Statistics for British History True or False

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Question	Answer	% Correct
No woman has ever served as Prime Minister of the U. K.	False	96%
The Royal Navy once issued rum rations to its sailors	True	95%
The Industrial Revolution started in Great Britain	True	90%
No English king has ever died in battle	False	89%
The Hundred Years' War was a conflict between England and France	True	89%
England was the first country to colonize the Americas	False	85%
The Good Friday Agreement of 1998 is often considered to have ended "The Troubles" in Northern Ireland	True	84%
At its peak, the British Empire was the largest empire in world history	True	83%
Henry VIII was excommunicated by the pope	True	83%
The Stuart dynasty of England originally came from Scotland	True	83%
King Arthur is buried in Westminster Abbey	False	77%
Queen Victoria is thought to have died a virgin	False	75%
In the year 1500, Wales had a higher population than England	False	72%
The Saxons were the original inhabitants of Great Britain	False	66%
The patron saint of England, St. George, actually spent most of his life in Scotland	False	31%