American Tries a British Pub Quiz - UK General Knowledge

[@davidpreston9909]

That, Connor, was very impressive indeed. As a native Brit (who is a bit of a quizzer), you got 2 or 3 right that I got wrong, and a couple of closer near misses. I reckon that outside of professional historians (academics and whatnot), there cannot be many Americans who would have done any better. Top marks.

[@gavingiant6900]

You are more savvy than most Americans, and even some Brits about our countries history. I even struggled with some of them, good on ya lad.👍

[@LB-my1ej]

I’m not sure why you think loyalty is crazy, the Australians were loyal and we thank them.

[@PhilTough-hn8qj]

Plus they had to fight. The Japanese were were on their doorstep. The Australians and New Zealanders were ferocious and fearless. Just all round hard men.

[@lorrainet6798]

Well done Conor. You did well.

[@marieparker3822]

The Australians and New Zealanders fought in World War I, too.

[@wallywombat164]

I reckon you did brilliantly mate. Good onya.

[@paulharvey9149]

My Goodness, Connor, didn't you do well?!! That is an AMAZING result for a non British and non-Commonweath Citizen!! I only got a couple more than you - William and Mary after the Glorious Revolution, Cromwell, Richard III and QEII's accession in 1952 (her coronation was in '53), but you know far more about the English wars than I do!

[@donsland1610]

An excellent effort Connor.

[@Richardgwilliams]

Connor, your performance was more than credible. Be very Proud of yourself I’ve recently come across your Videos by the way They are very enjoyable thank you

[@retrowatches1655]

I'm embarrassed you got more right than me . Well done . Even your guesses were worked out well .

[@callmepease]

Amazing video! Much like!

[@evanhayward1502]

LOL. I'm Australian and a trivia sponge. I got 17. You did good.

[@jamespickersgill8416]

You did very well. More of these please.

[@tonyscupham-bilton7523]

Queen Victoria's first language was English, like that of her father, grandfather,and great-grandfather. Don't assume their first language was German because they all married Germans, or one of their ancestors inherited the English throne. It's like saying all US Presidents speak the same language as their immigrant ancestors. There are recordings of Queen Victoria speaking perfect English. Her grand-daughter, Princess Alice, said in several television documentaries that Victoria always spoke English. That's the problem with pub quizzes - they don't research their questions, they just copy them from somewhere else and assume they are correct.

[@andrewobrien6671]

Extremely impressive Connor, very, very good.

[@gmdhargreaves]

Soo proud of you matey!!! You are soo much more intelligent and great since you started this journey! Still do much more to learn, store and better yourself dude❤❤❤❤

[@mrmcjibbin6142]

Thank you so much!!

[@jimnronna]

Wow. You’re pretty good. You know more than the average Brit. Good job!!

[@charlesfrancis6894]

I may have known of the events but not all the dates spring to mind you sir did very well.

[@lynnedyer8714]

Very impressive Connor. Even when you got it wrong you were really close to the correct answer.

[@ianmurphy7974]

That was very, very impressive Connor. And yes you can have the Cromwell one and 1952. Good effort! 👍😉

[@leehallam9365]

You did pretty well Connor, when you were wrong, you weren't wildly wrong. For example 1953 was the year of the Queen's coronation, which you have reacted to. Australian independence is not something most Brits would know, its important to Australians not us.

[@charlottehardy822]

I got 3 wrong and I studied history that covered most of these. You did really well.

[@stevesperry8649]

impressive Weldone

[@susangardner6059]

Well you can be on my quiz team anytime, well done you were very impressive 👏👏👏👏👏😊

[@tinaunderhill5412]

Gosh you’re hard on yourself! You did really well, you should be proud

[@squirepraggerstope3591]

Re Australia "not needing" to fight in WW2 (or WW1) having become a self governing dominion in 1901 (and the same applies to Canada and New Zealand too, b.t.w), that's true. BUT all of these countries still saw themselves as part of the British Empire and the closest kin and allies of Britain. Which is still often referred to by their peoples as the "mother country", even today. Thus, when people in ALL four countries (Canada/Australia/NZ/UK) are asked if they'd support even closer links and what's usually called a "CANZUK" association including at minimum mutual free trade and freedom of movement/residence/work between them all, typically c70-80% of respondents support the idea. Because we ARE kindred peoples and most Brits like me see Australia, Canada and New Zealand exclusively as the closest, only truly reliable friends and allies we have or ever could have...

[@Carl-Hancox]

Im a 60 year old Brit and im ashamed to say you got more right than me lol , well done , you were paying attention at School whilst i was wagging it (playing Hookey) lol 😆👍

[@artyonehundred]

Shakespeare gives Henry V one of the best and most arousing speeches ever it's the one with the phrases such as "We few, we happy few" and "Band of brothers". It's brilliant stuff! Also I think (and I'm a Brit) you did really well (certainly better than me on a lot of the dates). Well done! Edit: Also I'm pretty sure that while Alan Turing did amazingly well in automating the cracking of Enigma (helping to create the first computers in the process), it was a group of Polish mathematicians that actually did most of the work in cracking Enigma a couple of years before the war.

[@joshcrawford4076]

That was very impressive mate, i'll have you on my pub quiz team anyday! We've named our team 'quiz in my pants' 😂

[@chocolate-teapot]

If you want to do pub quizzes you need to form a team. Get about four drinks down you and some pork scratchings. Then you're ready.

[@gazinessex2]

Some of these are very hard.

[@rosaliegolding5549]

Conner , YOU HAVE MY FULL RESPECT for answering many difficult questions and you are not British 🤣AMAZING ALL THOSES NOT SO EDUCATED AMERICAN’S IVE MET PUT THEM TO SHAME 👏👏👏👍🤣I love your videos just as much when you don’t know the answer it’s the input which is important TO ACHIEVE KNOWLEDGE and you’ve certainly done that since you’ve been on this journey to look into the Uk’s past history 👍🤷‍♀️

[@catbevis1644]

I am the resident history geek on a pub quiz team, so this quiz was basically made for me lol. You did better than most British people would have done- I say that in all seriousness- and I would gladly have you on my team any time!

[@daveofyorkshire301]

Enigma was actually cracked by the Pokes before WWII the Germans modified the device and the poles joined Bletchley Park decryption team to solve it again.

[@Caambrinus]

Which tribal leader fought against the Roman conquest of Britain? That would be Caractacus. Boudicca revolted just under 20 years later.

[@williambailey344]

You did really well you should be proud of yourself 😊

[@marieparker3822]

Well done. Some of these were hard.

[@jayturner3397]

You did well mate, as a 68 year old brit who loves History, I got a couple wrong 😂😅..cheers 😉

[@mpmlopes]

The one about Queen Victoria's first language is bullshit, she grew up bilingual, she was equally fluent at English and German.

[@charlielouise2428]

She spoke multiple languages but her first language (her mother tongue) was German. Her mother and governess were German and the first years of her life were spent speaking only German.

[@davidjb-750]

You know more about Britain than about 90% of us who live here 😊

[@johnp8131]

Great effort Connor. As a "Foreign type" it would have probably been more fair if you had given yourself a bit more time? The "Treaty of Ghent" that you mentioned, was the peace treaty of December 1814, beween Britain and the USA, which didn't arrive in the US until after the Battle of New Orleans (US Victory) and the Second Battle of Fort Bowyer (British Victory), the latter being last land battle, not New Orleans as most believe?

[@christianmorson3945]

You did very well Connor - better than me (you beat me by one point - and I'm British!). And the Aussies are allies - of course they joined in, same as you guys. You know, if anyone picked a fight with the Aussies, both the Brits and the Americans would help out in a shot.

[@claregale9011]

You did pretty well connor . I got most of the historic dates right and it's in part thanks to watching your videos 😊

[@jang3412]

You did brilliantly as most pub quizes are taken by individual small 'teams'.

[@PhilTough-hn8qj]

I've got to say that was pretty good for a first go at a British quiz. If I were doing an American quiz I don't think i'd get as many as that so can't fault you one bit. You didn't get much time to answer the questions either. Well done.

[@SavageIntent]

Its easy to tell where the Saxon kingdoms were in relation to each other from the name: Wessex = West Saxia, Essex = East Saxia, Sussex = South Saxia.

[@darrencooke4207]

That was hard even for Brits!

[@gbfch]

Really well done. I'm a Brit and a bit of a history buff and only did slightly better. Always look forward to your reactions.

[@siwateck]

very impressed!

[@robertlonsdale5326]

Don't worry, you got more than me and I'm English born and bred

[@williamwhitty7243]

the magda carta was a treety between the king band his barons,if you were a prsent nothing changed

[@lazyhazeldaisy9596]

Amazing! Connor, I was so impressed don't beat yourself up about it you would of got more if you had time a very well done.

[@murmursmeglos]

Some of these are very 'you think you know but do you?' It would take an expert to reel off these answers. 19 is quite tricky as Victoria kept intimate journals almost all her life in English. The family was pretty Anglicized by then, perhaps if she was closer to throne from her birth or her german mother didn't smother her so much. Though the funny thing about most monarchs is that by the time they can speak they are probably being taught about 3 languages already.

[@tonyjohnson1405]

You did very well..! probably better than me who is old and lives in the UK 🙄

[@FrancesThompson-e3m]

I think you did very well 👍👍👍

[@Jamie_D]

Some of this was tough, should have had 20-25 seconds for each really

[@QPRTokyo]

You did well. Cheer up.

[@terryjeisman7550]

the Magna Carter is over rated as King John tore it up within a month!

[@meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee2]

While the original Magna Carta was a dead letter within months as you say. Its importance was that it was the first time that a Kings powers had been limited in law. Once that idea had been established it kept coming back with the Magna Carta being reissued in several different versions over time. Until everyone got used to the idea and it just became part of the law of England. This set England and later Britain as a whole on a course where parliament gradually became more important and the country slowly drifted towards democracy. The rest of the world (or at least Europe where the modern world order comes from) at this time was tending to move towards more and more powerful absolute monarchs. Then Britain started to expand into its empire phase exporting the idea of elected government first to the American colonies, (Canada, USA and the West Indies) and eventually much of the rest of the world. The importance of Magna Carta is not of its self as a law, but that it was the first instance of what would become a very important idea.

[@andrewwood8706]

they left empire but became apart of commonwealth which is still going today, family bond

[@johnwilcox7826]

Well done you were amazing

[@Codex7777]

The Australian one is a little misleading, as it refers to the date when Australia achieved Commonwealth status within the British Empire. It wasn't full independence. Australia gained control of most of their domestic affairs but remained part of the Empire, with British monarch as head of state, represented, in person, by a Governer General. Australia didn't achieve full independence until WW2. Having just checked, the last vestiges of British legal authority weren't scrapped until 1986. So 3 different dates could all be 'correct' technically speaking. The British monarch remaind head of state to this day, despite 2 referendums on the matter.

[@martinsear5470]

Look on a map dude, Japan and Australia are super close to each other. Apart from that good job on the quiz.👍

[@phoenix-xu9xj]

You did better than me. Well done.

[@eleanorkhachadourian2519]

I totally agree with David Preston 9909! V. impressive :)

[@terencecarr523]

Connor, you did really well, there. I was born and bred in the UK and In only got a few more right than you. Well done😊

[@DougBrown-h1n]

Yep, well impressed Connor! You were ahead of me twice.

[@orwellboy1958]

You did very well, young man.

[@philn8122]

King Charles the 3rd has only recently become our new monarch, but well done.

[@ianmclaughlin7420]

Your knowledge is very good for a Brit let alone an American …Queen Elizabeth II became Queen on the death of her father 1952 , but she was crowned in 1953

[@berranari1]

We both guessed 50 bc and we were both only 5 years off. ✅ You got that Attwell , I don't know about that time. You and I would make a pretty good addition to a pub trivia team. 🍻

[@keithbaker4738]

Well impressed think you got more than me 🇬🇧

[@drecords0]

I’m well impressed. There can’t be many Americans that would do better than that. No need to be depressed at all.

[@helenwood8482]

You did exceptionally well. I'm not even going to say, "for an American". You did well for a Brit.

[@grabtharshammer]

Question 24 is very contentious. It was a Polish guy that cracked how "Enigma" worked, before the war even started. Turing could very much be said to be the one that cracked the more complicated "Lorenz" device

[@planekrazy1795]

Yes the Polish did work out how Enigma worked but were unable to decipher the actual messages. That is what Turing did using a mathematical formula he devised, but it was to slow until he and Gordon Welchman built the Bombe to do the calculations much faster.

[@gilgamesh101]

Wrong about Lorenz - it was Bill Tutte, other members of BP's Research section and then Tommy Flowers' Colossus

[@paulknox999]

you got as many if not more than the average Brit would get, ie me. Good job

[@Codex7777]

Wessex covered both the SW and the SE of England, including London, although London did change hands a few times. London was very much borderland at the time.

[@martinconnelly1473]

I remember that Deva is now Chester because Chester is on the river Dee (not the one in Scotland). Was this a quiz with multiple choice answers because that is rare in the pub quizzes I have taken part in?

[@thomas_oak2943]

Connor. There were 7 anglo-saxon kingdoms. 3 Angles, 3 Saxons and one jute. The three saxon ones were east saxons (Essex) south saxons (Sussex) and west saxons (Wessex)p.s. and Æthelred was Ælfred's older brother.

[@kalinaphillips9779]

Anne of Cleves was the 4th wife of Henry VIII. She was a queen from January to July 1540. She actually lived in my town Dartford in Kent from 1553 to 1557. Part of her Manor House still exists.

[@JamesJohannes-l6w]

Connor's a good sport. If you watch his videos, you'll find he takes any jokes about the US with a sense of humour - when they could easily be taken the other way.

[@Caambrinus]

Ireland did not really 'secede', as such. There was a treaty.

[@Sam-cq3sl]

as soon as the monarch dies, the next in line immediately becomes the king/queen, most people think Elizabeth ii became queen in 1953 but that was her coronation, George vi died in 1952 and the monarch next in line immediately becomes king/queen and the coronation isn't till the following year, so Elizabeth ii became queen in 1952 but coronated in 1953, Charles iii is king now, there has only ever been 2 charles in the past and i am British

[@joannmccreadie2135]

Alan Turing...although a war hero...was prosecuted for being homosexual and forced to endure chemical castration. He was considered to be a criminal under British law at that time, even though he had shortened the war by months , if not years. He commited suicide at age 41. He was the inventor of the modern day computer. R.I.P. Alan Turing. A genius before the world was ready for him, even though he shortened the second world war. Please watch "The Enigma Code" a film with Benedict Cumberbach in the title role. It is brilliant and gives a realistic account of Alan Turing.

[@2Tricky]

27/40

[@berranari1]

You did really well Connor. I am going to give you 1953, the year when Queen Elizabeth II was crowned. I don't think Australia got independence in 1901, but it was the year of the federation of the states of Australia. King George V declared that Australia was an independent country in 1926, but there were a few more steps to that. In 1941 there was another stage and it was ratified by Australia in 1943. The final stage was completed with Queen Elizabeth II signing something in 1986 to do with the separation of Australia from the authority of the British parliament. Complicated, yes. You are correct about the status of Australia being the same as Canada, but in hindsight we can agree with Australia being independent from the British government from January 1901. But Australia and Canada are still under the British Crown. 👑 Also complicated. Another one is the history of the Australian national anthem. Check that one out Connor. 👍🇦🇺 Edit: I think 1941 was the first Australian citizenship, before that the people had British passports. Like I said before it's complicated because Australia has gotten independent in stages, rather than one particular time. The changing of the national anthem from "God save the Queen" was another stage. This one happened in my lifetime. When I was little in the 1970s it was changed to Advance Australia Fair but a few years later it was changed back to God save the Queen. And then it was changed back to Advance Australia Fair but with God save the Queen being a "Royal anthem". Edit - this was in 1984. 1974 changed to Advance Australia Fair 1976 changed back to God save the Queen 1984 Advance Australia Fair is the national anthem and God save the Queen is the Royal anthem. A few years ago some words of Advance Australia Fair were changed... from "we are young and free" to "we are _one_ and free".

[@berranari1]

So wait... when Alan Jones won formula one grand Prix what song was played? 🏎️ Alan Jones said that one time that the people from Hungary or somewhere played "happy birthday" when he won the grand Prix there. 😂 Alan Jones won the formula one world driver's championship in 1980, so he would have won a few races that year. I guess that they should have been playing God save the Queen.

[@strangelyjamesly4078]

Smart phones ruined the traditional pub quiz .

[@Tony-c7z9t]

Connor you are now a honorary Brit, you did very well, in fact better than a lot Brits.

[@alanmon2690]

/Pedantry on/The first Magna Carta was not signed, King John used his seal to affix his wax mark to the document. /Pedantry off/ The Pope in Rome listened to John ("hey, bro these unpleasant chaps forced me to agree to some truly offensive words, can you help me out?"" Of course, my devoted minion, the Magna Carta is Hereby annulled, and you owe me one"). The subsequent Great Charters (three I think) also were quietly forgotten. Parliament proper started with the rise of the wealthy mercantile class who had in abundance what all monarchs desperately need to fight their relatives in today's France-- MONEY. "You want money? Give us more control!". Today, the government cannot raise taxes without Parliament's approval.

[@rosemariewelch1525]

Well done you did better than me and i pride myself on my History(will have to rethink that) just toclet you know .Wessex west saxons sussex south saxons essex east saxons.

[@xjadit7826]

Wessex did have control over london at various points in time but it was never its capital winchester was even the capital of England in the early years of its existence before it was eventually moved to london

[@ianmclaughlin7420]

Impressive for a Brit let alone a yank ….👏🏻👏🏻

[@helza]

Wessex , West Saxons. Essex, East Saxons.

[@stephenlee5929]

Hi, the question about queen Elizabeth is difficult, became queen 1952,was crowned 1953

[@rossalynsmith5253]

Only because that PM Churchill thought that Elizabeth was to young to be crowned in that year so they waited to the following year which was 1953.

[@stephenlee5929]

@@rossalynsmith5253 Oh, really? I guess that's why Charles, became king in 2022, but was not crowned until 2023. He was quite young I suppose.

[@helenwood8482]

Don't worry. Your integrity is not in doubt. We know you don't cheat.

[@berranari1]

Connor, Anne of Cleeves was from Germany and was Henry VIII's 4th wife. He divorced her after he said that she was too ugly. 😮 Apparently she didn't look anything like her profile picture. 😅 Actually Henry was shown a painting of Anne of Cleeves and then he married her and after that he divorced her. I don't know all the details but it was definitely his shortest marriage. The next wife was beheaded, so Anne of Cleeves fared considerably better than her. 😂

[@littlechris5656]

Queen Elizabeth became queen in moment her father died, she was crowned in '53

[@daffodil800]

you can have a point for 53 because that was the coronation year although she became queen when her dad died in 52

[@ianwilson4262]

Nope the whole point of the question is to know the difference between accession and coronation. In 50 years time, we can have the same question for Charles III. Remember, The Queen is dead, Long live the King.

[@daffodil800]

@@ianwilson4262 agreed if Connor was a brit he should know the difference but I was cutting him slack

[@timholder6825]

Wessex, west Saxons. Sussex, south Saxons. Essex, east Saxons.

[@robertlonsdale5326]

Her coronation was in 1953

[@pathopewell1814]

I never get any pub quizzes right! (I have a BA and Masters😮😮)