American Tests His British Knowledge - British Culture Quiz 

I get the feeling this quiz was written by an office worker, whilst having lunch at their desk.

You actually got question 9 right. The Fixed Terms Parliament Act was repealed in 2022, restoring the Prime Minister's ability to call snap elections

Question 9 is problematic for those of us who distinctly remember voting in General Elections in 2015, 2017 and 2019...

Q11-20 are nothing to do with British culture. Q13 : propose a tea break

You were actually correct for question 9. The quiz must've been made between 2011 and 2022.

Writer: Boss, I've got a great idea for the website! A 10 question quiz about british culture. It'll get the clicks! Boss: Sounds great. Make it 20 questions! Twice as many clicks! Writer: Errr...sure.... (panic) *Writer adds 10 questions from his last job interview.*

Punjabi was a good guess and logical having just found out about the significant Indian expat community in the UK, but it’s a bit of a trap if you don’t know that India has a couple of dozen official languages and dozens more dialects and languages that aren’t on the official list. So there’s probably a lot of Punjabi spoken in the UK, but probably also a lot of Hindi, Urdu, Bengali, Tamil etc etc. And as you pointed out, all the Polish people are going to speak Polish.

You can thankfully knock on a strangers door here without the owner driving you away with a gun.

I think you probably got the same score as most Brits would for that quiz. It was as much about social skills in general than UK culture. 😃

I love your videos Tyler but the way you pronounced the Christian denominations in question 7 was hilarious 😂(9:18)! Thanks for another Great Video!

Tough and odd quiz! Q2: Ms is pronounced Mzz - I didn't realise it wasn't common in the US! Q6: Punjabi is an Indian language, but it isn't the main one - Hindi is the main Indian language - but there are a lot of Punjabi speakers from northwest India and Pakistan.

There are a 101 questions more relevant to British culture than the last 10 of that questionnaire. Such as escalator etiquette, how to get served at a bar, how to treat a waiter, etc. Then again, British culture changes quite a bit over time. There are definite differences between age groups and the various shared cultures.

Question 10 is just incorrect Arriving at someone's house uninvited just to say "Hello" is unusual, but it would not be poor etiquette. But arriving at someone's house late? After you've been invited and they were expecting you? That's an unforgivable sin.

Some of these questions are odd, especially the last one, unless you had a good reason to turn up 15 minutes late I would find it rude. I was always taught you arrive a couple of minutes early. Likewise, turning up unvited is determined on your relationship, but I would consider turning up late to be more rude.

You got question 9 right - the fixed term parliaments act got scrapped!

There are some dodgy questions in amongst those. Being a slightly late for a dinner invitation is generally fine, but turning up on time is never impolite and definitely preferable to being 15 minutes late.

You got question 9 correct, as the last few years have shown, endless elections 😂

In the UK we do not have a general election if the Prime Mister steps down. Our last election was 2019 and were on our 3rd Prime Mister, 1 only lasted 49 days. It works a bit like the House of Reps in the US, the largest party picks the speaker, PM in the UK, so if the speaker steps down/removed, the largest party picks the next leader.

Question 13, Make a joke only works if you are any good at jokes, it can increase the tensions.

this quiz took such a weird turn, 14/20 is really good. although I disagreed with a lot of the "correct" answers as a brit myself.

Adressing bosses by first name used to be frowned on in uk,but like many work aspects,things seem to have got more informal in the last decade or so (though it varies from company to company and how big the company is:can't see a bottom ranker calling the CEO of their big organisation by their first name!🎩

I agree with other subs that this etiquette quiz is actually incorrect in their answers. Personally speaking, it does not tally with the etiquette I was taught at school, by my parents or in my professional life. Well done on your score though Tyler.👵🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🌹🌹🌹

You got question 5 right. People born in Northern Ireland have dual nationality, as do their children and grandchildren. Question 9 is out of date. It was changed in 2017 to a simple majority of all MPs voting in favour of an early election. The time of year isn't important, other than it being a Thursday. For question 18 I'll quote the IT Crowd: "did you see that ludicrous display last night?"

you were kind of correct with the minimum school leaving age,. You used to be able to leave at 16 and do whatever, or nothing, but now you must either stay in traditional full time education, or join an apprenticeship or traineeship until you are 18.

The UK school age has always been 16, that's when you finish high school, but recently they added that requirement to stay in further education or do an apprenticeship till 18.

3:44 You can leave school at any time. Just get your parents to pull you out. The only requirement is that you get an education that is suitable for you, how you receive it is up to you/your family. You also now have to stay in education or training until 18 You also never need to start school if you never enrol, see above

The reason Polish beats Punjabi, is that the Indian and Pakistani communities speak a variety of languages, whereas all Poles speak Polish. The question about the UK General Elction was WRONG! It isn't always in May. It's always on a Thursday - but the 2019 election was in December!!!!! Give yourself that point back! I think you did quite well overall.

I got 9/20 on the same quiz and im British. So well done. You know more than me 😂😂

You beat me Tyler. I decided to take it and only got 12! I think I answered some questions with my neuroatypical brain, for example I chose the “do not look people in the eye” and “7pm on the dot” options. I had no idea that it’s not considered bad etiquette to be late for something. I’ve apologised in the past for even being 1 minute late for something.

You did great Tyler, I got four wrong and I'm British! Have to disagree with a couple of answers though. I don't believe it is polite to arrive 15 mins late especially for dinner in a friends house - just not on. Our late Queen was always punctual and would never keep folk waiting nor delay an event.

I know you were looking for 15/20 but 14 is a great score I think as some of those were really bizarre questions.

Half my teachers are polish and my friend is polish so I'm not surprised bout the 2nd most spoken language

Question 16: I'm socially awkward, don't want to go anywhere with too many humans, I don't drink alcohol, and I hate being around drunk people. Plus nobody is every obligated to go anywhere. Don't want to go somewhere? Don't go. If people don't respect that, it's their problem. Never feel like you have to do something or be somewhere.

yes, age 16 is when you’ve actually completed school, you then go onto either 6th form (which is often on school grounds), or you can go to college, get an apprenticeship or just get a job lol. i actually finished school at 15 because my birthday is at the end of August and we finished in June 😂

A great reaction. I'm a 75 year old Englishman and most of the questions were what I expected them to be rather than the "norm", Got two wrong, I thought the Irish were the largest immigrants after the Potato famine they had over there. I started work at 15 years old as an office boy in 1964 and had to call everyone sir/ma'am unless they invited me to use their first names. It was 20 years later when I moved onto the first rung of the management level that i became able to communicate on first name terms with everyone. I got that question wrong also.

The priminister can step down if they choose but it dosent necessarily trigger a general election

Just a little friendly correction in the pronunciation of Glasgow, if you imagine the "W" is not there, and say "s" as the hard version (almost pronouncing it as a "z"), you could pronounce it as "Glaz-go", you pretty much have it.

what’s funny is i’m irish and i know many indian and polish people so that UK resident question was funny 😂😂

Tyler , I'm 65 and lived in the UK.all my life and you scored the same as me . I went for polish people being the second largest population as after world war 2 a lot of Polish soldiers remained in the UK. then Punjabi as they had the biggest population so thought their language would be more popular. I suppose depending on who you were talking to about the office questions , you would get very different answers. So well done !

You were actually right on the election frequency. The Fixed Term Parliament Act was revoked last year, and it reverted back to the old system, where it's a maximum of five years, but can be earlier - whenever a PM decides. So right now, we're looking at an election being called at the latest in Dec 2024, but it's entirely possible that the PM could call it next week if he wanted to. Then there's around a month for campaigning. But elections are always on Thursdays, no matter what kind of election.

hey Tyler, if you immitate a British accent you'd fit in fine. Probably have to be re-name yourself John, as Tyler is a dead giveaway too 😂

Question 11 seems too specific for this quiz. Everyone would have a different opinion. I don't care what a boss or anyone else "suggests". If they're wrong, they're wrong 😂 I have a mind of my own and I don't live to please someone who thinks they're above me. I'd be more likely to just say "actually, my sales are already improving". If they argue with me, they're the problem because they must be blind. Edit: Looks like a lot of these questions are about how to treat managers in the workplace. I don't believe in authority or hierarchy so this quiz definitely isn't for me. I expect to be treated equally, and with the same respect I give to them. Nobody is above me or I a position to look down on me or boss me around. They're just a person like me. This has nothing to do with culture.

Tyler you did well there considering some of the crappy questions lol....I don't agree with arriving 'fashionably late' to me that is bloody rude, but perhaps that's a generation 'thing' ;-)

High School is ages 11 - 16 here. After that, you can either go into a trade or go to college (16 - 18) to do A Levels, and then go off to university (18 - 21) to get your bachelor's or just go to work. In India, they speak a number of languages. When I used to teach in a school where 76% of the students were from Bangladesh, India and Pakistan, a lot of the students spoke Punjabi, a lot of them spoke Arabic, but all of them spoke Urdu so I'd have clicked that if it had been an option.

4:15 it´s the parent´s obligation to abide by the law.

"Kind and nice" Um, no, sorry, we're more passive-agressive than anyone else😂

For the minimum school age something I recently found out is that instead of uk secondary school being equivalent to the USA high school, the USA high school is equivalent to the uk secondary school and college. (Although education wise it’s equivalent to uk secondary school and uk college is equal to USA university and uk university is a higher education quality than USA university.

The marital title question. Ms is usually pronounced Miz. Mrs, Miss, and Ms (Miz). I've seen it used a lot for women who are divorced but still keep Marital surname.

A lot of Polish moved here from Poland when the EU opened its borders. What a lot of people don't realise is that many Polish people came here during and after WWII. The town where I grew up had a large Polish community. I went to school and worked with first, second, third generation of people from Poland. I was born in the 50s.

Never realised Ms. was just a UK thing

The thing with question 6 is that India has quite a lot of different languages, such as Punjabi, Urdu, and Hindi, which are spoken in different regions. That's why Polish is a more common mother tongue, despite Indian heritage being more common than Polish. As for the Prime Minister stepping down, the Prime Minister is the leader of the ruling party. In the UK, you vote for your MP, and they go off to parliament. Whichever party has the most seats/constituencies is the government, and the head of that party is the Prime Minister. Unlike the role of President, the Prime Minister isn't meant to be the ruler - they're the "first among equals".

I didnt realise uninvited "hellos" were a bad thing. Id be chuffed if my mum were in the area and stopped over to say hi , have a cuppa before going home.

I was thrown by the largest minority question, but in a different way. It might simply be where I grew up and live in a very poor area of southeast England, but there are many people of eastern European descent around me; and many grocery stores either have a very large section for products of those regions or straight up cater to those cultures (one place is even referred to widely as "the Polish shop"). That said, I got the following language one correct: India used to be part of the British Empire, so in my mind many Indians either speak English as a second language or would be more inclined to learn; in general they have a level of fluency that Polish people, etc just don't match. Now, if the language question had been Hindi rather than Punjabi, I may have a bit more stuck based on the prior question.

I've had grown adults (English and Welsh) argue with me, a person from Northern Ireland, about what the United Kingdom is. It's rather horrifying!

Question 16 can get stuffed. If I'm tired, I'm going to bow out. Question 17 can also go get stuffed. I'm in the middle of something, if I am not on fire, I will get back to you. If I am on fire, please let me know.

Well done Tyler, I'm British but I would've had trouble with some of them.

Some of those questions were extremely nuanced and as a Brit (fair enough, I've lived out of the country for a while so perhaps things have changed) I didn't agree with all the 'correct' responses. Also, do you nowadays 'join a job' in the UK? When I left, you 'started a job', but 'joined a company'.

Chicken tikka masala was indeed a British invention. It was created but to Brits love for Indian food. Brits took Indian spices and added tomatoes 🍅 to create the dish.

It's really tricky cause the parliament act (question 9) was repealed by Boris Johnson to try to stay in power one or two years more following the whole BS with Brexit ^^

Question 9, the answer is wrong. It was true for a short period of time, but that act was repealed. It is as you said every 5 years or sooner at the wish of the Prime Minister.

On question 9 you are actually correct. I think it is an old test. The fixed term act is no more.

Congratulations! I was rooting for you all the way. So, when are you coming?

The final 10 questions were just a job interview, and not a very good one 😀 Q13 should have been "Put the kettle on". Q20 (life lesson) if you're not 5 minutes early then you're late.

Just stop for a few cheeky ones then pop off home 😂😂😂. That 15 minutes could ruin a dinner and the lady of the house would not like it be on time

This quiz is ridiculous 😂 A PM can call a snap election. Apologising and saying that you’ll go next time, is a perfectly fine answer, after your first week at a new job. Your manager asks to talk to you whilst you’re in the middle of something important - You’re doing your job, that your manager is paying you to do. So saying “I’m in the middle of something, can I give you a shout when I’ve got this sorted?” should always be a perfectly reasonable response. And if it’s not, then your manager isn’t managing very well.

Question 3: Schooling is not and has never been compulsory in the UK. Home education is huge here. However, those in the system should be in school, college or apprenticeship until aged 18.

British tips for interview and meetings call for strong eye contacts and hand shakes. That can make or break deals.

You got question 2 right! School leaving age is now 18 (you must be in college or apprenticeship until you’re 18) the law changed in 2017 so my guess is that this quiz is outdated :)

you get fined if you’re not in any education, it is good to mention tho homeschooling does exist but it’s more expensive as all the exam papers are not cheap

I sympathise with you on that. It went strange after the first 10 and became about 'corporate behaviour' which didn't chime with my experience at all. For instance the one about would you prepare a 'development' plan or wait two weeks; I think my generation might put a vague modified plan together but wait a couple of weeks because the pai in the arse manager has orobably moved on abd found something else to annoy people with by then, before being replaced by someone who us zn even bigger pain in the arse. Eventually the company will realise by then, that good staff are leaving for other jobs, where their skills and experience are valued!

I'm British and I find a lot of the questions in this quiz to be very strange and not at all really what I would expect from a British culture quiz. There are so many other things they could've asked about instead 😏

I always giggle at your intro, you sound so much like a young Paul Lynde. [ the voice of the rat on the Charlotte's Web cartoon feature ]

The election one is tricky because I dont think the PM can just decide to have an election, but it is relatively rare that nowadays for a PM to leave the job due to losing an election. The last PM to leave office because they lost an election was John Major in 1997, even he sort of resigned in 1995, but every PM since has effectively resigned, mostly mid-term. And if/when the PM resigns it doesnt result in a general election. The incumbent party remains in power but they choose a new leader who then becomes PM.

To be early is on time, to be on time is to be late, and to be late is unheard of…

when 15 (1962) working at an office the boss was addressed as Mr David(first name). Colleagues as Mrs/Miss/Mr (surname)........old fashioned! but that was how it was. I was just Jeanne.

It used to be that it was compulsory to attend some kind of full time education between the ages of 5-16, however more recently that law has been shifted to 5-18 with the exception being if you're in a paid or volunteer job consisting of at least 20 hours a week once you're at the age of 16 in which case you must be in some kind of part-time education rather than full-time education. Parents of children who fail to attend school are now fined based on number of days absent and in repeated offense situations even social services can be brought in to investigate. As secondary school (High School for the Americans) education ends at the age of 16, essentially this has meant some kind of college level education is now compulsory for every child up to the age of 18. This however differs between England, Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales which have their own different compulsory education laws. So really you were correct in your answer, the quiz is just either outdated or made by someone not familiar with modern changes to British law.

Irish refers to citizens of the Republic of Ireland, Northern Irish people are citizens of the UK.

It’s 18 now to stay at school you can do an apprenticeship or a college course until 18 as well. This is a quite recent change

I got the same score as you + I’m Scottish so I wouldn’t feel too bad. This was definitely not the most balanced quiz to be honest. X x x

Yeah high school finishes at 16, then you go to college for two years, and then you either start working or you go on to university.

I'm British and I always arrive for a 7pm dinner about 3 minutes before. But I usually expect people will arrive to my dinner late. LOL. So yeah.

Where did you get this quiz? The last General Election was held on the 12th December 2019, the one before that was on the 8th June 2017, and the three before that were on the first Thursday in May at five year intervals (2005, 2010, and 2015. There was a fixed term parliament rule introduced during the 2010 parliament, but as no British parliament can be bound by the decisions of a previous parliament, the parliament can (and has) overrule that law. It takes a majority in Parliament voting for an earlier General Election. The next General Election is due to be called before 19th December 2024, but that could mean it would be held in January 2025. It is more likely to be held before then.

Kettles. I've heard the standard electicity supply in USA is lower voltage so electric kettles are less efficient. Heating water on the (gas) stove or microwave is quicker than trying to use electric kettle on lower voltage. (Responding from New Zealand for context - we heat water in electric kettles here too)

Going way back Great Britain had a special relationship with India with Queen Victoria being awarded the title of empresses of India. Brits also love Indian food. We have had a steadily growing population of Indians in a gb ever since.

If you want a Hard level test of UK knowledge look up the "Life In The UK Test" which must be passed in any citizenship application

Well you did take a quiz from a British adult education school under the heading Navigating British business culture so that's probably why the questions where specific. Also an explanation was in each answer, so you didn't have to look far to get your questions answered. I got 15/20, which is not a stellar result considering I'm Swedish.

Come on, Brits, give Tyler a break. Us Norwegian viewers already know that he can't tell the difference between a reindeer and a moose or even a sheep from a goat. He's learning - very enthusiastically - and putting himself out there :)

Chicken Tikka is basically a British imitation of Indian food

As a Brit, that’s the weirdest quiz about British society and culture I’ve ever seen 🫤

find it amuse. late is late to me, I've been brought up with being late as a sign of rudeness

3:45 you were right with this question (for my generation onwards, the leagal age of leaving the school system is 18, for reference I'm 20 now. My generation (at least in the schools i went to) was the 'experimental year group' all throughout growing up. And then we got covid so no one learned any thing properly especially when most of the teachers where substitutes that told you to "read the book" and "why would you think I know" Any way this is a great video as always.

I’d say being late and arriving uninvited are both poor etiquette. If I’m going to be late for any reason I would always ring ahead and tell the person. And apologies profusely. On the turning up uninvited it’s ok for neighbours to knock on your door at any time during the day but for anyone else we expect them to call ahead or have booked to come over.

I left school after 9 years back in the 70's and started working when I was 16 years old, I live in Sweden

While your answer to Question 1 is of course correct, this has only been the case since 1949, when the Irish Free State - which was irst declared in 1921 - was internationally recognised as an Independent Sovereign State, renamed the Republic of Ireland. Northern Ireland - also established in 1921 - was recognised as a self-governing state within the United Kingdom, effectively enjoying a similar status to the Crown Dependencies. When iot became clear that The Troubles were likely to become a long-term dispute, it lost its self-governing status in 1971, returning its elected MPs to the House of Commons in London, however as they were required to swear allegiance to The Queen, thosem belonging to Sinn Fein - which is the political wing of the self-declared Irish Republican Army, have never taken up their seats. Following the Good Friday Agreement, the Northern Ireland Assembly was set up, affording the country a degree of independence in the form of devolution, there are ongoing issues affecting the functions of this as the Irish Nationalist Parties and the (UK) Loyalist Parties seem unable to reach sufficient consensus to be able to share their powers... Interestingly, the explanation glimpsed on the answer page at at 2:03 is wrong, as it was not the political Acts of Union of 1707 signed by the previously independent Governments of Scotland and England that created the United Kingdom in 1707 - because their kingdoms were already united in the Person of the Sovereign, whom since King James VI of Scotland Acceded to the Throne of England as the only living and fully legitimate relation of the Late Queen of England, Elizabeth I; had used the geographically correct territorial deignation, 'of Great Britain'! Rather, it was the Acts of Union of 1800 that politically united the Governments of Great Britain and Ireland, that created the United Kingdom - after which the Sovereigns used the territorial designation of 'The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland'. This lasted until 1949, when the international community officially recognised the existence of both the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland - since when the territorial designation has been changed to, "of Great Britain and Northern Ireland...".

I’m Canadian and I didn't do any better. By the way, I love you and your channel. Don't get scared. I’m not a creepy stalker. I’m 75. I’m your doting grandma!

What's funny is Britain is technically a theocracy with an official state religion but is also one of the world's least religious countries. Even those who identify as religious are normally religious in name only and do not practice it. I'm in my late 20s and I don't know anyone my generation who is religious.

In Australia you also have to attend school until you are 16 (about 10 years of education) to ensure that you are sufficiently educated to be able to function in the big wide world. After that you can leave school and would be expected to either get a job or an apprenticeship in a trade. If you don't attend school until you are 16 social welfare may get involved, perhaps with draconian consequences. Without 10 years of education it would be almost impossible to get a job other than as a basic manual labourer. The large Indian population goes part of the way to explaining why Curry (e.g. chicken tikka masala) is considered the favourite food of most Brits. Remember that Rishi Sunak is the Prime Minister, Suella Braverman was the Secretary of State and before that Pritti Patel was Secretary of State. Maybe most of the 'Indians' speak Hindi, Urdu or Bengali. There are a LOT of different languages spoken in India. If it makes you feel any better, I would have gone for Punjabi too. Turning up uninvited being considered unacceptable is a relatively new thing and basically stems from the time that pretty much all women went out to work rather than stay at home as a housewife. (Yes, I know that you have never lived in a time when most women didn't go out to work, but for an old codger like me it seems recent.) Fun video Tyler and I enjoyed playing along with you. I got about the same score as you, losing most of my points in the last part. I thought Britain would be much more formal in business than they are.

Nice one, Tyler! You clearly look beyond your own borders and have developed a decent level of knowledge as a result. Less knowledgeable Brits would struggle with the quiz, and probably only a minority would get all questions correct.

The reason you got the question on how many Irish there are in the UK is that it was a question about nationality, not ethnicity. Irish Nationality refers to the Republic of Ireland, whereas Irish ethinicity refers to originating on the island of Ireland (Hibernia).

I didn't know Ms isn't used in the US! I would have expected it to be common there too.