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British History A-Z #1 - Statistics
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This quiz has been taken 46,241 times
46,212 since last reset
- The average score is 16 of 26
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct | |
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| A | Harold Godwinson was hit in the eye by an ____ at the Battle of Hastings | Arrow | 90%
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| B | According to a WWII era song, Hitler only had one ____ | Ball | 85%
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| H | Long series of conflicts with the French, even longer than its name suggests | Hundred Years War | 85%
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| F | The most well known member of the gunpowder plotters. Oddly, we still burn an effigy of him every 5th of November. | Guy Fawkes | 82%
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| I | One of Queen Victoria's titles: Empress of _____ | India | 81%
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| N | The world's most famous alchemist; did some theorizing on gravity in his spare time | Isaac Newton | 81%
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| E | English trading company which seized control of vast areas of Asia | {East} {India} Company | 74%
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| Y | Mortal enemies of the House of Lancaster | House of York | 72%
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| O | Invaded England during the Glorious Revolution: William of _____ | Orange | 71%
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| Z | Country which was formerly the British colony of Southern Rhodesia | Zimbabwe | 69%
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| K | Country where the Mau Mau uprising occurred | Kenya | 66%
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| S | Beautiful water fowl; through some quirk of history the king apparently owns them | Swan | 66%
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| T | Brilliant mathematician, code breaker, and computing pioneer | Alan Turing | 62%
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| W | This general did such a good job fighting Napoleon they made him a duke | Duke of Wellington | 61%
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| G | Site of a disastrous campaign against the Ottomans in WWI | Gallipoli | 59%
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| L | The remains of Richard III were found in a car park in this city in the Midlands | Leicester | 56%
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| R | Explorer and tobacco cheerleader, favourite of Elizabeth I | Sir Walter Raleigh | 52%
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| M | Proprietors of a flying circus. "He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy". | Monty Python | 51%
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| V | HMS _______, admiral Nelson's flagship at Trafalgar | Victory | 51%
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| U | An 11cm high vessel which contains the ashes of English cricket | Urn | 48%
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| D | Prime Minister from 1874–1880 who thoroughly charmed Queen Victoria | Benjamin Disraeli | 47%
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| P | Unconquerable bunch north of Hadrian's Wall | Picts | 45%
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| J | Lewis Carroll poem "Twas brillig, and the slithy toves. Did gyre and gimble in the wabe." | Jabberwocky | 40%
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| X | Coleridge poem: "In ______ did Kubla Khan, A stately pleasure-dome decree" | Xanadu | 36%
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| Q | British Marquess after whom the rules of boxing were named | Queensberry | 32%
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| C | He was proclaimed Roman Emperor by the legions of York in 306 AD | Constantine | 24%
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