| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| Patron saint who was taken as a slave from Ireland where he would later return as a man of god | St Patrick | 94%
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| Jane Austen novel following the life and character of Elizabeth Bennet | Pride and Prejudice | 77%
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| England signs an alliance with this nation, believed to be the oldest still in practice | Portugal | 69%
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| A watershed moment in the history of Ireland, the failure of this crop and the response by the British government led to a collapse of the population that has still hasn't recovered | Potato | 63%
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| Group of Celtic speaking people who lived in Northeast Scotland and found conflict with both the Romans and Vikings | Picts | 61%
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| London street believed to have been where the Great Fire of London began | Pudding Lane | 58%
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| Husband of Mary I whose marriage brought into question the customs of marriage and inheritance held at the time | Philip of Spain | 54%
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| Royal house brought to an end by the War of the Roses | Plantagenet | 53%
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| Politician who founded the Metropolitan Police Force | Robert Peel | 50%
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| Debut novel of Charles Dickens published in issue | The Pickwick Papers | 48%
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| Diarist whose first hand accounts gave great insight into a number of key events of the mid 17th century | Samuel Pepys | 47%
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| One of the founding members of Britain's suffragette movement | Emmeline Pankhurst | 41%
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| Uprising led by Wat Tyler against increased taxation and the common practice of serfdom during the aftermath of the Black Death | Peasant's Revolt | 40%
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| World's first adhesive postage stamp issued during the reign of Queen Victoria | Penny Black | 40%
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| English settlers who sailed from Plymouth bound for North America | Pilgrim Fathers | 27%
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| Event in which 18 people where killed when the household cavalry charged on a Manchester crowd protesting reform to parliamentary representation | Peterloo Massacre | 18%
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| Greek merchant explorer that produced the first written record of the inhabitants of Great Britain | Pytheas | 4%
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| Roman General who defeated Boudica's rebellion | Gaius Suetonius Paulinus | 2%
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