and it serves me right. I agree
[nq:1]Yup. I got 9/10. I can't get it to tell me which one I got wrong, but it was almost certainly the football one.[/nq]
Also 9/10. It turns out that I got the 'last successful invasion' answer wrong - and it serves me right. I agree
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mickwick filted:
[nq:1]Also 9/10. It turns out that I got the 'last successful invasion' answer wrong - and it serves me right. ... I was too snooty about the quiz to expect it expect the right answer, if you see what I mean.[/nq]
Remember, you're not to give the right* answer, but the most *British answer...the two may not coincide in every case..
I got 7/10, by the way...
[nq:1]Also 9/10. It turns out that I got the 'last successful invasion' answer wrong - and it serves me right. ... I was too snooty about the quiz to expect it expect the right answer, if you see what I mean.[/nq]
Remember, you're not to give the right* answer, but the most *British answer...the two may not coincide in every case..
I got 7/10, by the way...
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[nq:2]Following the Home Secretary's proposal for citizenship education for applicants ... of 10, erring on the Beatles and Royal family questions.)[/nq]
[nq:1]If it's any consolation, this dyed-in-the wool urBrit only got 7 right.[/nq]
I only got 6. I hadn't got a clue about the football, Queen's grandchildren and the Beatles song, and one other which I can't even guess at.
I als
[nq:1]If it's any consolation, this dyed-in-the wool urBrit only got 7 right.[/nq]
I only got 6. I hadn't got a clue about the football, Queen's grandchildren and the Beatles song, and one other which I can't even guess at.
I als
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[nq:1]Is there anything your true Brit won't talk about? The movie 'Le Divorce' made the claim that the French will discuss anything except their salaries.[/nq]
Anything intellectual. You can't be both a True Brit and an intellectual. (And you can't be both a New Brit and sober.)
Mickwick
Anything intellectual. You can't be both a True Brit and an intellectual. (And you can't be both a New Brit and sober.)
Mickwick
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[nq:1]mickwick filted:[/nq]
[nq:2]Also 9/10. It turns out that I got the 'last ... expect the right answer, if you see what I mean.[/nq]
[nq:1]Remember, you're not to give the right* answer, but the most *British answer...the two may not coincide in every case..[/nq]
The trouble is, the most British answer is ***. We Brits have trouble accepting that *** was an invasion of any d
[nq:2]Also 9/10. It turns out that I got the 'last ... expect the right answer, if you see what I mean.[/nq]
[nq:1]Remember, you're not to give the right* answer, but the most *British answer...the two may not coincide in every case..[/nq]
The trouble is, the most British answer is ***. We Brits have trouble accepting that *** was an invasion of any d
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[nq:2]mickwick filted: Remember, you're not to give the right* answer, but the most *British answer...the two may not coincide in every case..[/nq]
[nq:1]The trouble is, the most British answer is ***. We Brits have trouble accepting that *** was an invasion of ... stares. (Before about 9pm, anyway. It would be fisticuffs from 9pm till closing.) The quiz-master got that one wrong, True-
[nq:1]The trouble is, the most British answer is ***. We Brits have trouble accepting that *** was an invasion of ... stares. (Before about 9pm, anyway. It would be fisticuffs from 9pm till closing.) The quiz-master got that one wrong, True-
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