Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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King who abdicated in 1936 over his proposal to marry an American divorcee | Edward VIII | 95%
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Queen who led England into her 'Golden Age', saw the defeat of the Spanish Armada and the end of the Tudor dynasty | Elizabeth I | 95%
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Legendary sword of King Arthur, known as Caledfwlch in Welsh | Excalibur | 83%
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Secret code used by the German navy during WWII that was cracked by Alan Turing and his team of codebreakers at Bletchley Park | Enigma | 81%
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Essex | 71%
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Title given to Queen Victoria upon the founding of the British Raj | Empress of India | 67%
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Co-author of the Communist Manifesto alongside Karl Marx, first published in 1848 | Friedrich Engels | 65%
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Powerful trading company that governed large parts of the Indian sub-continent with a private military larger than most countries had at the time | East India Company | 59%
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Central bank of the United Kingdom founded in 1694 | Bank of England | 40%
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Collection of marble sculptures originally part of the Parthenon in Athens, currently housed in the British Museum | Elgin Marbles | 40%
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Two Anglo-Saxon kingdoms of England | East Anglia | 36%
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Precursor to the European Union, joined by the United Kingdom alongside Ireland and Denmark in 1973 | European Economic Community | 33%
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Roman name for the northern city of York | Eboracum | 28%
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Subsequent executions of the leaders of this armed insurrection widely contributed to increased support for Irish Independence | Easter Rising | 23%
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Agreement signed between the UK and Scottish governments, paving the way for a future referendum on independence | Edinburgh Agreement | 18%
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First major battle of the English civil war | Edgehill | 16%
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Royal Navy ship captained by James Cook on his voyage to Australia and New Zealand | HMS Endeavour | 11%
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First Anglo-Saxon king to turn his back on paganism and convert to Christianity | Æthelberht | 10%
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