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Embarrassing Chapters in British History - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 32,202 times
- The average score is 13 of 20
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| Question | Answer | % Correct |
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| This king marries six times and has two of his wives beheaded | King Henry VIII | 95%
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| This person dies after her car was chased by paparazzi | Princess Diana | 95%
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| During the Boer War, the British invent this type of "camp", later used by the Nazis | {Concentration} Camp | 93%
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| In the 1840s, one million people die from famine on this island. Meanwhile, food from that island is exported to England. | Ireland | 88%
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| Britain forces China to accept imports of this addictive drug | Opium | 88%
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| In Victorian times, small boys are forced to work at this dangerous profession | Chimney {Sweep} | 86%
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| This holiday is banned under the Puritanical rule of Oliver Cromwell | Christmas | 81%
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| At the behest of the United States, this Prime Minister leads Britain into the Iraq War | Tony Blair | 78%
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| Between 1803 and 1905 the aboriginal population of this Australian island is completely killed off due to disease and murder | Tasmania | 73%
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| This Prime Minister appeases the Nazis, blessing their annexation of parts of Czechoslovakia | Neville Chamberlain | 62%
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| A famine, partially caused by British policies, kills 2 million people in this country in 1943 | India | 57%
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| In 1290, these people are expelled from England and their assets are seized | Jews | 56%
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| This king rules Britain for 60 years, but is insane for many of them | King George III | 54%
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| England loses to this tiny nation in the 2016 UEFA European Championship | Iceland | 51%
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| 80,000 British soldiers are captured when this city falls to the Japanese in WWII | Singapore | 47%
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| 40,000 troops are slaughtered trying to capture this tiny Turkish peninsula during WWI | Gallipoli | 46%
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| British troops torture people during the Mau Mau uprising in this country | Kenya | 44%
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| This English king spends only six months of his reign in England, preferring his estates in southwest France | Richard the Lionheart | 34%
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| Nearly 100 people die in this city's St. Scholastica Day Riot after students complain about the quality of their beverages | Oxford | 27%
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| This royal office, responsible for helping the King use the toilet, is considered one of the most desirable positions in the Tudor court | Groom of the {Stool} | 21%
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