When a Brit takes the "Life in the UK" test

today i'm going to take the life in the uk test to see if i qualify as a british citizen i don't stand a chance [Music] okay so i've heard on through my overseas friends uh a lot of comments uh about this life in the uk test that the government require potential british citizens to take uh the most common point is is the questions um and the relevance to living here in the uk so i thought british born and bred been here 49 years i think i'll give it a go and just see how good or bad i am at this particular test now my geography and my history which apparently is there's quite a lot of is is terrible with british history and so on so i'm gonna look at this and i'm not expecting to get a hundred percent um i'm hoping i'll pass but you could be the judge of my um my results uh as well as the percentage so the way it works is um you have 45 minutes and you're given like 24 questions the multiple choice and you've got to pass a 75 pass mark or more and these are based on things such as the values and principles of the uk uh what is the uk uh along an illustrious history i didn't work this this is actually officially their their titles a modern thriving history definitely not my title the uk government the law and your role so the government site has got all the information you need to apply and take the test there's an official life in the uk website supported by the home office that has some free mock tests and there's even an official life in the uk user guide there are some many websites that provide you with support and mock tests as well however there's there's some questionable ones that are filled with wrong answers so some of them are just hysterical uh you just need to be careful which sites you pick from so i've been looking through all these sites and and looking for one that will give me a good fair test and close to as possible the questions relevant to the official test that you take and i found one and i'm going to give it i've gave it a go i want to push the the results here now the obviously the test is 45 minutes i don't want you to sit through that so this is going to be a cut down version of me taking that test i hope you enjoy it at my expense right glass is on i'm actually nervous and i shouldn't be it's not as if i'm going to get kicked if i get it wrong but i actually feel nervous about doing this um we've got reputation of anything's on the line let's give this a go and start it off right question one which of these thoughts were part of hadrian's wall i have no idea isn't it like a dozen part like faults along that wall uh are you supposed to know all of them um house deads scarra bray sutton who vindalanda i thought that was a curry okay house deads um scarra bray that sounds familiar that's like a really old village in it in scotland um i don't think it's that scobby's son who in it something who oh how was the curry right all right next in the pop art movement of the 1960s i'm doing well history again who was the famous artist born in 1937 and renowned for his contribution i have no idea i don't know how many of them are actually famous eyes um so there's any trick ones in here i'm going to clue eduardo palozzi david cockney peter blake richard hamilton this could be the lineup for the monkeys for i care um oh no david um ah richard hamilton it was david hawk oh okay right not too fast because we'll never have a clue number three out the following which film was the earliest in 1949 i i don't think this is at all relevant to anyone who's going to be a british citizen and if you're a foreigner unless you're british you're never going to understand the humor of anything by the centrinians movies you have to have a particular sense of humor along the lines of carry on movies um charizard fire is later i know that's what later um 70s i think that was um i'm gonna go with don't look now didn't know and i don't think i've seen any of them anyway not even the centurions okay number four in the 19th century the uk became a world center for which are the following sectors or industries financial services agriculture entertainment or wine making um why making no entertainment not in the not in the 19th century i don't think um financial services are agriculture it's gotta be one of those two in it let's go with agriculture okay four questions in and i haven't got one right yet this is really going well uh okay number five who succeeded margaret thatcher as prime minister that's john major there he is let's give him a click that's okay i'm on the i'm on the ball now or at least i've started with one time okay in the uk drugs such as heroin cocaine exercise vitamins and cannabis are allowed for personal use all illegal all legal um all illegal except for cannabis yeah there's been a few people in britain that will actually go yeah definitely d um you might end up living next door to one of them uh you'll know they're the ones that their bongs are washed more than their dishes um it's gonna be all legal your fingers just sit there normally and go right it's definitely that but when you're sitting here under this pressure second guessing now it's got to be illegal even cannabis is a class b drug yeah i think that's to make sure that you are aware of that got no excuses when you start bringing your drug in overseas from the in suitcases right okay when were women allowed to vote oh god okay it's not d um they were allowed to vote this is all before world war ii they were allowed to vote and i'm sure ten years later um the age dropped to meet the minimum that men which is 21 i'm sure i'm going to go with 1918 um and i it could be 1998 or 1918 it's gotta be one of them too because um when the year dropped down to 21 h uh minimum age that was all before world war ii i know that um the suffragette movement i'm sure i'm gonna go with 1918 yes yes i don't know why i'm getting excited um okay what is the meaning of magna carta great shot are king's chart of final charter enlightened charter so just latin magna is magnificent is great it's got to be the great charter there we go it was nick yeah there we go it's cool excellent next britain or british mainland is made up of which countries that's england wales and scotland ding ding ding there we go that that's relevant i can imagine that being relevant and northern ireland is part of the united kingdom which is britain plus northern ireland good what is the traditional meat serve for christmas dinner turkey i know i cook it uh next who was the fifth wife of king henry i there had to be a king i knew the eighth in this somewhere not that yeah king to be proud of in country right catherine levaragan anne berlin jane seymour anne of cleves catherine howard has got to be catherine howard and then the sixth one was catherine jenkins there we go oh catherine zeta-jones one of them anyway right next i come on a roll now the northern ireland assembly i was on a roll the north 9 assembly has how many elected members known as i have no idea i'm not going to read the rest of the question i'm going to guess let's go with 118 looks like a good number no it was 108. okay no sorry sorry it's northern ireland people haven't got a clue it'd be nice to know how many northern ireland um people actually know that as well next which patron saint is celebrated first in the year that's david i don't know that my mom's out of the family will kill me so david's first there we go dennis and patrick vincent george then said andrew right next in which year was the national trust founded by three volunteers i have no idea should we just guess that somewhere in the 1800s and then i've got three to choose from let's go with 18.75 18.95 it's not something i'm really going to want to come in and go oh let's go to that really lovely building that sort of sort of looked after by national trust oh when were they actually founded by the way syringes in the english county of that's wiltshire it's nice when you actually visit these things it does help there we go next 16 the 15th century civil war in england was fought between the supporters of which houses okay this is the only bit of history that i'm actually quite okay with that was the house of york there were the white rose and the house of lancaster which was the red rose the war of the roses super duper next who should you contact to get a national insurance number i didn't i just got it through the post um so i'd never i'm gonna guess um since they're all relevant to i'm gonna go with the department for work and pensions it seems the only logical one out of four of them there we go bit of logic work in there rather than knowledge the problems is a summer season of orchestral classical music now it's the 7th of september 2020. i'm pretty sure the promise is going on now it doesn't help me but i know it's the bbc that does this and bbc do like to drag things on to be like an eastenders plot um goes on for weeks and then you get bored of it at the end of it um i do like classical music i don't really see the problems it's either six weeks or eight weeks um you know it's bbc let's go eight weeks they do like to drag things on yeah there we go next if anyone works for the bbc apologies but it's true the symbol of the house of tudor when we had this old tudor um was it a red rose no white rose no a red rose with a white rose inside it or a white rose with a red inside it oh god is it c or d um oh my god it's one of those want to google the picture um i'm gonna go with a red rose it makes more sense to be a red rose a natural color of rose with a white rose inside it so i'm going to go with the red rose happy okay i'm happy right question 20 where is the scottish parliament building so this is power of deduction really because it's not westminster it's not seneth because that's wales um stormont sounds more northern ireland than hollyrood so i'm going to go stormont is northern ireland i think hollyrood is scottish right if i'm so again scottish friends apologies for not knowing that uh all of those in edinburgh so that's about it next what is the second sentence of the citizenship pledge i haven't i've never ever clue about this um i will give my loyalty to the united kingdom and respect its rights and freedoms i will be faithful to and bear true allegiance to her majesty queen elizabeth ii it sounds like that'll be first you know give your pledge to the king and country so queen or country so probably ba i'll serve the laws and faithfully and refill my duties and obligations as britishers and so being a british citizen there's a final demand so they'll say that's last i will hold up its democratic value i would say that's the third so if there was that an order of four things it would be queen and country then the loyalty united kingdom then democratic value then britishers and that's that's how i would guess um so let's go with a as the second sentence what oh change that that's wrong wrong order um queen oh i'm not gonna argue with it but it's wrong so pants we shall fight them on the beaches there's a famous quote from world war ii by which figure that's winston churchill it wouldn't be elizabeth she wasn't on the throne then um there we go she was too busy building engines and repairing them right winston churchill next around 4 000 years ago people learned to make bronze we call this right let me pause the video it's going to take me a while to think about this one it's nice to have a little one in there anything oh god i think i've just built your comp i could have done without a question one okay last one which of the following are known as crown dependencies right crown dependencies that would be uh jersey that's a crown independency gibraltar was british overseas northern ireland united kingdom uh iron man is a british is a crown dependency so it's going to be an a and d i don't want to click anymore because i'll make you go wrong so i think that's right okay that was the last question did i pass oh what was that i think that's one if i'd got one more i'll probably nicked it i failed so john day q a video channel will no longer be running from great britain um i'll be deported i'm probably filming this from somewhere else um i failed i i felt the thing is if if that test is very close to as as it's claimed that one is very close to um the exam there's a lot of history in there a lot of history and not very much about current culture that you'd need to live in the united kingdom um i could think of some much more relevant questions on those they were a bit pants so yeah i mean it's yeah it's very history a little bit geography nothing in there that i could see but then that's not to say that that is how the exam actually is going to run that could be just the random set of questions that i got but they normally divide them into like four or six questions from each of the five chapters if you know what i mean so you get like five questions from chapter one five questions from chapter two and they all get mixed up that's how i thought it would work um they seem to be very historic um but there you go i failed so okay you know the drill this is how it works any comments any questions you can send to the description of this video below or any other description on my video channels post to facebook twitter linkedin in fact if you can think of any decent life in the uk questions that should be on the test you could post them here um i'm already getting some good ideas from some of my friends so i might do a video later on some recommended life in the uk questions if you want one of your questions on there get it in there early and i'll post that in the next video release stay safe everybody and have fun [Music] you

Channel: John Day Q&A

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Keywords: Test, British, Citizen, United Kingdom, UK, Britain, Citizenship, UK Test

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Length: 18min 12sec (1092 seconds)

Published: Mon Sep 07 2020