A quiz to know what 'nationality' you are:
British:
[ ] You drink a lot of tea.
[ ] You know what a brolly is.
[ ] You wanted Ben to win X Factor.
[x] You use the word "bugger" or the phrase "bloody hell (bloody fucking hell really)
[ ] Fish and Chips are yummy.
[x] You can eat a Full English Breakfast.
[ ] You dislike emos almost as much as you dislike chavs.
[x] It's football...not soccer.
[x] You believe the correct way to spell Color/'Center'; is Colour/'Centre.' (That happens when I'm writing all the time)
Total: 4
Australian:
[ ] You wear flip flops all year.
[ ] You call flip flops "thongs", not flip flops.
[ ] You love a backyard Barbie.
[ ] You know a Barbie is not a doll.
[x] You love the beach.
[x] Sometimes you swear without realizing.
[ ] You're a sports fanatic.
[ ] You are tanned.
[ ] You're a bit of a bogan.
[x] You have an Australian something. [I have a friend who's lived in Australia, if that counts. I say it counts for 50%]
Total: 2.5
Italian:
[ ] The Sopranos is a great show.
[ ] Your last name ends in a vowel.
[ ] Your grandmother makes her own sauces.
[x] You know how a real meatball tastes.
[x] You know Italian songs.
[ ] You have dark hair and dark eye color.
[x] You speak some Italian. (hah! Io sento como se mi fosse passato sopra un camion!
[x] You are under 5'10". [I think I am... barely]
[ ] You know what an Italian horn is.
[x] Pizza/spaghetti is the best food in the world!
[x] You talk with your hands.
Total: 6
Spanish:
[ ] You say 'member instead of remember.
[x] You speak Spanish or some. (Ola! Como estas? Yo soy la secretaria. Lol)
[x] You like tacos.
[ ] YoU TyPe lIkE ThIs On Da CoMpUtEr. - ARGH. hate this! bahaha
[ ] You are dark skinned.
[x] You know what a Puta is.
[x] You talk fast occasionally. (occasionally? It's more like - when do I NOT talk fast)
[ ] You have had highlights or have dyed your hair.
[ ] You know what platanos are.
Total: 4
Russian:
[ ] You say villain as: Vee-lon.
[x] You get short tempered. (sometimes... say, once a month...)
[x] You know of somebody named Natasha.
[x] You get cold easily.
[ ] Rain is fun for you.
[ ] You get into contests all the time.
[x] You can easily make do with the cold weather.
Total: 4
Irish:
[ ] You think beer is the best.
[ ] You have a bad temper.
[ ] Your last name starts with a Mc, Murph, O', Fitz or ends with a ley, on, un, an, in, ry, ly, y or L.
[x] You have blue or green eyes. (green/grey, close enough)
[x] You like the colour green.
[ ] You have been to a St. Pattys day party.
[ ] You have a family member from Ireland.
[ ] You have red hair.
[ ] You have/had freckles.
[ ] Your family get together always include drinking and singing.
Total: 2
Asian:
[ ] You have slanty/small eyes.
[ ] You like rice a lot.
[ ] You are good at maths.
[ ] You have played the piano.
[ ] You have family from Asia.
[ ] You laugh sometimes covering your mouth.
[ ] Most people think you're Chinese.
[ ] You call hurricanes typhoons.
[ ] You go to Baulko.
Total: 0 (lol)
German:
[x] You like bread.
[x] You think German Chocolate is good.
[x] You speak some German.
[x] You know what Schnitzel is.
[x] You hate it when stupid people call you.
[x] You went to Pre-school.
[x] You're over 5'2.
Total: 7
Canadian:
[ ] You like/play/played hockey.
[ ] You love beer.
[x] You say eh.
[ ] You know what poutine is. (I THINK I do - but I think I'm wrong, so...)
[x] You speak some French.
[ ] You love Tim Horton's.
[ ] At one point you lived in a farm house.
[ ] You watch/watched Degrassi.
Total: 2
American:
[ ] You hate foreigners.
[ ] You hate non-Christians.
[X] You're lazy.
[ ] You have had an abortion.
[ ] But love the penalty.
[ ] You don't read.
[ ] You shop at Wal-Mart.
[x] You think this survey is rather biased.
Total: 2
Belgian:
[ ] you grow some small vegetables in the yard.
[x] you like French fries.
[x] you think Belgian chocolate rules. (definitely)
[ ] you know that the 'official best beer in the world' is Belgian.
[x] you speak both Dutch and French.
[x] you like Belgian waffles.
[x] you call a pub or bar a café.
[ ] you fully realize and acknowledge that your football team sucks.
[ ] you drive/own a French or German car.
[ ] you have a lot of comments on your government.
Total: 5
Dutch:
[x] you like the colour orange.
[ ] you are a football enthusiast.
[ ] you often go to 'coffee shops'.
[x] you know what is meant by 'coffee shops'.
[ ] you tend to overreact and show your emotions.
[ ] you have a cheerful nature.
[x] you like the sea.
[ ] you are good at building/handiwork/projects.
[ ] you tend to favour the megalomania.
Total: 3
So, I am mostly Italian, Belgian and German. Funny how I am not my own nationality (Dutch), lol.
Second test:
The BBC believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. How do your reading habits stack up?
Instructions:
Look at the list and put an 'x' after those you have read.
1 Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen (x)
2 The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien (tried to, but it was too hard to get through)
3 Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte (x)
4 Harry Potter series - JK Rowling (x)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper Lee ( )
6 The Bible - ( )
7 Withering Heights - Emily Bronte (x)
8 Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell ( )
9 His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman (x)
10 Great Expectations - Charles Dickens ()
11 Little Women - Louisa M Alcott ()
12 Tess of the DUrbervilles - Thomas Hardy (I have it! Just haven't read it yet...)
13 Catch 22 - Joseph Heller ()
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare ( )
15 Rebecca - Daphne Du Maurier ()
16 The Hobbit - JRR Tolkien ( )
17 Birdsong - Sebastian Faulk ()
18 Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger ( )
19 The Time Travellers Wife - Audrey Niffenegger ()
20 Middlemarch - George Eliot ()
21 Gone With The Wind - Margaret Mitchell (x)
22 The Great Gatsby - F Scott Fitzgerald (x)
23 Bleak House - Charles Dickens ( )
24 War and Peace - Leo Tolstoy ( )
25 The Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams ( )
26 Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh ( )
27 Crime and Punishment - Fyodor Dostoyevsky ( )
28 Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck ( )
29 Alice in Wonderland - Lewis Carroll ( )
30 The Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Grahame ( )
31 Anna Karenina - Leo Tolstoy ()
32 David Copperfield - Charles Dickens ()
33 Chronicles of Narnia - CS Lewis (x)
34 Emma - Jane Austen ( )
35 Persuasion - Jane Austen ()
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe - CS Lewis (x)
37 The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini - (Again, I want to)
38 Captain Corellis Mandolin - Louis De Bernieres ( )
39 Memoirs of a Geisha - Arthur Golden ()
40 Winnie the Pooh - AA Milne ( )
41 Animal Farm - George Orwell ( )
42 The Da Vinci Code - Dan Brown (x)
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude - Gabriel Garcia Marquez ( )
44 A Prayer for Owen Meany - John Irving ()
45 The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins ( )
46 Anne of Green Gables - LM Montgomery ()
47 Far From The Madding Crowd - Thomas Hardy ()
48 The Handmaids Tale - Margaret Atwood ()
49 Lord of the Flies - William Golding ()
50 Atonement - Ian McEwan ( )
51 Life of Pi - Yann Martel ( )
52 Dune - Frank Herbert ()
53 Cold Comfort Farm - Stella Gibbons ( )
54 Sense and Sensibility - Jane Austen (x)
55 A Suitable Boy - Vikram Seth ( )
56 The Shadow of the Wind - Carlos Ruiz Zafon ( )
57 A Tale Of Two Cities - Charles Dickens ( )
58 Brave New World - Aldous Huxley ( )
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time - Mark Haddon (x)
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera - Gabriel Garcia Marquez ( )
61 Of Mice and Men - John Steinbeck ( )
62 Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov ()
63 The Secret History - Donna Tartt ( )
64 The Lovely Bones - Alice Sebold ( )
65 Count of Monte Cristo - Alexandre Dumas ( )
66 On The Road - Jack Kerouac ( )
67 Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy ( )
68 Bridget Joness Diary - Helen Fielding (x)
69 Midnights Children - Salman Rushdie (He's Dutch!
70 Moby Dick - Herman Melville ()
71 Oliver Twist - Charles Dickens ( )
72 Dracula - Bram Stoker (x)
73 The Secret Garden - Frances Hodgson Burnett ( )
74 Notes From A Small Island - Bill Bryson ( )
75 Ulysses - James Joyce ()
76 The Inferno - Dante ( )
77 Swallows and Amazons - Arthur Ransome ( )
78 Germinal - Emile Zola ( )
79 Vanity Fair - William Makepeace Thackeray ()
80 Possession - AS Byatt ()
81 A Christmas Carol - Charles Dickens (x)
82 Cloud Atlas - David Mitchell ( )
83 The Color Purple - Alice Walker (x)
84 The Remains of the Day - Kazuo Ishiguro ( )
85 Madame Bovary - Gustave Flaubert ( )
86 A Fine Balance - Rohinton Mistry ( )
87 Charlottes Web - EB White ( )
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom ()
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes - Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (x)
90 The Faraway Tree Collection - Enid Blyton ( )
91 Heart of Darkness - Joseph Conrad ( )
92 The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint-Exupery ()
93 The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks ( )
94 Watership Down - Richard Adams (Seen the movie a looong time ago)
95 A Confederacy of Dunces - John Kennedy Toole ( )
96 A Town Like Alice - Nevil Shute ( )
97 The Three Musketeers - Alexandre Dumas ( )
98 Hamlet - William Shakespeare ( )
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory - Roald Dahl (x)
100 Les Miserables - Victor Hugo ( )
17 - not that bad for a 16-year old!









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