We get swamped by US tv, so we know quite a lot. Presidents in my lifetime: Eisenhower, Kennedy (I remember his funeral when I was 5), Johnson, Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan (I remember a song on one of our comedy shows when he was elected - "I believe that pigs and DC10's can fly, but I can't believe Ronald Reagan is President!"), Bush, Clinton, GW Bush, Obama.
Cities? New York, Washington DC, Boston, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Seattle, Houston, Miami, Portland (Oregon and Maine), Chicago.
Sports teams? Well I might not remember which sport they play, but NY Giants, NY Jets, LA Lakers, LA Galaxy, Pittsburgh Penguins, Seattle Sounders, Chicago Bears, New England Patriots, Dallas Cowboys,... I'm stretching here... San Francisco 49ers phew, just about made it!
1. Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson.
2. Seattle, San Diego, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Spokane, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Miami, Baltimore, Detroit, could name plenty more if needed.
3. Green Bay Packers, Miami Dolphins, San Francisco 49ers, Boston Red Sox, New York Giants, Washington Redskins, Pittsburgh Steelers, New Jersey Devils, Los Angeles Raiders (?), Baltimore Orioles(??) - not sure of the last two as I'm not a sports fan but I think I have heard of them.
Most of the general knowledge I know about the USA has been picked up from TV, movies, music and novels. I don't follow sports so I don't know that much about what teams play what games, although I gather rounders is a very popular game over there :)
(i) Richard Milhouse Nixon, Woodrow Wilson, John F Kennedy
(ii) Detroit, Chicago, Boston, Dallas, Atlanta, Des Moines, San Diego, New Orleans, Philadelphia, New York.
(iii) Boston Red Sox, Dallas Cowboys, New York Yankees, - You got me. I don't follow sport much anywhere, and I would not get 10. Also I would not be clear what sport some of my guesses were for.
I know quite a bit of the constitution, and a few state nicknames. I have been to the US a couple of times, East and West coasts, and Nevada. Also Puerto Rico and a few US islands.
Most people know what they see on TV, and film. Film studios and TV channels are based in California and New York, so we have a weird mix of images combining the Sopranos and Twin Peaks (!), together with Miami Vice and Sesame Street (showing my age here).
George Washington Jimmy Carter Woodrow Wilson 1st 39th and 28th presidents
New York, Denver, St Louis, Nashville, New Orleans, Laredo, Oklahoma City, Tulsa, Salt Lake City, Atlanta
(I have visited all of these)
Green Bay Packers, Denver bronco's, Boston Red Sox , New York Giants ,Chicago Bulls, Pittsburgh Penguins, Seattle Seahawks, New England Patriots, Anaheim Ducks Pittsburgh Steelers
(All of the top of my head
I have family in Utah, Kentucky, Colorado, Texas, and Alabama and have been to the US about 14 times
I can name the population on the top of my head, it's about 320,000,000. That's all i know...i'm kinda bad at school. But I do know that Obama is the president and I can name some sports teams like the Patriots, the Cavs, the Thunder, the Lakers, etc
Reagan, Clinton, Nixon, Obama, etc. That part is very easy.
Ten cities - I'll try. New York, Washington, Detroit, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Francisco, Miami, Tampa, New Orleans, Dallas, Yes!
Sports teams? Nah. The USA tends to be very insular about it's choice of sports, I wouldn't try.
I come from a town here in England called Hastings, where in 1820 we flew the American flag and declared part of the town to be "The America Ground".
https://encrypted.google.com/#q=the+amer...
I often wonder why Americans have been brainwashed into believing that their country is a Christian one, when the Founding Fathers were not even Christians and there is no mention of God anywhere in the Constitution. This link will help.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6j7ep-yh...
The the other things a lot of Americans believe is that we the British were entirely in support of King George III when in fact nothing could be further from the truth. In reality over 50% of the British people supported the Revolution - what happened at Hastings in 1820 is one small piece of evidence of that singular fact. There must be other places in UK where such support became obvious.
King George III (1738-1820) - Pt 1/3
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFGTtcED...
The Age of the Enlightenment. We need to relight the flame. Do it before it's all too late and the despots and oligarchs take over.
Got an election here in UK on May 7th - gonna be a whole lot of new fun with no political party in over-all power - what we call a 'hung parliament' - yes, hang them all.
We know quite a lot.
We do not have a choice,we have the option of watching a lot of American TV programmes,we can get your news channels and sport
We have no say,but for some reason,our media shove the presidential elections down our throats,it may be important to you,but as we have no influence on the issue,I have no idea why we need to keep being told about it.
YOU need to KNOW that BRITISH people do not just come from England but from the REST of the UK too, maybe thus showing YOU know something about ALL of us??? (Wales,Scotland & Northern Ireland are the other parts...)..I think many know a lot more than you give us credit for.....I have family in the US, and know they live in a money grabbing society, where it is a case of fu*k the little man; there are too many drugs & guns and happy clappy fundamentalist Christians , VILE ISLAMOPHOBIA, poor infrastructure and people in fear of loosing their health care as those I love in the US have experienced..Gone from Middle Class to possibly loosing their home in a year..So much for the AMERICAN DREAM.....It does not exist, your system has failed....Americans need to travel more rather than invade places.....ONLY then will they see how things can be done.Do not need to go far..Canada can show you how many things can be done.....
Millions of Brits have been to Florida and New York - but US history outside the civil war doesn't inspire much interest and probably due to movies depicting the
US as a settler's adventure.
