British History by Letter - G - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
London theatre associated with William Shakespeare, destroyed by a fire during a performance of Henry VIII	Globe Theatre	87%
Indian nationalist who successfully led the campaign for India's independence	Mahatma Gandhi	85%
Protestant and German born monarch who inherited the throne as countless others holding stronger claims were Catholics	George I	82%
Territory ceded to Great Britain under the Treaty of Utrecht following the War of Spanish Succession	Gibraltar	81%
Failed assassination attempt against King James I, led by Robert Catesby who sought to blow up the Houses of Parliament	Gunpowder Plot	77%
Noblewoman who according to legend rode naked through the streets of Coventry	Lady Godiva	75%
Country that became the first in Africa to gain independence from Britain	Ghana	74%
Time standard adopted at the International Meridian Conference placing the dividing line between east and west at the Royal Observatory, London	Greenwich Mean Time	71%
Island separated from mainland Europe 8,000 years ago	Great Britain	69%
Turkish peninsular that saw significant losses by the Entente powers during WWI, felt heavily by Australian and New Zealand forces	Gallipoli	67%
Frequently referred to as the 'second city of the empire' during much of the 20th century	Glasgow	57%
Agreement signed in 1998 that was a major development in the Northern Ireland peace process	Good Friday Agreement	57%
De facto Queen of England for a mere nine days	Lady Jane Grey	57%
Ship on which Sir Francis Drake circumnavigated the globe	Golden Hind	52%
Only British Prime Minister to have served four terms	William Gladstone	47%
Largely 'bloodless' revolution that deposed James II and saw his daughter, Mary II rule jointly with her husband, William of Orange	Glorious Revolution	39%
Brutal massacre in the Scottish Highlands that saw the associates of Clan MacDonald killed by government forces for their alleged support of the Jacobite's	Glencoe Massacre	22%
Widely considered to be the first and last King of Wales	Gruffydd ap Llywelyn	2%

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