Is this an appropriate question for the British Citizenship questionnaire? ?
In multiple choice questionnaires such as this there’s usually a number of key questions the examiners look out for – buried away quite innocently in a lot of fairly easy ones. Someone could score well by pure lucky guessing or having a vague but less than certain idea of the right answer. Santa Claus (not St Nicholas) is embedded in our culture and a child of 5 or 6 might well plump for the North Pole (not that he/she would be required to undergo the test). But – I guess – the answer to this particular could be relevant in the case of someone misrepresenting themselves, perhaps with false Universty degree diplomas (easily purchased) claiming to love all things British, a regular listener to BBC’s world programmes, readind British newspapers etc. A genuine candidate of such a claimed calibre would ‘score’ if they answered North Pole – but then added “mythological” or “as told to children” or “doesn’t exist”. The important point is that one such Q taken in isolation would be of no accou
