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Name a Valid Answer - British History

Name any valid answer that corresponds to each of these categories from British history.
Answer must correspond to the yellow box
Quiz by HistoryPunk
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Last updated: December 29, 2022
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First submittedDecember 27, 2022
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English royal dynasty that has existed
since 1066
Normandy | Blois | Anjou | Plantagenet |
Lancaster | York | Tudor | Stuart | Hanover |
Saxe-Coburg and Gotha | Windsor
First name of one of Henry VIII's wives
Catherine | Anne | Jane
Shakespeare comedy
The Merchant of Venice | The Merry Wives of Windsor |
A Midsummer Night's Dream |
Much Ado About Nothing | Twelfth Night | + 9 others
King who died in battle
Harold Godwinson | William the Conqueror |
Richard the Lionheart | Richard III
City that has existed since "time immemorial",
other than London
Bangor | Canterbury | Exeter | Hereford | Lichfield |
Wells | Winchester | Worcester | York
One of the "Big 6" Romantic poets
William Blake | William Wordsworth |
Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Percy Shelley |
John Keats | Lord Byron
One of the seven Anglo-Saxon kingdoms
East Anglia | Essex | Kent | Mercia |
Northumbria | Sussex | Wessex
Character from "Canterbury Tales"
Knight | Miller | Wife of Bath | Friar | Merchant |
Squire | Monk | + many others
The most well known ship used by either
Darwin, Nelson, or Shackleton
HMS Beagle | HMS Victory | Endurance
Player who scored a goal for England
in the 1966 World Cup
Geoff Hurst | Bobby Charlton | Roger Hunt | Martin Peters
Musical group from Greater Manchester with a
UK platinum album in the 1980s or 1990s
Oasis | The Smiths | The Chemical Brothers |
The Stone Roses | Take That | New Order | The Verve
Prime Minister of the 19th century
William Gladstone | Benjamin Disraeli | Lord Palmerston |
Robert Peel | William Pitt the Younger | +15 others
Charles Dickens book
Oliver Twist | A Christmas Carol | Great Expectations
A Tale of Two Cities | +18 others
Bennet sister in "Pride and Prejudice"
Elizabeth | Jane | Mary | Kitty | Lydia
Chancellor of King Henry VIII
Thomas Wolsey | Thomas More | Thomas Audley |
Thomas Wriothesley
Major work by Gilbert and Sullivan
The Pirates of Penzance | H.M.S. Pinafore | +13 others
Name of an English king who ruled
before 1000 A.D.
Alfred | Edward | Æthelstan | Edmund | Eadred |
Eadwig | Edgar | Æthelred
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Level 77
Dec 28, 2022
Loved this! More, more, more!
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Level 63
Dec 28, 2022
Please accept Harold and either require HMS for Endurance or remove the requirement for the other two vessels. Otherwise a great quiz.
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Level ∞
Dec 8, 2023
Harold works and the HMS is not required. Also, Shackleton's ship was simply the Endurance, not the HMS Endurance.
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Level 80
Dec 9, 2023
A prompt reply...
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Level 78
Jan 3, 2023
Nice quiz.
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Level 65
Jan 8, 2023
Great quiz.Thanks. Nominated.
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Level 48
Jan 8, 2023
Good quiz but it’s almost exclusively English history
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Level 69
Jan 10, 2023
It seems like Henry VIII really liked his chancellors named Thomas
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Level 1
Dec 8, 2023
14% of English men in the Middle Ages were named Thomas!

https://www.jetpunk.com/quizzes/english-names-of-the-middle-ages

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Level 83
Dec 8, 2023
I got Mary for the Bennett sister the same way .I read in the comments on a different quiz that something like one in six women in Britain in the 18/19th century were called Mary.
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Level 83
Jan 27, 2024
To be honest, while that might work for Austen, names in English literature don't always follow the contemporary trends
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Level 84
Dec 8, 2023
It was a requirement:

"Thou shalt be nam'd Thomas!"

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Level 95
Dec 8, 2023
Great quiz, but nothing specifically about Wales, Northern Ireland or Scotland annoys this JetPunker a bit.
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Level 80
Dec 9, 2023
It is very Anglo-centric, especially given the time period involved.
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Level 72
Dec 10, 2023
Some bloody difficult questions on there. You seemed to find all the areas that I know feck all about/have no interest in. Lol.

Also happy not to have a question about NI, let’s be fair, it’ll just be about “The Troubles” and we’re trying our best to not be known purely for blowing each other up anymore.

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Level 55
Jan 4, 2024
Or george best
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Level 77
Dec 11, 2023
Rather curious about the Gilbert & Sullivan question as it says, as an answer, HMS Pinafore, Pirates of Penzance, and 13 others. They wrote a total of 14 works together, so the math seems off, but I'm not sure what the "wrong" answer might be?
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Level 87
Dec 11, 2023
Typed in "Shelley" (without the "Bysshe" heavily emphasised by Monty Python) and it didn't work, although he did show up as an answer.
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Level 84
Dec 13, 2023
Agreed. "Shelley" should give you Percy Shelley, with or without Bysshe.
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Level 63
Dec 13, 2023
I'm not sure William the Conqueror should count as a king that died in battle.

Whilst the most common theory is that he was thrown from his horse during a siege of Mantes and was severely wounded (although others claim he actually just fell ill, he was severely overweight by this point) either way he didn't die during the siege, instead he died 5 weeks later in a priory.

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Level 18
Dec 24, 2023
I was going to say this. He either had a ruptured spleen from his saddle pommel or died of an illness. It was during a siege that it occurred but then he died weeks later in a monastery.

That hardly counts as dying in battle.

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Level 36
Dec 23, 2023
And I say England's greatest prime minister was Lord Palmerston!
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Level 65
Dec 23, 2023
M People were a Manchester based band and had multiple platinum albums.
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Level 69
Dec 23, 2023
All's Well that Ends Well is a Shakespeare comedy that for some reason wasn't accepted (unless I typed it wrong).
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Level 55
Jan 4, 2024
Perhaps it isn't considered funny enough. Macbeth didn't work either, but that is pretty funny.
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Level 66
Mar 7, 2024
How about James III and James IV of Scotland for kings who died in battle? James IV was the last king to die in battle in Britain, later than Richard III, so should definitely make the cut. Since the quiz is called 'British' history and not 'English' history, this is a strange omission.