British History
Have you done enough Tudor-ing to know your British History? See if you can out-Fawkes us and answer these questions, but be careful not to lose your head!
WHO WAS THATCHER REFERRING TO WHEN SHE SAID “THERES NO SYMPATHY IN POLITICS”?
WHAT ‘H’ WAS THE KING WHO LOST HIS LIFE AT HASTINGS IN 1066?
WHOM DID MARGARET THATCHER REPLACE AS LEADER OF THE TORY PARTY?
HOW DID HENRY VII PUT AN END TO THE WARS OF THE ROSES IN 1485?
WHICH INFAMOUS ENGLISHMAN’S PRISON NUMBER WAS FF8282?
A FACTORY IN A GARDEN VILLAGE” WAS THE IDEA OF RICHARD AND GEORGE CADBURY IN 1879. WHAT WAS THIS VILLAGE NAMED?
WHO BECAME BRITISH PRIME MINISTER DIRECTLY AFTER HAROLD WILSON LEFT THE POST IN 1976 AND JUST BEFORE MARGARET THATCHER TOOK UP THE POST IN 1979?
KING CHARLES’S DAUGHTER MARY WAS THE FIRST MEMBER OF THE ROYAL FAMILY TO HOLD WHICH TITLE?
GEORGE BLAKE GOT THE LONGEST PRISON SENTENCE IN HISTORY FROM A BRITISH COURT AFTER BEING CHARGED UNDER THE OFFICIAL SECRETS ACT IN MAY 1961. CAN ANYBODY TELL HOW LONG WAS HIS SENTENCE?
BRITISH KING WAS KNOWN TO FAMILY FRIENDS AS DAVID HIS LAST NAME?
IN WHAT YEAR WAS THE SCHOOL LEAVING AGE RAISED TO SIXTEEN?
WHAT ‘L’ IS THE NAME OF THE POLITICAL PARTY THAT SUCCEEDED THE WHIGS?
WHO WAS SHOT & KILLED OUTSIDE THE LIBYAN EMBASSY ON 17TH APRIL 1984?
WHICH PRIME MINISTER TOOK BRITAIN INTO THE EEC?
WHAT ‘KMH’ WERE SAID TO BE HORATIO NELSON’S LAST WORDS?
WHO BUILT THE FIRST TUNNEL UNDER THE RIVER THAMES?
WHAT ‘TR’ WERE THE NAMES OF REGIONS IN YORKSHIRE WHICH WERE ABOLISHED IN 1974?
Who became Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government in May 2006?
Which convicted criminal wrote the book, The Gates of Janus: Serial Killers and their Analysis?
Which celebrity chef received an OBE in the 2003 New Years Honours List?
In 1990 who said, “I am still at the crease, though the bowling has become more hostile lately”?
Eboracum was the Roman name for which English city?
Which king died at the Battle of Bosworth Field?
Who opposed the Roundheads in the English Civil War?
Which future Prime Minister was elected MP for Bexley in 1950?
Who was hanged for the murder of David Blakely?
Who was the bridegroom at the Chapel of the Observance Friars in a wedding that took place on June 11, 1509?
Who claimed that Lord Byron was “Mad, bad and dangerous to know”?
During which English monarch’s reign was the novel Ivanhoe set?
Point Clue: In 1988 I gave birth to a baby girl who was christened Beatrice. Who am I?
What name was given to murderer Peter Sutcliffe?
Who was the next British Prime Minister after Arthur Balfour?
Who won England’s ‘War of the Roses.’
Who was the only British Prime Minister to die at No. 10 Downing Street, London?
What was the British government forced to abolish in 1991, replacing it with the council tax?
Evening Star no. 92220 was the last what in Britain?
Who was the last British Prime Minister not to have a wife?
Archaeologists believe they have located the burial site of Boudicca, the British queen who led a bloody revolt against Roman rule in the first century A.D. Where is it?
WHAT ‘W’ IS ENGLAND’S OLDEST PUBLIC SCHOOL?
WHAT WAS DESIGNED IN 1997 BY ART TEACHER “BRUCE RUSHIN” TO SYMBOLISE THE PROGRESS OF TECHNOLOGY WITHIN BRITISH INDUSTRY?
WHAT ‘B’ IS THE IRISH COLONEL WHO STOLE THE CROWN JEWELS IN 1671?
WHAT IS MARGARET THATCHERS MIDDLE NAME?
HOW WERE THE EVIL MYRA HYNDLEY & IAN BRADY OTHERWISE KNOWN?
WHAT IN ARTHURIAN LEGEND WAS THE SIEGE PERILOUS?
WHICH ENGLISH KING WAS BEHEADED IN 1649 –?
WHAT GREAT MILITARY LEADER WAS AN ACCOMPLISHED YO-YO PLAYER?
WHO SERVED UNDER NELSON COMMANDING THE GLATTON 1801?
HOW MANY SCENES ARE ON THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY?
WHAT WAS THE CORONATION YEAR OF QUEEN ELIZABETH 2ND?
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