Featured Quizzes
User Quizzes
Create Quiz
Data and Charts
Badges and Games
About JetPunk
Message Board
Dark Mode
Things British People Know that Americans Don't
These trivia questions should be easy for any British person, but almost impossible for Americans. Can you answer them?
Rate:
Featured Quiz
Last updated: August 2, 2020
You have not attempted this quiz yet.
More quiz info >>
| First submitted | August 2, 2020 |
| Times taken | 48,419 |
| Average score | 47.6% |
| Rating | 4.14 |
4:00
Enter answer here
0
/ 21 guessed
Time Used
00:00
Best Time
00:00
The quiz is paused. You have remaining.
Scoring
You scored / = %
This beats or equals
% of test takers
also scored 100%
The average score is
Your high score is
Your fastest time is
Keep scrolling down for answers and more stats ...
|
New and Popular
Save Your Progress
good quiz tho
Most people under 30 will know their weight in kg, especially people interested in fitness/gym.
18/21.
(I ran out of time after wasting too much of it typing in different variations of "shortbread biscuits" on the Walkers question, haha.)
Might have to write an Australian version of this quiz.
Just to amend, because Americans get this wrong a lot. You don't need a license for a TV. You pay a fee that helps to fund the BBC's channels, website, and radio.
You need the TV license to watch other channels too (ITV and 4 mostly), but you don't need a license to watch streaming services like Netflix or YouTube, play Blu-rays or video games.
I’d also argue 40 years ago is not that long! Although I’m possibly bias on that one as I was alive when she was prime minister ;)
PS no whinges please about the (British) spelling of "programme"!
I understand why there’s more American quizzes as there’s just more American users on the site but this one just meant I could get 100% for once 😂
I missed home, mo, oyster, greengrocer, coventry and barristers. Only the last one means nothing to me. (Did try shop owner/shopkeeper for grocer I believe, but when that didn't work I gave up because I've read too many person x's father worked as y, that I had no faith in getting it) Coventry I recognise but not likely I would have come up with it any time soon. The first three could have gotten and might have gotten on another day.
Also, I thought Prince Philip was a member of the nobility of some small Germanic country, like Liechtenstein or Luxembourg so I didn't get that one either.
LOL, but seriously, I got 12 of 21... not bad at all for an American who has only ever been to the UK once... on a 3 day trip to London 30 years ago. I knew 9, reasoned out 1, and got 2 by guessing several possible answers and eventually hitting.
Another English dialectal form is izzard /ˈɪzərd/. This dates from the mid-18th century and probably derives from Occitan izèda or the French ézed, whose reconstructed Latin form would be *idzēta, perhaps a Vulgar Latin form with a prosthetic vowel. Outside of the anglosphere, its variants are still used in Hong Kong English and Cantonese.
Mr. Blobby is creepy
I guessed on the one I got
Please accept winge as a spelling of whinge, that is how it is spelt in the Collins dictionary
Not many Brits outside of London have heard of an Oyster card or the inner temple.
How do British people spell it?" Shouldn't this be Pronounce instead of Spell? We all spell it Z, no?
Apparently made for only British
Very British Centric /s
Looks like it might not last until the next time this is on the front page too seeing the headlines today. But then “radical change” to the BBC funding model has been talked about for decades…
Also, you can now use your debit / credit card directly on the London Underground machines and turnstiles, so Oyster cards are no longer the main payment method
It was really nice quiz, i would love to see versions for more countries.
remembered prince Philip's birthplace