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British History by Letter - B - Statistics
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This quiz has been taken 2,014 times
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- The average score is 13 of 23
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| City in southwest England given the Latin name Aquae Sulis | Bath | 92%
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| Scottish-born, American inventor of the telephone | Alexander Graham Bell | 86%
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| Wife of Henry VIII and mother to future Queen, Elizabeth I | Anne Boleyn | 83%
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| Surname of literary sisters whose novels include Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights | Brontë | 83%
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| Queen of the Iceni tribe that led an uprising against the Roman Empire | Boudica | 81%
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| Public service broadcaster established in 1927 | British Broadcasting Corporation | 81%
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| Name given to the German bombing campaign during WWII | The Blitz | 81%
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| Old English poem regarding a warrior and his fight to defeat a monster terrorising Denmark | Beowulf | 79%
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| In 1348, this disease commonly known as the Black Death arrives in London | Bubonic Plague | 75%
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| War in which Dutch settlers were defeated in South Africa | Second Boer War | 65%
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| Embroidered cloth depicting the Norman Conquest of England | Bayeaux Tapestry | 62%
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| Name given to the former Roman province | Britannia | 57%
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| English coastal resort, the site of an assassination attempt by the IRA on then Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher | Brighton | 52%
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| Archbishop of Canterbury murdered by the knights of Henry II | Thomas Becket | 52%
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| Penned 'Auld Lang Syne', often sung on New Year's Eve | Robert Burns | 50%
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| Prominent figure of the industrial revolution, designed both the Clifton Suspension Bridge and the SS Great Britain | Isambard Kingdom Brunel | 41%
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| Battle in which Robert the Bruce defeated the English in the First War of Scottish Independence | Battle of Bannockburn | 40%
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| Richard III becomes the last English King to be killed in combat during this battle | Battle of Bosworth Field | 33%
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| Royal Navy ship, a veteran of the Normandy Landings and Korean War currently moored on the banks of the River Thames | HMS Belfast | 31%
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| Town in Northumberland central to a number of historic border wars, changes hands for the last time | Berwick-upon-Tweed | 30%
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| Welsh politician and Minister for Health that pioneered the foundation of the National Health Service | Aneurin Bevan | 25%
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| First female speaker of the House of Commons, elected 1992 | Betty Boothroyd | 22%
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| Site of the final defeat of James II, the last Catholic monarch of England, Scotland and Ireland | Battle of the Boyne | 18%
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