Giant Great Britain 17th Century Quiz - Statistics

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Year	Hint	Answer	% Correct
1695	Ths financial institution is created by an Act of the Parliament.	{Bank} of Scotland	85%
1689	This ruler, and her husband William, become joint monarchs of Britain and Ireland.	Mary II	85%
1661	The body of this former Lord Protector is exhumed and posthumously 'executed'.	Oliver Cromwell	85%
1688	This series of events leads to the deposition of James II of England and Ireland.	{Glorious} Revolution	74%
1620	This ship departs from Plymouth to cross the Atlantic with a group of ''Pilgrims' on board.	Mayflower	74%
1666	The Great Fire of London starts in this small street in the historic city.	Pudding Lane	74%
1656	This future Astronomer Royal, and comet namesake, is born in London.	Edmond Halley	72%
1667	The first edition of this novel by John Milton is published and sells out in eighteen months.	{Paradise} Lost	72%
1660	This future author, who works include 'Robinson Crusoe', is born in London.	Daniel Defoe	69%
1679	Parliament passes this Act to examine the lawfulness of a prisoner's detention.	Habeas {Corpus}	69%
1662	The first known performance of this traditional puppet show take place.	Punch and Judy	69%
1616	This native american woman travels to London with her husband John Rolfe.	Pocahontas	67%
1650	The Religious Society of Friends acquires this nickname.	Quakers	67%
1657	This beverage is sold for the first time at a London tobacconist's shop.	Tea	67%
1624	This settlement in North America becomes a Crown Colony.	Virginia	67%
1673	This architect is knighted soon after being assigned to the redesign of St. Paul''s Cathedral.	Christopher Wren	64%
1603	This reigning Queen of England dies at Richmond Palace.	Elizabeth I	64%
1605	This plan to blow up the Houses of Parliament is foiled after an anonymous tip-off.	{Gunpowder} Plot	64%
1671	The King is given this cold dessert, the first record of it being served in England.	Ice cream	64%
1669	This London diarist records his last entry in the account of his daily life.	Samuel Pepys	64%
1639	Astronomers Jeremiah Horrocks and William Crabtree record the first known account of the transit of this planet.	Venus	64%
1637	An attempt to bring worship in Scotland in line with England by introducing this prayer book prompts riots and rebellion.	Book of {Common} Prayer	62%
1699	An Act of Parliament formally establishes a market at Billingsgate to sell this commodity. It goes on to become the largest such market in the world, and is still in existence.	Fish	62%
1670	King Charles II and this French king sign the anti-Dutch Secret Treaty of Dover.	Louis XIV	62%
1618	This statesman, soldier, writer and explorer is beheaded at the Palace of Westminster.	Walter Raleigh	62%
1621	A violent storm and great darkness, occurring at the very moment the Scottish Parliament is sitting to enforce episcopacy on the people, gives rise to this name.	{Black} Saturday	59%
1659	The earliest known English example of this method of payment is issued.	Cheque	59%
1654	The Treaty of Westminster ends this European conflict.	First Anglo-{Dutch} War	59%
1698	Darien Scheme investors from the Kingdom of Scotland, attempt to establish the colony of New Caledonia in what is now this modern day central American country.	Panama	59%
1604	The Treaty of London is signed, bringing an end to Britain's long conflict with this country.	Spain	59%
1690	Derbyshire born John Flamsteed makes the earliest known sighting of this planet which he mistakenly records as a star, cataloguing it as 34 Tauri.	Uranus	59%
1681	This influential religious thinker receives a royal charter to establish a colony in the Americas. A state will eventually be named after him.	William Penn	59%
1623	William Shakespeare's collection of 36 plays is printed in this publication, the first time they had been brought together in a single combined volume.	First {Folio}	56%
1655	Mathematician John Wallis introduces the standard symbol for this boundless quantity.	Infinity	56%
1686	Edmund Andros arrives in this city to become the British Governor of the newly-created Dominion of New England.	Boston	54%
1636	A college is founded in the English colony at Cambridge, Massachusetts, later to be renamed in recognition of this Puritan minister and principal benefactor.	John Harvard	54%
1680	The Green Ribbon Club organises a procession to burn an effigy of this religious figure.	Pope	54%
1675	The first Royal Yacht, HMY Mary, is wrecked and sinks near the coast of this Welsh island.	Anglesey	51%
1607	A massive wave sweeps along this major inlet of Britain, killing 2,000 people.	{Bristol} Channel	51%
1613	This means of settling disputes using armed combat is condemned by King James I.	Duel	51%
1665	This actress and mistress of King Charles II makes her first appearance on the London stage.	Nell Gwyn	51%
1610	This English explorer sets sail on the Discovery and becomes the first European to see this immense bay in North America which is now named after him.	Henry Hudson	49%
1632	This colony in North America is named after Henrietta Maria, the wife of Charles I.	Maryland	49%
1630	English settlers found the first European colony at what is now Paramaribo in this modern day South American country.	Suriname	49%
1602	This library at the University of Oxford in England is opened for the first time.	Bodleian	46%
1692	A brutal massacre of members of Clan MacDonald takes place in this Scottish valley.	Glen Coe	46%
1638	The verdict at the trial of John Hampden declares that this tax on maritime communities for naval defense is a legal means of raising money.	{Ship} Money	46%
1678	This book by John Bunyan is published for the first time.	The Pilgrim's Progress	46%
1696	'The Cascade' is completed at this large Derbyshire country residence.	Chatsworth House	44%
1682	Construction of this Royal Hospital for old soldiers is commissioned by Charles II.	Chelsea	44%
1608	According to tradition, this sport is first introduced to England and played at Blackheath.	Golf	44%
1628	King Charles I accepts the terms of this document which establishes the rights of citizens.	Petition of {Right}	44%
1641	This English court, established to enforce the law against socially and politically prominent people, is abolished by the Long Parliament.	{Star} Chamber	44%
1653	This book by Izaac Walton, celebrating the art of fishing, is published for the first time.	The Compleat {Angler}	44%
1634	Cornelius Vermuyden begins draining this low-lying area of England to reclaim farmland.	The Fens	44%
1646	This city in the south-west of England surrenders to Parliamentary forces.	Exeter	41%
1694	The Royal Hospital for Seamen is established at the site of this London palace.	Greenwich	41%
1676	England experiences its first recorded major epidemic of this infectious disease.	Influenza	41%
1606	The Susan Constant leads a fleet out from the River Thames on a journey to establish this colony in Virginia, the first permanent English settlement in the Americas.	Jamestown	41%
1642	King Charles raises the royal battle standard over the castle in this Midlands town, marking the beginning of the English Civil War.	Nottingham	41%
1697	Still in production, this astrological almanac is published for the first time.	Old {Moore's} Almanack	41%
1612	Perhaps the most notorious witchcraft trials in England take place, with the accused coming from an area surrounding this hill in Lancashire, Ten are found guilty and hanged.	Pendle	41%
1609	The ship Sea Venture is driven ashore on this Atlantic archipelago, effectively settling it for the first time. It is now a British Overseas Territory.	Bermuda	38%
1615	Sir Thomas Roe sets out on a voyage to become the first English ambassador to Jahangir, fourth Emperor of this South Asian empire.	Mughal	38%
1645	This major battle takes place in Northamptonshire during the First English Civil War.	Naseby	38%
1687	This order of chivalry is founded by King James VII of Scotland.	Order of the {Thistle}	38%
1635	This Flemish artist paints the ceiling of the Banqueting House at Whitehall.	Peter Paul Rubens	38%
1629	This French territory in North America is surrendered to England after the Treaty of Suza.	Quebec	38%
1685	This person is sentenced to be imprisoned, pilloried and whipped for fabricating the Popish Plot, a supposed Catholic conspiracy to kill King Charles II.	Titus Oates	38%
1693	Clockmaker John Harrison is born in Wakefield. He later invents the marine chronometer, designed to solve the problem of measuring this parameter, while at sea.	Longitude	36%
1626	Spa water is discovered in this coastal town in Yorkshire, leading to a flood of visitors to what becomes Britain's first seaside resort.	Scarborough	36%
1651	Charles II becomes the last King of Scotland to be crowned at this place.	{Scone} Abbey	36%
1619	The first lighthouse is built on the tip of this southernmost peninsula in Cornwall.	The Lizard	36%
1683	Becoming Britain's first public museum, this collection opens its doors in Oxford.	Ashmolean	33%
1668	This wooded area in the west of Gloucestershire is re-established as a royal forest.	Forest of Dean	33%
1617	This English philosopher and statesman is appointed Lord High Chancellor.	Francis Bacon	33%
1677	This composer is appointed a musician to the royal court. He goes on to write the opera 'Dido and Aeneas'.	Henry Purcell	33%
1658	Long distance trips by this method of public carriage are possible for the first time.	Stagecoach	33%
1664	This province becomes an English colony, later becoming a US state with the same name.	New Jersey	31%
1647	King Charles I is imprisoned in this castle on the Isle of Wight.	Carisbrooke	28%
1663	The original Theatre Royal opens in this London Street. It is still the location of a theatre with the same name.	Drury Lane	28%
1627	Barbary pirates from the Republic of Salé (now part of Morocco) begin a 5 year occupation of this island off the north coast of Devon. They use it as a base for raiding parties.	Lundy	28%
1622	Mathematician and Anglican clergyman William Oughtred invents this mechanical device for performing direct multiplication and division.	Slide Rule	28%
1601	The first expedition of the East India Company sets sail from England for these distant islands, famed for nutmeg and mace.	Spice Islands	28%
1684	A performing animals act at the Thames Frost Fair leads to the formation of this touring circus, a name still in existence to this day.	Chipperfields Circus	26%
1643	This island in the Indian Ocean is sighted and named by English Captain William Mynors of the East India Company.	Christmas Island	26%
1614	John Napier introduces this means of simplifying mathematical calculations.	Logarithms	26%
1644	At the Battle of Marston Moor, the English Parliamentarian forces, led by the Earl of Manchester and this commander, win a resounding victory over the Royalist army.	Lord Fairfax	26%
1600	Scotland adopts January 1 as New Year's Day instead of this date.	March 25	26%
1674	The Treaty of Westminster ends the Third Anglo-Dutch War and the city of New Amsterdam is renamed New York, after spending a year with this alternative name.	New {Orange}	26%
1633	An infantry regiment is formed that goes on to be known by this name. It exists continuously until amalgamation in 2006 with the King's Own Scottish Borderers.	Royal {Scots}	26%
1625	This nickname is given to a Parliament dissolved by an offended King Charles as it transacts no significant business.	{Useless} Parliament	26%
1691	English and Dutch forces are defeated by the French at the Battle of Leuze during the Nine Years' War, also known by this name.	War of the {Grand} Alliance	26%
1652	This notable architect dies, having made his name as the first person to introduce the classical architecture of Rome and the Italian Renaissance to Britain.	Inigo Jones	23%
1611	The first performance of this Shakespeare comedy occurs at the Palace of Whitehall.	The Tempest	23%
1631	Due to a printing error, declaring "Thou shalt commit adultery", a version of the King James Bible is published which acquires this nickname.	Wicked Bible	23%
1649	This revolt takes place in Norfolk, largely in response to the enclosure of land.	{Kett's} Rebellion	21%
1648	11000 men fight in the largest battle ever to take place on Welsh soil, at this village near Cardiff, now the site of a major open air history museum.	St. Fagans	21%
1672	An English invasion force captures this Caribbean island from Dutch colonists.	Tobago	21%
1640	This truce is signed in a northern English town between Charles I and the Scottish Covenanters, bringing about a cessation of hostilities to the Second Bishops' War.	Treaty of {Ripon}	18%

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