I saw the headline and was ready to clown on the guy but then I actually read the question and I thought yeah, no. That's fair to not know actually. Why is that on the citizenship test? That's just silly

Seriously though; most citizenship tests I've seen in my life (on the Internet; I've never changed my citizenship, so have never actually taken one) ask about things like how various governmental institutions work, not the dimensions of randomly selected landmarks. Is this a well known piece of information in the UK?

My parents have taken this test and passed but it is purely a memory test and full of questions that the vast majority of British people would never know. Many of them aren’t even taught in UK schools. I firmly believe that more than 50% of British people would fail this test if they were asked to sit it tomorrow.

You can find many practice tests online by searching Life in the UK test and you will be able to see the absurdity of some of the questions.

I’m pretty sure one of the questions is what day is Christmas Day? I’m not too sure what this has to do with Britain as most countries in the world celebrate it on the 25th but it is a free point!

This is not even mentioning the cost of over £2000 for the citizenship and the mandatory ceremony when you pass.

It isn't a Ferris wheel, it's a cantilevered observation wheel. Its height still shouldn't be on the test.

Because whomever decided which questions are in the test are incompetent as fuck, as are the people who gave them that responsability.

The whole thing has a massive stink of being the indirect result of some posh cunt giving one of his post cunt mates a top position in the part of the Public Service he's responsible for.

In the UK at the level of the so-called "Public School" educated (in a perfect illustration of the level of deceit in that society, what they call "Public Schools" are in fact expensive Private schools) Cronyism is standard and Merit is at best secondary to Knowing The Right People.