Hint
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Answer
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A) Major English victory in the 100 years war, where the British found their 2 fingered salute
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Agincourt
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B) Mop headed Liverpudlian rockers, more popular than Jesus according to one of them
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Beatles
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C) Slang name for young urban ne'erdowells, often found in baseball caps and walking staffordshire bull terriers
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Chavs
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D) French port, site of the evacuation of the Brirish Expeditionary Force (BEF) in 1940
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Dunkirk
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E) Charles Darwin outlines the principles of this in 'on the origin of species'
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Evolution
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F) 'We shall _____ on the beaches.... We shall never surrender'
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Fight
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G) Contemperary of Disraeli, this grandiose liberal party politician was prime minister on 4 occasions between 1868-1894
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William Gladstone
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H) A _____! A _____! My kingdom for a _____! Shakespeares Richard III's desperate plea
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Horse
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I) ________ Kingdom Brunel, notable engineer, bridge builder and all round polymath of the industrial revolution
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Isambard
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J) Romeo and ______, Shakespeare's star crossed lovers
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Juliet
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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
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Kelvin
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L) Charge of the _____ brigade, theirs was but to do and die
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Light
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M) Maverick field marshall of the North African campaign in WWII
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Bernard Montgomery
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N) French emperor, spreader of enlightenment ideals, a right bloody nuisance
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Napoleon Bonaparte
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O) Britains oldest university, one of the oldest in the world
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Oxford
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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
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Pub
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Q) British branch of Christianity which took roots in the new world, William Penn being a particularly famous proponent
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Quakers
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R) Slang name for Oliver Cromwells New Model Army
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Roundheads
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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
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Sandwich
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T) Modernising if controversial prime minister of the 1980s, not popular amongst Argentinians...
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Margaret Thatcher
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U) Collective name for the group of counties in north Ireland and Northern Ireland
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Ulster
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V) HRH the Empress of India, wife of a German
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Victoria
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W) Scottish independence fighter who led the Scots to victory against the English at the battle of Stirling Bridge
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William Wallace
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X) Televised singing contest hosted by Simon Cowell, endlessly churning out noisy pop music to a perpetually teenage fanbase
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X factor
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Y) Siege of ________, decisive American victory in the American revolutionary wars
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Yorktown
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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
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Zulu
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Also, I got confused when the surname alone didn't work for the G question. The surname alone worked for the T question, consistency would be good.
South African history student here; "tribe" is not really used anymore in the southern African context due to the negative connotations of the word throughout history.
It's more of a history/academia thing rather than a thing in everyday conversation right now, but I just thought I'd mention it. Thanks!