Can The Blokes Answer USA Quiz Questions? | OFFICE BLOKES REACT!!

[@bracejuice7955]

Washington was born in Virginia. I remember there being some confusion about that in some history reaction where they mentioned that George Washington was in the British Army during the Seven Years War, but at the time Virginia was part of the British Empire. There was even a unit of Virginians stationed on a British holding in the Caribbean before the revolution

[@zig_zag____1265]

I think what Dave is trying to say is that Washington was born in Virginia but it was called the British colonies. The Thirteen Colonies, also known as the Thirteen British Colonies or the Thirteen American Colonies, were a group of British colonies on the Atlantic coast of North America founded in the 17th and 18th centuries.

[@brandi_with_an_i]

​@@zig_zag____1265No. I think Dave truly meant that Washington was born in Great Britain.

[@bracejuice7955]

@@zig_zag____1265 as a longtime Blokes viewer… you’re giving Dave waaay to much credit. The man is just…BEFUDDLED.

[@ChrisAdamscomedy]

I love how Daz doesn’t have to say a word to roast Dave. He just turns and starts laughing.

[@peterortiz1160]

Classic

[@Chyrnobyl66]

im glad to see a britsh person confuse duel and jewel when they hear a british person say it too lol

[@billbrasky1288]

Po Boy is shorthand for Poor Boy, not Polish Boy. It’s a sandwich sort of like a sub.

[@carolewhite6356]

Washington was born in the British colony of Virginia. He was a 4th generation Virginian.

[@dougbowers4415]

You might be thinking of Mount McKinley. In 2015 it was changed to Denali which was the original name from the indigenous peoples.

[@socket_error1000]

The Denali question is a little confusing because for ages it was called Mount McKinley before being changed to reflect its Native American name. It was originally named after the 25th President of the USA William McKinley (see edit), who coincidentally was one of the four presidents assassinated* when he was shot in 1901. He was succeeded by his vice-president Teddy Roosevelt who is widely regarded as one of the greatest US Presidents and the foremost reason the USA is a superpower today for his actions in expanding the US Navy and military's ability to project their power and influence in the greater region of the American continents. *The other three presidents assassinated were Abraham Lincoln in 1865, James A. Garfield in 1881, and John F. Kennedy in 1963. Edit: The peak was called Densmore Peak by the prospectors in the 19th century but the Native Alaskans always called it Denali which means "the high one". The way it was named after McKinley is pretty amusing and actually had nothing to do with honoring the President after his death. A prospector who was an admirer of the then presidential candidate started calling it Mount McKinley and the name was used in a NY newspaper article in 1897 and as a result it stuck. It was of course changed back later.

[@Robert-un7br]

Dang it! I just replied with almost the same thing and then read your comment.😂

[@socket_error1000]

@@Robert-un7br LOL, I have that happen to me as well. The worst is when you check and there is nothing and by the time you post it someone beat you to it in those few moments, (_8(|) D`oh!

[@krbailess]

Thanks for explaining that, I noticed it too. That’s a trick question. 🤨

[@timlois]

It's probably more accurate to say that it was called Denali for literal ages. There was just a brief period where it was named McKinley. Agree Teddy was a real one. One of the best.

[@socket_error1000]

@@timlois I can agree with that. I will put an edit in it to reflect a little more history on that.

[@millwallsmug3190]

National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing. NASCAR. I had to look it up laughing because I had no idea what it stood for either. Loved it as a kid, haven't watched in years. Also, shout out Daz for saying New Orleans properly!

[@scottb3034]

I legit thought it was Naturally Aspirated Stock Car Auto Racing since they don't use turbo...i think. this makes sense though.

[@layne6675]

Washington was not born in the UK. I believe his great grandfather left in the mid 1600’s for America.

[@AMPSTRIKER]

Exactly, he was born in Virginia. He did fight along side the British during the French and Indian war but was born in VA!

[@Mr.Huck64]

Looks like most of the answers have been noted by other posters. Unless I missed the post I'll go ahead and list the 4 assassinated Presidents: Lincoln - April 14/15, 1865 James A Garfield - July 2 - Sept. 19,1881 (Survived nearly 80 days. A.G. Bell tried to locate the bullet in Garfield's back with a device he had invented, but failed.) W. McKinley - September 6-14,1901 (Survived over a week after being shot) JFK - November 22, 1963

[@precociouscurmudgeon937]

Haha, North Carolina is definitely in the South.

[@ppuckette100]

Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson, and Teddy Roosevelt are on Mt Rushmore

[@BlackDeathThrash]

Vince Lombardi was the coach of the Green Bay Packers and the Packers won the first 2 Super Bowls.

[@ObelixCMM]

And 9 championships before that

[@SilvanaDil]

That was fun, esp. when some right or wrong answers included incorrect rationales. 🙂

[@williambill5172]

It was written at the time that John Hancock said, "I'll sign it so he won't need his glasses to see who it is!"

[@Robert-un7br]

I’m sure they all laughed about it! But in reality they were all signing their death warrant if the Revolution failed. 🇺🇸

[@garygramling5618]

Yes! Exactly what I'd always heard too. It was to spite the King.

[@rayrayber_]

Did he really just say north carolina isnt in the south lmao

[@dalemoore8582]

John Hancock signed the declaration large enough for King George to see it without his glasses

[@japcar84]

Good Will Hunting is set at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) which is also in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It is about equally as tough to get into as Havard with an acceptance rate of about 3-4%, but it is less known even within the States.

[@VineVitumEt5]

Disneyland is in California and DisneyWorld is in Florida. My older sister worked at the latter in the early 2000's at their college program where she studied and worked in a resort. Also, the Arch is known as the Gateway to the West. You can still visit the museum, take a ride in one of the elevator pods to the top, and see the mighty Mississippi on one side, and St. Louis on the other. Finally, that classic car had a horse known as the Mustang on it. Any car with that originally made on it is a Mustang. My older brother built one from an engine in the late 80's and would take my sisters and I to school in it. It was blue, and had a banging stereo system. ❤

[@scottb3034]

The Mustang is named after the P-51, the WWII prop fighter plane.

[@scottdebruyn7038]

Hey! Oregon here... Crater Lake is a collapsed volcano aka a caldera. I think it was you Blokes I recommended a few places to check out in Oregon some day if you ever make it out here to the 'left' coast. Crater Lake is a must visit. 😁

[@ernestsanchez7603]

Funny num. 25 is a 1966 Mustang i've had mine since 1982. And I am only the second owner of It.

[@jlpack62]

George Washington was not born in England. He was born in Virginia.

[@jeffreyphipps1507]

Disney World opened in Florida in 1971

[@SKRRebelRacing]

Y'all did well on this one. Fair play you three! Cheers

[@kinjiru731]

You guys should do more interactive videos, that was a lot of fun!

[@holddamayo7474]

Charlotte is legit more south than Nashville. Nashville just has the name recognition. NASCAR is headquartered in Charlotte

[@sopdox]

“Ride Sally Ride” is a line from Mustang Sally. It was released in 1965 when Sally Ride was a teenager.

[@NocnaGlizda]

Greetings from Poland. Great video guys. Polish boy here ;D

[@willvr4]

Good Will Hunting is set in MIT. Massachusetts Institutive of Technology. Denali also use to be called Mt. McKinley (coincidentally one of the presidents who was assassinated). So that might have messed you guys up.

[@AztecHusBone]

Damn it, I live in this country and you blokes did better than I

[@gregrambo606]

Alexander Hamilton, first secretary of the treasury, was killed in a duel with Aaron Burr, vice president of the US under Thomas Jefferson in Weehawken, New Jersey in 1804.

[@tbd-5160]

I actually really enjoyed this one. You fellas did well.

[@BTinSF]

Ballpoint pen invented by NASA - LMAO. We had ballpoint pens when I was in primary school in the 1950s.

[@sc1338]

He’s thinking of the space pen lol

[@gavinsheridan4680]

Dave consistently gets that point wrong about George Washington. He was born in Virginia. He was 3rd or 4th generation Virginian.

[@scottb3034]

Sears Tower proper is actually taller than One WTC but WTC's Spire is counted on its height while Sears' antenna don't count. Central Park Tower surpassed Sears for the highest building by roof in the Western Hemisphere in 2019. The 14 tallest buildings in the US are NYC and Chicago towers. And we Chicagoans still refer to it as Sears. Also, GO CUBS!

[@cosmicthespider7974]

Jackson was a big dueler. And sears went out of business. Same thing in Kansas City. We had a sprint center but now it’s the T-Mobile center. I believe cleopatras needle sister piece is in Central Park. They had to cut a hole in the hull of the ship to ship it over here. The signing thing was John Hancock. He signed it large so the king knew who to hang. It sparked a saying giving someone your John Hancock which just means signature.

[@marcanthony8873]

Washington -Jefferson-Roosevelt-Lincoln make Mount Rushmore. Really nailed it as those 4 were definitely the best and it is not looking very likely that they will get surpassed any time soon. 😂

[@dougbowers4415]

Remember, there were only 13 colonies which later became states when the declaration was signed.

[@misterkite]

@13:19 funny enough, crater lake wasn't made by a meteor but an eruption.

[@trevor3013]

Lmao you're right about the Hills in California. Especially southern California. Lots of valleys throughout. I'm from woodland hills, went to school in west hills, all in the weirdly famous San Fernando Valley right next to LA

[@Bozemanjustin]

lol just said Charlotte isnt in the south like Nashvillie

[@misterkite]

@20:00 nice Mike. Tucson, AZ is also home to the International Dark Sky Org which is all about keeping light pollution down.

[@derekjones5023]

Washingtons family had been in Virginia since the mid 1600s so he had been american for generations and around 100 years or more before he even gained notoriety

[@cindymatthewsarrowdalearts6449]

I missed three. I've already forgotten which ones. :) Mt Rushmore: Washington, Lincoln, Jefferson and T Roosevelt. There's room for a 5th person and I can't recall who the frontrunner is. Kennedy, perhaps? Perhaps it's because I'm Pennsylvanian, but I'd never associate "Keystone," with anything in the south. It took me ages to adjust to the Keystone pipeline being in the Midwest. Its name came into public consciousness while the Marcellus Shale was being tapped and piped all over the place, but beyond the general objections to fracking, there were no big protests. And Pennsylvania's Native American population is slim. Our forefathers were too good at killing them off.

[@Kjetilstorm]

An an Alaskan I knew the Denali one. About the only one I knew because I live half way between flattop and denali. Sidenote: landmarks here and city names are constantly being renamed to reflect the native heritage in the area. So if you hear someone talking about Utqiagvik for example, the are talking about Barrow. Or Mount McKinley, they are talking about Denali.

[@timglennon6814]

The creation of the ballpoint pen to an Argentinian inventor called Laszlo Biro, but the pen seems to go back to 1888 in the USA, when it seems a part time inventor a full time Lawyer John J Loud received the first patent for a ballpoint pen.

[@blakerh]

The Fisher Space Pen was developed for NASA. I have one and it does write when used upside-down.

[@daveeriksson]

Ball points were around long before NASA

[@daveeriksson]

@@MlTCH Yep! As for the Russian space program? They used a pencil.

[@timglennon6814]

The 4 Presents on Mount Rushmore are, Washington Lincoln Jefferson and Roosevelt.

[@VineVitumEt5]

Teddy Roosevelt, not FDR.

[@Matt_4871]

4:51 Daz, Mount Logan is technically the highest but because it shares the border with the Yukon in Canada, it didn’t make the list, confuses some Canadians as well because it shares the border.

[@MitsukiDiablew]

Denali is still the tallest in North America.

[@williambill5172]

The General Sherman was there before Christ...2200 years old!

[@brandi_with_an_i]

Totally forgot all about Mt. McKinley being renamed Denali. Here I am screaming "nuh uh!! It's McKinley.

[@mufasa6324]

😂

[@josecarbajal5710]

Disney in Anaheim. Watch the fireworks every night around 9pm

[@ghostpatriot4754]

Charlotte is more South than Nashville. Charlotte, NC has the NASCAR Hall of Fame,

[@jenniferworley7115]

Great job guys but I whooped your butt.😁😁😁😁 Helps that I am American. I recently took a UK citizenship quiz and failed miserably. They expected you to know stuff from 1560 ad. Don't even remember what they wanted to know, I saw the date and was like.....???? I would never have made through your history courses. I'm doing well to remember breakfast.😉😉 Peace✌

[@scottbmedic]

There's a town in Massachusetts called Harvard which people mistakenly think the university is there

[@josephdegennaro9018]

You guys are funny...I'm embarrassed I lost on some of these...i blew six of those.

[@CinesterCharlie]

I live in Tucson and I had no idea about the telescopes.

[@BlackDeathThrash]

Hey Dave its DUEL not JEWEL lol

[@vripp757]

The four assassinated were Lincoln, Garfield, McKinley, and Kennedy.

[@williamlambert]

the 4 presidents assassinated were Abraham Lincoln, William McKinley, James Garfield and John F. Kennedy (JFK). NASCAR is the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing, NASCAR is headquartered in Daytona Beach, Florida the sport was formed in Daytona Beach but Charlotte, North Carolina is called the home of NASCAR because the race teams are located there, the NASCAR Hall of Fame is in Charlotte, the drivers live in the Charlotte area and Charlotte Motor Speedway is in Concord, North Carolina which is close to Charlotte too. Walt Disney World is in Orlando, Florida. Disneyland is in Anaheim, California these are the two in America not including others in China, France and others

[@kevinp8108]

George Washington was born in the British colony of Virginia on what would be later United States soil. Washington was technically a British citizen by birth.

[@laurencemayshroom5940]

You guys should do this sort of thing but seperately and just say a,b or c and see who loses overall and do a forfeit!

[@_WeDontKnow_]

probably top 10-15 unhinged intros in OB history 😂

[@sc1338]

The only Disney world is in Florida lol

[@roymoore3156]

Despite many strikes by flying meteorites the land surface hardly if ever, leaves gaping wounds…that is unless they are quite large. The one thing meteors don’t do is dig deeply into the ground beyond their original depth. Volcano’s heartbeat is far below the surface and is directly affected by molten lava, seismic pressure and the molten lavas desire to ‘reach the surface’. Only the US Navy has little submarines capable of traveling to the lakes bottom and returning safely. Only has occurred a very few times.

[@BTinSF]

Glad you said, “Unless they are quite large” because the Caribbean Basin is supposedly where the rock that killed off the dinosaurs landed

[@marcanthony8873]

Hugely ironic Daz couldn’t remember the Mets play at Citi Field

[@danmayberry1185]

🇨🇦 Happy Canada Day! Got 32, and Daz taught me that Matt Hancock signed the Declaration of Independence 11:30

[@bcbritt777]

On a normal video, Dave would be pausing like a mad man. Now is the perfect video to pause to answer the question and he leaves it well enough alone , Dave is backwards 😂😂

[@sylface86]

i think the one disney in france is called euro disney world since it is the one and only i think in europe or i have heard there was one in istanbul turkey but i dont know but i know the first in europe i think was in france paris

[@kenmahoney5255]

Washington was born in VA. Crater lake was a volcano.

[@KNETTWERX]

NASCAR is the National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing. A good video explaining some of the history is 8 things you probably didn’t know about NASCAR by Slapshoes. Numbers one and two will most likely surprise all three of you.

[@rebeccahanson6941]

Tennessee and North Carolina are right next to each other. Their northern borders are almost identical. The city of Charlotte is actually farther south than Nashville.

[@yungkidnf]

Nascar headquarters is based in Charlotte. Easy question for me

[@billbrasky1288]

Correct. most of the industry is based in the charlotte area. I think NASCAR has offices in charlotte and Daytona.

[@yungkidnf]

@@billbrasky1288 oh yeah. Daytona as well

[@4theloveoflife]

ben franklin was one of the first that sighned it cause he helped draft it up

[@JordanJMyers]

Happy 4th y'all 🇺🇸🇺🇸✨✨🎇🎇🎆🎆🎆 lil early I know

[@Darkaddict20]

William McKinley was assassinated and James Garfield. Iam pretty sure it the other 2 your missing.

[@mumuspain2086]

I got 7 wrong. Proud patriot lol but a sew still threw me for a loop.

[@AcousticGString]

Hi everyone

[@ESUSAMEX]

Washington was born in Virginia.

[@bondzo7184]

Charlotte is completely in the south, North Carolina is a southern state

[@JKG.Photography_]

John Hancock was the first to sign the declaration of independence first,.

[@MoeDavinci]

More of this Blokes.

[@kikibigbangfan3540]

What do you mean, North Carolina isn't in the South? It's literally more geographically Southern than Nashville. Everyday of the week 😂

[@CH3NO2Semonious]

In what series was the "D" stolen from the Hollywood sign?

[@jefferyshute6641]

Fun stuff. Thanks.

[@funtclaps77]

Fun fact: I was a sophomore in high school when the Baltimore Ravens won the Super Bowl for the 2000 season. Their head coach Brian Billick was a notable alumni of our high school and brought the Lombardi trophy to the office while classes were in session. I just happened to be a teachers assistant that period and was in the office on an errand when that all happened. I got to see it in person. That’s my claim to fame story 🥸

[@bigbake132]

12:01 George Washington wasn't born in the UK lol. He was born in Virginia.

[@moe92870]

17:40 Actually Walt Disney being an anti-semite was a rumor started by a disgruntled cartoonist. At least that's the rumor I heard.

[@williambill5172]

Walt Disney World-FL DisneyLand-CA

[@MoeDavinci]

I think Charlotte is the home of the NASCAR Hall of Fame ain’t it? That’s the only reason I chose it doing the video.

[@billyboycinci]

Crater Lake wasn't formed by a meteor. It is the caldera of a dormant volcano.

[@josecarbajal5710]

Meat Packer? I guessed it right but meat packer?

[@kevin982]

John Hancock signed it late i believe. It's where the saying can i have your John Hancock please.

[@frankrotondo3771]

Great game one of best games you had in long time

[@kclovelypinky8561]

Crater lake isnt actually made from a metor its made from a volcano that blew its top off

[@kens32052]

You guys know more about the U.S. than most Americans. lol.

[@josephdegennaro9018]

I've paused just to see if I can answer as well I'm from Jersey

[@Baughlin]

I couldn’t see myself doing anywhere near as well as you bloke did on a uk or British test

[@MoeDavinci]

24W-14L for me (I may have missed a win or two)