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British History Multiple Choice #1

Can you answer these multiple choice questions about the history of Great Britain?
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1. What party did Margaret Thatcher lead?
Conservative ✓
Labour ✓
Liberal ✓
2. Who pointed their finger at YOU in the famous WWI recruiting poster?
Bellona, goddess of war ✓
King Edward VII ✓
Lord Kitchener ✓
Queen Victoria ✓
3. What adjective has often been used to describe London in the 1960s?
Sassy ✓
Smashing ✓
Smart ✓
Swinging ✓
4. What body part did Horatio Nelson lose at the Battle of Santa Cruz de Tenerife?
His left leg below the knee ✓
His left ear ✓
His nose ✓
Most of his right arm ✓
5. Who was Thomas Becket?
Archbishop of Canterbury murdered in 1170 ✓
One of the "Big Six" English romantic poets ✓
The richest man in England in the early 1700s ✓
6. What name is given to William the Conqueror's brutal campaign that laid waste to northern England and brought it under Norman rule?
Harrying of the North ✓
Hassling of the North ✓
Hounding of the North ✓
7. Which of these noble ranks is the highest?
Baron ✓
Duke ✓
Earl ✓
Marquess ✓
8. The Glorious Revolution of 1688 installed William of Orange on the throne of England. Where did William of Orange come from?
Germany ✓
Netherlands ✓
Russia ✓
Spain ✓
9. Who or what was the Danegeld?
A chronicle of England during the Dark Ages ✓
A legendary warrior who castrated Danish invaders ✓
Money paid to the Vikings ✓
10. How did Anne Boleyn meet her end?
Beheaded at the Tower of London ✓
Died of old age in a convent ✓
Suicide ✓
Suspected poisoning ✓
11. Before decimalisation in 1971, how many pence were in a pound?
42 ✓
100 ✓
111 ✓
240 ✓
12. Which of these figures did NOT live during the Elizabethan era?
Francis Drake ✓
Isaac Newton ✓
Walter Raleigh ✓
William Shakespeare ✓
13. Who famously led a revolt against the Romans 60 AD?
Bede ✓
Boudicca ✓
King Arthur ✓
Llywelyn the Great ✓
14. What city was home to famous thinkers and writers such as David Hume, Adam Smith, and Robert Burns?
Belfast ✓
Cardiff ✓
Edinburgh ✓
London ✓
15. Which of these countries was NOT part of the British Empire?
Australia ✓
Kenya ✓
Indonesia ✓
Jamaica ✓
APHill
+1
Level 74
Mar 29, 2019
Phrasing it as "Who or what was THE Danegeld?" is kind of a giveaway that it is not a person.
PantsLobbyist
+12
Level 93
Mar 29, 2019
The Fonz was a person, albeit fictitious.
kogatora
+9
Level 91
Mar 31, 2019
the queen, the king, the donald...
Nathaniel
+2
Level 67
Jun 27, 2019
in german "geld" means money so very easy for me
kitsims
+1
Level 80
Dec 18, 2021
Yep, knowing Dutch helped me with this one.
Stowsettler
+3
Level 60
Jan 14, 2022
The Hammer of the Scots

The Lionheart

The Atheling

All people

rosina
+1
Level 59
Jan 17, 2022
Not necessarily. Elizabeth II is The Queen
Algernon
+1
Level 71
Apr 4, 2019
That was tougher than I was expecting.
kalbahamut
+1
Level 84
Jun 24, 2019
I knew it was probably wrong but I had to guess the warrior who castrated Danes. Only one I missed.
kiwiquizzer
+1
Level 67
Jun 24, 2019
Only got 2 wrong.
DoctorX
+2
Level 59
Jun 24, 2019
Might want to revise this question: "Who pointed his finger at YOU in the famous WWI recruiting poster?"

"HIS" - automatically eliminates two of the choices since they are obviously female

Quizmaster
+1
Level ∞
Jun 24, 2019
Changed it to "their finger"
FlickerP
+2
Level 69
Jan 14, 2022
Although the thumbnail picture of a fella with a moustache pointing also kind of eliminates Queen Victoria and the goddess
rtabram
+2
Level 60
Jun 24, 2019
Thank you, Time Team. May you never be forgotten.
impo
+1
Level 61
Jun 25, 2019
Indonesia (at least Java) was briefly part of the British empire, from 1811-1814.
PrettyTiedUp
+1
Level 67
Jun 25, 2019
Only the decimalisation question wrong. I'm too young to remember the old Harry Potteresque money: 12 pennies to the shilling, 20 shillings to the pound and 17 sickles to the galleon
TwoWheels
+3
Level 58
Feb 18, 2020
Robert Burns only lived in Edinburgh for a couple of years, spending most of his 37 years in Dumfriesshire.
SaorAlba
+1
Level 65
Apr 12, 2021
British history or English?
fitheach
+4
Level 59
Jan 14, 2022
I'd say seven or eight (depending on interpretation) of the questions are not English-specific, and an additional one is about Roman Britain, which predates England and the UK (as political entities), so it is British (but with some English bias).
argosgold
+2
Level 46
Jan 14, 2022
British.
Holz9364
+1
Level 47
Jan 14, 2022
Adam Smith was born in Kirkcaldy, not Edinburgh. He lectured in Edinburgh, but actually spent most of his life in Kirkcaldy, it's also where he spent ten years writing his most famous work - "The Wealth of Nations". I'm from Kirkcaldy and it's literally our claim to fame so people who says he's from Edinburgh annoy us just a teeny little bit.
uncapitalised
+1
Level 56
Jan 14, 2022
Understandable that it's annoying to you, but "home to" can mean just that - Edinburgh was Smith's home for a time.

I love Fife as much as the next man, but you'd be really testing people's knowledge to involve Kirkcaldy in this quiz.

I get the frustration though!

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