Statistics for History of the United Kingdom

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
First female Prime Minister	Margaret Thatcher	97%
Event hosted in London in 1908, 1948 and 2012	Summer Olympics	97%
Name for the British withdrawal from the European Union	Brexit	89%
Ship built in Belfast in 1912	RMS Titanic	89%
War fought against Argentina	Falklands War	86%
Victorious admiral at Trafalgar	Horatio Nelson	82%
Germany's aerial bombardment of the UK in 1940-41	The {Blitz}	81%
Lord Protector, 1653–1658	Oliver Cromwell	78%
Literary family of Anne, Emily, and Charlotte	Brontë	74%
Alexander Fleming's invention	Penicillin	72%
Revolting Celtic queen	Boudica	70%
Name of Northern Ireland conflict	The Troubles	67%
Commander who defeated Napoleon at Waterloo	Duke of Wellington	62%
First British circumnavigator	Francis Drake	57%
Tribe that gave its name to England	Angles	54%
Adam Smith is considered to be the "father" of this	Economics / Capitalism	51%
Country of the Mau Mau uprisings	Kenya	48%
First permanent English settlement in the New World	Jamestown	44%
Birmingham's most prominent gang	Peaky Blinders	44%
Celtic tribe of ancient Scotland	Picts	44%
"Lost Colony" established in 1585	Roanoke	32%
Type of weapon Welsh soldiers used during the Middle Ages	Longbow	30%