British History by Month: March - Statistics

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Date	Year	Clue	Answer	% Correct
7th	1876	This Scottish inventor patents the telephone, despite refusing to have one in his own study	Alexander Graham Bell	82%
5th	1133	This King, who would become the first Plantagenet King of England, was born	Henry II	59%
15th	1906	This car and aero-engine manufacturer was founded by two business partners on this date	Rolls-Royce Limited	59%
14th	2018	This world-renowned physicist died aged 76	Stephen Hawking	59%
1st	1978	This British comedian's coffin was stolen from a cemetery in Switzerland	Charlie Chaplin	47%
17th	1337	The Duchy of Cornwall was founded, becoming the first Duchy in England, when this heir to the throne was made Duke	Edward the Black Prince	47%
2nd	1791	John Wesley died aged 87, being the founder of this religious movement based upon his life and teachings, which now has 80 million followers worldwide	Methodism	47%
4th	1824	This rescue organisation was founded by William Hillary; inspired by seeing a shipwreck off the Isle of Man	Royal National Lifeboat Institution	47%
6th	1957	This country became the first British colony in Africa to gain independence	Ghana	35%
18th	1745	This man, who had become Britain first Prime Minister, died aged 68	Robert Walpole	35%
21st	1556	This man, the first Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury, is burnt at the stake for heresy under Mary I, becoming a martyr in the process	Thomas Cranmer	35%
8th	1963	The first of this model of Ford car was produced in Liverpool	Ford Anglia	24%
20th	1972	The PIRA carries out the first of this kind of attack in Belfast, killing seven	Car Bombing	18%
16th	1872	The first final of this prestigious sports competition took place at the Kennington Oval	The FA Cup	18%
11th	1858	This significant colonial uprising came to an end after 10 months of severe unrest	The Indian Mutiny	18%
26th	1923	BBC Radio first started broadcasting these regularly in their broadcasts	Weather Forecasts	18%
19th	1969	British troops landed on this Caribbean island, upon it declaring itself a republic	Anguilla	12%
25th	2002	This iconic sports commentator, who marked England's World Cup Final Victory with the phrase: 'Some people are on the pitch...they think it's all over....it is now!, died aged 81	Kenneth Wolstenholme	12%
27th	1966	The World Cup trophy was found by this dog, after being stolen a week earlier	Pickles	12%
3rd	1857	The second iteration of this colonial war began	Second Opium War	12%
29th	1461	28,000 people were killed during this battle, fought in blizzard conditions, during the War of the Roses	The Battle of Towton	12%
12th	1710	Composer Thomas Arne was born, eventually becoming best known for this piece of music	Rule Britannia	6%
24th	1944	76 British prisoners of war began their escape from this German POW camp, with the events later being dramatised into a film	Stalag Luft III	6%
30th	1994	The West Indies dismiss England for this run total, their lowest total since 1887	46 Runs	0%
31st	1924	This airline, Britain's first national airline, was founded in Croyden	Imperial Airways	0%
9th	2015	3,000 skeletons began to be excavated from beneath this London Underground station, some of whom were victims of the Black Death	Liverpool Street Station	0%
22nd	1926	These, now pivotal, parts of road safety were introduced in London, causing multiple accidents on their first day	Road Markings	0%
13th	1927	This weapon ceased to be an official weapon of the British Army on this date	The Lance	0%
10th	1629	Realising he could rule without Parliament in peacetime, Charles I dissolved it on this day, beginning this period	The Personal Rule	0%
28th	1760	This man, notable for being a leading campaigner against slavery in the British Empire and helping to pass the Slave Trade Act of 1807, was born	Thomas Clarkson	0%
23rd	1645	This pirate, who gained a notorious reputation and was executed for piracy in 1701, despite only taking part in a handful of skirmishes, was born	William Kidd	0%

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