British History by Letter - E - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
King who abdicated in 1936 over his proposal to marry an American divorcee	Edward VIII	95%
Queen who led England into her 'Golden Age', saw the defeat of the Spanish Armada and the end of the Tudor dynasty	Elizabeth I	95%
Legendary sword of King Arthur, known as Caledfwlch in Welsh	Excalibur	83%
Secret code used by the German navy during WWII that was cracked by Alan Turing and his team of codebreakers at Bletchley Park	Enigma	81%
	Essex	71%
Title given to Queen Victoria upon the founding of the British Raj	Empress of India	68%
Co-author of the Communist Manifesto alongside Karl Marx, first published in 1848	Friedrich Engels	62%
Powerful trading company that governed large parts of the Indian sub-continent with a private military larger than most countries had at the time	East India Company	58%
Collection of marble sculptures originally part of the Parthenon in Athens, currently housed in the British Museum	Elgin Marbles	41%
Central bank of the United Kingdom founded in 1694	Bank of England	37%
Two Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England	East Anglia	36%
Precursor to the European Union, joined by the United Kingdom alongside Ireland and Denmark in 1973	European Economic Community	32%
Roman name for the northern city of York	Eboracum	26%
Subsequent executions of the leaders of this armed insurrection widely contributed to increased support for Irish Independence	Easter Rising	22%
Agreement signed between the UK and Scottish governments, paving the way for a future referendum on independence	Edinburgh Agreement	17%
First major battle of the English civil war	Edgehill	14%
Royal Navy ship captained by James Cook on his voyage to Australia and New Zealand	HMS Endeavour	10%
First Anglo-Saxon king to turn his back on paganism and convert to Christianity	Æthelberht	8%

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