| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| Scottish Queen forced to abdicate in favour of her infant son, later executed by Elizabeth I of England | Mary Queen of Scots | 97%
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| 'Great Charter' signed by King John | Magna Carta | 96%
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| King of Scotland, later immortalised in a Shakespeare play | Macbeth | 95%
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| City in Northern England, the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution | Manchester | 95%
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| Ship on which the Pilgrim Fathers sailed from Plymouth to North America | Mayflower | 87%
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| Anglo-Saxon kingdom of England | Mercia | 55%
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| Police force founded by Victorian politician, Robert Peel | Metropolitan Police | 53%
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| Last Viceroy of India who oversaw the partition of India and Pakistan, later assassinated by the IRA | Lord Mountbatten | 51%
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| Conflict between British forces and indigenous rebels in the British Kenya Colony, many of whom would be later tortured | Mau Mau Uprising | 49%
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| Empress and heir to the English throne who was deemed as a woman, 'unfit to rule' | Matilda | 39%
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| Founding treaty of the European Union, signed by the United Kingdom in 1992 | Maastricht Treaty | 31%
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| Scot who helped Bonnie Prince Charlie evade capture after his defeat at the Battle of Culloden | Flora Macdonald | 19%
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| Largest battle of the English Civil War | Battle of Marston Moor | 14%
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