Of course not, it was Cornwall!

[tree_and_leaf]

Meme fromwellinghall

You are 84% English.

 

You are either native and stupid, or you are foreign and knowledgeable.

"And did those feet
In ancient times,
Walk upon England's mountains green?
And was the holy Lamb of God
In England's pleasant pastures seen?"

Well, no, but it's a cracking good tune.

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Hmm. Put me down as 'foreign but knowledgable'. I expect it was the cream and scone question which I got wrong, anyway. Strange Southern habit that it is...

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[eagles-rock.livejournal.com]

Yes, I'm another 'foreign but knowledgable' and scored a less-than-glorious 79%. I put this down to tea and cream, and utter pedantry about a London landmark. Embrace the non-Englishness! Let wobbling upper lips be unconfined!

[tree_and_leaf]

*wobble*

[greenwoodside.livejournal.com]

92%. I feel disgustingly provincial.

[tree_and_leaf]

Congratulations? Commiserations?

Delete as appropriate...

[snorkackcatcher]

Experimentation shows that to get 100% you have to answer "Government" rather than "High finance" to the question "What happens in The City?" (cynical, although not entirely inaccurate) and "Scousers" rather than "A band" to the question "What were the Beatles?" (well yes, but ...).

And it was supposed to be Glastonbury, not Cornwall, wasn't it? :)

[tree_and_leaf]

No, no, Glastonbury is where Joseph of Arimathea ended up with the grail. Jesus went to Cornwall as a little boy, because his uncle was in the tin trade.

*knows too many dodgy mediaeval legends* The one about Pontius Pilate being Scottish is another good one, too.

Classing the Beatles as Scousers rather than a band seems to me to seriously missing the point, but never mind...

[snorkackcatcher]

Ah. I seem to remember visiting Glastonbury Abbey(?) and the blurb mentioning that Joseph of Arimathea was said uncle -- although it was many years ago and I may be misremembering!

[tree_and_leaf]

Oh, I'm sure there are lots of different versions of the story floating about :) - I mean, considering the number of places in Oxford where Clinton supposedly 'didn't inhale', you can see how these things get started.

[sammee42.livejournal.com]

Haha! The cream and jam question really annoyed me, because that is really a regional thing. It's definitely NOT the case that ALL English people put jam & cream on their scones in the same order. So there! tsk tsk.

[tree_and_leaf]

Some of them don't even put cream on them at all, come to that.

[sammee42.livejournal.com]

Yes, good point! My friend Sinead hates cream (well, okay, she's Irish, but I'm sure there are some British people who hate cream). Actually, come to think of it, my friend Jo from ChCh hates cream, too. So there phooey quiz writers!

[tree_and_leaf]

Well, it's not just a matter of preference. I've never seen cream teas done in Lancashire, the Lakes or Yorkshire, for instance. In the Lakes they have rum butter, anyhow, which is vastly superior.

And in the Yorkshire dales they eat dark fruit cake with Wenslydale cheese, which is a wonderful combination.

Blast, I'm hungry now.