The British History test

[snorri]

You are outed as a recruiting agent for the SNP.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

only Scots would be eligible to be British if Scottish history was included.

So, seriously, only English and Welsh people and history counts as British?

 

[srw]

12 (ha ha, beat you srw!) and would have been 13 if I hadn't changed one guess!

You have a history O-level and grew up with an amateur historian...

 

[asterix]

So, seriously, only English and Welsh people and history counts as British?

After the referendum, yes.

 

[Mad Doug Biker]

But until then, saying that Scotland was in the UK since.... What was it, 1703? Then you would still have at the very least Culloden and The Highland Clearances to cover.

 

[sunnyjim]

But until then, saying that Scotland was in the UK since.... What was it, 1703? Then you would still have at the very least Culloden and The Highland Clearances to cover.

<mode= history pedent> 1707. You're thinking of the Union of the crowns 1603.</>

When I learned history, the map on the classroom wall was was mostly coloured pink. It was possibly out of date by then, but what I learned was:

Scotland usually beat England.
The British brought prosperity, peace & prosperity to the world by graciously welcoming most of it to the Empire.
The Empire was almost entirely won and run by Scotsmen.
The definition of an 'island' was a bit of land entirely surrounded by the Royal Navy.
Scotland has an auld alliance with France, whether the French know it or not.
Britain won the Napoleonic and any other wars mostly because of the Scottish regiments.
Scotland is the home of enlightened thought and enlightened wageslave poverty progressive industrialisation.
The industrial revolution, the bicycle, and and pretty much everything else, was invented in Scotland. Anything not invented in Scotland, was invented in England, and only because they got the idea from a Scotsman.

 

[betty swollocks]

<mode= history pedent> 1707. You're thinking of the Union of the crowns 1603.</>

When I learned history, the map on the classroom wall was was mostly coloured pink. It was possibly out of date by then, but what I learned was:

Scotland usually beat England.
The British brought prosperity, peace & prosperity to the world by graciously welcoming most of it to the Empire.
The Empire was almost entirely won and run by Scotsmen.
The definition of an 'island' was a bit of land entirely surrounded by the Royal Navy.
Scotland has an auld alliance with France, whether the French know it or not.
Britain won the Napoleonic and any other wars mostly because of the Scottish regiments.
Scotland is the home of enlightened thought and enlightened wageslave poverty progressive industrialisation.
The industrial revolution, the bicycle, and and pretty much everything else, was invented in Scotland. Anything not invented in Scotland, was invented in England, and only because they got the idea from a Scotsman.

....and Mel Gibson invented the steam engine.

 

[asterix]

Watt?

 

[ColinJ]

Watt?

Put your glasses on!

....and Mel Gibson invented the steam engine.

 

[glasgowcyclist]

I'm delighted to say that I failed.

Delighted because I can now justifiably decline to put British as my nationality on official forms and instead proudly proclaim my Scottishness!



GC

 

[Scoosh]

Mother to son:
"James Watt, while you're sitting there watching the kettle, ye've missed yer train !"

 

[Keith Oates]

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

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

 

[dellzeqq]

Citizenship Test duffers - you are not alone!
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/sep/27/david-cameron-letterman-late-show

 

[Black Sheep]

got 6/15

although my accent gives me 5 points so I'm fine.

I always do get muddled with century's

 

[ArDee]

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

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

Thomas Savery originally invented the steam engine in 1690's; but his didn't work very well and tended to explode. Thomas Newcombe re-invented the steam engine as a working engine in 1712.
The Romans and Greeks played with steam toys; but, never converted them into working engines.
Watt fitted a separate condenser that made the steam engine which significantly increased its efficiency and made the steam engine viable.
Oh - I got 14 from 15 - thought the Welsh were subjugated earlier .