Statistics for British History by Letter - M

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
'Great Charter' signed by King John	Magna Carta	96%
City in Northern England, the birthplace of the Industrial Revolution	Manchester	96%
Scottish Queen forced to abdicate in favour of her infant son, later executed by Elizabeth I of England	Mary Queen of Scots	96%
King of Scotland, later immortalised in a Shakespeare play	Macbeth	95%
Ship on which the Pilgrim Fathers sailed from Plymouth to North America	Mayflower	85%
Anglo-Saxon kingdom of England	Mercia	54%
Last Viceroy of India who oversaw the partition of India and Pakistan, later assassinated by the IRA	Lord Mountbatten	53%
Police force founded by Victorian politician, Robert Peel	Metropolitan Police	53%
Conflict between British forces and indigenous rebels in the British Kenya Colony, many of whom would be later tortured	Mau Mau Uprising	50%
Empress and heir to the English throne who was deemed as a woman, 'unfit to rule'	Matilda	40%
Founding treaty of the European Union, signed by the United Kingdom in 1992	Maastricht Treaty	34%
Scot who helped Bonnie Prince Charlie evade capture after his defeat at the Battle of Culloden	Flora Macdonald	22%
Largest battle of the English Civil War	Battle of Marston Moor	19%