Fair’s fair.
Any non-Scot who scores better than 15 on this test earns the right to have their comments about Scottish Independence taken seriously.
http://i100.independent.co.uk/article/could-you-pass-a-scottish-citizenship-test--lJfaVbmL4l
I’m Irish, I got 17.
No, I abused him because of the timing rather than the opinion. I doubt the timing is coincidence.
The timing is rather clever- limited any piling on by the Mail or Telegraph.
Well, if the vote is No, he’s kissed goodbye to the knighthood he would have got on his retirement for having won Wimbledon.
Why wouldn’t/shouldn’t Scotland have knighthoods?
This is very interesting - timelapse of twitter activity today
I said ‘if the vote is no’. He’s advocating the break-up of the Union so those in charge of the Union are going to mark his card.
I think the idea is that Scotland could issue its own knighthoods.
That is the attitude that feeds nationalism. There is a separate Scottish list anyway administered by the Scottish civil service.
Ah, I don’t know how I missed that. But I think it’s unlikely to make a difference. If anything, I’d expect any sort of knighthood to be fast tracked in an attempt to appease the yes voters and demonstrate a lack of pettiness.
I’m an American and got a 10, so I guess I’ll just sit and watch. But my opinion, which you most certainly do not have to take seriously, is that it will be both interesting and somewhat hilarious to watch what happens if there is a yes vote.
Kinda like falling asleep wearing knickers and waking up in a skirt. 
I know you can’t speak for all Americans, but this isn’t the first time I’ve seen something like this on these boards. Why do you think it will be “somewhat hilarious”?
Because it will be grand political theater – laughter and crying, sturm and drang, threats and apologies, … There’s bound to be humor in the mix somewhere.
I will have to start looking at some Scottish comedians.
Damn, only got 15. But I read one question wrong. Do I get credit for knowing who the Jambos and Hibbies are?
Cheer up Pjen: a few months ago we were discussing the relevance of the movies Braveheart and Highlander.
Progress!
That is interesting, though I feel like the Nos are being rendered before/under the Yeses, so that it looks like Yes is winning, but it might be even. Though it could be that there are fewer of them, so they’re quickly swapped to the bottom. Hard to tell, without looking at the code.
Damn, only 14! :mad:
But how is it false that James I succeeded Elizabeth I (not as king of Scotland, of course, but he did succeed her)? Come to that, is it really false that Shakespeare composed his Henry VIII during James’ reign? I was under the impression that it was generally considered to be the last play he worked on, and he certainly lived, and continued writing plays, well into James’ reign. (Maybe Shakespeare scholars now date the play earlier than they used to, but, if so, that is a matter of knowledge, fairly esoteric knowledge, about Shakespeare, not knowledge about Scotland.)
It is also pretty nitpicky to say that James was not the “principal target of the Gunpowder Plot”. He was certainly a target, and by far the most prominent target, even if the plotters actually hated some of the parliamentarians more.
Of course, Scotland’s national animal (which I got) is a perfect symbol of their hopes for a utopian independence. 
- I’m glad that was all it took.