Fun 2023 UK Quiz: How British Are You?

In a statement posted to its Instagram account on Jan. 24, 2022, McDonald’s UK said it had removed its breakfast bagels and breakfast wraps from the menu permanently. The move leaves the British McDonald’s menu with the McMuffin and the Breakfast roll as its main breakfast items, alongside pancakes and hashbrowns.

When someone goes “full tonto” in English slang, he’s acting like a lunatic. The term, a former name of various subgroups of the Apache people, literally means “foolish” in Spanish. UK Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said on Feb. 23, 2022, that Russian leader Vladimir Putin had gone “full tonto” over Ukraine by invading it. Wallace told British soldiers that the British army “kicked the backside of Tsar Nicholas I in 1853 in Crimea and can always do it again.” Russian troops launched their attack on Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022.

Cyberflashing is a term that describes someone using the internet to send an image of their naked body to someone they do not know and who has not asked them to do this (commonly known as sending a di** pic) – And it is now illegal in the UK. On March 13, 2022, UK ministers have confirmed that the British Online Safety Bill will include laws banning cyberflashing. The change means that anyone who sends a photo or film of a person’s genitals may face up to two years in prison – if their purpose was their sexual gratification or to cause the recipient humiliation, alarm, or distress.

The Great-granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth, Princess Charlotte, is currently third in line to the British throne, behind her grandfather, King Charles, father, William, and elder brother George. Prince William and his wife Kate published three photos of Charlotte, the Royal couple’s daughter, taken by Kate in Norfolk, eastern England, one day before Charlotte turned 7, on May 2, 2022.

A red warning for extreme heat, spanning from London in the south to Manchester and Leeds in the north, was issued in the UK for the first time on July 18 and 19, 2022. On July 19 afternoon, the UK Met Office weather agency registered a temporary reading of over 40 degrees Celsius (104 Fahrenheit) in 29 places in the UK. Previously, the highest temperature reached in the UK was 38.7°C (101.7°F) at Cambridge Botanic Garden in July 2019.

British Prime Minister Boris Johnson signed off his final “Prime Minister’s Questions” parliamentary appearance on July 20, 2022, with the line “hasta la vista, baby,” made famous by Arnold Schwarzenegger in the 1991 movie “Terminator 2: Judgment Day.” The line roughly translates as “see you later.”

Screenshot: Tony Blair, The Guardian

Serving as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1997 to 2007, Tony Blair is the British PM with the longest term in the 21st century – even if we’re only counting his seven-plus post-millennial years in office. David Cameron’s term, which started in 2010, was 6 years, 63 days long.

Did Boris Johnson’s term as PM end?

With eight ministers resigning on July 7, 2022, after months of scandals, Boris Johnson spoke to the chair of the Conservative backbench 1922 Committee and agreed to resign.

Britain’s Prime Minister, Liz Truss, began her tenure by speaking with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy on Sept. 6, 2022, in her first call with a foreign leader. 45 Days later, on Oct. 20, 2022, she quit and broke the record for the shortest tenure of any British prime minister. The Conservative Party will elect Britain’s fifth prime minister in six years by Oct. 28.

After Liz Truss’s record short tenure as the UK’s Prime Minister in 2022, Rishi Sunak became the kingdom’s first non-white prime minister (and its first Hindu prime minister) on Oct. 25, 2022. Sunak is probably also the first non-alcoholic prime minister in the UK since David Lloyd George. Benjamin Disraeli, a Tory MP of Jewish heritage, was the first minority ethnic British prime minister.

The Brits’ first-ever genderless award show was on Feb. 8, 2022 – with more women nominated than at any time in the past decade and female artists or female-fronted bands winning two-thirds of the awards. Adele won three out of the four main prizes in the ceremony, including the first-ever gender-neutral Artist of the Year award.

Hirst‘s first NFT collection, called The Currency, contained 10,000 NFTs, equivalent to 10,000 original artworks. Buyers were given the option to choose the physical artwork or the NFT representing it. If they chose the NFT, Hirst promised to destroy their physical pieces. Hirst burned the pieces between Oct. 12-30 at London’s Newport Street Gallery.

Dua Lipa was born to Kosovan-Albanian parents in London in 1995. Her parents left Kosovo three years before she was born, as tensions that eventually led to the 1998-9 war began to arise.

Is Dua Lipa an Albanian citizen?

The Albanian president granted Lipa Albanian citizenship on Nov. 28, 2022, for promoting the country through her music and fame. She ended her world tour in Albania’s capital, Tirana, on the same day with a show commemorating 110 years of independence from the Ottoman Empire.

The 2021 census of England and Wales, published Nov. 29, 2022, revealed that over the past 20 years, the proportion of people reporting “no religion” in the UK has soared from 14.8% to 37.2% – 22.2 million – the second most common response after Christianity. England and Wales are now minority Christian countries, with 46.2% of the population describing themselves as Christian, according to the census. The data also shows that Leicester and Birmingham have become the first UK cities to have “minority majorities.”

St Edward’s Crown has been used in England to crown monarchs since the coronation of King Charles II in 1661. Normally part of the Tower of London’s Crown Jewels display, the crown was modified for King Charles III’s coronation at Westminster Abbey on May 6, 2023.