British Empire A-Z #1 - Statistics

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	Hint	Answer	% Correct
H	City handed over to China in 1997	Hong Kong	90%
R	Became Zambia and Zimbabwe on independence	Rhodesia	83%
N	Hero of Trafalgar	Horatio Nelson	80%
P	Where the Mayflower both departed from and landed	Plymouth	78%
T	Boston tax protest	Tea Party	78%
F	Islas Malvinas	Falkland Islands	75%
Q	Separated from New South Wales in 1859	Queensland	75%
Z	Island near Tanganyika	Zanzibar	73%
L	Known for his role in the Arab Revolt	T. E. Lawrence	68%
J	The first permanent English settlement in America	Jamestown	65%
G	Became Ghana on independence	Gold Coast	58%
M	1950s Kenyan rebellion	Mau Mau uprising	55%
Y	A siege here led to the loss of 13 American colonies	Yorktown	53%
B	Unpleasant prison cell	{Black} {Hole} of Calcutta	48%
I	Greek islands that were a protectorate in 19th century	Ionian Islands	48%
E	1916 Irish rebellion	Easter Rising	43%
S	City founded by Stamford Raffles	Singapore	43%
X	Century-long series of conflicts in South Africa	Xhosa Wars	43%
C	Islands handed over to Mauritius in 2025	Chagos Islands	40%
K	'Poet laureate of the empire'	Rudyard Kipling	35%
A	Site of an 'Emergency' in the 1960s	Aden	28%
D	Failed Scottish attempt at colonisation	Darien scheme	23%
U	Colony that became the modern province of Ontario	Upper Canada	23%
O	Battle in Sudan in which Kitchener 'avenged' Gordon	Battle of {Omdurman}	15%
V	Former name of Tasmania	Van Diemen's Land	15%
W	1840 British-Māori treaty	Treaty of {Waitangi}	10%

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