# Can you pass the British citizenship test? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 6, 2026, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-pass-the-british-citizenship-test/1031468 "2026-07-06T20:25:14Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2026, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-pass-the-british-citizenship-test/1031468/1 "2026-07-06T20:25:14Z")
Check it out [here.](https://notquitebritish.co.uk/) I passed with 19/25, but sadly the online quiz does not confer actual citizenship. ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2026, 8:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-pass-the-british-citizenship-test/1031468/2 "2026-07-06T20:33:54Z")
Yes ! 22/24 ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2026, 8:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-pass-the-british-citizenship-test/1031468/3 "2026-07-06T20:36:36Z")
I knew a lot but the national flower of Wales? That is on the test cuz why? (Daffodil if you must know…TIL) ---
**Author:** ![Thing.Fish](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thing.fish/32/9168_2.png) [@Thing.Fish](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thing.Fish)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2026, 8:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-pass-the-british-citizenship-test/1031468/4 "2026-07-06T20:38:53Z")
I didn’t get that one; apparently there are more than 24 possible questions. My head-scratcher was about who was the first Briton in however many years to win a major tennis tournament (forgot his name already). ---
**Author:** ![colinfred](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colinfred/32/21338_2.png) [@colinfred](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/colinfred)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2026, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-pass-the-british-citizenship-test/1031468/5 "2026-07-06T20:41:23Z")
I’m an actual Brit, I got 22/24 Women voting and age you can drive ---
**Author:** ![pjd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pjd/32/3009_2.png) [@pjd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pjd)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2026, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-pass-the-british-citizenship-test/1031468/6 "2026-07-06T20:47:56Z")
> [@pjd](#): > > 22/24 The 2 I got wrong :- - % of population who identify as christian. - % of population killed by the black death. > [@Whack-a-Mole](#): > > That is on the test cuz why? Cuz it’s something that a Brit would/should/might\* know. \*delete as applicable ---
**Author:** ![Whack-a-Mole](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/whack-a-mole/32/141_2.png) [@Whack-a-Mole](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Whack-a-Mole)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2026, 8:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-pass-the-british-citizenship-test/1031468/7 "2026-07-06T20:53:37Z")
> [@pjd](#): > > Cuz it’s something that a Brit would/should/might\* know. Eh… I don’t even know what flower it is for the US or my home state of Illinois or even city (if it has one). ---
**Author:** ![liirogue](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dbc845/32.png) [@liirogue](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/liirogue)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2026, 9:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-pass-the-british-citizenship-test/1031468/8 "2026-07-06T21:23:24Z")
Why on earth should someone know that Andy Murray one his first Grand Slam at the US Open? I passed (although I guessed at quite a few). ---
**Author:** ![Kropotkin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kropotkin/32/18045_2.png) [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2026, 9:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-pass-the-british-citizenship-test/1031468/9 "2026-07-06T21:24:44Z")
I failed, so sour grapes, but these sorts of citizenship tests seem like pretty awful ways to assess someone’s potential and ability to participate in and contribute to a society. At best they might indicate a willingness to devote some hours to meaningless toil and thus show a degree of obedience. Seriously, “Pass the Trivial Pursuit contest and you’re in!” “The correct answer is ‘The Moops!’ It says so on the card!” Now, I confess that I love these sorts of quizzes, and if the questions highlighted in this thread had been on the version I took, I’d bloody well be up for King! ---
**Author:** ![FinsToTheLeft](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/finstotheleft/32/2930_2.png) [@FinsToTheLeft](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FinsToTheLeft)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2026, 9:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-pass-the-british-citizenship-test/1031468/10 "2026-07-06T21:29:35Z")
Canadian, scored 19/24. I have no idea what footballer was the team captain in 1966?!?! ---
**Author:** ![Kropotkin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kropotkin/32/18045_2.png) [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2026, 9:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-pass-the-british-citizenship-test/1031468/11 "2026-07-06T21:36:33Z")
So if you and I move from Canada to Britain, you get NHS coverage, while I, 17/24, don’t. I know that’s not how it works, but it is a pretty weird quiz with much hanging on it. ---
**Author:** ![AlsoNamedBort](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alsonamedbort/32/3213_2.png) [@AlsoNamedBort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AlsoNamedBort)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2026, 9:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-pass-the-british-citizenship-test/1031468/12 "2026-07-06T21:38:39Z")
It looks like there’s a study guide with everything on it. So it’s less a test of “What do you know about the UK” and more a test of “Are you willing to memorize facts from this 100 page book?” > **[Life in the UK: A Guide for New Residents](https://britizen.uk/study-guide)** > > Nextra: the next docs builder ---
**Author:** ![markn\_1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f9ae1b/32.png) [@markn\_1](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/markn_1)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2026, 10:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-pass-the-british-citizenship-test/1031468/13 "2026-07-06T22:02:38Z")
Apparently the questions are randomized, because I didn’t get the flower question, but I got three questions about sports. Why TF do they care if a potential citizen knows who won some tennis match 20 years ago? ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2026, 10:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-pass-the-british-citizenship-test/1031468/14 "2026-07-06T22:12:15Z")
There are no football or cricket questions? ---
**Author:** ![JohnGalt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johngalt/32/184_2.png) [@JohnGalt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JohnGalt)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2026, 10:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-pass-the-british-citizenship-test/1031468/15 "2026-07-06T22:18:10Z")
I got 18. Too many sports questions (4), one of which was indeed about cricket. I was surprised that there weren’t more royal family questions–that’s about the only thing many Americans know about the UK. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2026, 10:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-pass-the-british-citizenship-test/1031468/16 "2026-07-06T22:20:16Z")
I’ve been judged “not quite British” (16/24). I guess I’ll have to go with my Canadian ancestry if I decide to flee America. ---
**Author:** ![DPRK](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/4491bb/32.png) [@DPRK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DPRK)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2026, 10:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-pass-the-british-citizenship-test/1031468/17 "2026-07-06T22:24:45Z")
OK, I looked at it, and there were some royal family questions like “Who is the head of state?” Not sure how much more than that there is to it. You just had to check “the monarch”— they did not even ask for his name. ---
**Author:** ![Kropotkin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kropotkin/32/18045_2.png) [@Kropotkin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kropotkin)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2026, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-pass-the-british-citizenship-test/1031468/18 "2026-07-06T22:26:20Z")
Quite right. See my comment above. ---
**Author:** ![Jaycat.again](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat.again/32/11525_2.png) [@Jaycat.again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaycat.again)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2026, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-pass-the-british-citizenship-test/1031468/19 "2026-07-06T22:29:02Z")
I am shocked to learn that Dylan Thomas didn’t write “Auld Lang Syne.” ---
**Author:** ![Thumper668](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thumper668/32/20803_2.png) [@Thumper668](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thumper668)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2026, 10:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-pass-the-british-citizenship-test/1031468/20 "2026-07-06T22:30:26Z")
I passed but I’m shocked at how many questions had to do with tennis. I fucking hate tennis. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-pass-the-british-citizenship-test/1031468.md?page=2)