Question
|
Answer
|
What Lord Protector made England a republic?
|
Oliver Cromwell
|
Who was the first Norman king of England?
|
William the Conqueror
|
What Celtic queen of the Iceni tribe led an uprising against the Romans?
|
Boudica
|
What war did England fight with France between 1337–1453?
|
Hundred Years' War
|
The oldest surviving copy of what epic Old English poem was written in 1010?
|
Beowulf
|
Name either the father or the mother of Elizabeth I.
|
Henry VIII | Anne Boleyn
|
For what disease did Edward Jenner invent a vaccine?
|
Smallpox
|
What nickname was given to to the Richard I of England?
|
Lionheart
|
What novel was written by Jane Austen in 1813?
|
Pride and Prejudice
|
Which royal house won the War of the Roses?
|
House of York
|
What prehistoric monument in Wiltshire was constructed somewhere between 3000 BC to 2000 BC?
|
Stonehenge
|
Who was the first English captain to circumnavigate the Earth?
|
Francis Drake
|
What English city was called "Aquae Sulis" by the Romans?
|
Bath
|
Which Scottish king became king of England and Ireland in 1603 - thus forming a personal union of the three kingdoms?
|
James VI
|
What was invented by computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee in 1989?
|
World Wide Web
|
By what nickname was William Shakespeare sometimes known as?
|
The Bard
|
During what 1688 "revolution" was England invaded by the Dutch?
|
Glorious Revolution
|
What city's team won the 2016 Premier League despite 5000-1 odds?
|
Leicester
|
What English colony became known as the "Lost Colony" - due to the unexplained disappearance of its population in 1590?
|
Roanoke
|
What event almost completely destroyed London in 1666?
|
Great Fire of London
|
On what sport did the Queensberry rules become generally accepted?
|
Boxing
|
What was the name of the civil war that took place in England between 1135–1153? (hint: word for a stateless country)
|
The Anarchy
|