| 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%
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| 5th | 1133 | This King, who would become the first Plantagenet King of England, was born | Henry II | 59%
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| 15th | 1906 | This car and aero-engine manufacturer was founded by two business partners on this date | Rolls-Royce Limited | 59%
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| 14th | 2018 | This world-renowned physicist died aged 76 | Stephen Hawking | 59%
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| 1st | 1978 | This British comedian's coffin was stolen from a cemetery in Switzerland | Charlie Chaplin | 47%
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| 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%
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| 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%
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| 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%
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| 6th | 1957 | This country became the first British colony in Africa to gain independence | Ghana | 35%
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| 18th | 1745 | This man, who had become Britain first Prime Minister, died aged 68 | Robert Walpole | 35%
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| 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%
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| 8th | 1963 | The first of this model of Ford car was produced in Liverpool | Ford Anglia | 24%
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| 20th | 1972 | The PIRA carries out the first of this kind of attack in Belfast, killing seven | Car Bombing | 18%
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| 16th | 1872 | The first final of this prestigious sports competition took place at the Kennington Oval | The FA Cup | 18%
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| 11th | 1858 | This significant colonial uprising came to an end after 10 months of severe unrest | The Indian Mutiny | 18%
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| 26th | 1923 | BBC Radio first started broadcasting these regularly in their broadcasts | Weather Forecasts | 18%
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| 19th | 1969 | British troops landed on this Caribbean island, upon it declaring itself a republic | Anguilla | 12%
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| 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%
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| 27th | 1966 | The World Cup trophy was found by this dog, after being stolen a week earlier | Pickles | 12%
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| 3rd | 1857 | The second iteration of this colonial war began | Second Opium War | 12%
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| 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%
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| 12th | 1710 | Composer Thomas Arne was born, eventually becoming best known for this piece of music | Rule Britannia | 6%
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| 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%
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| 30th | 1994 | The West Indies dismiss England for this run total, their lowest total since 1887 | 46 Runs | 0%
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| 31st | 1924 | This airline, Britain's first national airline, was founded in Croyden | Imperial Airways | 0%
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| 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%
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| 22nd | 1926 | These, now pivotal, parts of road safety were introduced in London, causing multiple accidents on their first day | Road Markings | 0%
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| 13th | 1927 | This weapon ceased to be an official weapon of the British Army on this date | The Lance | 0%
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| 10th | 1629 | Realising he could rule without Parliament in peacetime, Charles I dissolved it on this day, beginning this period | The Personal Rule | 0%
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| 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%
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| 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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