British Groups of Things

The fact that you included the Top Gear presenters makes this one of my favorite quizzes ever.

Hey, I needed the Stig to make any decent showing at all.

It has to be one of the worst programs on TV - Inflated egos.

Vege, lol. Yes, dozens, at least. But I agree strongly with Berney. Atrocious cast. Painful to watch. Soooo stuck up their own butts. So ignorant. So biased in their opinions, too. None of them knew how to drive my car when they made an attempt and tried to blame their ineptitude on the car.

Actually about 350 million people disagree with you! It’s the most widely watched factual programme in the world (according to the Guinness book of world records) 😂

Think the questions a bit misleading though to have the stig listed as a presenter. Also, might be worth changing the question to top gear presenters (2003-2015) given the recent changes to the line up.

Honestly, Kal. Maybe you don't like to watch Top Gear. Does that mean you have to shout down not only its presenters but also its aforementioned 350,000,000 fans?

Factual? That's rich. It's as much bull as any other reality TV show. Scripted and inaccurate.

Easy. I'm actually impressed he can drive a Robin properly. If he

launched one into space, then yes he succeeded over their failed attempt.

I'm trying to say what I said. and a lot of people have trouble driving my car. It has an enormous amount of power and torque which most people don't even know what to do with. Especially those used to driving European cars. But I suspect that the main reason is that the presenters are very biased against American cars and had already decided what they were going to say about it before the show started filming. I mean look at the fiasco when they reviewed a Tesla. They already knew what the narrative of the show was going to be before they even got the car. Anyway, I drove my Viper for 13 years and took it to more than one high performance driving class and you'd have to be kind of a smug idiot to think that Jeremy Clarkson could drive it better just because he's on a popular TV show.

Nice self-awareness there, "biggus"...

evil: yes, exactly. I'll never forget the problems I had trying to buy insurance at the border between Slovakia and Poland one day because my engine was literally off the charts big. Bigger than anything made by Lamborghini or Ferrari. They ended up charging me for two cars.

watch comedian stewart lee talk about top gear. he hits the nail on the head as to why it is, in quite a few ways, an *objectively* bad show.

Why isn't Peter Sellers (yes that one from the Pink Panther series) included as a James Bond? (http://www.imdb.com/character/ch0000007/)

There are dozens if not hundreds of actors who have played Bond over the years but the quiz is obviously only counting the actors who appeared in Eon films.

Sure, if you want to count up all the people who have portrayed him in comedy sketches, school plays, and so on.

Apparently there are more bond actors than people that like topgear..

There should be

Peter Sellers just played Evelyn Tremble in 1967 Casino Royale, he didn't even play Bond.

I tried David Niven even though I knew he wouldn't be on here. Just hoping.

He was British -born. (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000634/?ref_=fn_al_nm_1)

Got them all apart from one Monopoly station!

I was missing only one of those, vaguely remembered something like Fentchurch Street. When that didn't work, I tried to write it with a 'd' instead, but when I removed the 't', lo and behold, the quiz stopped because I had finished it! Funny.

Only missed Alderney and Andrew. What is the 'big 4 banks' based on? I was surprised not to see Natwest, maybe it should be the big 5?

100% with 30 seconds remaining. Feeling rather proud that i know all this, especially when i'm only 13!!

100% here too. And I'm only 30 years older than you.

LOL!

yeah, im 12: 100%. Age makes no difference

It does, but kids think it is automatically more impressive when you are young, while it is usually the opposite. When you are young your learning capacity is much bigger, and the things you have learned are much fresher. Remembering something you learned a year ago vs something you learned 40 years ago and never heard of since...

I think up to about 8 it is impressive. From 8-18 you actually have the advantage (big time). from well lets stick with the 8's, from 18-38 it is normal and from 38 to 78(68?) it gets a bit harder and from 78 and up it is impressive again.

These are rough estimates and based on my opinion, but the general trend is true. (you could shift the break up points around a bit obviously, cause it is more fluent than abrupt)

Got almost half...As an American, I thought that was decent, until I realized that they were almost entirely pop culture questions. Crap.

I got 23 but I did good considering I live in california

one of the best quizzes on here!

thanks too the comments I got more than I thought gee this was hard for a new Zealander

Ahh, why can I never remember Timothy Dalton?!

Well, Lazenby's Bond got married.

clear england bias

Except for RBS and Connery

Also Lazenby, Dalton, Brosnan, Walsh and the countries and capitals that aren't English. About 84% of the UK population lives in England. Non-English answers make up about 20% of the quiz. Not English enough! :P

HSBC = Hong Kong & Shanghai Banking Corporation...not very British!

Might want to read up on the history of Hong Kong and Shanghai.

HSBC bought the Midland Bank in 1999, which was one of the big 4 at the time. Hence, HSBC takes the slot.

*sigh* Northern Ireland isn't part of GB, it part of UK... there's a difference

Yes but the quiz says british not GB, Northern Ireland is British.

That awkward moment when your last name is Tudor and you forget Mary and Elizabeth 0.0

What about Lady Jane Grey for a Tudor Monarch??

Lady Jane Grey's reign is disputed. She is not an officially recognised monarch, and she was not a Tudor anyway!

How comes we have to put the numbers on the first 3 Tudor monarchs and not Mary or Liz? I guess at the time they weren't Mary I or Liz I

Lol, shouldn't the Beatles members also have a †?

Also, *highfive* at ^NatashaMcCarthy. :)

Why do you have to put the numbers for the male Tudor monarchs but not for the female ones? They were Mary I and Elizabeth I, not just Mary and Elizabeth. We've had another one of each since then.

why dont you accept the x factor judges first name ?

34's not bad for an American is it?

Northern Ireland is part of the UK, but not Britain. The long way of saying the UK is 'the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.

"Britain" usually refers to the UK as a whole, while "Great Britain" refers to just the island- i.e. England, Wales and Scotland. So Northern Ireland is part of Britain.

The quiz won't accept “Richard Starkey”.

But it does accept Star before you even get to the 2nd R. Or K in your case.

But Clarkson, Hammond and May left Top Gear a few years back. Maybe its worth changing it to 'Original Top Gear Presenters' or 'Past Top Gear Presenters'.

Definitely not the original presenters, maybe the most well-known and long-lived, but for the sake of removing ambiguity, maybe just get rid of them (not necessarily from the quiz)

Ive always remembered the original Xfactor judges to be Simon Cowell, Sharon Osborne, Louis Walsh and Cheryl Cole.

I'd say no - it's not a country, but a region of Ireland, which is also partly in the Republic too

Such as the BBC, in the name of their regional station: "BBC Radio Ulster" - a classic on 1341 AM

Got 59% but thats good considering I live in Albania

I understand irony and humor just fine. Attempting to be funny doesn't mean you are funny.

The question was relating to the part played by the actors i.e. James Bond (quintessential MI6 man) the birthplace of the actor is not what was asked for and is totally irrelevant.

Typing in Marylebone Station got me a freebie - Mary!

How many other people type Marylebone with the correct spelling?

Did good for being an American Idiot. But married to an Aussie and BFF with a Scottish gal so my odds were good....

Top Gear was probably my favourite TV show...

If anyone would like to test their knowledge of Britain further then I've created a series of "Britain by picture" quizzes which you might be interested in trying.

Why isn't Isle of Wight in the biggest English Channel islands?

But George Lazenby is Australian

36/56 (American). I should have gotten more...I have only seen a few episodes of Top Gear, but I should have at least gotten The Stig...And I can't believe I forgot Bloody Mary...

I would say to be a presentor you would have to talk ;) :)

I am fine with him being included though I am not so point hungry as some. And he is an integral part of the show. I thought it was funny to see him show up as an answer, but to say it is correct is another matter.

What about the Isle of Wight?

It's not part of the Channel Islands, it's a seperate Island on it's own. Isle of Wight is just off the coast of England, Channel Islands are on the other side of The Channel off the coast of France.

I think it's the first quiz where my genuine attempt gets me 0/5 points

Casino Royale was 1953.

Richard Hammond, James May and Jeremy Clarkson left in 2015, the presenters now are Freddie Flintoff, Chris Harris and Paddy McGuiness and the Stig has stayed so you were 25% correct

Agree, may need to update the Topgear presenters now as they've not been around for some time.