UK citizenship Test

[candyman]

I got 10 right, just as well I got some practice cause I'm putting in my application for a new British passport tomorrow...

Here's a tip for the kiddies at home - take your passport out of your jeans pocket before you put them in the wash.

[fish]

8 for me

and I'm kind of happy with that, would be worrying if you ended up getting them all right... and surely for the english PG has more relevance to tea than the cinema????

[Shea]

I dont know how great it is, i got 9. I now more aboue england than the english! (or can guess better)

[FatBoy]

Magna Carta's got f**k all to do with the UK.... it's very much an English thing

Very true. About time we went back up there and sorted you lot out just like the good old days. Is that why you're hiding out in the Baltics?

what do they teach in your schools?!

Not where the myth of Santa Claus came from, or how long you need to be married before you get divorced (surely something you shouldn't be taught??).

Something interesting though was the voting thing. I'm sure everybody has a gap in their modern history - for me it was the 60's and 70's Textbooks when I was at school didn't go that far forward but I'm not old enough to know what happend until about 79. I'm sure many of the teenagers today won't know who Maggie Thatcher is...

[HOCOLITE]

Fat boy they learn about Maggie Thatcher and Ted Heath Miners strikes etc. My son did a source paper on flower power and the influence of the beatles!!!
Now he wonders why I don't look things up when he talks about them. I remember just the 18 year olds getting the vote and the campaign for entry to Europe. It's frightening, but I suppose it was the same for my parents when I was studying the second world war.

[FatBoy]

I guess my time window is incorrect. They probably don't know about John Major, Neil Kinnock, housing price crash, who Bez was before Big Brother etc. That or maybe the education system has filled this void since my day!

[Kitch]

Here's a tip for the kiddies at home - take your passport out of your jeans pocket before you put them in the wash.

yes
otherwise they spend a very long time looking at your passport in Amsterdam airport. When, after five minutes, you ask - "Is there something wrong?" They say "Why ? Is there ?" And they haul you out the queue at and put you in a room and you spend a worrying hour wondering if you're going to miss your flight in a close encounter with some rubber gloves - luckily they let you go and advise you to get a new passport.

[mharky]

or if you are really unlucky you have to try an get into pre EU estonia with a washed passport which has a photo which looks nothing like you. the imigration guard thought it necesary to split apart to photo page for further examination, and then suggested than i might need a new passport.

[Tatty]

I did grovel and apologise for refusing to get you a new one until the original expired!!

[Carnage Head]

I scored 7/14!

To think that I used to teach citizenship (with emphasis on the 'used to'...)!

[Haze]

wow chufed i got 9/14 and half of them were guesses. maybe i shud apply that technique to my soon coming exams!

[ian]

I did this test a couple of days ago and it had another question. which was what is the voltage supplied by uk sockets?
A)110
B)220
C)240

answer 230Vrms +/- 10% tolerance !!!