| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Descended from the sister of this famous advisor to Henry VIII | Thomas Cromwell | 50%
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| Year of Birth | 1599 | 44%
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| Year he became Lord Protector | 1653 | 38%
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| Town of Birth | Huntingdon | 19%
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| His yearly salary as Lord Protector in Pounds | 100,000 | 13%
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| Number of weeks he deliberated whether to take the crown | 6 | 13%
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| Earl he was second in command to for the above | Earl of Manchester | 13%
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| Welcomed back this group after they were explled by Edward I | Jews | 13%
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| Constituted this Parliament after dissolving the Rump by snatching ceremonial mace | Barbones Parliament | 6%
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| Religious conviction | Calvinist / Puritain | 6%
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| Decisive victory against Scots at this battle after proclamation of Charles II as king | Dunbar | 6%
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| Solo in command, he won this decisive victory at this battle against Scottish Engagers | Preston | 6%
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| This reportedly raged in Europe on the day of his death | Storm | 6%
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| Number of Parliamentary members identified by New Model army as enemies in 1648 and expelled | 11 | 0%
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| The leader of the Parliamentary 'Peace' party during the civil war | Denzil Holles | 0%
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| Fortified Irish port towns he besieged and massacred | Drogheda, Wexford | 0%
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| Name of schoolteacher who influenced his beliefs | Dr. Thomas Beard | 0%
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| Army association he was first part of | Eastern Association | 0%
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| Full name of wife | Elizabeth Bourchier | 0%
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| Name of mother | Elizabeth Steward | 0%
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| Term for the bigshots in the New Model Army who mistrusted the Levellers | Grandees | 0%
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| The above entertained James I with this favourite bird of his | Hawk | 0%
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| His Uncle Sir Oliver Cromwell owned this famous estate | Hichingbrooke House | 0%
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| The two constituencies for where hes was MP | Huntingdon, Cambridge | 0%
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| Name of the first Constitution of the Commonwealth of England drafted by Lambert | Instrument of Government | 0%
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| Two other people who's severed heads were placed on poles outside Westminster Hall | Ireton and Bradshaw | 0%
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| Changed his signature from Oliver Cromwell to this when he became Protector | Oliver P | 0%
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| What poet John Milton called him | "our chief of men" | 0%
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| Name of father | Robert | 0%
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| What ordinance was Cromwell and one other MP exempt to, concerning not simulataneously being a member of Parliament and army leader | Self-denying ordinance | 0%
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| Where he was executed posthumously | Tyburn | 0%
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