Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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English royal house, a belligerent of the War of the Roses | Lancaster | 91%
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Title given to Oliver Cromwell as head of state following the English Civil War | Lord Protector | 78%
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Belfast born author of The Chronicles of Narnia | C.S. Lewis | 74%
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City where the body of King Richard III was found buried under a car park | Leicester | 73%
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Latin name given to the city of London, founded by the Romans | Londinium | 69%
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One of the few Kings of England more commonly remembered by his epithet | Richard the Lionheart | 63%
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Town in Scotland where the wreckage of Pam Am Flight 103 crashed after a bomb was detonated aboard, killing 270 | Lockerbie | 62%
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Explorer who sought to find the source of the River Nile | David Livingstone | 60%
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Powerful weapon used by English and Welsh soldiers at the Battle of Agincourt | Longbow | 60%
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Surgeon who championed the use of carbolic acid as an antiseptic | Joseph Lister | 43%
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Island in the North Sea, an important centre of Celtic Christianity targeted by Vikings during the 8th century | Lindisfarne | 39%
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Last sovereign Prince of Wales before its conquest by Edward I of England | Llywelyn ap Gruffyd | 7%
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Battle that saw Mary Queen of Scots captured and forced to abdicate in favour of her infant son | Battle of Langside | 4%
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