Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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Fortification that stood at the northernmost frontier of the Roman Empire | Hadrian's Wall | 95%
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Battle that began the Norman conquest of England and the last successful invasion of Britain | Battle of Hastings | 86%
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The transfer of sovereignty of this city to China in 1997 is considered by many to mark the end of the British Empire | Hong Kong | 83%
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Series of wars in Western Europe fought primarily between the French and English royal houses lasting over a century | Hundred Years War | 78%
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English King who defeated the French at the battle of Agincourt | Henry V | 76%
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Royal house that ended with the death of Queen Victoria | Hanover | 64%
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Wife of Henry VIII, beheaded on the grounds of adultery | Catherine Howard | 57%
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Scots word for New Year celebrations, its origins derived from Norse and Gaelic customs | Hogmanay | 49%
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Archaeologist who discovered the tomb of Tutankhamun in 1922 | Howard Carter | 40%
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Stately residence given to Henry VIII by Cardinal Thomas Wolsey | Hampton Court Palace | 32%
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Campaign waged by William the Conqueror to subjugate northern England, deemed by modern scholars as a genocide | Harrying of the North | 24%
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King of Norway defeated by Harold Godwinson at the battle of Stamford Bridge | Harald Hardrada | 22%
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Belfast shipyard that built the RMS Titanic | Harland & Wolff | 14%
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Coalition of Scandinavian warriors that sought to invade and conquer the Kingdoms of England | Great Heathen Army | 11%
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