Statistics for British History A-Z #2

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
J) Romeo and ______, Shakespeare's star crossed lovers	Juliet	97%
O) Britains oldest university, one of the oldest in the world	Oxford	97%
E) Charles Darwin outlines the principles of this in 'on the origin of species'	Evolution	95%
B) Mop headed Liverpudlian rockers, more popular than Jesus according to one of them	Beatles	94%
F) 'We shall _____ on the beaches.... We shall never surrender'	Fight	94%
N) French emperor, spreader of enlightenment ideals, a right bloody nuisance	Napoleon Bonaparte	94%
S) This culinary phenomenon was born when a member of the British aristocracy decided he didnt want to leave his gaming table to have his supper, choosing to have it between 2 slices of bread instead	Sandwich	91%
T) Modernising if controversial prime minister of the 1980s, not popular amongst Argentinians...	Margaret Thatcher	89%
P) Long the centre of the British town life, a community living room, of sorts. The sort that serves beer by the pint	Pub	89%
Z) A native South African tribe who had war forced upon them by the British, despite initail successes they were eventually conquered	Zulu	89%
V) HRH the Empress of India, wife of a German	Victoria	88%
D) French port, site of the evacuation of the Brirish Expeditionary Force (BEF) in 1940	Dunkirk	85%
X) Televised singing contest hosted by Simon Cowell, endlessly churning out noisy pop music to a perpetually teenage fanbase	X factor	84%
K) Unit of temperature measurement which sets its null point at absolute zero (-273°c) named after the British inventor of the scale	Kelvin	83%
W) Scottish independence fighter who led the Scots to victory against the English at the battle of Stirling Bridge	William Wallace	83%
L) Charge of the _____ brigade, theirs was but to do and die	Light	82%
U) Collective name for the group of counties in north Ireland and Northern Ireland	Ulster	79%
H) A _____! A _____! My kingdom for a _____! Shakespeares Richard III's desperate plea	Horse	72%
Q) British branch of Christianity which took roots in the new world, William Penn being a particularly famous proponent	Quakers	72%
A) Major English victory in the 100 years war, where the British found their 2 fingered salute	Agincourt	68%
R) Slang name for Oliver Cromwells New Model Army	Roundheads	58%
M) Maverick field marshall of the North African campaign in WWII	Bernard Montgomery	56%
G) Contemperary of Disraeli, this grandiose liberal party politician was prime minister on 4 occasions between 1868-1894	William Gladstone	50%
C) Slang name for young urban ne'erdowells, often found in baseball caps and walking staffordshire bull terriers	Chavs	48%
I) ________ Kingdom Brunel, notable engineer, bridge builder and all round polymath of the industrial revolution	Isambard	43%
Y) Siege of ________, decisive American victory in the American revolutionary wars	Yorktown	43%