Statistics for Kings and Queens of England and the United Kingdom

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Executed in 1649, English Civil War, Oliver Cromwell	Charles I	92%
Golden Age Queen, Virgin Queen, Spanish Armada, daughter of Anne Boleyn	Elizabeth I	92%
Restored monarchy in 1660, famously "Merry", Great Fire of London, Titus Oates	Charles II	91%
Our longest reigning Monarch, she reigned for 70 years	Elizabeth II	91%
Battle of Agincourt, featured in three Shakespeare plays	Henry V	91%
Weak willed, occasionally insane, deposed and returned as King	Henry VI	91%
First Tudor King	Henry VII	91%
Second-longest reigning Monarch, Industrial Revolution, 19th century era named after her	Victoria	91%
The present Monarch, the longest-serving Prince of Wales in history	Charles III	90%
Longshanks, "Hammer of the Scots", expelled Jews from England	Edward I	90%
First Hanoverian King	George I	90%
Last British monarch born outside Great Britain, Bonnie Prince Charlie	George II	90%
Beauclerc, created Royal Exchequer, dispute with St Anselm	Henry I	90%
Six wives, Dissolution of the Monasteries, had two wives beheaded	Henry VIII	90%
The Conqueror, Battle of Hastings victor, Domesday Book	William I	90%
Murdered in the Tower of London aged around 13, King for 86 days	Edward V	89%
Famously suffered from a mental illness, American War of Independence, Napoleonic Wars	George III	89%
First Angevin King, murder of Thomas Becket	Henry II	89%
Red-faced King, killed while hunting in the New Forest	William II (Rufus)	89%
Possible gay relationship with Piers Gaveston, rumoured death by red hot poker	Edward II	88%
Boy King, 'The Prince and the Pauper', named his young cousin as successor	Edward VI	88%
First World War, cousin of Kaiser Wilhelm and Tsar Nicholas, first Labour government	George V	88%
Order of the Garter, start of the Hundred Year's War, Battle of Crecy, Battle of Poitiers	Edward III	87%
Longest serving Prince of Wales, Uncle of Europe, "Peacemaker"	Edward VII	87%
Commissioned Nash to build Brighton Pavilion, disliked by his subjects, wasteful spending	George IV	87%
Second World War, last Emperor of India, first head of the Commonwealth	George VI	87%
Became King aged 9, Simon de Montfort, fourth longest reigning monarch	Henry III	87%
Nicknamed "Bloody", burned Protestant martyrs, married Philip II of Spain	Mary I	87%
Bolingbroke, Owen Glyndwr, Battle of Shrewsbury, buried in Canterbury Cathedral	Henry IV	86%
Crusader, spent only six months in England as King, Melek-Ric	Richard I	86%
Wars of the Roses, Battle of Tewkesbury, married Elizabeth Woodville	Edward IV	85%
Abdicated to marry an American divorcee after 11 months as King	Edward VIII	85%
King aged 4, regency of John of Gaunt, Peasant's Revolt, deposed	Richard II	85%
Glorious Revolution, husband of the above, member of the House of Orange	William III	85%
First Stuart King, wisest fool in Christendom, Gunpowder Plot	James I	84%
Lackland, Magna Carta, youngest son of Eleanor of Aquitaine	John	84%
Reigned as the first monarch of Great Britain and Ireland, Act of Union	Anne	83%
Last Catholic monarch, Battle of the Boyne, deposed	James II	83%
Supposed murderer of the above, hunchbacked, died during Battle of Bosworth	Richard III	83%
Glorious Revolution, reigned jointly with her husband	Mary II	82%
The Sailor King, Reform Riots	William IV	77%
The Anarchy, disputed throne with his female cousin	Stephen	74%
King of Wessex, burned cakes	Alfred the Great	67%
Skilled hunter, briefly shared rule with his half-brother, died aged 24	Harold I	66%
Killed at the Battle of Hastings, last King of the Anglo-Saxons	Harold II	66%
Disputed claimant to the throne, Queen for nine days, executed aged 16	Lady Jane Grey	66%
Tried to stop the tide, Danegeld	Canute	54%
Poorly advised, famously "unprepared" for Kinghood	Ethelred the Unready	53%
The Anarchy, disputed Queen, styled as Empress	Matilda	52%
Canonised by Pope Alexander III, famously pious, last King of Wessex	Edward the Confessor	43%
First recognised King of England	Athelstan	38%
The Magnificent, revival of monasteries, stabbed to death	Edmund I	35%
The Peaceful, St Dunstan as advisor	Edgar	32%
Proclaimed King but never crowned, exiled after Norman Invasion	Edgar II	32%
King for two years, last Danish King of England	Harthacanute	27%
Resisted Danish Invasion, King for six months	Edmund II (Ironside)	26%
Second King of the Anglo Saxons, Royal court at Winchester	Edward the Elder	24%
Co-ruler with his father (above), junior King	Henry the Young King	22%
First Danish King of England	Sweyn Forkbeard	22%
Theological conflicts with St Dunstan	Eadwig	21%
Murdered at Corfe Castle, modern-day cult following in the Catholic Church	Edward the Martyr	20%
Battled Eric "Bloodaxe"	Eadred	19%