| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| Which British monarch was first given the title ‘Empress of India’? | Victoria | 82%
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| Which PM is best known for leading Britain in the French Revolutionary Wars and against Napoleon? | William Pitt the Younger | 72%
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| The Acts of Union 1800 joined which country with GB and created the UK? | Ireland | 66%
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| Who was the first Hanoverian king of Great Britain? | George I | 65%
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| What name is given to the two wars Britain fought with China? | Opium Wars | 63%
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| Which king of England was shot in the eye? | Harold Godwinson | 60%
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| England was named after a Germanic tribe called the___ | Angles | 53%
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| Which company came to rule large areas of India with its own private army, and administrative functions? | East India Company | 51%
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| England's first queen regnant | Mary I | 48%
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| Who were the first people in Britain? | Anglo-Saxons | 46%
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| The name Britain derives from the Roman word _____ | Britannia | 39%
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| Which English engineer is famous for designing the Great Western Railway? | Isambard Kingdom Brunel | 31%
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| Last Norman King of England | Stephen | 24%
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| Who was the first Prime Minister of Great Britain? | Robert Walpole | 20%
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| During which war were the French driven out of India and British North America? | Seven Years War | 19%
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| Which war with Spain came about partly because of the severed ear of a ship captain? | War of Jenkins' Ear | 10%
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| Who is the only Prime Minister of Britain or the UK to be assassinated? | Spencer Perceval | 7%
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| First King of England | Egbert | 5%
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| Greek Explorer who Discovered Britain | Pytheas | 0%
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