British History by Month: September - Statistics

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Date	Year	Clue	Answer	% Correct
7th	1533	This English monarch was born; her reign would usher in a golden age in English history	Elizabeth I	92%
2nd	1666	The Great Fire of London, in which 13,000 buildings were destroyed, began in a bakery on this street	Pudding Lane	69%
18th	1709	Dr Samuel Johnson, who would go on to publish the first English version of this type of book in 1755, was born	Dictionary	62%
19th	1839	This manufacturer was born, creating the village of Bourneville in order to house the working of his factory	George Cadbury	62%
15th	1940	The course of this pivotal battle changed after the British were able to inflict heavy losses on their German counterparts	The Battle of Britain	62%
13th	1958	This British singer made his UK television debut on 'Jack's Good Oh Boy'	Cliff Richard	54%
16th	1977	This musician, who pioneered the glam rock movement of the early 1970s died in a car crash, two weeks before his 30th birthday	Marc Bolan	46%
11th	1988	Roger Hargreaves, the author of this series of children's books, died	Mr Men	46%
4th	1609	Explorer Henry Hudson became the first known European to sight this American island on this day	Manhattan	38%
22nd	1692	The last people in Britain's North American colonies were hanged for this 'crime'	Witchcraft	38%
3rd	1916	Captain Leefe Robinson became the first pilot to shoot down this type of aircraft, winning the Victoria Cross in the process	Zeppelin	38%
12th	1885	This Scottish football team beat Bon Accord of Aberdeen 36-0, the highest margin of victory ever recorded in professional football	Arbroath	31%
5th	2014	This British television programme, broadcast by Channel 4, reached it's 6,000th episode since being first broadcast in 1982	Countdown	31%
21st	1949	This country's national football team became the first to beat England on home soil, winning 2-0 at Goodison Park	Ireland	23%
29th	1938	Britain, France, Germany and Italy signed the Munich Pact, transferring this territory to Germany - the country who it belonged to wasn't invited to negotiations	The Sudetenland	23%
27th	1825	The World's first railway opened in Northern England, connecting collieries with these nearby towns (name one)	Darlington \| Stockton	15%
10th	1897	George Smith, became the first man in Britain to be convicted of this offence, being fined £1	Drink Driving	15%
9th	1879	This Englishman, who founded a brewery that now shares his name, and produces the best-selling bitter in the World as of 2012, died	John Smith	15%
14th	1752	The 3rd of September became this date with the implementation of this system, causing riots	The Gregorian Calendar	15%
1st	1886	This tunnel, connecting England and Wales by rail, was opened for goods traffic	The Severn Tunnel	15%
24th	1564	This man, believed to be the first Englishman to reach Japan, was born in Gillingham	William Adams	15%
25th	1818	The first human instance of this medical procedure took place at Guy's Hospital in London	Blood Transfusion	8%
28th	1928	This substance was first banned in Britain, following the passing of the Dangerous Drugs Act	Cannabis	8%
26th	1748	This Vice Admiral, best known for his work alongside Horatio Nelson, was born in Newcastle	Cuthbert Collingwood	8%
23rd	1387	One of the most extravagant feasts ever was recorded, held in honour of Richard II; it included 14 oxen, 120 sheep, 1,200 pigeons and 11,000 of these	Eggs	8%
30th	2024	This power station, Britain's last coal-fired, closed after 57 years of operation	Ratcliffe on Soar	8%
20th	1854	This battle, the first of the Crimean War, took place, with six Victoria crosses being awarded for acts of bravery during it	The Battle of Alma	8%
6th	1939	The first British fighter pilot to die in the Second World War, Montague Hulton-Harrop, was killed in this 'battle' during a friendly-fire incident, which exposed the shortcomings of Britain's RADAR system	The Battle of Barking Creek	8%
8th	1914	This British soldier became the first of 306 to be executed for desertion during the First World War	Thomas Highgate	8%
17th	1877	This English photographic pioneer, who made the earliest known surviving photographic negative, with a photograph of a window of his own home, died	William Henry Fox Talbot	8%

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