# Can You pass this US citizenship test? **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 3, 2016, 3:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-pass-this-us-citizenship-test/759004 "2016-07-03T15:42:46Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 18\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2016, 7:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-pass-this-us-citizenship-test/759004/41 "2016-07-04T19:56:46Z")
> [@fachverwirrt](#): > > Re the British one, I’m amused at the idea that the Brits “discovered” hovercraft. Like they wandered into a cave one day, and there they were! And full of eels, the bloody things were. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_stainless_steel_rat/32/5727_2.png) [@The\_Stainless\_Steel\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Stainless_Steel_Rat)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2016, 7:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-pass-this-us-citizenship-test/759004/42 "2016-07-04T19:58:08Z")
10/10 for the USA, 21/24 for Britain, so if Trump wins I guess I know where I am heading… ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2016, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-pass-this-us-citizenship-test/759004/43 "2016-07-04T22:26:44Z")
10/10 on US (took the test for real in 1999) 22/24 on UK (embarrassing because I always get annoyed when people call me an Anglophile) ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2016, 5:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-pass-this-us-citizenship-test/759004/44 "2016-07-06T17:28:56Z")
Aced it. Pretty easy. ---
**Author:** ![Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/9e8a1a/32.png) [@Uosdwis\_R.Dewoh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uosdwis_R.Dewoh)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2016, 11:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-pass-this-us-citizenship-test/759004/45 "2016-07-06T23:02:41Z")
I could be an American as well, yay. I’m not though, Finnish, but I could be, if I wanted to. Guns. Hamburgers. Pickup trucks. The moon. Got a 7 out of 10. ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2016, 11:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-pass-this-us-citizenship-test/759004/46 "2016-07-06T23:59:48Z")
9/10 for the US one (missed the number in the House of Representatives, got the one on the last day to send in tax forms thanks to a _Futurama_ joke). 14/24 for the UK on. Here is the Australian test: [Could you pass Australia's old citizenship test? | SBS News](http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2015/05/28/could-you-pass-australias-citizenship-test) ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2016, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-pass-this-us-citizenship-test/759004/47 "2016-07-07T00:09:38Z")
> [@Battle\_Pope](#): > > 14/24 for the UK on. > > Here is the Australian test: > > [Could you pass Australia's old citizenship test? | SBS News](http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/2015/05/28/could-you-pass-australias-citizenship-test) It looks like I could be an Australian too. I missed three of the trivia questions but the concept questions were easy enough for this American to answer. It isn’t all that different. Would you pass the Australian citizenship test? You got 17 out of 20 correct. 85% ---
**Author:** ![Shagnasty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9dc877/32.png) [@Shagnasty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shagnasty)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2016, 12:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-pass-this-us-citizenship-test/759004/48 "2016-07-07T00:26:45Z")
The British are big on trivia apparently. I was lucky I knew some of them like the ones on technology based on other sources but I fail to see what relevance they have for citizenship. It would be as if we made people memorize a list of random sports stats and celebrity facts for the U.S. version. I still did OK but I had to guess on some rather than actually knowing the answer. Oh well, I hear they do the same thing with their taxicab driving test x1000 despite the fact anyone can take advantage of GPS now to get the same result as without knowing the history of every obscure alleyway in Greater London. YOU SCORED 20/24 ---
**Author:** ![Darth\_Sensitive](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/58956e/32.png) [@Darth\_Sensitive](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darth_Sensitive)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2016, 12:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-pass-this-us-citizenship-test/759004/49 "2016-07-07T00:55:27Z")
10/10 US 16/24 UK 19/20 Aus (Though if there was any other image at the top of the page it’d be 18) ---
**Author:** ![robby](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/robby/32/11048_2.png) [@robby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/robby)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2016, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-pass-this-us-citizenship-test/759004/50 "2016-07-07T02:03:38Z")
10/10 US 18/24 UK (lots of trivia in there; missed a few that I should have gotten) 19/20 Australia ---
**Author:** ![Mighty\_Mouse](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mighty_mouse/32/7776_2.png) [@Mighty\_Mouse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Mouse)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2016, 10:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-pass-this-us-citizenship-test/759004/51 "2016-07-07T10:43:44Z")
> [@Mighty\_Mouse](#): > > 10/10 on US (took the test for real in 1999) > 22/24 on UK (embarrassing because I always get annoyed when people call me an Anglophile) And now 20/20 on the strayian version. I’m assuming the 1.1% that fail are struggling with a language of literacy barrier. If they were drunk at the time, I assume they’d be given a special dispensation. Unless they were drinking Foster’s, in which case I imagine they’d be deported as Americans masquerading as Australians. ---
**Author:** ![davida03801](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5e925/32.png) [@davida03801](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/davida03801)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2016, 12:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-pass-this-us-citizenship-test/759004/52 "2016-07-07T12:03:47Z")
Perfect score. 10 for 10 ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2016, 2:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-pass-this-us-citizenship-test/759004/53 "2016-07-07T14:12:05Z")
10/10 USA 14/24 UK (Ouch - and I’m a raging Anglophile!) 20/20 Stralyan (a little disappointed, though, that there wasn’t a question about the Philosophy Department of the University of Woolloomooloo) ---
**Author:** ![Sangahyando](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/f14d63/32.png) [@Sangahyando](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sangahyando)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2016, 3:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-pass-this-us-citizenship-test/759004/54 "2016-07-07T15:41:57Z")
I’m British. Scored 8/10 on the US test (failed with House voting members, and Cabinet posts – and a couple of my correct answers were lucky guesses). On the Australian one, 17/20 (was wrong on two of the relatively more intricate governmental questions; and to my regret, had no idea about the Aboriginal flag. Got lucky with one blind guess). Rather to my shame, got only 19/24 on the British list of questions, with one correct answer a blind guess. (Was wrong on the dog-walking one, re which I concur with others – not really “on” as a question. Not everybody, even in Britain, is a “dog person” – I’m not – have never owned one of the creatures.) For one who doesn’t take a great interest in politics / current affairs; but is fond of, and interested in, the USA and Australia – I feel I didn’t do too horribly badly. ---
**Author:** ![JRDelirious](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jrdelirious/32/9531_2.png) [@JRDelirious](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JRDelirious)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2016, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-pass-this-us-citizenship-test/759004/55 "2016-07-08T00:46:04Z")
Crikey, isn’t that a beauty – got 20/20 on Australia although as mentioned by **Darth Sensitive** there was a big clue right on the page for one. Lots of items that apply generically across anglophone democracies and/or Westminsterish parliamentary systems. ---
**Author:** ![Battle\_Pope](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4bbf92/32.png) [@Battle\_Pope](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Battle_Pope)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2016, 1:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-pass-this-us-citizenship-test/759004/56 "2016-07-08T01:04:54Z")
> [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](#): > > 20/20 Stralyan (a little disappointed, though, that there wasn’t a question about the Philosophy Department of the University of Woolloomooloo) They were disbanded after the “Bruce Incident” aka\* The Dungay Horror\*. ---
**Author:** ![Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/d9b06d/32.png) [@Boozahol\_Squid\_P.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boozahol_Squid_P.I)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2016, 1:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-pass-this-us-citizenship-test/759004/57 "2016-07-08T13:20:35Z")
10/10 US 19/24 UK (Like most people here, the questions I missed were all the more trivial matters. I had never heard of Mr. Arkwright) 20/20 AUS (this one felt much more common-sense related than either of the other two. With the exception of the Aboriginal flag question, you don’t really have to know anything about Australia itself other than the philosophy of its government and the commonly used terms and titles in representative governments these days.) ---
**Author:** ![RivkahChaya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/rivkahchaya/32/8919_2.png) [@RivkahChaya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RivkahChaya)\ **Post date:** [July 8, 2016, 5:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-pass-this-us-citizenship-test/759004/58 "2016-07-08T17:46:26Z")
> [@chizzuk](#): > > Speak for yourself, I definitely learned all of that in school with the possible exception of when Tax Day is. I think I learned that from watching my parents. Yeah-- I learned all that in school too, but I went to school a while ago. “Civics” used to be a subject, and used to be considered pretty important. 10/10 on the US test. I got 22/24 on the UK test, thanks to a head’s up on the TV question. I missed the dog ID question, and another more trivia, less history-like question I can’t now remember. I knew all the stuff like which wife Catherine Howard was, and what the Restoration was. I did sort of guess at the hovercraft question, but it was easy to eliminate the other choices. I think one was radium, and one was clearly not the right century. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/can-you-pass-this-us-citizenship-test/759004.md?page=2)