Royals & Presidents
This amendment sets the two-term limit on US presidencies, ratified in 1951.
What is the 22nd Amendment?
This is the number of voting members in the US House of Representatives.
What is 435?
This American term for a two-lane road divider is called a "central reservation" in the UK.
What is a median?
This is the most populous city in the United States.
What is New York City?
This American condiment was originally derived from a fermented fish sauce with roots in Southeast Asia.
What is ketchup?
This is the specific line of succession law that determines who becomes monarch, based on descent rather than election.
What is hereditary succession (primogeniture)?
This is the number of members in the UK's House of Commons.
What is 650?
This British term for a flashlight comes from the brand name of an early battery company.
What is a "torch"?
This is the most populous city in the United Kingdom.
What is London?
This British sauce, dark and tangy, was created accidentally in the 1830s and famously flavors a Bloody Mary.
What is Worcestershire sauce?
This is the age Queen Elizabeth II was when she ascended to the throne in 1952.
What is 25?
This constitutional mechanism allows the Senate to block legislation unless 60 senators vote to end debate.
What is the filibuster?
This American term for gasoline is called "petrol" in the UK, short for this longer word.
What is petroleum?
This river runs through London and gives its name to a famous parliamentary clock tower nickname.
What is the Thames?
This American breakfast dish, made of cornmeal mush that's sliced and fried, is a Southern staple often confused with its Italian cousin polenta.
What is grits?
This US president was never elected to either the presidency or vice presidency.
Who is Gerald Ford?
This 1911 and 1949 pair of acts stripped the House of Lords of its power to veto most legislation, leaving only delay power.
What are the Parliament Acts?
This British term for the ground floor of a building means Americans and Brits number floors differently — what's the US equivalent of the UK's "first floor"?
What is the second floor?
This is the collective name for England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland together.
What is the United Kingdom?
This British savory pastry, filled with minced meat and vegetables, is a portable lunch staple sold at bakeries and train stations.
What is a Cornish pasty?
This 2013 law changed British succession rules so that a firstborn daughter could inherit the throne ahead of a younger son.
What is the Succession to the Crown Act?
This is the term for a UK government losing a vote on a major bill, traditionally expected to trigger resignation or an election.
What is a vote of no confidence (or a confidence vote)?
This British slang term for someone from an aristocratic or privileged background, often prep-school educated.
What is "posh" (or a "toff")?
This is the US state that shares a land border with only one other state
What is Maine?
This American cut of barbecue, smoked low and slow and associated with Texas and Kansas City traditions.
What is brisket?