British Empire A-Z #1 - Statistics

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	Hint	Answer	% Correct
H	City handed over to China in 1997	Hong Kong	89%
R	Became Zambia and Zimbabwe on independence	Rhodesia	82%
N	Hero of Trafalgar	Horatio Nelson	79%
P	Where the Mayflower both departed from and landed	Plymouth	76%
T	Boston tax protest	Tea Party	76%
F	Islas Malvinas	Falkland Islands	74%
Q	Separated from New South Wales in 1859	Queensland	74%
Z	Island near Tanganyika	Zanzibar	71%
L	Known for his role in the Arab Revolt	T. E. Lawrence	66%
J	The first permanent English settlement in America	Jamestown	63%
G	Became Ghana on independence	Gold Coast	55%
M	1950s Kenyan rebellion	Mau Mau uprising	53%
Y	A siege here led to the loss of 13 American colonies	Yorktown	53%
B	Unpleasant prison cell	{Black} {Hole} of Calcutta	47%
I	Greek islands that were a protectorate in 19th century	Ionian Islands	45%
X	Century-long series of conflicts in South Africa	Xhosa Wars	42%
C	Islands handed over to Mauritius in 2025	Chagos Islands	39%
E	1916 Irish rebellion	Easter Rising	39%
S	City founded by Stamford Raffles	Singapore	39%
K	'Poet laureate of the empire'	Rudyard Kipling	32%
A	Site of an 'Emergency' in the 1960s	Aden	26%
D	Failed Scottish attempt at colonisation	Darien scheme	24%
U	Colony that became the modern province of Ontario	Upper Canada	21%
O	Battle in Sudan in which Kitchener 'avenged' Gordon	Battle of {Omdurman}	16%
V	Former name of Tasmania	Van Diemen's Land	16%
W	1840 British-Māori treaty	Treaty of {Waitangi}	11%

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