John Murray And Sceptre Autumn Highlights 2009 with a 'How Very English Are You? test

6. How Very English Are You?

7. What should you drink with whisky? a. Whatever you damn well please b. Soda c. Ice

15. Cricket is: a. The finest sport known to man b. An excuse to read the paper and eat strawberries c. Inexplicably dull

24. You see a man gesticulating enthusiastically as he talks. Is he ... a. Definitely suspect b. Foreign chap, possibly? c. Simply an enthusiastic chap!

37. Which of these ingredients would be most unwelcome in a jug of Pimm's: a. Cucumber b. Mint c. Kiwi Fruit

45. What is our National Character? a. If you have to ask, dear boy, you'll never know... b. Undemonstrative but sound c. Impossible to fathom!

48. Answers

49. If most of your answers are … a. You are the very soul of Englishness. You are almost TOO English. Are you Lord Kitchener? b. You are either a pleasantly tolerant English Gent (or Lady), or a visitor from overseas who is doing JOLLY WELL at BLENDING IN. Keep up the good work. c. You have probably just arrived and it's all rather confusing. Please seek immediate help becoming Very English.