Two Brits Take US History Test (we sucked)

Here we go. The Christmas hat Christmas pudding hat is once again dawned. >> Excellent. Well, I'm ready to be quizzed.

[music] >> How confident are you, Pete, in your knowledge of US history? >> Uh, not at all. >> Me neither, man. Me neither.

And I It's embarrassing to say as I've lived here for 10 years now. I mean, I can I can I can speak to you about Cahokia and uh uh the ancestral Pueblo, but I suspect they may not be on there. >> I don't know. We'll see.

>> Obviously, I haven't been able to take this quiz. The only thing I've done is the first question just to check that it worked. So, I have no idea what we're going to be asked. Uh I think this is US as a nation state history.

And it's kind of funny because America is such like um a huge cultural imprint around the world. I do feel like I know considering we didn't have any education in US history. >> I feel like I know more than average about US history than like >> I don't know the history of Hungary for example. I would really struggle with a with a history of Hungary test.

So So it's tricky. I wonder how well I'm going to do. >> You say we have no education in US history. In my A-level history, I did the Great Depression and um the recovery from the Great Depression, like America's >> 1930s, I suppose.

Um for some reason. So maybe that's the influence of America >> on on Britain in the 20 when was that? The the 2000s. >> Yeah.

>> 2010s. If it's FDR and the uh the New Deal, then I I might be okay. >> All right. We're going to hold you to that, man.

once in [laughter] 1920. >> We'll see. We'll see. First question.

Yeah. >> A very very specific period maybe. >> Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah. I should I should quickly say merry Christmas or any other winter festival of your choice to the viewers. Merry Christmas. Me myself and Pete here of course.

Pete the creator of the fabulous history time and also Pete Kelly YouTube where they live streams with various historians and YouTubers. Um, we are both men of Worcester and I thought it would just be funny for us to do ...