Statistics for British Empire with the letter C

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
British spelling of Kolkata	Calcutta	96%
British Prime Minister who fought Hitler and opposed Gandhi	Churchill	96%
Old name for Sri Lanka	Ceylon	87%
Changing from this source of energy to oil helped cause the decline of the British Empire	coal	87%
Important agricultural commodity which Britain imported from the United States and India	cotton	65%
Lord Protector of the Commonwealth who won Jamaica for Britain in the Anglo-Spanish War	Cromwell	65%
First name of famous British imperialist who obtained control of key diamond mines in southern Africa and started the colony of Rhodesia	Cecil Rhodes	61%
Name of colony at southernmost tip of Africa which became the union of South Africa when joined with Zululand and the Boer Republics	Cape Colony	57%
City in China where the British first started trading with the Chinese	Canton	52%
Remains a British overseas territory in the Caribbean and a notorious tax haven	Cayman Islands	52%
At different times he was Lord Lieutenant of Ireland, Governor General of India, and surrendered to the American colonists at Yorktown	Cornwallis	48%
British explorer and amateur scientist who laid claim to Australia	Cooke	22%
Leader of escaped slave communities in Jamaica who won the First Maroon War against the British	Cudjoe	9%
The last Governor General of India under East India Company Rule	Lord Canning	9%
Famous British Orientalist but not William Jones	Colebrooke	4%