Wyatt the Odd  | 01 Feb 2011 8:04 a.m. PST |
Pay attention, there'll be a test on this later. link Wyatt |
| Cerdic | 01 Feb 2011 9:45 a.m. PST |
Not bad. And the Isle Of Wight got a mention – hooray! It is so simple really though, isn't it? I can't understand why Americans get confused….. |
| Buff Orpington | 01 Feb 2011 10:35 a.m. PST |
All good stuff but it could have been confused further by referencing the Commonwealth countries that have their own heads of state. |
Shagnasty  | 01 Feb 2011 10:39 a.m. PST |
Our benighted population fails to appreciate the importance of Monarchy and Empire. We are doomed. |
| KatieL | 01 Feb 2011 11:10 a.m. PST |
But England, Scotland, Ireland and Wales are not "four co-equal and sovereign nations" and that's a fairly fundamental point to get wrong. Since quite a lot of the UK's history is exactly about why they AREN'T separately sovereign… |
| WeeSparky | 01 Feb 2011 11:24 a.m. PST |
It's all part of Europe isn't it? |
| Jay Arnold | 01 Feb 2011 11:28 a.m. PST |
I agree with 'Merica in the film: "Meh." |
 Parzival | 01 Feb 2011 2:08 p.m. PST |
Well, now that we have all *that* cleared up, what the  is the "British Constitution"? 
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| MahanMan | 01 Feb 2011 2:45 p.m. PST |
Unwritten? Also, I'd like to thank the various online "history" quiz writers who *constantly* get these terms confused, even though they themselves purport to be FROM the British Isles. It's really most frustrating to be told *I'm* wrong to say that the Battle of Hastings (for example) took place in "England" as opposed to "The United Kingdom" (the writer's answer)  . |
| CLDISME | 01 Feb 2011 7:33 p.m. PST |
Teacher! Teacher! I'm confused about the Anglesey part. I thought that was part of Wales, but the nice man in the video made it sound like it was something completely different. |
| Buff Orpington | 02 Feb 2011 2:48 a.m. PST |
It's up for grabs if you want it. Technically, it is part of Wales but not actually part of the island of Great Britain |
| AndrewGPaul | 02 Feb 2011 3:11 a.m. PST |
I'm confused about the Anglesey part. I thought that was part of Wales, but the nice man in the video made it sound like it was something completely different.
Despite being coloured white like the rest of Wales, and described as "the Welsh island of Anglesey"?  |
 Doms Decals  | 02 Feb 2011 8:42 a.m. PST |
Very ambiguous. It did of course say that Anglesey isn't part of Great Britain (which it isn't) so full marks there, although "Great Britain" is informally used as a shorthand for "England, Scotland and Wales" which would include Anglesey, which the stricter geographical Great Britain doesn't. All perfectly straightforward. ;-) |
| Lord of the Sock Puppets | 02 Feb 2011 11:35 a.m. PST |
LOL! "Consists of four co-equal and sovereign nations. The first of these is England." Yeah, that pretty much says it. |
| RockyRusso | 02 Feb 2011 12:09 p.m. PST |
Hi To most of the world, these distinctions are like the question "how do ladybugs know which ones are lads". R |
| zoneofcontrol | 02 Feb 2011 12:33 p.m. PST |
What?!? No listing fro Hogwarts? |
| John the Confused | 02 Feb 2011 1:19 p.m. PST |
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| Steve Hazuka | 03 Feb 2011 3:46 a.m. PST |
Well being a citizen of one of the former colonies I found it very informative and explained the topic quite well in the 5min. The History Channel would have spent 2 hours and not have covered the topic well enough. |
| Martin Rapier | 04 Feb 2011 8:37 a.m. PST |
They didn't mention that the Scots were originally Irish. |
