American Reacts to How Much Do You Really Know About The UK?
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- Hold onto your tea, folks! In this video, I, an American, take on the challenge of the ultimate quiz: "How Much Do You Really Know About the UK?" From British slang to historical facts, join me on this journey of discovery as I put my knowledge to the test.
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"The United Kingdom" actually dates from 1 January 1801 when the kingdoms of Great Britain and Ireland amalgamated to form a single state.
The Acts of Union in 1707 between the kingdoms of England and Scotland created the "Kingdom of Great Britain". The Acts do talk about "a United Kingdom" but there is so much capitalisation in the text of the legislation that one might be forgiven for thinking that the word "United" was part of the official title.
We know this not to be the case because the coronation oaths of George I, II and III make it clear that the name was "the Kingdom of Great Britain" without the word "United" and it is inconceivable that such important documents would have made any such mistake.
True, but it's easy to see where people get this confused.
The Acts of Union of 1707, created "a united Kingdom, by the name of 'Great Britain' "
The 1801 Acts created "one kingdom, by the name of 'The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland'. "
Note the subtle difference of phrasing (a united Kingdom vs The United Kingdom.)
French, French character! He's Belgian, too funny 😂
If you're familiar with Agatha Christie's Poirot, you'll understand why calling him French is an insult!
Like calling a Canadian American
I did that once, got a telling off. Never again! Also, be careful you don't call a Scotsman English!
Given that this mistake happens a lot in the books and he is usually a little uptight when it happens, It is kind of fitting that JJLA called him French.
It just feels right. :-)
@@stopthink7202 Completely agree, my comment wasn't a criticism. I just found it funny, that it's an assumption IRL.
@@conormurphy4328 As a Welsh person, I can so relate to that. Americans call us English, 99% percent of the time :-)
That was pretty impressive! The questions were easy, as you mentioned, but I guarantee you there are (sadly!) a lot of Brits who wouldn't have scored as highly as you did. Also, in my head, you basically got the Queen's birth year too - you just talked yourself out of it :)
Patron saints day , never heard it called just the National Day .Very well done mr JJ x
23rd April is England's national day.
@@adambattersby8934 And, reputedly, Shakespeare's birth and death days.
@@denniswilliams160we don’t know what day Shakespeare was born on, but it was very near to the 23rd. I certainly died on the 23rd though.
"Beinn" is the Scottish Gaelic word for a mountain, and is normally anglicised to "Ben". So lots of Scottish mountains have names of the form "Beinn ______" or "Ben ______". Ben Nevis (or Beinn Nibheis in the original Gaelic) is the highest mountain in the UK.
I wonder if that has the same roots as "Bryn", the Welsh for hill?
Gloucester is pronounced GLOSS-ter, and Edinburgh is either EDD-in-borough or EDD-in-bruh. West Side Story was by Leonard Bernstein and Stephen Sondheim. You did really well! The questions were pretty easy for someone who knows something of the UK, but I guarantee that only a very small percentage of Americans would get close to half right.
He still don't know how to say Inverness properly. No ones picked up on it
Either Union Jack or Union Flag is correct. The Admiralty issued a decree to that effect, sometime around 1910 (give or take a couple of years). It was also debated in Parliament around the same time, and they came to the same conclusion.
Poirot is a *Beligian* character created by Agatha Christie, and appearing in 30+ novels and 50+ stories. He was based on a Belgian refugee to England, during WW1.
Worth noting that the programmes for Babbage's 'difference machine' were written by Ada Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron. Given the modern stigma against women in coding and gaming, (which is a relatively new phenomenon, certainly post 80s), I adore the fact that the world's first programmer was a woman.
Thank you I sadly couldn't remember her name which is a terrible thing considering her achievements.
Babbage built a mechanical computing device called "The Difference Engine" there is one in the Science Museum in London.
And also an Analytical Engine.
While I see what they're getting at with the "National Day of England" question, I wouldn't call St George's Day "the national day". That's the sort of thing that immediately makes me distrust the question setter.
St George's Day is England's national day. It's the day in which the English celebrate England and Englishness. How can it not be England's national day?
Because England doesn't have a national day. Neither do Scotland, Wales or Ireland. We have Patron Saints Days, which is not at all the same thing. (Also, St George was Syrian. Or possibly Turkish.)
Babbage designed a mechanical/programmable computer, but never made it... It was made in the 20th century and it worked exactly as he predicted it would!
I’ve watch a few of your videos, I don’t subscribe to many channels, but you are so endearing I just caved in and subscribed 👍❤️🇬🇧
That's how he got me too ☺
The photograph for the last question is a view of "The Welsh Bridge", spanning the River Severn in Shrewsbury. Our most famous son was Charles Darwin, and his schoolhouse, founded in 1556, is now our local library. The town is built inside a large loop in the River Severn, and the other major road bridge heading East away from Wales is called "The English Bridge."
His grandfather, Erasmus Darwin, is a major figure in the history of Lichfield and originally put forward the idea of a common ancestors and sexual selection
Thr River Severn is only fractionally longer than the Thames, however one trick question we sometimes get is, the longest river in the British Isles, that's the River Shannon in Ireland. That runs through the North and the South of Ireland.
Take a look at people surfing the River Severn Bore (tide) aswell.
I watched a TH-cam video on this subject. The Thames appears to be longer than thought (owing to the River Churn, a longer tributary rising at Seven Springs near Cheltenham, having been overlooked) and by that reckoning is 9 miles longer than the Severn. There is an article on the BBC News website from 2012 which states that there is no "official", legal definition of the soirce of any river. There is an old stone monument marking this alternative location as being the source. Perhaps it's a question best avoided in a quiz!
The source of the shannon is in co. Cavan which is in Ulster but south of the Northern Irish border. Splitting hairs but factual for those who care lol
However even though it’s not the longest, arguably the biggest river is the Tay as it has more water flowing through it than the Severn and Thames put together
The photos give the questions away…but very well done. I missed out on 1 question the Babbage one lol
It's a little controversial, whilst he did *design* a computer that would work it wasn't successfully built until relatively recently. The tooling necessary to build a working version was just not up to the precision necessary at the time. Fun fact: Augusta Ada King, Countess of Lovelace wrote a programme (the first ever) for that machine.
Good job JJLA. Hate to say it - but I'm really impressed. You're ruining my stereotype of Americans!
Yeah, do better - errr, worse
I thought you did really well. However, I was just listening at first, then I saw the photographs that accompanied each question!
The 26th of December is also known as international hangover day 😂
For Scotland hang over day is January 2nd except for the small Northern Scottish village I spent the second and third decades of life in, it is January 3rd.
My family get on it at christmas. Boxing day is simply known as Day 2 😂
I’m currently nursing one of those after thinking 3 bottles of Rosè to myself was a great ideal yesterday 😂🖤🖤
Outstanding dear chap.
I am impressed :-)
3:03 At least 3 *Sherlock Holmes* adaptions have filmed in the City of Bradford. They include *Sherlock Holmes* (1984-1994) by *ITV,* the TV film *The Hound of the Baskervilles* (2002) by the *BBC,* and the feature film *The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes* (1970).
The *ITV* produced *BBC* series *The ABC Murders* (2018) filmed in Bradford.
At least 2 episodes of Agatha Christie's *Poirot* (1989-2013) by *ITV* have filmed in Bradford.
Countless *Harry Potter* cast members have filmed in Bradford, and I suspect many more *James Bond* cast members have filmed in Bradford too.
3:48 At least 1 episode of Agatha Christie's *Marple* (2004-2013) by *ITV* has filmed in Bradford.
*JK Rowling* got the name *Harry Potter* and the opening lines from a scene in *Monty Python's Flying Circus* (1969-1974) which was filmed in Bradford. *JK Rowling* took many more things from *Monty Python* which she added to her *Harry Potter* stories, and is why she wanted them all involved in the films. *Monty Python* filmed many more things in Bradford, plus their award winning former manager/accountant/co-owner is from Bradford too.
Multiple cast members from Neil Gaiman's *The Sandman* (2022) have filmed stuff in Bradford.
Multiple cast members from Philip Pullman's *His Dark Materials* (2019-present) have filmed stuff in Bradford.
6:58 Bradford was the *Wool Capital of the World* and is where the *British Wool* board are still based today. Bradford was and still is a big miner city for things like coal and sandstone, the same Bradford sandstone which built *Bradford City Hall* and the almost identical *Manchester City Hall.* However the cotton city of Manchester gets all the attention, when it comes to the *Industrial Revolution* for some reason, just like with everything else.
13:25 The difference between the *BBC* and *BBC Studios* is something non-Brits (and most Brits too) have trouble with...
The *BBC* is paid for by the British public through the *TV Licence.* It pays for the TV channels, the websites, the social media channels, the magazines etc. They can only spend money on things for people in the UK.
Whereas *BBC Studios* is a completely separate company, and is paid for by anyone worldwide. They run the *BBC* branded channels and streaming services outside of the UK. They produce films and TV shows for anyone. And they sell films and TV shows for anyone. It doesn't matter whether the shows they're producing, buying or selling are British or not, as it's not paid for by the British public.
20:52 *Gunpowder* (2017) by the *BBC* filmed in Bradford. If you look closely in around 5 other films and TV shows, you'll notice that they used the same prison cells. Those prison cell doors were made out of something soft like polystyrene, so you would've thought that they would've only been used for just one production before being taken down. They've most likely been destroyed now however, as one of the buildings (which was supposedly the building where all of the filming was done) was set on fire by arsonists in 2022. Arsonists also set another building at the same place on fire in 2011.
Babbage was aware of large cards with holes cut out that were being used to create patterned material via looms (rather like the patterned combs on early music machines). He modified and extended the use of said cards to create the first "computer"
Coopers Hill is where the cheese is rolled
30/30 😂
I'm definitely English
*edit (Lancashire)
I enjoyed this, please do more quizzes :)
Well done! Watching all those videos has paid off!
Loved this one, and loving that some of the comedic aspects of the map men videos are weaving their way into yours
That’s a wonderful compliment, thank you! Cheers 🍻
Thanks for the videos! The Xi Jinping bit made me laugh haha, I've been loving your content since finding the channel. If you ever need any help with editing or graphics etc. I'd be very happy to! Or if you just need a resident brit to grill for research/pronunciations etc
Well done!
Well done, apart from a couple of glaring errors....Glasgow, indeed! Nobody really celebrates St. Georges Day, to be honest....more likely to celebrate St. Patricks Day....even though he was actually English....St. George was probably Turkish, so it all makes perfect sense!. Babbage had the idea for a computer, but it was never completed. Most of the credit for it, now goes to genius mathematician, Ada Lovelace, daughter of Lord Byron.
I found it funny that you chose royal oak, because it is the pub name that i have encountered more times than any other and theres one right next to where i live
You did pretty well there- obviously most of the stuff you watch sticks! Bravo!
Well done! You got a couple that I missed and I've been living here 71 years :-)
You did great
You did better at this quiz than I did!
We did indeed have computers back in the 1800's, they were just mechanical rather than electronic. They were used to run the British Rail network amongst other things.
Well done sir, I would wager that some of the indigenous population may not have done so well, You used logic and intuition and did amazingly well
Well done 😊.
You did good bro!
You are next-level, trying to work out the answer before looking at the multiple-choice answers. That's Brain Training right there!
Unlucky you didn't get full marks as those 4 were a little niche. To feel better look up our UK versions of teens answering geographical and trivia questions (ours can be just as bad as the US videos and just as funny-frustrating!)
Great stuff! People have commented about Poirot below, so yep, only think left to say is Well Done Sir! Great score and what a great idea! Brilliant!
Very impressive 🎉
Well done, consider yourself an honorary Brit, but please pronounce Gloucester as 'gloss-ter'.
Yea but eyeverness and edinburg
Well done 👍
🎉
April 23rd, as well as St George's day is also shakespeare's birthday (and according to legend his day of death too)
Babbage created both "the difference engine" and "the analytical engine". The difference engine was a glorified calculator that didn't work properly. The analytical engine was the first computer as we might define it today. The first computer programmer was Ada Lovelace in 1843!
Shakespeare’s date of birth was not recorded, we don’t know on what date he was born (although the 23rd is a good contender).
@@Stoggler agreed. But admittedly from Wikipedia (with citations) :
He was born in Stratford-upon-Avon, where he was baptised on 26 April 1564. His date of birth is unknown, but is traditionally observed on 23 April, Saint George's Day.[1] This date, which can be traced to William Oldys and George Steevens, has proved appealing to biographers because Shakespeare died on the same date in 1616.
@JLLReacts. Love your melodic and calming voice. Such a difference from other loud TH-camrs.
The longest river is one I got wrong. The picture is of Putney, a very historical town. Cromwell held Parliament in the church situated near Putney Bridge. It's worth a look.
You done well my friend
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England has no National Day, the 23rd of April is St George’s Day and Shakespeares birthday, but isn’t designated as a National Day.
23rd April is England's national day. It is the day that the English people celebrate England and Englishness. It is England's national day.
No it’s not a National Day, there is no legislation that defines it as such. It’s an unofficial national day yes, but it’s not a National Day. Australia for example has Australia Day on the 26th of January a Public Holiday, America the 4th of July again a public holiday. The U.K. government has never given the 23rd special status, we have for example no public holiday on the 23rd of April.@@adambattersby8934
To clarify, Charles Babbage's computer was mechanical. Cogs and gears and stuff. Very analogue and not electronic. Like a very complicated mechanical wrist watch.
Also, it was never actually built by Babbage. Because it was just too complicated and expensive to put together at the time.
(So the wording of "invented the computer" rather than "built the first computer" is important here. He invented a design for a mechanical computer, but that computer was never actually built at the time.)
Although, they have subsequently taken Babbage's design and built one for real, and it did work as designed. Babbage was right, even if he never got to see it working for real.
What's perhaps even more amazing is that Ada Byron, the countess of Lovelace, was a mathematician and she actually looked at Babbage's design, and came up with programs for this mechanical computer to run.
She was the world's first computer programmer. And, yeah, once they built Babbage's machine for real, they tested Ada's code on it and that also all ran bug-free and worked. Which is impressive, as she was coding a machine that didn't actually exist, yet she did get her code perfectly right.
You'll perhaps notice that Ada's surname - which I've included here, but she didn't use at the time (and she became "King" after her marriage) - is Byron. She was the "love child" of the poet Lord Byron, who was a bit of a philandering cad. A wild, wandering, womanising poet, as he was.
This is why Ada ended up as a mathematician - and a very good one - because, basically, her mother's poor experience with Lord Byron, meant that she steered her daughter away from anything to do with poetry or the arts.
But mathematics? Excellent. The polar opposite of her father. So Ada was actually steered towards STEM and away from anything to do with poetry or the arts, as her mother was left with a very dim view of it all, thanks to how much of a wild cad Lord Byron had been.
But, yeah, the world's first computer programmer was a woman. Programming Babbage's mechanical computer that hadn't even been built.
But she could mathematically understand his design, came up with some code for it - and they have now built and tested it for real, in modern times, and the code (and the machine) all worked perfectly.
The way to remember the fate of the six wives of Henry VIII is with the mantra; Divorced, Beheaded, Died, Divorced, Beheaded, Survived!
One of us, One of us, One of us 😂😂😂
A waxwork of my favourite (indirect) ancestor, Edward Oxford, was displayed in the Chamber of Horrors at Mme. Tussaud's museum in the 1800s, after he tried to assassinate Queen Victoria!
I like the fact you search stuff up btw
Big Ben is officially known as the "Great Bell"
well done
JJ you did really well for an alien
I enjoy your channel thank you. How about some information on the place you live right now. I know very little about your area. Thanks
If Brenda had been born in 1919 she'd have lived to be a hundred & we'd all have heard about it.
He won't know that she's called Brenda, thanks to P.E.
Great ose
Lieutenant is said as LEFTenant not LEWtenant in th U.K.. Don't ask me why!
Great Britain was formed in 1707. The United Kingdom - which included Ireland - was formed in 1801.
You were a bit hard done by on the longest river question. I learned that it was the Severn but it is disputed and many sources cite the Thames as being longer. I'm certain that some of the other TH-camrs who comment on all things British wouldn't have done anywhere near as well as you did.
I got them all, but I am a Brit. The late Queen was born the same year as Marilyn Monroe. The Severn runs from Wales nearly halfway into England.
Hafren forest is gorgeous. Source of the Severn.
For a non Brit that is the equivalent of full marks. The pronunciation of names though… ooph!
Has to be a quiz nursery children and Americans .
Where i live we have a pub thats also an Indian Restaurant called the village spice so that was a bad question
Some were easy, but I think you did extremely well, easily as well as an average native.
I got 1707 (Q3) wrong and guessed St George's day (Q2) based on the options - I know it's April/May, but I don't remember the exact date. I would have struggled with Elizabeth's birth too (Q17) but there's been a lot of media coverage of her life given her recent death.
I only got her birth year right because I remembered she was 26 when she was crowned Queen lol
The United Kingdom was formed in 1801. It was Great Britain that was formed in 1707.
I got 3 wrong 😂😂😂 thanks
The pub name question was unfair really because in recent years, many pubs have been given quite outlandish names such as 'The Slug and Lettuce'. Really, almost anything goes nowadays.
That was named in the 19802, so I wouldn't call it recent.
There are much older pubs with quite odd names, like the Trip to Jerusalem, Ye Olde Fighting Cocks, The Bucket of Blood, The Bunch of Carrots, and so on.
Which simply means that the question was even more unfair 😀 By the way, I was already 24 in 1982, so it seems recent to me@@ann_onn
Your analysis of China is very speculative. The issue with China and the industrial revolution is discussed in the "Needham Question" which is about the geographical separation of iron ore and coal in pre-industrial China.
What is the furthest thing, one can see from the top of the Shard building, in London, on a clear day ?
For any one interested, cheese rolling down a hill doesn't do adequate justice to what it is. It's more like jumping off a cliff. th-cam.com/video/PdKRx30s6sk/w-d-xo.html
I feel like if she was over 100 when she died, you would've known about it m8.
I'm a brit and u got more right than me lol
The "when was the United Kingdom formed" question is debatable. In 1707 the United Kingdom of Great Britain was formed when the Kingdoms of England and Scotland were unified. But usually when people refer to the United Kingdom they mean the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland (later Northern Ireland), which wasn't formed until 1801.
Yeah the question should've been "what year did Great Britain unify?”
Rubbish
@@aa-xg3ct The UK was formed in 1801. That isn't rubbish. The question being "debatable" is, however, rubbish. There is no debate, only ignorance.
The 1707 Union Flag of England and Scotland did not contain the red saltire of Saint Patrick until 1801 when the United Kingdom of England, Scotland and Ireland were formed.
@@astrecks "when the United Kingdom of England, Scotland and Ireland were formed." - No. The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland was formed, because the kingdoms of England and Scotland stopped existing in 1707.
Babbage's computer is called a difference engine, if you want to look it up
wasn't it the analytical engine?
@@MarkKnightSHG He invented both, I think one was a more limited form of the other. But he was only able to get funding to actually build the simpler one.
@@Kai-fb1ol fair enough. I know there is a working example of one - I think it's the Difference Engine - in the Science Museum in London... or at least, there was...
@@MarkKnightSHG yeah I think the difference engine was more of a really sophisticated calculator, whereas the analytical engine would have been a proper programmable computer. But he only designed it on paper, he couldn't get the funding to build it. Ada Lovelace collaborated with Babbage and wrote theoretical instructions for his machine, so I think she can be considered the first computer programmer.
@@Kai-fb1ol oh deffo. Agree completely about Ada
The UK as it exists today was formed on 3rd May 1921
April 23 is Saint George's Day.
Well done bro, I would put money on that score would probably 50% of natives 👍🎅🏴
I got 100% - it was ridiculously easy - I did have to break out the calculator to work out the Queen's birthday and some might consider that cheating.
I don't know anyone who celebrates St George's Day.
More Brits celebrate Pancake Day.
GBP =. Great British pound . 👍🏻
Jk Rowling is she the richest author of all time in the world with over 1 billion sales and that’s only the books not the films of the games
An honorary Brit…
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As a Britton this quiz is far too easy, Regarding the Union Flag, it is only called the Union Jack when it on a ship at sea. Please don't feel bad as I would suggest that, at least, 75% of the British population are not aware of that simple fact,
BIT EASY TBH
Hercule Poirot was Belgian, NOT French (as he would be the first to point out).
Too easy
Poutine is not French, it's French Canadian.
BBC stands for British Bulls..t Corporation.
The question about when the UK was formed does not have the correct answer. Great Britain was formed in 1707. The UK was formed in 1801.
The falg should only be called The Union Jack when its flown on a battle ship when not in port.
tbh, I *AM* British, and I had to guess a few of those... so yeah. Nice job! :D
You did well for a non-UK native! I am one (Scotland) and got 2 wrong...but they were about England! 😂
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Edinburg
Edinburgh*
1:15 Odd choice of photo by that website as that's definitely not England. It's Gibraltar.
Its the union flag, it's only called union jack when it's on a ship.
That's not true. Either terminology is acceptable.
The blurb on the answer on quiz is actually correct, the Flag Institute has investigated this and found that there is no official name for the flag, and that both Union Jack and Union Flag are acceptable usages according to the Admiralty and to Parliament. The fact that Union Jack has the word Jack with a capital means it’s a proper noun and not the name for a specific type of naval flag.
Not true, I have personally heard people call it the union jack many times when it wasn't on a ship.
Is Atherstone the ball fighting place a city? No it's a town in the county of Warwickshire.
Is London the culture stealing place a city? No it's a county and region, whose full name is Greater London, and contains 2 cities which are the 1 square mile City of London (which is also a county), and the 8 square mile City of Westminster.
lol you’re kind of a fool if you don’t call London a city though. The kind of person who people will stop talking to at parties because they’re far too boring.
@@conormurphy4328 You're a fool if you think London's a city.
Atherstone has the Shrove Tuesday football game, the cheese rolling takes place in Brockworth (a village).
@@danielgardecki1046 a fool who uses tomato in a fruit salad you are
Damn,,, I missed the first comment by 11 minutes!
4:14 The answer is wrong its Agatha Christie. She is the most famous and most read British author of all time. Richer is JK Rowling BUT Agatha has have earned more for the estate of Agatha Christie over several decades more than JK Rowling has.
How silly.