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History of England - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 4,743 times
- The average score is 15 of 22
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| Question | Answer | % Correct |
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| What prehistoric monument in Wiltshire was constructed somewhere between 3000 BC to 2000 BC? | Stonehenge | 91%
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| What event almost completely destroyed London in 1666? | Great Fire of London | 89%
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| What Lord Protector made England a republic? | Oliver Cromwell | 89%
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| What war did England fight with France between 1337–1453? | Hundred Years' War | 88%
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| Who was the first Norman king of England? | William the Conqueror | 88%
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| What nickname was given to to the Richard I of England? | Lionheart | 86%
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| Which royal house won the War of the Roses? | House of {York} | 84%
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| Name either the father or the mother of Elizabeth I. | Henry VIII | Anne Boleyn | 83%
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| For what disease did Edward Jenner invent a vaccine? | Smallpox | 79%
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| Which Scottish king became king of England and Ireland in 1603 - thus forming a personal union of the three kingdoms? | James VI | 78%
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| What English city was called "Aquae Sulis" by the Romans? | Bath | 76%
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| What Celtic queen of the Iceni tribe led an uprising against the Romans? | Boudica | 76%
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| What novel was written by Jane Austen in 1813? | Pride and Prejudice | 76%
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| Who was the first English captain to circumnavigate the Earth? | Francis Drake | 67%
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| The oldest surviving copy of what epic Old English poem was written in 1010? | Beowulf | 63%
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| By what nickname was William Shakespeare sometimes known as? | The Bard | 60%
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| What city's team won the 2016 Premier League despite 5000-1 odds? | Leicester | 57%
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| What was invented by computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee in 1989? | World Wide Web | 53%
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| On what sport did the Queensberry rules become generally accepted? | Boxing | 45%
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| During what 1688 "revolution" was England invaded by the Dutch? | {Glorious} Revolution | 40%
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| What English colony became known as the "Lost Colony" - due to the unexplained disappearance of its population in 1590? | Roanoke | 36%
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| What was the name of the civil war that took place in England between 1135–1153? (hint: word for a stateless country) | The Anarchy | 21%
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