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!
WHAT WAS THE NAME OF PRINCESS DIANA’S FORMER BUTLER WHO WAS ACCUSED OF THEFT OF HER PERSONAL BELONGINGS SHORTLY AFTER HE?
WHAT ‘R’ IN THE 16TH CENTURY RESULTED IN THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THE PROTESTANT CHURCH?
WHICH IC’ LED THE LABOUR PARTY AFTER WILSON?
WHICH FAMOUS PERSON IN HISTORY WAS SOMETIMES REFERRED TO AS THE LADY WITH THE LAMP?
WHAT ‘P’ INHABITED SCOTLAND IN PRE-ROMAN TIMES?
OF WHOM DID CHURCHILL SAY “I CAN’T DEAL WITH 2 SHITS AT ONCE”?
WHAT ‘W’ WAS BRITISH PRIME MINISTER IN 1965?
WHAT CEASED TO BE LEGAL AT MIDNIGHT ON DECEMBER 31ST 1960?
WHAT ‘H’ HAD SIX WIVES?
WHO WERE THE FIRST 2 LABOUR PRIME MINISTERS OF GREAT BRITAIN?
WHO WAS HANGED IN EDINBURGH IN 1829 FOR MULTIPLE MURDER IN SUPPLYING DOCTORS WITH CORPSES FOR DISSECTION?
IN WHAT YEAR DID THE CLIFTON SUSPENSION BRIDGE FIRST OPEN?
HOW MANY PEOPLE DIED IN THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON?
IN WHAT YEAR DID ENGLISH BECOME THE OFFICIAL LANGUAGE OF PARLIAMENT?
WHICH COUNTRIES WERE INVOLVED IN THE 1993 DOWNING STREET DECLARATION?
WHICH BRITISH CITY WAS NAMED DEVA BY THE ROMANS?
IN THE WORLD OF POLITICS WHAT WAS BROADCAST FOR THE VERY FIRST TIME ON THE 20 TH MARCH 1990?
WHICH FEMALE MINISTER OF TRANSPORT INTRODUCED THE BREATHALYZER?
WHAT ‘FN’ WAS ALSO KNOWN AS THE LADY OF THE LAMP”?
HOW MANY FORMER BRITISH PRIME MINISTERS ARE ALIVE TODAY? (2006)?
IN SEPTEMBER 2003, FATHERS 4 JUSTICE CAMPAIGNER JASON HATCH CAUSED AN EMBARRASSING SECURITY BREACH AT BUCKINGHAM PALACE DRESSED AS WHO?
WHO WAS ELECTED AS THE CONSERVATIVE MP FOR HENLEY IN 2001?
ACCORDING TO OFFICIAL RECORDS HOW MANY PEOPLE DIED IN THE GREAT FIRE OF LONDON OF 1666?
WHAT ‘J’ MEANS PERTAINING TO THE REGION OF JAMES I?
WHAT ‘L’ WAS A FAMOUS NINETEENTH-CENTURY SCOTTISH EXPLORER?
IN WHAT YEAR DID BARCLAYS BANK OPEN ITS FIRST CASH POINT?
THE WORLDS VERY FIRST TYPE OF ADHESIVE WAS USED ON WHAT?
WHICH BRITISH MONARCH WAS NICKNAMED “FARMER GEORGE”?
A COMMON SIGHT IN MOST HIGH STREETS, WHAT WAS INVENTED IN 1967 BY ENGLISHMAN JOHN SHEPHERD- BARRON?
WHO SAID “WE HAVE BECOME A GRANDMOTHER” IN 1989?
WHO WAS THE 1ST WIFE OF HENRY VIII?
WHO FOUNDED CHEESE MAKING IN ENGLAND?
WHO WAS THE PRIME MINISTER OF BRITAIN AT THE START OF THE FIRST WORLD WAR?
WHICH OUTLAW RODE A HORSE CALLED BLACK BESS?
WHICH ‘JTR’ TERRORISED VICTORIAN LONDON?
IN BRITISH HISTORY A CAVALIER WAS A SUPPORTER OF WHICH KING?
WHO WAS HENRY VIII’S FOURTH WIFE?
IN 1688 EDINBURGH BECAME THE FIRST CITY TO HAVE WHAT?
WHAT ‘P’ REVOLTED IN ENGLAND IN 1381?
GEORGE V COLLECTED HOW MANY STAMP ALBUMS?
WHO RESIGNED FROM BRITISH GOVERNMENT IN 1988 AFTER SAYING MOST EGGS WERE UNSAFE TO EAT?
WHAT ‘AW’ IS A SHORT TIME IN POLITICS ACCORDING TO HAROLD WILSON?
HOW IS THE “MANX SHEARWATER” TRADITIONALLY KNOWN IN THE SCILLY ISLES?
WHO WERE THE TARGETS OF A TERRORIST BOMB AT BRIGHTONS GRAND HOTEL IN 1984?
IN WHAT YEAR DID OXFORD UNIVERSITY ADMIT WOMAN FOR THE FIRST TIME (AS STUDENTS)?
IN WHICH YEAR WAS THE FIRST OF LONDONS BLUE PLAQUES PLACED ON THE HOUSE WHERE THOMAS MACAULEY DIED?
HOW DID HENRY STANLEY CARRY HIS BOAT, THE LADY ALICE OVERLAND “?
WHERE DID KING JOHN SIGN THE MAGNA CARTA?
WHAT WAS THE FIRST UNDERGROUND RAILWAY LINE IN LONDON?
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