Geography of the British Empire - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
British territory that borders Spain	Gibraltar	94%
Lake often considered to be the source of the Nile River	Lake Victoria	87%
Central American country where English is the official language	Belize	82%
The only European country that is a former member of the Commonwealth	Ireland	82%
African country once known as Southern Rhodesia	Zimbabwe	81%
City that is the western terminus of the Canadian Pacific Railway	Vancouver	79%
The first British colony in Australia, now an Australian state	New South Wales	76%
Island where Greek-speaking guerillas revolted against British rule in the 1950s	Cyprus	75%
The most populous British city in North America in 1700 AD	Boston	69%
Island in the Persian Gulf which became independent from the UK in 1971	Bahrain	68%
In 1942, Rommel invaded this former British colony, reaching as far as El Alamein	Egypt	67%
The most widely-practiced religion in the British Empire in 1900	Hinduism	67%
Island that had 300,000 slaves (85% of the population) before emancipation in the 1830s	Jamaica	65%
The two most important British cities captured by Japan during WWII	Hong Kong	64%
The two most important British cities captured by Japan during WWII	Singapore	61%
The primary export of the Colony of Virginia	Tobacco	58%
British island that can be found in the Atlantic about 750 miles east of North Carolina	Bermuda	57%
City, founded in 1840, named for the British commander at the Battle of Waterloo	Wellington	47%
Private company that once owned 1/3rd of Canada's land	Hudson's Bay Company	35%
Founder of the doomed Roanoke Colony, England's first attempt to create an American colony	Sir Walter Raleigh	28%

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