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	Hint	Answer	% Correct
A	One of these hit Harold Godwinson in the eye at the Battle of Hastings	Arrow	90%
H	Long series of conflicts with the French, even longer than its name suggests	Hundred Years War	86%
F	The most well known member of the gunpowder plotters. Oddly, we still burn an effigy of him every 5th of November.	Guy Fawkes	85%
B	Hitler only had one of these, according to a WWII era song	Ball	84%
I	One of Queen Victoria's titles: Empress of _____	India	83%
N	The worlds most famous alchemist, did some theorizing on gravity in his spare time	Isaac Newton	82%
Y	Mortal enemies of the House of Lancaster	House of York	74%
O	Invaded England during the Glorious Revolution: William of _____	Orange	74%
E	English trading company which ended up seizing control of vast areas of Asia	East India Company	71%
Z	Country which was formerly the British colony of Southern Rhodesia	Zimbabwe	70%
S	Beautiful water fowl; through some quirk of history the king apparently owns them	Swan	68%
K	Country where the Mau Mau uprising occurred	Kenya	65%
W	This general did such a good job fighting Napoleon they made him a duke	Duke of Wellington	63%
T	Brilliant mathematician, code breaker, and computing pioneer	Alan Turing	62%
G	Site of a disastrous campaign against the Ottomans in WWI	Gallipoli	61%
L	The remains of Richard III were found in a car park in this city in the Midlands	Leicester	57%
M	Proprietors of a flying circus. "He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy".	Monty Python	55%
R	Explorer and tobacco cheerleader, favourite of Elizabeth I	Sir Walter Raleigh	55%
V	HMS _______, admiral Nelson's flagship at Trafalgar	Victory	54%
U	An 11cm high vessel which contains the ashes of English cricket	Urn	51%
D	Prime Minister from 1874–1880 who thoroughly charmed Queen Victoria	Benjamin Disraeli	50%
P	Unconquerable bunch north of Hadrian's Wall	Picts	47%
J	Lewis Carroll poem "Twas brillig, and the slithy toves. Did gyre and gimble in the wabe."	Jabberwocky	42%
X	Coleridge poem: "In ______ did Kubla Khan, A stately pleasure-dome decree"	Xanadu	38%
Q	British Marquess after whom the rules of boxing were named	Queensberry	34%
C	Man who was proclaimed Roman Emperor by the legions of York	Constantine	22%