Statistics for British History by Letter - L

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
English royal house, a belligerent of the War of the Roses	Lancaster	92%
Title given to Oliver Cromwell as head of state following the English Civil War	Lord Protector	78%
City where the body of King Richard III was found buried under a car park	Leicester	74%
Belfast born author of The Chronicles of Narnia	C.S. Lewis	73%
Latin name given to the city of London, founded by the Romans	Londinium	68%
Town in Scotland where the wreckage of Pam Am Flight 103 crashed after a bomb was detonated aboard, killing 270	Lockerbie	64%
Explorer who sought to find the source of the River Nile	David Livingstone	62%
One of the few Kings of England more commonly remembered by his epithet	Richard the Lionheart	60%
Powerful weapon used by English and Welsh soldiers at the Battle of Agincourt	Longbow	58%
Surgeon who championed the use of carbolic acid as an antiseptic	Joseph Lister	44%
Island in the North Sea, an important centre of Celtic Christianity targeted by Vikings during the 8th century	Lindisfarne	41%
Last sovereign Prince of Wales before its conquest by Edward I of England	Llywelyn ap Gruffyd	9%
Battle that saw Mary Queen of Scots captured and forced to abdicate in favour of her infant son	Battle of Langside	5%