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British History A-Z #2 - Statistics
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This quiz has been taken 11,803 times
9,088 since last reset
- The average score is 19 of 26
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct | |
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| O | Britain's oldest university | Oxford | 95%
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| E | Scientific principle described in "On the Origin of Species" | Evolution | 93%
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| B | Mop headed Liverpudlian rockers who were bigger than Jesus according to one of them | The Beatles | 92%
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| F | "We shall _____ on the beaches", said Churchill | Fight | 89%
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| Z | South African tribe who lost a war against the British in 1879, despite some early success | Zulu | 89%
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| D | Where the British Expeditionary Force evacuated France in 1940 | Dunkirk | 87%
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| T | Modernising if controversial Prime Minister of the 1980s, not popular amongst Argentinians... | Margaret Thatcher | 87%
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| S | Culinary phenomenon born when an earl decided he didn't want to leave his gaming table to eat, choosing meat between slices of bread instead | Sandwich | 87%
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| U | Flag whose current design dates to 1801 | {Union} Flag | 87%
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| K | Lord who created a temperature scale which starts at absolute zero | Lord Kelvin | 86%
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| V | The Empress of India, she married her German first cousin | Victoria | 85%
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| N | He lost his arm at Tenerife and his life at Trafalgar | Horatio Nelson | 83%
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| Q | Religious sect who were persecuted in England and fled to Pennsylvania | Quakers | 82%
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| X | Televised contest launched by Simon Cowell in 2004 | The X Factor | 82%
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| W | Fighter who led the Scots to victory against the English at the battle of Stirling Bridge | William Wallace | 75%
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| A | Battle where the English defeated the French in 1415. A modern legend says this is the origin of the two fingered salute. | Battle of Agincourt | 68%
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| H | "My kingdom for a _____", said Richard III (at least according to Shakespeare) | Horse | 66%
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| L | Suicidal cavalry bunch extolled by Tennyson: "Theirs not to reason why, theirs but to do and die" | {Light} Brigade | 64%
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| J | The largest naval battle of WWI, and the last one anywhere fought primarily with battleships | Battle of Jutland | 49%
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| C | Great Dane who was King of England from 1016–1035 | Cnut the Great | 49%
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| M | Maverick field marshal of the North African campaign in WWII | Bernard Montgomery | 47%
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| P | Powerful advisory board of the monarch in Medieval times | {Privy} Council | 47%
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| R | Slang for the supporters of Parliament during the English Civil War | Roundheads | 47%
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| Y | Official name of the Beefeaters, the costumed guards of the Tower of London | {Yeomen} Warders | 42%
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| I | Notable engineer, bridge builder and all-around polymath of the Industrial Revolution | {Isambard} Kingdom Brunel | 36%
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| G | Grandiose Liberal Party politician who was Prime Minister on four occasions between 1868–1894 | William Gladstone | 36%
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