Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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Britain's first female Prime Minister commonly referred to as the 'Iron Lady' | Margaret Thatcher | 96%
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Passenger liner sunk in the North Atlantic after colliding with an iceberg on her maiden voyage | RMS Titanic | 95%
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English-Welsh royal house that rose to power in the wake of the War of the Roses | Tudor | 90%
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Battle during the Napoleonic Wars that saw Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson fatally wounded | Battle of Trafalgar | 88%
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Period of violence in Northern Ireland between largely Protestant unionist and Catholic nationalist communities | The Troubles | 84%
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Construction of the White Tower at this fortification begins under William the Conqueror | Tower of London | 82%
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Mathematician instrumental in breaking the German Enigma code, prosecuted and later pardoned for 'gross indecency' that regarded his homosexuality | Alan Turing | 80%
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Popular commodity that arrives in Britain for the first time, shortly before the Stuart Restoration | Tea | 75%
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Former Poet Laureate who penned 'Charge of the Light Brigade' | Alfred, Lord Tennyson | 64%
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19th century landscapist, considered one of the greatest British artists of all time | JMW Turner | 51%
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Welsh-born poet whose work included 'Do not go gentle into that good night' | Dylan Thomas | 45%
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Castle on the Cornish coast long associated with the legend of King Arthur | Tintagel Castle | 40%
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Prison entrance through which Anne Boleyn reportedly passed prior to her execution | Traitors' Gate | 31%
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Speech given by Elizabeth I in the face of the Spanish Armada “I may have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a King of England too" | Tilbury Speech | 10%
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