Statistics for British History by Letter - T

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  • The average score is 9 of 14

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HintAnswer% Correct
Britain's first female Prime Minister commonly referred to as the 'Iron Lady'Margaret Thatcher
96%
Passenger liner sunk in the North Atlantic after colliding with an iceberg on her maiden voyageRMS Titanic
95%
English-Welsh royal house that rose to power in the wake of the War of the RosesTudor
90%
Battle during the Napoleonic Wars that saw Vice-Admiral Horatio Nelson fatally woundedBattle of Trafalgar
88%
Period of violence in Northern Ireland between largely Protestant unionist and Catholic nationalist communitiesThe Troubles
84%
Construction of the White Tower at this fortification begins under William the ConquerorTower of London
82%
Mathematician instrumental in breaking the German Enigma code, prosecuted and later pardoned for 'gross indecency' that regarded his homosexualityAlan Turing
80%
Popular commodity that arrives in Britain for the first time, shortly before the Stuart RestorationTea
75%
Former Poet Laureate who penned 'Charge of the Light Brigade'Alfred, Lord Tennyson
64%
19th century landscapist, considered one of the greatest British artists of all timeJMW Turner
51%
Welsh-born poet whose work included 'Do not go gentle into that good night'Dylan Thomas
45%
Castle on the Cornish coast long associated with the legend of King ArthurTintagel Castle
40%
Prison entrance through which Anne Boleyn reportedly passed prior to her executionTraitors' Gate
31%
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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