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Hint
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Answer
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A
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Harold Godwinson receives one of these to 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 popular song of the time
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Ball
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C
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The Legions of York proclaim this man Roman Emperor
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Constantine
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D
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British prime minister of 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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Land of the Mau Mau uprising, brutally put down by the British
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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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William of _____, invaded England during the Glorious Revolution
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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 cheer leader, 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 queen 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 Nelsons 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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