| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| The King Cromwell had beheaded: | Charles I | 86%
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| Number of children he had with his wife: | 9 | 69%
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| Title Cromwell took as leader of The Commonwealth: | Lord Protector | 63%
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| Ended an unpopular naval war against this Protestant country: | The Dutch Republic | 57%
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| Was part of this Protestant religious movement: | Puritanism | 54%
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| Succeeded by this son: | Richard | 49%
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| Descended from the sister of this influential minister of Henry VIII: | Thomas Cromwell | 49%
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| Contracted this mosquito-borne disease shortly before his death: | Malaria | 46%
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| Helped to form this army: | New Model Army | 46%
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| Had this Carribean island conquered: | Jamaica | 43%
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| Allowed this ethno-religious group to return to England: | The Jews | 40%
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| Died in this year: | 1658 | 34%
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| The Parliamentary Commander Cromwell fought under at the above battle: | Thomas Fairfax | 34%
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| Notorious for the massacre of a garrison in this Irish town: | Drogheda | 31%
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| Born in this year: | 1599 | 29%
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| Disagreed with this controversial Archbishop: | Archbishop Laud | 29%
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| Decisive battle of the Civil War where Royalist hopes were crushed, the Battle of: | Naseby | 29%
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| Put down a mutiny by this radical, democratic movement: | The Levellers | 29%
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| Cromwell's wife: | Elizabeth | 26%
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| Distinguished himself in the largest battle of the Civl War, the Battle of: | Marston Moor | 26%
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| Obtained possession of this port (to play a key role in WW2) from France in return for sending an expeditionary force to Spanish Flanders: | Dunkirk | 23%
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| His first (if brief) appearance in battle was at the Battle of: | Edgehill | 23%
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| Cromwell was born in this town: | Huntingdon | 23%
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| Cromwell was nicknamed "Old... | Ironsides | 23%
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| This ordinance threatened Cromwell's position as both an MP and military commander: | Self-Denying Ordinance | 14%
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| Was governor of this Isle: | Isle of Ely | 9%
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