Statistics for The Reign of Queen Victoria

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
The only British monarch with a longer reign	Elizabeth II	99%
Victoria was the first monarch to live at this residence	{Buckingham} Palace	95%
Author of "On the Origin of Species"	Charles Darwin	90%
Famous 1888 serial killer	Jack the Ripper	89%
Drug which caused two wars with China	Opium	85%
Egyptian canal which the United Kingdom purchased shares of in 1875	Suez Canal	84%
Cause of the Great Famine in Ireland in 1845	{Potato} Blight	81%
Her husband	Prince Albert	79%
Job title of a child employed to clean chimneys	Chimney {sweep}	78%
Title that Victoria acquired in 1876	Empress of {India}	77%
Most well-known novelist of the Victorian era	Charles Dickens	75%
Victoria's successor as monarch	Edward VII	75%
1899–1902 war against Dutch settlers in South Africa	Boer War	70%
Victoria's eldest grandson who became Kaiser of Germany	Wilhelm	69%
Major war fought against Russia from 1853–1856	Crimean War	61%
Conservative Prime Minister of Jewish descent	Benjamin Disraeli	58%
Victoria was the last monarch from this house (hint: a German city)	Hanover	56%
"Palace" built for the Great Exhibition of 1851	The {Crystal} Palace	55%
Hereditary disease that she carried, which may have caused the Russian Revolution	Haemophilia	54%
Famous apocryphal quote of Victoria	We are not {amused}	53%
Poet whose "Charge of the Light Brigade" was inspired by the above	Alfred, Lord Tennyson	33%
Liberal who served as PM four separate times. Rival of the above.	William Gladstone	30%
Nickname for the year 1848 on continental Europe	Year of {Revolution}	30%
Doctor who traced the source of a cholera outbreak and gave Victoria chloroform	John Snow	16%