Statistics for British History by Letter - D

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Naturalist who published his theory of evolution in his 1859 book, On the Origin of Species	Charles Darwin	96%
High ranking religious leaders among the Celtic social classes	Druid	92%
City that became the capital of the Irish Free State in 1922	Dublin	92%
Also known as the Normandy Landings, this was the largest seaborne invasion in history	D-Day Landings	84%
Captain of the Golden Hind who circumnavigated the globe	Sir Francis Drake	83%
Author who's literary success began with the serial publication of The Pickwick Papers	Charles Dickens	82%
The only British Prime Minister to have been of Jewish birth	Benjamin Disraeli	76%
Great survey of England and parts of Wales completed in 1086 on the orders of William the Conqueror	Domesday Book	73%
The replacement of pounds, shillings and pence with a currency worth a hundred 'new pence' to the pound	Decimalisation	43%
Set of administrative and legal processes by which Henry VIII disbanded the monasteries and disposed of their assets	Dissolution of the Monasteries	37%
Title granted to Henry VIII for his book, Assertio Septem Sacramentorum, which affirmed the supremacy of the Pope before his eventual break with Rome	Defender of the Faith	33%
Labour politician who became the inaugural First Minister of Scotland	Donald Dewar	12%

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