20/24 for me, and I’m going to have to take this test for real at some point in the near future.
You have to pay for NHS coverage, before being eligible to apply for leave to remain you have to pay for 5 years worth of NHS, 5000 pounds per person. And during that time you have to work and therefore pay taxes into it. So no, passing this test does not get you free healthcare.
HEy it is about the same as in WW2 the sentries asking who won whatever year World Series - as my dad said, he didn’t follow sports so he had no freaking clue who won any particular series ever. Only way something is worthwhile/universal is if it is a shibboleth [you know, certain Asians not pronouncing R and L, or Germans and T/TH, can’t remember what he said about Italians offhand] But then a shibboleth doesn’t work with people with accents or speech impediments.
Honestly, I am in the same boat. Unless it is something like the current WC kerfluffle, I would have no idea the WC was going on, and no clue who is playing or why one particular team winning is good or bad. I tell my LOTRO kinnies that yes I did play soccer in high school for a few seasons but honetly as a fullback, all I did ws keep people from getting near my goal =) I do not play I do not follow, and once out of school and not forced to play anything, I do not play any sports, I do not follow sports and I see the whole uber rabid fandom rather dumb. It is a freaking game, nothing that happens there influences my life in the slightest bad o good.
Is there a symbol or emoji for “obvious exaggeration to make a point with, one hopes, a bit of humour?” If there is, I’ll use it in the future!
Because you’ll never fit in! Brits have to like their beer warm and their sports slow. 
Though I don’t think (I hope!) that the US citizenship test has you have to know who won the first Superbowl.
A what? I’ll never make it as a Brit cit.
I wouldn’t know neither. I joked that “just say the yankees and you’ll probably be right.” But I picked 1942 as the Sentry Test. Who’d have thunk someone in 2026 would know that off the top of their head? I got shot by the sentry.
I’ve done the test twice and got scores of 18/24 and 19/24. I moved to the UK from the US 30 years ago and have been a citizen for around 25 years. There was no test required back then.
Got 20/24 which is passing. I’ll use these test results the next time we play Mornington Crescent, as it will allow me to invoke the Chelmsford Rule.
The thing is, “people” do keep track of things like that. Can you imagine being in Brazil and not knowing whether your national team won the FIFA World Cup final?
Can we discuss what the “test” is supposed to accomplish? I grant you it might be vaguely useful to know what the House of Lords is and so forth. But if this is all so essential, how come there was originally no “test” in the first place? Seems fishy.
The thing was always, you had to be willing and prepared to swear (although it is no longer compulsory to use that word) allegiance and loyalty to the Monarch.
20/24
Missed:
- Percentage reporting no religion.
- Act of Union year.
- NHS creator
- What rocks Giant’s Causeway is made from.
I got a 17/24, so I can’t quite become British.
I did find it amusing that one of the questions I got was, essentially, “What sport competes in the Tour de France?”.
Probably for the best. If you’d asked me cold who the Head of State of the UK is, I’d probably answer “Queen Elizabeth” before I stopped to think about it.
And I did not know the Patron Saint of Wales, but I do know the patrons of the other three nations, which were the other multiple-choice options.
When my step-MIL became a US citizen, she studied her ass off for the citizenship test, and at the final exam, was asked only one question, and it was stupid-easy. I don’t remember what it was, but it was something like “What is apple pie made from?” (Answer: apples).
She spoke English absolutely perfectly, though, and she said that much later, she heard that the questioners listened to the petitioners before quizzing them. The ones who spoke English well, and talked about things relevant to US society and culture, got the easy quizzes.
Woe to those conversing in another language before the exam.
I got a question where the answer was cricket. Something about which big game is played in London…
20/24. not bad…
Do you have what it takes to be a Brit? Can you outrun the Chaser? The chase is on!
Yeah, I’m bitter. I only got 13.
16/25.
For shame. I am a very British citizen, born in a former British colony, and living in a former British colony. My mother was born in England and both my parents were English teachers. My accent is more British than South African, and I like Marmite on toast.
On second thoughts, most of the “yut” (youth) in the UK probably would also fail that test.
Now that y’all have finished a warm-up quiz, try the King William’s College general knowledge paper (pick a year, any year…). 
I only got one wrong - something about what is distinctive about the Open Golf championship, which I don’t regard as being essential knowledge for anything.
I think that it’s the only one not in the US. I got that one wrong, so don’t take my word for it: I’ve taken the quiz several times and have only gotten that question once. My average is around 21, but I keep getting the same questions wrong again and again when they do repeat so I may not have remembered the right answer.
Yeah, I am surprised the Brit use Sports on that test.
I only got 16 correct. I’m surprised I did so poorly, as I consider myself to be pretty knowledgeable about British history (all of which I correctly answered). Unfortunately I’m apparently pretty ignorant about modern British facts, like an MP “surgery”, or the national flower of Wales, or the Open Golf championship, or how frequently Parliamentary elections must be held in the modern era.
I’m sure I could do better with a bit of study, though.