Statistics for The Tower of London

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
What river runs alongside the Tower?	Thames	98%
These royal treasures are the most popular tourist attraction at the Tower.	Crown Jewels	95%
What birds are kept in perpetuity at the Tower based on the superstition that should they leave the Tower and the monarchy would fall?	ravens	95%
In what century was work on the Tower begun?	11th	89%
What Norman king began work on the Tower?	William the Conqueror	89%
The guards of the Tower are known as the ___________ ___________.	Yeoman Warders	86%
The ghost of this wife of Henry VIII is said to haunt the chapel of St Peter ad Vincula where she is buried.	Anne Boleyn	84%
The ___________ Gate was built to allow prisoners to be brought by boat to the Tower.	Traitors'	81%
The innermost "keep" is known as the _________ _________.	White Tower	72%
Legend has it that this English king had the two "Princes of the Tower" murdered to secure his claim to the throne.	Richard III	60%
Executions were most comonly held at a location outside the Tower known as _________ _______.	Tower Hill	54%
This Depuy Chancellor of Nazi Germany was imprisoned in the Tower after escaping Germany during the Second World War.	Rudolf Hess	37%
In the absence of the monarch the Tower falls under the charge of the ____________ of the Tower.	Constable	11%
The courtyard sections of the Tower are formally refered to as _________.	wards	5%