Statistics for Famous Crownings

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
This woman's coronation in 1953 is the first to be televised, and is watched by 227 million people worldwide	Elizabeth II	100%
This man becomes French Emperor, taking his crown off the pope and crowning himself	Napoleon Bonaparte	87%
Pope Leo III refused to recognise a woman as Roman emperor, and so instead crowned this Frankish King as the first Holy Roman Emperor on Christmas day 800	Charlemagne	80%
Before his execution, he was coroneted with a crown of thorns and proclaimed 'King of the Jews'	Jesus Christ	67%
This English king was never formally crowned in his brief reign	Edward VIII	60%
This Norman woman was due to be crowned the first queen of England, but only hours before her coronation she was attacked by an angry mob and chased out of London	Empress Matilda	13%
This woman is the first to ever be crowned ruler of the Eastern Roman Empire in her own right	Irene of Athens	13%
The only emperor of China to be officially crowned, the first emperor	Qin Shi Huang	13%
Byzantine Emperor Leo III mysteriously died from fever after wearing the bejewelled crown of this previous emperor he had exhumed	Heraclius	7%
This tyrant dictator of Central African Republic and mass murderer of schoolchildren suddenly decided to crown himself emperor in a gaudy ceremony, spending the national budget of that year on a $5M crown and a two tonne solid gold throne shaped like an eagle	Jean-Bédel Bokassa	7%