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