- Hi, we're Joel and Lia.
- And today, we're sitting an American citizenship test.
(scatting music)
- So if ever we were allowed in the country
for good, we'd probably have to do one of these.
- Yeah, and we're not gonna do the whole test obviously.
This is a study-guide website and so we've clicked,
quick practice test and it's giving us ten
randomly generated questions from the citizenship test.
We're gonna be terrible. - Well if you can't
do it can you just regenerate the question?
Can you skip? No.
- No, no. - Right.
- There's no way out of this.
- So we'll get a percentage at the end.
- Yeah. - Right.
- You guys already, I'm sure most of you
have sat home just laughing being like,
this is gonna be hilarious because
we're not gonna know anything.
And I'm sure that if you're not subscribed to us
and you're watching this you're gonna just be like,
prove to me that you're amazing.
- I'm the kind of person that will like do a test
and if the first answer is like the middle,
you know, like of multiple choice.
- Yeah.
- If it's like A, B, or C, if it's B
then I'm like convinced the next one
won't be B again.
- Oh really. - Yeah.
- I think they double-bluff.
- Yeah and they'll be like B, B, B, and then C.
- Yeah. - Yeah, I know.
This is how, this is what we're dealing with
is what I'm saying, right, let's go.
- You never know we might do better,
okay, so. - It'll be fine, yep.
- The first question, and you guys
can play along with us is,
why did the Colonists fight the British?
What is a Colonist?
(laughing)
I don't even know what a Colonist is.
A colon is your bum isn't it,
the colon goes through you. - The colon does.
(laughing)
- I don't know what it is.
- Okay.
- I guessing it's people, it's American.
- Yeah.
- So why did the Americans fight the British?
- [Lia] Is that what it is?
- So the three answers are:
Because the Colonists wanted their weapons,
or because they didn't have self-government
and because of high taxes,
or because the Colonists wanted their ships.
- Definitely high taxes, people always complain
about taxes. - Really.
- Don't they?
- But in the era of ships I don't know,
well what do you think? - Oh they might have
wanted their ships.
- Wasn't there something to do
with tea? - And the background,
the background of this is like,
- [Together] It's ships.
- Yeah. - So let's put that,
let's put ships. - Let's do ships.
Let's see, try again.
- What?
- Let's do taxes then
'cause you said-- - Well no 'cause now
now it's gonna be weapons and I said taxes
'cause I always think people fight over money.
Why would they-- - Let's try taxes.
- It's right. - Yeah.
- Well done.
- So you know, I mean just guess.
- Your gut instinct.
- Gut instinct.
- Go with your gut instinct.
- Okay, next question.
- Okay, what happened
- [Together] At the Constitutional Convention?
- I didn't know they had
conventions back then. - It was a convention.
(laughing)
- Like Comic Con. - What? In the Hilton?
- In the Hilton.
(laughing)
So read out what they did at The Hilton.
- The Declaration of Independence was written.
The Founding Fathers disbanded the Constitution.
Or the Constitution was written.
I bet the Constitution. - I think it's one or three.
- What happened at the Constitutional Convention?
- [Together] The Constitution was written.
- Yeah or else why would they call it
the Constitutional Convention.
- Oh you're so clever,
She's so clever, yes!
We're getting into America.
(laughing)
Let us in!
- 100% that was right,
- [Together] Well done.
- Okay, so, the House of Representatives
has how many voting members?
50, 100, or 435?
- It's gonna be 100 isn't it?
- I think high, - Or 50.
- I think 435.
- Really? I was thinking 50 or 100.
100 is a round number,
and it's a nice number,
we go well there's a House of Representatives
there's 100 of us here.
- Yeah but when do countries ever do that?
We always make it hard for ourselves.
- What if it's 50,
because isn't there, how many states are in America?
- 52?
- Oh 52, I was gonna say maybe there's one from each state.
- 51, or 50, no there's 50.
- There's 50 there might be one from each state,
or something.
The House of Representatives.
- Yeah let's do 50.
No, I think it's 435.
Yes. - Good job,
- [Together] Yes.
- How'd you know?
- I don't know, I just thought it,
when I've seen pictures of American politics,
firstly, I don't get how it works.
It works very differently to our politics,
but there's always so many people and I'm like wow.
- What more than like in our House of Commons
when they're all arguing and stuff?
- I don't know
- Alright.
- I don't really watch.
- Fine, next one.
Name one state that borders Mexico.
- Texas.
- Oh okay.
- Because we're going there and I've looked at the map.
- Oh yeah and everyone was telling you
where Mexas was, - Yeah,
- Mexas (laughing) oh 'cause Tex-Mex.
- Oh yeah because I said,
Tex-Mex, exactly.
I said that Texas was South America
because like you guys have educated me,
you said it's not South America,
that's blown my mind.
I though everything south of the United States
was South America.
Apparently it's Central America.
- Oh yeah, because Christy did a tour
around Central America and it included
places that I was like, oh that's South America,
she was like no, it's called Central America.
- Wow, mind blown. - I know.
- Thanks for the education guys.
- So. - So Texas.
- Correct - Correct.
- Phew they're gonna let us in.
We're five of ten questions in.
- Well no, because we have.
- We're half way through.
- We did get some wrong though, because we guessed.
- No, we're five, we're half way through the test
is what I'm saying,
as in like it's not going that badly.
- Oh this is gonna get even worse.
- Name the US war between the North and the South.
- The Spanish-American War,
the Mexican War,
or the Civil War or War Between the States.
- Surely they'll call it the Civil War.
- Yeah, it must be the Civil War.
- Why would they call it the Spanish-American War,
or the Mexican war?
- Does this mean between the North America and South America
or does it mean between the northern states
of the United States and the southern states
of the United States?
- They're not gonna be able to answer are they?
We haven't got any help through this test.
(laughing)
- I'm listening.
(laughing)
- Whatever you say.
- This means we can't cheat.
So, right, the Civil War.
- It's either the Spanish-American or the Civil.
- Yes.
- We got it right. - You are good.
- Thank you.
- Right, how many US Senators are there?
100, 50, or 200?
If you get this wrong you're not getting in.
- Are you joking?
- It's the pressure.
- How many US Senators are there?
What's a Senator?
- Don't know, I think they do something with government.
- My instinct is always 100.
But because there's 50 states I feel like 50.
- Yeah because each state has a senator,
because they always say call your Senators.
- Okay 50.
The last time we did that as well we got it wrong.
Should we go high again then?
- 100, maybe there's two per state.
Two senators, yeah, there's two, well maybe, I don't know.
- We don't know, we're just making all of this up.
- And we reinforce it to ourselves
- [Together] Yeah, yeah, we're right.
- There is two per state, yeah yeah.
There's one man, one woman, yeah yeah yeah yeah.
- Like Noah's Ark, yeah. - Like Bill and Hillary!
Cause they're married, aren't they?
- Yeah, they're a married couple, yeah.
In what month do we vote for President?
November, December, January.
- When did it all kick off? Must have been January.
Must have been January - New year, new me.
- [Together] New year, new President.
- Check! - January.
- [Together] Oh!
- Hang on. There's no way
that the vote - Just before Christmas.
- What, they were doing another vote before Christmas?
- No, no. - Oh!
- But they didn't, they wouldn't do December,
that's the month of Christmas.
- Yeah, too much going on. - Too much going on,
everyone's busy. - November, November.
- [Together] Yes! (laughing)
- They're busy, see? Christmas.
- Everyone's too busy! - They're like,
do it before the Christmas shopping starts.
Question eight.
- Who does a US Senator represent?
Well we've just discovered that
the senators are of the states, so it must be
it's either the whole country,
only people from Washington DC,
or all the people - All the people
- [Together] in the state. People in the state.
- Correct! Tick! - Whew.
- We're getting in. - We're getting in.
- Who signs the bills to become laws?
The Senate, the President, or Congress?
- [Together] Congress?
- It sounds like cress, like the plant. Like, Congress.
- (laughing) - Congress.
I don't know. - Would you like Congress
with that? - Would you like Congress
with that? (laughing)
- Well surely the President signs it,
but Congress would discuss it.
- Yeah, I don't think it's the President.
Oh no, maybe he does. - I do, I do.
Because I feel like he's our equivalent of the Queen.
Like if a new law was to be made,
or no, it would probably be made in like UK Parliament.
- So it's in Congress or the Senate,
I don't know what they are, but.
- Definitely not the Senate. - They've come up,
no but listen, they probably come up with the bills
and then you're saying they present it
to the President. - The President.
- And then he goes, that's why there's that meme
of Donald Trump holding a thing,
and people have like put rude things on it.
- President, but Congress present it to him?
Three, two, one. - Yeah.
- [Together] Yes! - Well done.
And number ten, let's get through this one.
What are the two rights of everyone
living in the United States?
Freedom of speech and freedom of the press,
or freedom to break the law and freedom of assembly,
or freedom of religion, freedom with no rights.
- It's got to be the top one, hasn't it?
- Well yeah, it's not gonna be freedom to break the law.
- It's got to be freedom of speech.
- And freedom with no rights, Americans always
bang on about their rights so it must be number one.
- It must be freedom of speech,
- [Together] Freedom of the press.
- I thought when I read the press,
I was like oh, there's gonna be
another one that says freedom of speech and
freedom of something else. - Yeah, I thought
why not freedom of religion?
I thought everyone has freedom of religion.
- Well, they do, but maybe it's not.
- Number one. - I don't know,
what are the two rights of everyone?
- Everyone. It should be freedom of religion as well.
- Well it might be freedom with no rights
and freedom of religion. - But why would you have
freedom- - [Together] Of no rights.
- What does that mean? Unless it means
something really clever that we don't understand.
- So it's like you can believe whatever you want to believe,
freedom of no rights, freedom of any religion
you want to believe in. - I think let's go with
the first one. - Freedom of speech.
- [Together] Speech. - It's going to have to be,
they always bang on about that.
- Yeah, they do. We got it right!
- Yes. - View results.
You answered ten and you got
- [Together] Six right on the first attempt.
- We got 60%! Yes! That's over half.
- That's a pass. - That's a pass.
- That's probably a C? - Maybe.
- That's a C. - I'm happy with that.
- We got a C. - Yeah.
- Most people fail that test. - Yeah.
- I don't know, I just made that up.
- I think last time we got like, what, 40%?
- Yeah, so we've improved. - We improved!
We've got better. - Every year's an improvement,
new year, new us. - New us. Wow.
That's, I mean I still don't feel
like I've learned very much because
there was lots of words batted about
that I didn't know what they mean.
But, to be fair, I don't know much about
our own politics. - No, same.
- The way my brother explains to me
how politics in our country works,
I'm just like, it goes straight over my head
and then I go, you know what, I don't even care.
Like I'll vote for whoever, I'll vote, I'll use my vote,
but I don't care the ins and outs of how things work.
So I don't even think I would pass the British
citizenship test, let alone the American one.
- I don't know if I would either, Joel.
- No. - The thing is I'm just like,
they, like politics and politicians,
they all exist, and we trust them
to do their job. - Yeah.
- Because we're like, okay, you people,
the people that are in this position,
are in that position for a reason,
because they've educated themselves to do that job.
That's not why we're on the earth.
- Well that's what I think. - I do believe that-
- We've all got purpose. - Yeah, that's not our purpose
but I do believe that we should educate ourselves
to know a bit about what they're doing.
Because otherwise we're just, because the decisions
that they will make will affect us.
- Yeah. - In the future,
and affect, you know whether it's like
how likely it will be that we're
going to buy a house one day, how likely,
just all the things that they do.
- Yeah. - It's gonna affect us
and our next, the kids we bring into this world.
Don't worry, we're not having children together.
- No. - And... (laughing)
But yeah, that's why I'm like,
oh I would like to know more but when
all we hear through our news is that it's chaos
and they don't even know what they're doing,
it just makes you go, I'd rather
just switch that off. - Yeah, and also
what can you really change, if you use your vote
and you use it wisely, blah blah blah,
and still stuff goes wrong you're like,
what else can I do? - What can I do?
- I can't do anything. - What can I actually do?
- So it's just better not to know, I think.
I live in Cloud Cuckoo Land, I'm happy in my little bubble.
- Yeah. - And just enjoying life.
And like you said, we've all got a different purpose,
both me and Lia believe that our purpose is to entertain.
- Exactly. - I was put on this earth,
you were put on this earth to entertain people,
make people smile, laugh, and their purpose is to politics.
- And they don't, the people that watch us,
they want to escape from politics anyway.
- Oh, yeah. - So it's like,
people are like oh, do you know what?
It's actually quite nice that you guys don't talk
about politics and stuff because
that's not why we come to your channel.
- Yeah. - We don't subscribe
for politics, if we wanted politics
we'd go to someone who knows what they're talking about.
- Exactly. - [Together] That's not us.
- Well we hope you enjoyed this video though,
even though it was maybe a tad political,
but not really. - No but it was
purely entertainment that was - Okay, good.
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- [Joel] See you soon! - [Lia] Cheerio!
- [Joel] Cheerio guys, bye! God save America!
No, that's God Save The Queen.
- [Lia, singing] God save our gracious Queen.
- [Joel] What is the American one?
- [Lia] It's, um. Isn't it the one that they sing
at the Superbowl? - [Joel] Oh-
- [Together, singing] Say can you see?