| Question | Answer | % Correct |
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| When was she born? | 24 May 1819 | 100%
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| What house was she born into? | Hanover | 100%
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| Where was she born? | Kensington Palace, London | 100%
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| When did her predecessor, William IV, die? | 20 June 1837 | 67%
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| When did her coronation take place? | 28 June 1838 | 67%
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| How many languages did she learn how to speak, including ones she learnt later in life? | 6 (English, German, French, Italian, Latin and Urdu) | 67%
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| How many assassination attempts did Victoria experience in total? | 8 | 67%
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| How many children did Victoria have in total? | 9 | 67%
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| Who was her first son, born on 9 November 1841? | Albert Edward (Edward VII) | 67%
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| What palace did Victoria become the first sovereign to take up residence of? | Buckingham Palace | 67%
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| What war was fought against the Russians in 1853-1856, with the alliance of Ottoman Empire, the Second French Empire, the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland, and the Kingdom of Sardinia-Piedmont? | Crimean War | 67%
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| Who was her paternal grandfather? | George III | 67%
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| What was the crop of the Great famine in 1845 that killed millions of Irish people, this resulted in 1847 Victoria to donat more than any other donor to help? | potato | 67%
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| Who was her husband? | Prince Albert of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha | 67%
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| How many people became prime ministers during Victoria's reign, serving a total of 21 terms? | 10 | 33%
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| When did Victoria's husband die? | 14 December 1861 | 33%
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| When did the queen propose to her future husband? | 15 October 1839 | 33%
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| When did Victoria's mother die? | 16 March 1861 | 33%
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| When did Victoria die? | 22 January 1901 | 33%
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| When did her father die? | 23 January 1820 | 33%
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| What was her first name, which she dropped when becoming queen? | Alexandrina | 33%
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| What Prime Minister pushed the Royal Titles Act 1876 through Parliament, which gave Victoria the title "Empress of India" in 1877, some consider Victoria's favourite PM? | Benjamin Disraeli | 33%
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| Following the death of her husband, what colour did she wear for the rest of her life? | black | 33%
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| In 1853, what new anaesthetic was given to Victoria for her second to last pregnancy and also used it again for her last in 1857? | chloroform | 33%
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| What British company was dissolved after the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the territory then formally became apart of the British Empire? | East India Company (EIC) | 33%
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| Who was her father? | Edward, Duke of Kent | 33%
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| Who was the king of above, who became Victoria's heir until she had children? | Ernest Augustus, Duke of Cumberland | 33%
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| Who did Victoria's eldest daughter marry, who reigned Germany for 99 days until his death? | Frederick William of Prussia (Frederick III) | 33%
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| In 1843 and 1845, Victoria was the first English monarch to visit a French monarch since who, on the Field of the Cloth of Gold in 1520? | Henry VIII | 33%
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| Who was Victoria's first prime-minister, who she probably saw as a father figure? | Henry William Lamb, Viscount Melbourne | 33%
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| Who succeeded her? | her eldest son, Edward | 33%
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| Who wanted to become Victoria's private secretary, during her teenage year, but once she became queen banned him for her presence? | John Conroy | 33%
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| What kingdom did Victoria not inherit because women were excluded from its succession, Britain and this kingdom shared a monarch since 1714 before this? | Kingdom of Hanover | 33%
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| Who was one of her mothers lady-in-waiting, who Victoria accused of being pregnant out-of-wedlock by the man who tried to be Victoria's private secretary, but after her death turned out to be a tumour on her liver? | Lady Flora Hastings | 33%
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| What king did Victoria consider her "best and kindest adviser", who was also her uncle? | Leopold I of Belgium | 33%
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| What French monarch did Victoria visit in the meetings above, who was deposed in 1848 and exiled to England? | Louis Philippe I | 33%
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| Who was her first daughter, born on 21 November 1840? | Victoria | 33%
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| Who was her mother? | Victoria of Saxe-Coburg-Saalfeld | 33%
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| Who was her grand-child who became king of Germany after her son died in 1888? | Wilhelm II | 33%
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| When Napoleon III invited Victoria and her husband to Paris in April 1855, what year did the last English Monarch, Henry VI, be in Paris? | 1431 | 0%
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| Who taught Victoria Urdu after being promoted to "Munshi"? | Abdul Karim | 0%
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| What was the name of the crisis, in 1939, where the new prime minister wanted to replace the Royal chambers with Tory wives instead of the Whigs? | "bedchamber crisis" | 0%
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| In August 1871, while seriously ill with an abscess on her arm, what antiseptic did Joseph Lister create and treat Victoria with> | carbolic acid | 0%
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| Where was the Royal couple married in? | Chapel Royal of St James' Palace, London | 0%
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| Who was the first man to attempt to assassinate Victoria, in 1840? | Edward Oxford | 0%
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| Who was Victoria's first great-grandchild born on 12 May 1879? | Feodora of Saxe-Meiningen | 0%
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| What Act of Parliament allowed Victoria's mother to regent in case her Uncle died before she was of age, in 1830? | Regency Act | 0%
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| How old was she when she wrote 'The Adventures of Alice Laselles', which was eventually published in 2015? | ten years old | 0%
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| What Prime-minister succeeded above and Victoria considered his government "the worst I have ever had"? | William Gladstone | 0%
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