Hint | Answer | % Correct | |
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A | Harold Godwinson receives one of these to the eye at the Battle of Hastings | Arrow | 90%
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F | The most well known member of the gunpowder plotters. Oddly, we still burn an effigy of him every 5th of November | Guy Fawkes | 87%
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H | Long series of conflicts with the French, even longer than its name suggests | Hundred Years War | 87%
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B | Hitler only had one of these, according to a popular song of the time | Ball | 84%
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I | One of Queen Victoria's titles: Empress of _____ | India | 84%
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N | The worlds most famous alchemist, did some theorizing on gravity in his spare time | Isaac Newton | 83%
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O | William of _____, invaded England during the Glorious Revolution | Orange | 76%
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Y | Mortal enemies of the House of Lancaster | House of York | 74%
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E | English trading company which ended up seizing control of vast areas of Asia | East India Company | 73%
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S | Beautiful water fowl; through some quirk of history the queen apparently owns them | Swan | 70%
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Z | Country which was formerly the British colony of Southern Rhodesia | Zimbabwe | 69%
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W | This general did such a good job fighting Napoleon they made him a duke | Duke of Wellington | 64%
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G | Site of a disastrous campaign against the Ottomans in WWI | Gallipoli | 63%
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K | Land of the Mau Mau uprising, brutally put down by the British | Kenya | 62%
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M | Proprietors of a flying circus. "He's not the messiah, he's a very naughty boy" | Monty Python | 59%
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T | Brilliant mathematician, code breaker, and computing pioneer | Alan Turing | 59%
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R | Explorer and tobacco cheer leader, favourite of Elizabeth I | Sir Walter Raleigh | 58%
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L | The remains of Richard III were found in a car park in this city in the Midlands | Leicester | 57%
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V | HMS _______, admiral Nelsons flagship at Trafalgar | Victory | 57%
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U | An 11cm high vessel which contains the ashes of English cricket | Urn | 54%
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D | British prime minister of 1874-1880, who thoroughly charmed queen Victoria | Benjamin Disraeli | 54%
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P | Unconquerable bunch north of Hadrian's Wall | Picts | 47%
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J | Lewis Carroll poem "'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves. Did gyre and gimble in the wabe" | Jabberwocky | 46%
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X | Coleridge poem: "In ______ did Kubla Khan, A stately pleasure-dome decree" | Xanadu | 41%
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Q | British Marquess after whom the rules of boxing were named | Queensberry | 36%
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C | The Legions of York proclaim this man Roman Emperor | Constantine | 22%
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