# Could you pass the latest US citizenship test? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [July 2, 2008, 11:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-pass-the-latest-us-citizenship-test/455117 "2008-07-02T23:26:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Northern\_Piper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/northern_piper/32/5304_2.png) [@Northern\_Piper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Northern_Piper)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 6:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-pass-the-latest-us-citizenship-test/455117/101 "2008-07-04T18:40:21Z")
[QUOTE=Sunspace] Well, technically, the Queen of the UK isn’t the Commander-in-Chief of the Canadian Armed Forces; only the Queen of Canada is. The Crowns are separate, even though they are vested in the same person. (More trivia I picked up on the SDMB.) [/QUOTE] The Crowns are separate, but Her Majesty’s title in Canada is established by the [Royal Styles and Titles Act](http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/showdoc/cs/R-12//20080704/en?command=home&caller=SI&search_type=all&shorttitle=royal%20style&day=4&month=7&year=2008&search_domain=cs&showall=L&statuteyear=all&lengthannual=50&length=50) : > [@](#): > > 1. The assent of the Parliament of Canada is hereby given to the issue by Her Majesty of Her Royal Proclamation under the Great Seal of Canada establishing for Canada the following Royal Style and Titles, namely: > > Elizabeth the Second, by the Grace of God of the United Kingdom, Canada and Her other Realms and Territories Queen, Head of the Commonwealth, Defender of the Faith. So referring to her as the Queen of the United Kingdom and Canada is a proper description. ---
**Author:** ![Spoons](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/spoons/32/3141_2.png) [@Spoons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Spoons)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-pass-the-latest-us-citizenship-test/455117/102 "2008-07-04T19:13:18Z")
[QUOTE=Malthus] Missed on … Maine not being among the original colonies… [/QUOTE] That one is tricky. I got it, but I wouldn’t have if I hadn’t done some research into American legal history a year or so ago. Heck, my wife (US born and educated, including all necessary classes in US history) didn’t know that one. ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-pass-the-latest-us-citizenship-test/455117/103 "2008-07-04T19:21:10Z")
[QUOTE=Northern Piper] The Crowns are separate, but Her Majesty’s title in Canada is established by the [Royal Styles and Titles Act](http://laws.justice.gc.ca/en/showdoc/cs/R-12//20080704/en?command=home&caller=SI&search_type=all&shorttitle=royal%20style&day=4&month=7&year=2008&search_domain=cs&showall=L&statuteyear=all&lengthannual=50&length=50) : So referring to her as the Queen of the United Kingdom and Canada is a proper description. [/QUOTE] Well, yes, that that’s just listing several of the different realms under her personal union. It doesn’t change the fact that when she does something official in Canada as Queen of Canada, she’s doing it as Queen of Canada, not Queen of a different realm. ISTR that when she and the President of the USA opened the St. Lawrence Seaway, she acted as Queen of Canada, not Queen of the UK. ---
**Author:** ![Sternvogel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@Sternvogel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sternvogel)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2008, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-pass-the-latest-us-citizenship-test/455117/104 "2008-07-04T22:26:02Z")
I got 100%. I’m glad to see I’m not alone in this distinction. Incidentally, present-day Maine was included in the lands of the Thirteen Original Colonies – the state was broken off of Massachusetts [in 1820](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maine#History) as a result of the Missouri Compromise. ---
**Author:** ![Cardinal](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cardinal/32/4000_2.png) [@Cardinal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cardinal)\ **Post date:** [July 5, 2008, 10:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-pass-the-latest-us-citizenship-test/455117/105 "2008-07-05T22:31:08Z")
100%. But I’m a born American, and a nerd. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [July 6, 2008, 2:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-pass-the-latest-us-citizenship-test/455117/106 "2008-07-06T02:45:51Z")
I got 100%, and didn’t have to give any question much thought. The only “tricky” questions were the ones with negative logic (“Which of these is NOT…?”), but even those weren’t difficult. ---
**Author:** ![pravnik](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/8edcca/32.png) [@pravnik](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pravnik)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2008, 3:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-pass-the-latest-us-citizenship-test/455117/107 "2008-07-07T15:18:24Z")
95%, missed the succession question. ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2008, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-pass-the-latest-us-citizenship-test/455117/108 "2008-07-07T16:47:43Z")
95%, missed the number of amendments. (I put 23. :smack: ) ---
**Author:** ![mazinger\_z](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@mazinger\_z](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mazinger_z)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2008, 6:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-pass-the-latest-us-citizenship-test/455117/109 "2008-07-07T18:37:54Z")
100%. Too easy. ---
**Author:** ![Jammer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/df705f/32.png) [@Jammer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jammer)\ **Post date:** [July 7, 2008, 6:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-pass-the-latest-us-citizenship-test/455117/110 "2008-07-07T18:38:12Z")
100% on the questions I actually bothered to answer. I somehow managed to completely skip over question 17. Interestingly enough, it’s the only one I may have ultimately guessed at. So, let’s go with 95%, which is what I technically earned. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/could-you-pass-the-latest-us-citizenship-test/455117.md?page=5)