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Hint
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Answer
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A
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One of these hit Harold Godwinson in the eye at the Battle of Hastings
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Arrow
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B
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Hitler only had one of these, according to a WWII era song
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Ball
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C
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Man who was proclaimed Roman Emperor by the legions of York
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Constantine
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D
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Prime Minister from 1874–1880 who thoroughly charmed Queen Victoria
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Benjamin Disraeli
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E
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English trading company which ended up seizing control of vast areas of Asia
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East India Company
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F
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The most well known member of the gunpowder plotters. Oddly, we still burn an effigy of him every 5th of November.
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Guy Fawkes
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G
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Site of a disastrous campaign against the Ottomans in WWI
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Gallipoli
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H
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Long series of conflicts with the French, even longer than its name suggests
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Hundred Years War
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I
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One of Queen Victoria's titles: Empress of _____
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India
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J
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Lewis Carroll poem "Twas brillig, and the slithy toves. Did gyre and gimble in the wabe."
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Jabberwocky
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K
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Country where the Mau Mau uprising occurred
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Kenya
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L
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The remains of Richard III were found in a car park in this city in the Midlands
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Leicester
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M
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Proprietors of a flying circus. "He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy".
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Monty Python
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N
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The worlds most famous alchemist, did some theorizing on gravity in his spare time
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Isaac Newton
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O
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Invaded England during the Glorious Revolution: William of _____
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Orange
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P
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Unconquerable bunch north of Hadrian's Wall
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Picts
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Q
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British Marquess after whom the rules of boxing were named
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Queensberry
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R
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Explorer and tobacco cheerleader, favourite of Elizabeth I
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Sir Walter Raleigh
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S
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Beautiful water fowl; through some quirk of history the king apparently owns them
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Swan
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T
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Brilliant mathematician, code breaker, and computing pioneer
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Alan Turing
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U
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An 11cm high vessel which contains the ashes of English cricket
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Urn
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V
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HMS _______, admiral Nelson's flagship at Trafalgar
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Victory
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W
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This general did such a good job fighting Napoleon they made him a duke
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Duke of Wellington
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X
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Coleridge poem: "In ______ did Kubla Khan, A stately pleasure-dome decree"
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Xanadu
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Y
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Mortal enemies of the House of Lancaster
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House of York
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Z
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Country which was formerly the British colony of Southern Rhodesia
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Zimbabwe
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I've probably missed some crucial elements to the tale but that's the basic jist of the story.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquess_of_Queensberry_Rules
I'm trying to determine why the quiz could be interpreted as 'too-American.' Perhaps giving an expalantion for the comment would be helpful. I recently submitted a quiz on Panama (20 questions), and made a sincere effort to ensure that it was not all about the U.S. role there. However, ignoring the significance of that relationship would be akin to leaving England out of the Great Migration story of the 1630s in America, or Spain's role in Mexico, etc... Isolationism is no longer possible, and we are all creatures of our individual experiences after all.
I wish the 'tone' of all the comments on jet punk were more like this one.
No mention in contemporary reports of the famous arrow to the eye.
Still a valid question though as it's all theory and conjecture
Now away back to see whether mad Bojo has been ousted as PM in the last few minutes...
The Marquess of Queensberry who's famous for boxing is also Oscar Wilde's disapproving father-in-law: John Douglas, 9th marquess.