Statistics for British History by Letter - B

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
City in southwest England given the Latin name Aquae Sulis	Bath	93%
Scottish-born, American inventor of the telephone	Alexander Graham Bell	87%
Surname of literary sisters whose novels include Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights	Brontë	85%
Wife of Henry VIII and mother to future Queen, Elizabeth I	Anne Boleyn	83%
Public service broadcaster established in 1927	British Broadcasting Corporation	82%
Name given to the German bombing campaign during WWII	The Blitz	82%
Old English poem regarding a warrior and his fight to defeat a monster terrorising Denmark	Beowulf	81%
Queen of the Iceni tribe that led an uprising against the Roman Empire	Boudica	79%
In 1348, this disease commonly known as the Black Death arrives in London	Bubonic Plague	76%
War in which Dutch settlers were defeated in South Africa	Second Boer War	67%
Embroidered cloth depicting the Norman Conquest of England	Bayeaux Tapestry	61%
Name given to the former Roman province	Britannia	59%
English coastal resort, the site of an assassination attempt by the IRA on then Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher	Brighton	53%
Penned 'Auld Lang Syne', often sung on New Year's Eve	Robert Burns	53%
Archbishop of Canterbury murdered by the knights of Henry II	Thomas Becket	53%
Battle in which Robert the Bruce defeated the English in the First War of Scottish Independence	Battle of Bannockburn	43%
Prominent figure of the industrial revolution, designed both the Clifton Suspension Bridge and the SS Great Britain	Isambard Kingdom Brunel	40%
Richard III becomes the last English King to be killed in combat during this battle	Battle of Bosworth Field	33%
Royal Navy ship, a veteran of the Normandy Landings and Korean War currently moored on the banks of the River Thames	HMS Belfast	32%
Town in Northumberland central to a number of historic border wars, changes hands for the last time	Berwick-upon-Tweed	31%
Welsh politician and Minister for Health that pioneered the foundation of the National Health Service	Aneurin Bevan	24%
First female speaker of the House of Commons, elected 1992	Betty Boothroyd	23%
Site of the final defeat of James II, the last Catholic monarch of England, Scotland and Ireland	Battle of the Boyne	19%