British Citizenship Test

Guess I get to keep my British citizenship, for what it's worth (which is currently decreasing rather rapidly).

In Q3, it's The Houses of Parliament (not 'of the Parliament').

I got 12, and I`m Austrian. 2 of the 12 were wild guesses.

10/15 - Central USA. Missed 2 that were 50/50 guesses.

12/15, I probably know too much about the perfidious Albion to not have my French citizenship revoked.

Missed only the Home Secretary (east coast US)

I'm from Bulgaria and also got 12 / 15. For two questions (patron Saint of Wales and Home Secretary) I was hesitating between two options and chose the wrong one. For the third one (the Scot with his own army) I didn't have the faintest clue. Everything else was pretty straight forward for me.

11/15 as an American. Frankly, I feel like the US citizenship test is easier and more practical. Like, why is it necessary for British citizens to know Scotland's national flower or what the Grand National is? The US citizenship is mostly government/politics, stuff that's useful for a prospective voter to know, and at any rate you only need 6/10 right to pass. No one I personally know have had any problems with it. I'll admit that I may be biased though. I'm wondering if anyone has statistics on pass/fail rates for these tests?

I got the same score and agree that the value of some of these questions toward being a good British citizen seem a bit arbitrary.

I think 67% should be good enough to become a citizen, right?

7/15 let's gooo, looks like Im staying in the States.

Ah yes, citizenship tests. Because your quality as a citizen depends on your knowledge of historical and geographical trivia. Well here on Jetpunk it probably does, but in the real world, I wish they'd ask more questions like "Church and state are separated, do you agree?", "If your neighbour is gay, would you shake his hand?", "Would it be acceptable to you if our chief of goverment was a Jew" etc. People could still lie of course, but it'd still make more sense than the trivia quizzes these tests currently are.

That would be a test "how liberal you are", that has nothing to do with citizenship...

The second question is be a bit misphrased, I agree. A better one might be something like "Your neighbour is gay. Which of the following statements applies to him? 1. He is a citizien with the same rights as me, 2. He should be treated/reeducated, 3. He should be imprisoned, 4. He should be put to death". My point was, equal rights and separation of state and religion are constitutional rights in most democracies. The point of a citizenship test should be to test if people who want to live in the country endorse its basic constitutional values, as far as testing that is even possible. Unfortunately, many people who seek citizenship in European countries have views that endorse violence especially against women, jews and homosexuals. If we take our values seriously, we have to ask ourselves if giving such people citizenship makes sense. Sorry for getting political, but the double-think behind that really bothers me.

Values of a society are far more important than knowledge of a countries history.

This reminds me of the citizenship test my wife took in my native Germany. One of the questions was "Which of the following is not part of Germany? 1. Brandenburg, 2. Hesse, 3. Bavaria, 4. Alsace-Lorraine". She passed the test with flying colours by giving the obvious right answer, Bavaria.

Lol

Btw a bit of shameless self-advertising but I turned that very test into a quiz:

https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/1457943/german-citizenship-test

...and not only one kinds of banknotes. Truly, I don't know whether there is a country so versatile with their bank notes as UK. Probably not.

It isn't part of the UK. The question does not imply that any answer that isn't a crown dependency is part of the UK.

13/15 as a Canadian

The Channel Islands are 2 Crown Dependencies (Jersey and Guernsey), not 1.