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