The British citizenship
test taken by 150,000 people every year has the intellectual rigour of a
"bad pub quiz", a report suggests.
Thom Brooks of Durham University criticised the inclusion of
"trivial" facts such as the age of Big Ben and the date on which the
country's first curry house was established.
Most people in the UK would struggle with such questions, he added.
But the government said it had "stripped out mundane information".
The Life In The UK test must be passed to qualify for indefinite leave to remain in the country.
But Dr Brooks, a US immigrant who sat and passed the test in
Newcastle upon Tyne in 2009, becoming a British citizen in 2011, said it
was "unfit for purpose".
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