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	Hint	Answer	% Correct
A	Harold Godwinson receives one of these to 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	87%
F	The most well known member of the gunpowder plotters. Oddly, we still burn an effigy of him every 5th of November	Guy Fawkes	86%
I	One of Queen Victoria's titles: Empress of _____	India	84%
B	Hitler only had one of these, according to a popular song of the time	Ball	83%
N	The worlds most famous alchemist, did some theorizing on gravity in his spare time	Isaac Newton	83%
O	William of _____, invaded England during the Glorious Revolution	Orange	76%
Y	Mortal enemies of the House of Lancaster	House of York	74%
E	English trading company which ended up seizing control of vast areas of Asia	East India Company	73%
Z	Country which was formerly the British colony of Southern Rhodesia	Zimbabwe	69%
S	Beautiful water fowl; through some quirk of history the queen apparently owns them	Swan	69%
W	This general did such a good job fighting Napoleon they made him a duke	Duke of Wellington	63%
G	Site of a disastrous campaign against the Ottomans in WWI	Gallipoli	62%
K	Land of the Mau Mau uprising, brutally put down by the British	Kenya	62%
M	Proprietors of a flying circus. "He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy"	Monty Python	59%
R	Explorer and tobacco cheer leader, favourite of Elizabeth I	Sir Walter Raleigh	58%
T	Brilliant mathematician, code breaker, and computing pioneer	Alan Turing	58%
L	The remains of Richard III were found in a car park in this city in the Midlands	Leicester	56%
V	HMS _______, admiral Nelsons flagship at Trafalgar	Victory	56%
U	An 11cm high vessel which contains the ashes of English cricket	Urn	54%
D	British prime minister of 1874-1880, who thoroughly charmed queen Victoria	Benjamin Disraeli	54%
P	Unconquerable bunch north of Hadrian's Wall	Picts	46%
J	Lewis Carroll poem "'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves. Did gyre and gimble in the wabe"	Jabberwocky	45%
X	Coleridge poem: "In ______ did Kubla Khan, A stately pleasure-dome decree"	Xanadu	41%
Q	British Marquess after whom the rules of boxing were named	Queensberry	35%
C	The Legions of York proclaim this man Roman Emperor	Constantine	22%