The British History test

[asterix]

Just to set the record straight James Watt did not invent the steam engine!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Oh, I had 9 in the quiz!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well at least there is no doubt who invented the watt.

 

[Jefferson Meriwether]

13/15. I thought the Welsh had English law imposed on them earlier than they did plus I incorrectly guessed it was Aus, NZ & Singapore that got their independance in 1947.

If I'd failed I've have quite happily been deported back to the Bristol area.

 

[Milo]

10 pretty bad considering my degree is in history. In my defence we did very little British history pre 19th century!

 

[Black Sheep]

11 - disappointed with that, though the Black Death question is unfair, and the mediaeval immigration question is ambiguous.

or bloody stupid,

Canals and Engineers were industrial revolution, as such, which wrong answer do you pick?

 

[Black Sheep]

The trouble is, those questions are so isolated from the full story that they tell us very little. If someone has learned the answers from a book, they won't know why they know it, they'll just parrot the results. Knowing that Cromwell deposed Charles I doesn't tell the applicant anything, it doesn't even tell them when it happened, unless the look up the dates. It certainly doesn't tell them anything about the result, or why we later returned to a monarchy.

Given that so many 'natives' would fail, I think all it proves is that people who want to immigrate are capable of learning some facts.

Frankly, all I want immigrants to know is the Highway Code, a basic understanding of the law (which, lets face it is generally pretty similar around the world, in terms of theft, murder, assault etc), enough English to get by, an open attitude to others and nice manners, which is what I'd like all my fellow citizens to have - sadly, it seems to be a struggle for a lot of native Brits....

13 for me, with a couple of educated guesses.

Ok, all in favour of Arch being in charge of immigration, say "Ay"

 

[SlowerThanASluggishSloth]

The Aussies introduced something similar in 2007. Satirical (and IMO v. funny) clip below: