Americans Take First UK Cities Quiz - This Was SO Hard! (GeoGuessr)
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In this video we take a UK cities quiz to determine just how much we know about UK geography! This was our first time both using Geoguessr and testing our UK city knowledge. This wasn't easy, but it was a lot of fun. Out of 26 random UK cities how many do you think we got correct?
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You litterally have a map of the UK behind you! LOL
That said, bloody good effort!
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haha yeah, we forget it's there most of the time. 😂 But realized the irony when I was editing.
BRITAIN IS FINISHED FOR THE ENGLISH THE RACE & CULTURE IS BEING DESTROYED
As a Hullian I can assure you that Hull is pronounced "ULL".
hull like dull not hull like fool.
I have lived in Hull all my life and am proud of fishing industry that was in Hull. Hull has some very famous people who came from Hull, like Amy Johnson ( first person to fly to Australia solo) and William Wilberforce ( one of the people who got slavery abolished).
OOll.
I hear Hole when the Americans say it
London 0 - Hull 4 (The Housemartins).
George Washington's family was from Washington, England. Its a town in between the cities of Newcastle-upon-Tyne and Sunderland on the North-East coast
They were actually from Northamptonshire!
@@panslow4381 That's as maybe. However, the US flag and the Washington name is from North East. The basis for the US flag is from the Washington Coat of Arms. Washington Old Hall is the medieval seat of the Washington family . It is where the family takes their name from.
Washington is to the west of Sunderland. Its part of Greater Sunderland. As the Crow flies. I'm 5.25 miles (8.5km) from the Washington Old Hall.
@@Yandarval Washington is in the City of Sunderland - Simple.
His ancestors came from the northeast, but his ancestors moved south in the 15th century to Sulgrave in Northamptonshire. The Washington family's seat from the 1400s onward was at Sulgrave Manor. The manor has been an official monument to friendly US-UK relations since 1912, the Centenary of the war of 1812.
If you zoom in close on New England nearly every town is a British town name.
I was visiting my niece in Virgina and one evening I was washing up and had my back to the tv, the weather forecast was on tv and most towns etc was a British name it was quite confusing.
@@carolinequirk6136 Funny they've got a Portsmouth and an Isle of Wight and also both Norfolk and Suffolk all in pretty much the same area in Virginia.
We ended up in the same diner as a bunch of highway workers, in Sunapee NH. One gave me his card, and it showed their HQ as "Plaistow, NH". I told him it's an area of east London (E13), and he replied "ah, but we pronounce it "Plar-stow" with a contented smile. "So do we" I said.
It's yellow when you get a number of errors on that city
BRITAIN IS FINISHED FOR THE ENGLISH THE RACE & CULTURE IS BEING DESTROYED
It's strange to think that New York was once called New Amsterdam when it was under Dutch rule and it only became New York (called after the Duke of York) when the English took over.
I'm still waiting for some folks from New York to colonise somewhere else and call it Newer York. At least that name would stand the test of time slightly better... 😼
You guys did way better at British geography than I do with American. Kudos.
Very good knowledge Steve, this was impressive
Yes, the place names in the former colonies, US, Aus, Can, NZ, SA come from British places.
Except New York
DID THEY REALLY NOT KNOW THIS LOL
@@daphneschuring5810 ??
I wonder if New Shitterton exists
@@daphneschuring5810new york is definitely named after york
Tbh, most of my friends dont know where anything is outside of their own city and we all live in the UK . 72% is a great score
Nova Scotia in Canada means New Scotland, you also have New England & a Brimingham (in Alabama I think?). It probably made the settlers feel a link to home in a new world to them to name places after their homeland town.
Thank you! After thirty years I now know why the airline in 'The High Life' is called Air Scotia! 🤗😅
There’s a lot of Birminghams in the US.
There’s a few Bristols, Washingtons, Plymouth and Portsmouth’s too. There’s obviously New York and Boston too.
@@scouseofhorror104 I only learnt it recently aswell - & it seems obvious now 😄
Don't forget Manchester🤣
@@croceyzx2433 52 Plymouths around the world i once read!
Sheffield is in Yorkshire and is famous for the invention of stainless steel, football, electro-plating, special steels, and surgical instruments, to name a few.
And Cutlery
Land of the dee dars 😂 our local rivals! went there yesterday to see my son at uni. It's alright is sheff.
@markstevenson7577 Yes, it should be added that Sheffield cutlery was sold around the world and one of my ancestors invented a special ham carving knife 🔪 called the "Granton". William Grant and sons was a big name in Sheffield.
Amazed you knew Carlisle most UK citizens couldn't do that! Unless you travel UK or work in many areas most would find this difficult!
That’s one I know, but only because my husband works there an awful lot. I can imagine if you don’t have family that goes there regularly wouldn’t have a clue.
I'm one of those people. I thought Carlisle was in East Anglia 😅
@@jamiedean482😂
Yes you’re right, and I only know it because I've ridden across the border with Scotland.
I know it because I’ve driven past it a million times from Scotland to Blackpool lol
Counties in the US are different to the UK, they’re really just administrative, counties in the UK are a bit more like US states - some are former (or part of) independent kingdoms and so on, there’s so much more identity wrapped up in them
(Edit: just as Lynsey (sp?) says)
A UK county has a Lord Lieutenant who is a representative of the monarch, a US state has a Governor who was also originally a representative of the monarch. So our Counties are more akin to a state, whereas a UK county is further subdivided into administrate districts.
Don't Forget Boston, Lincolnshire. Often gets overlooked because it's a small town and a lot of people in UK don't even know it exists.
That was brilliant. I'm well impressed. I couldn't do those middle ones that were all together.
Much more difficult than it appears :)
For non Brits that was a bloody great score. I know people from here in the UK that wouldn't have scored that well.
Both of you really need to visit the UK, I'd love to see the videos of it, I'm sure many of us would.
Lyndsey and Steve, love your channel first off. I would love to see you's reacting to some of the comments that answer the questions you ask.
Keep doing what your doing.
An OAP (Senior) from the UK,
Greenwich, South London xx
P.S. the xxx's are just the way we say goodbye xxx😂
boston, washington, dunwich, gloucester, cambridge, essex, aylesbury, lincoln... the list of adopted place names goes on and on (particularly on the east coast).
Many of the early settlers came from the Essex/Suffolk borders so lots of Sudburys, Boxfords etc
Leeds, Halifax , Birmingham , as someone from Leeds i had to visit Leeds in Michigan ........ it was funny because of mccent they asked where i am from and i said Leeds they were confused but is aid the old Leeds (Leodis Roman name) i tried explaining the name and its roman origins but it went beyond them so i gave up :D
@@Jill-mh2wnthe mayflower was built in Essex. Just up the road from me😁
OMG You two I love you so much!!! I am sat here crying with laughter at you trying to work it out - getting it right first time but then moving last minute and clicking on the wrong one... I am shouting at the screen hahaa.
You are in so much trouble now for not knowing the Yorkshire Cities. I have notiiced that you havent really looked at Yorkshire in your vids compaired to everywhere else ....so that means you should do a whole series now just looking at Yorkshire! as a punishment. 🤣🤣😉
I love my geography, so i enjoyed guessing with you. I've been to some of the places ( and live in Bristol), but the ones close together were tough. X
You did better than 90% of Brits under the age of 40. Well done.
😂 was thinking the same thing. Especially as I got some of these wrong 😂
You guys did great with this quiz.
Have you looked into Australia's history? If not, that would likely make a great video, as Australia was a British penal colony.
I had that thought because you were wondering if Perth, Australia had British roots.
I think you guys did really well congratulations. 👍🏻
I love watching your show, you did so well and far better than I could have done answering questions about the USA.
You did really well 👏
I think you did really well! Even I wasn't sure of the near ones like Leeds/Sheffield/Nottingham!
Yes, Australia borrowed a lot of our names.
This was fun to watch
You did very well, hilarious video! Especially looking for Brighton
You did really well here guys. There was even a couple that I struggled with!
Got to say there are a lot of U.K. citizens who couldn’t do as well as you did. Mind you I don’t think it’s a very good quiz - a few of the locations look a bit iffy.
Love that you both thought that Inverness was Dundee, Inverness is my nearerst city! That's a good score! :)
If a US place name doesn’t have indigenous origins or is named after a person then it’s named after a European (or at least ‘old world’) place name - the vast majority being British
except for Dinosaur Colorado (and some other silly ones)!
@@djs98bluethere will always be the very small number of exceptions like Chloride and Truth or Consequences etc
You did a fantastic job. I've seen tons of videos of Americans who can't even name a country outside the US. Usually they say Europe, Africa and Asia
A lot of folks where sent to Australia to serve prison sentences, they built new towns and called them after their homes.
There are some old distance markers around here that are red, not white (nearest one is at Winterborne Tomas on the A31). They are apparently a day's walk for prisoners from Dorchester and other prisons for those going to Portsmouth to be transported - I believe it's about 14 miles. That is where they would spend the night. We have a handful of pubs near one, called Botany Bay, The World's End, which is cheerful. Look for "Red Post" on google maps and they were all over the south. A lot have been replaced, but Dorset still has some red ones.
After American independence.
Before that we sent them to America.
They were still trying to get rid of us in the 60th with a £10 one way ticket a lot of who went for a new life back then regretted it,
@@lesdonovan7911ten pound poms
Quite a few were from South Wales, apparently... 😺
I was looking puzzles of the American states today and thought maybe get next time I'm out, As watch alot of you learning about the UK.
Come home to see this upload.
I'll definatly get this puzzle and return the respect you showed here.
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This website does offer other quizzes about the rest of the world, as well. Just fyi for a free option :)
Bristolian here, you did well
You guys did remarkably well. Well done. Something I found when I had first moved to UK for learning the general idea of where everything was is by learning by counties. It might help as you explore further as you get to know the main interests, geographic features and cities and towns and distinctive history and cultural traditions of each county can be really helpful to help associate the names with the areas.
You guys did pretty well all things considered. Appreciate your channel. 👊
I’m British & honestly couldn’t tell you where the majority of cities are in Britain so you do really well
You did brilliantly. Well done! 🏆
72% is a really good go, that's 70% more than your average American would get and probably 50% more than your average Brit lol. Good Job!
That was so funny to watch. Well done 😂😂😂
I was pointing to help. 😂😂
Well done, you two, great teamwork.❤❤👵🏴🌹🌹
Well done.
Now you have to come over and visit them all.!!
Well done!! You did extremely well 😊
I got 3 wrong so I think you did very well. You could do with a pack of little yellow dot stickers to stick on the map where the packages come from.
I feel like I’ve seen you a couple times on other channels.
We have some pins for that purpose, we just haven't got around to it yet 😅
Very good try and you both did considerably well. You should do towns of England and the UK😊😊😊@@reactingtomyroots
@@reactingtomyrootsAlso I think you should do Devon and Cornwall.
@@reactingtomyrootsI'd love to see you do TV shows like Some Mothers Do Ave Em and Only Fools And Horses.
impressed as you got most of right, America is former British Conoley and lots of France was ruled by English kings
Love from Dundee! Keep up the good work guys! All the other Dundees worldwide are named after our little city in Scotland ❤
You did well! Apart from a couple of childhood holidays in Scotland, which would allow me to get most of those cities right, I've never been North of London, but I have family in Wales, and have lived in the SW for a long time now. But those 'in between' cities, I would have terrible trouble with! 🤣
Superb effort. I'm extremely knowledgeable of North American geography for reasons not worth explaining but know that most Brits wouldn't have a scooby between the Austins and Detroits.
You did very well. You'll probably remember most of them now.
Well done 😊
Very impressed Steve and Lindsey, I bet most of us here got some wrong too if they were honest..🇬🇧
Well done..👍🏻
You did really well, well done.
Actually I would have looked on the map on the wall behind you!!!!
You're brave, no way would I attempt to try identifying US cities on a map
Love your channel ❤❤
TBF the US is much, much larger, having said that, I would struggle to get most of the States correct.
Your good woman was on to something when she said Perth, Australia when referring to Perth, Scotland. A Scotsman found Perth, Aus, so named it after his own city of Perth, Sco.
My own city of Dundee is home to the Discovery (very famous ship) and also GTA.
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you guys did an excellent job, considering that most Americans couldn't find America on a reversed world map.
you should try a British slang quiz.
Brit down in Melbourne, Australia here. There are a fair number of British places names here that have been reused, but mostly they’re either suburbs in major cities (such as Brighton in Melbourne) or country towns (such as Horsham in western Victoria). But Perth is the only capital city named for a British city. All the rest were named after various people, either important British establishment figures or British colonial VIPs in Australia. Perth does still have a personal connection though as it was the home city of the British Secretary of State for the Colonies at the time Perth was founded.
There is a town called Melbourne in Derbyshire, which of course is the original one, but the Melbourne in Australia is named for William Lamb, the Viscount Melbourne and British Prime Minister of the day. Before that it was briefly called Batmania after the explorer John Batman. Yeah, seriously, that was the guy’s name and there’s still a Batman Avenue in Melbourne. Whether Melbourne will remain Melbourne forever I’m not sure as there’s a bit of a movement to use aboriginal names more, and you sometimes see Naarm, the name in the Woiwurrung language of the Kulin people, used alongside Melbourne.
Hi guys, you did very well. I know where the different states are in the US and some of the capitals but I wasn’t aware that Americans knew much about the UK.
Speaking as an English man who lives near London, I can honestly say I would struggle on a few of them in the upper middle - you know roughly where they are but you might forget one is further North than another one etc. You did so well
Fair play, you both did very well. 👍
Well done !!
I think you did well. I am from Scotland, and have learned more about English geography, thanks.❤❤🎉🎉🎉
You didn't do too bad tbf mate. Fun facts: Cambridge is the size of a town, but due to the university, it has city status. Just to the northeast of Cambridge is the City of Ely, which is a small town, but it has a cathedral, so it's a city 🤪 Next you should try a dialect quiz! Which county is that accent from etc. Would be good fun. Some people in the southwest of England sound quite...foreign 😂
You did really well. I would have had trouble with the central ones and a couple in Scotland.
Well done, really, that’s way better than I thought you get. I know if you asked me the main city in every state in the US - I don’t think I could manage 72%.
You did really good, I live in England and I think I might have got the same score as you or a little less but I did fail on Scotland's towns & cities. I didn't even know we had flags of our counties and had to look ours up.
It's not bad at all! You did a lovely job really!
I thought that was pretty good going!
I think you did incredibly well. I bet there's a fair few Brits who would get a similar score!
You did okay with that - by and large - better than I'd have done placing many American cities I've heard of but don't know their location! I was shouting at the screen when you were struggling to place Bristol! I live fairly near - and you should remember that the huge 'split' in the land mass at the bottom of Wales is called the Bristol Channel - and there are two suspension-bridges crossing near there into Wales.
That was actually pretty impressive! Shame they didn’t include my home city of Southend-on-Sea, would’ve liked to have seen you guess that!
I think you did really well!
Well done, that wasn't bad at all, considering that you maybe hadn't even heard of all of them!
72%is really good. I doubt a lot of people who are from the UK would get that score. Well done guys.
I'm sulking because my city isn't here, but it's keeping tradition as Peterborough has a long history of being ignored. We aren't even anywhere. We've moved counties. We are too far north to be south and too far far south to be north. We are technically east, but at the western border and not actually really east, yet not east as we are in the wrong place, don't talk funny and don't call wasps 'jaspers'. Our ice hockey team is called the Phantoms, which is appropriate.
Yes, I noticed the absence of Peterborough as well, and no Norwich either.
I think that goes for anything outside of London or its environs. Up the POSH!!
@@rocketrabble6737 hmm....the only cities mentioned in the whole SW were Plymouth and Bristol scraped in.
They missed out Exeter, Truro, Wells, Salisbury, Bath , Gloucester .....other than London and Birmingham it is the Northern cities that always get mentioned because they were the industrial hub....... but the South west and the South East have fed the country for centuries.. and get forgotton.
There is a Peterborough in Canada...
You forgot to mention a very nice prison! 🥴
You need to get a map of Yorkshire, it’s the biggest county in England.
good score! well done.
I THINK YOU had a very good try ,take care and all the best. 😊😊👍👍💖
I live in Sheffield, and I would fail at that as well. You did better than I could have done.
You did really well, actually exceptionally well but I’m mortified that you didn’t know where Brighton was as it’s so near me!!! 😂😂🤣
As a brit who would fail miserably locating all 50 states, let alone the cities within them you guy did really well!
Give yourself a pat on the back as I'm from Wales and I think you done good 😂 ❤
If you look at the map you will see a witch on a pigs back
There's Cardiff in Australia as well as the US. It's usually where people came from here but new York was new Amsterdam at one time.
You both did really well. I'm English and would have struggled with the ones close together, like Hull, York and Sheffield,
Nice! You did very well. Now you need to do some reactions to the cities you got wrong in the quiz.
I did this and got 96% in 1:36. I did the "US state capitals" from the same web site and got 18% in12:46. Ouch!! I hadn't even heard of some of the places.
Edit: I'm English
Well done both.. Good score 👍. Incidentally, there is a town in Johnson County Indiana called Edinburgh. Founded around 1820. But it doesn't have a castle 😂😭
That's pretty cool! We live very close to Ireland as well 😄
I live in London.
Just did this on the slightly easier version myself - 100% correct in 20 seconds. I've been to Portsmouth and Brighton, and driven past Bristol before but never been to any of the other places.
Speaking as a proud Yorkshireman, originally from York, whilst I’m a tad miffed at you errors around my home county, I think you’ve done extremely well. Probably better than I’d do with the USA.
Please pop in for a pint the next time you’re over here.
Best wishes.
Good job !
Here I am sitting in Nottinghamshire screaming at you it's there. 😂😂😂
I live in Canterbury so pleased you got it right!
A lot of settlements in the “new” worlds were named after the places from which the settlers originated. They are often clustered too so that you may find a number of settlements having the names of places relatively close together in UK. If you look at Rhode Island most of the Cities and Towns are named after UK places and at least two are relatively close in both places (Coventry and Warwick are only a few miles apart in England).
Interestingly,there is a City in New South Wales, Australia that was renamed ‘Parkes’ after Australian Premier Sir Henry Parkes who was born in Coventry England (the two cities became twinned) and in Coventry England there is a road named “Sir Henry Parkes” in honour of the cities son after his significance in Australia.
BTW did you know there are more ‘Moscows’ in USA (about 9 or 10) than Russia!
There are quite a few Paris as well.
Having an idle moment or two, I thought I'd look on Wiki to see how many US cities bear the same name as a British town or city. I was expecting quite a few, but there were literally 100s!! I was going to point out a few but there were too many to get my head around lol!