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Statistics for British Empire that begins with the letter B
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- This quiz has been taken 39 times
- The average score is 4 of 15
Answer Stats
| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| Two wars fought against Dutch colonists in southern Africa | Boer Wars | 89%
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| A Caribbean island nation that won independence from Britain in 1973 | Bahamas | 73%
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| Claimed by the British during the Berlin Conference because it helped connect their southern African colonies. They obtained independence in 1964 | Botswana | 51%
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| A promise by the UK foreign secretary to support the creation of a Jewish state in Palestine in exchange for their support in WWI | Balfour Declaration | 35%
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| Colony founded in western Canada in 1855 | British Columbia | 30%
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| Famine during WWII that killed over 2 million people caused by the British war effort driving up prices of grain | Bengal Famine | 24%
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| The first evangelical missionaries came from England to India in 1793 and were from this congregation | Baptist | 22%
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| A botanist who first advocated British colonization of Australia in the late 18th century | Sir Joseph Banks | 16%
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| English colonist who claimed to make a treaty with Kulin nation to obtain land that became city of Melbourne, Australia. The treaty is now considered to be fake. | John Batman | 14%
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| A socialist English woman who advocated for the independence of Ireland and India; she joined the Indian National Congress and was even arrested in 1917 for her anti-colonial activities | Annie Besant | 8%
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| Class of English-educated Bengali elites that emerged under British rule | Bhadralok | 8%
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| First prime minister of independent Jamaica in 1962 | Alexander Bustamante | 5%
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| A confederacy of 3 related first nation groups in western central Canada and the U.S. They managed to stay out of most military conflicts but suffered greatly from white settlers killing off the buffalo | Blackfoot confederacy | 5%
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| Organization created by parliament to oversee East India Company | Board of Control | 5%
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| An unequal treaty Siam signed with the British in 1855 allowing tax free trade in Siam | Bowring Treaty | 3%
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