Fairly straightforward if you are British but I'll be interested to see how the stats pan out when 'the world' has a go at it. How much of what each of us assumes everyone knows about our own countries do nationals of other countries actually know? Perspective is useful: 'Oh to see outselves as others see 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?
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.
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.
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.
British Citizen and only scored 13. Good job I qualify by birth. On the Church of Wales question you could argue it both ways. Although it is Anglican it definitely has its own identity and its own Archbishop. It is officially its own province of the Anglican Communion. There are many churches in the Anglican Communion e.g the Church of Pakistan.
If I can have that then I get full marks: one more for the Northern Ireland banknotes and one for this.
Totally agree about the Church in Wales. It is definitely a recognised entity which could easily fit the description in the question: churchinwales.org.uk
In Q3, it's The Houses of Parliament (not 'of the Parliament').
https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/1457943/german-citizenship-test
If I can have that then I get full marks: one more for the Northern Ireland banknotes and one for this.
Otherwise my Britishness is solid!