Trivia Quiz on British History Part 2

1. During which conflict were the battles of Blore Heath, Wakefield, Northampton and Mortimer's Cross

A) Hundred Years' War

B) English Civil War

C) Napoleonic Wars

D) Wars of the roses

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2. Edward Teach became famous as who

A) Captain Kidd

B) Blackbeard the Pirate

C) Calico Jack

D) Anne Bonny

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3. There are 2 annual publications devoted to the peerage. One is Burkes Peerage, what is the other

A) Whos Who

B) Dod's Peerage and Baronetage

C) Almanac of British Nobility

D) Debretts

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4. What London landmark has an 11 foot long hand?

A) Elizabeth Tower

B) London Eye

C) Tower Bridge

D) Big Ben

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5. What is a Winston Churchill

A) Hat

B) Cigar

C) Statue

D) Piano

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6. Where is Bonnie Prince Charlie buried

A) Paris

B) Edinburgh

C) London

D) Rome

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7. Which English Prime Minister was known as 'the Great Commoner'?

A) William Pitt the Younger

B) William Pitt the Elder

C) Robert Walpole

D) Benjamin Disraeli

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8. At which village in West Sussex was a Roman palace discovered in 1960

A) Fishbourne

B) Bignor

C) Chichester

D) Pulborough

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9. Honi soit qui mal y pence is the motto of what organisation

A) Knights Templar

B) The Holy See

C) Order of the Garter

D) The Order of the Thistle

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10. Who became Prime Minister following the assassination of Spencer Percival in 1812

A) William Pitt the Younger

B) Robert Banks Jenkinson

C) Charles Grey

D) George Canning

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11. Henry the Eighth was the father of two English Queens, Mary I and Elizabeth I. Which other King was the father did the same

A) Charles the First

B) James the second

C) George the Fourth

D) Edward the Confessor

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12. What 3 flags does the Union Jack comprise of?

A) England Scotland Wales

B) England Ireland Wales

C) Scotland Ireland Northern Ireland

D) England Scotland Ireland

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13. 1979 at Clifton suspension bridge Britain's first what happened

A) Zipline stunt from the bridge

B) Bungee Jump

C) Base jumping from the bridge

D) Bridge walkathon to celebrate the anniversary

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14. In 1840 London Sweet Maker Tom Smith Came Up An Invention Still Hugely Popular Today What Was It?

A) The safety pin

B) The postage stamp

C) The zipper

D) The Christmas Cracker

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15. Who, on his deathbed, said that he did not wish Queen Victoria to visit him because she would only give him a message for Albert

A) Charles Dickens

B) Thomas Carlyle

C) William Ewart Gladstone

D) Disraeli

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16. Building started on Westminster Abbey in which year

A) 960

B) 1050

C) 1066

D) 1045

E) 1121

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17. Who was the famous grandfather of Charles Darwin?

A) Erasmus Darwin

B) Josiah Wedgwood II

C) Robert Darwin

D) Josiah Wedgewood

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18. Which British Monarch Came To The Thrown On Christmas Day 1066 (Alternative)

A) William The Conqueror

B) Harold Godwinson

C) Edward the Confessor

D) William II

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19. Tudor England mans apron shows job white cook what checked

A) Baker

B) Blacksmith

C) Barber

D) Butcher

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20. He said 'i have nothing to offer but blood, tears, toil and sweat'

A) Winston

B) Churchill

C) Roosevelt

D) Gandhi

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21. How was William Huskinson killed in 1830 - first ever

A) Run over by Railway Train

B) Died in a duel with a rival politician

C) Succumbed to illness while visiting London

D) Fell from a horse-drawn carriage and died

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22. The first person to swim the English Channel did so in what year

A) 1873

B) 1869

C) 1880

D) 1875

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23. What is the official residence of the Lord Mayor of London?

A) Buckingham Palace

B) Mansion House

C) Guildhall

D) Tower of London

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24. Who rode a horse called Diomed

A) Napoleon Bonaparte

B) Alexander the Great

C) Duke of Wellington

D) Julius Caesar

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25. Who was the first British monarch to visit America

A) George VI in 1939

B) George V in 1911

C) Elizabeth II in 1957

D) Queen Victoria in 1861

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26. What was the name of the Duke of Wellington, who defeated Napoleon at the battle of Waterloo

A) Duke of Marlborough

B) Duke of York

C) Arthur Wellesley

D) Duke of Cambridge

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27. This is said to be history's greatest military evacuation

A) Battle of Britain

B) Dunkirk

C) The Long March

D) The Retreat from Moscow

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28. Who invented the first flush toilet

A) Thomas crapper

B) Sir John Harrington

C) Alexander Cumming

D) George Jennings

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29. Israel Tongue and who else devised the "Popish Plot"

A) Henry Garnet

B) Titus oates

C) William Bedloe

D) Edward Coleman

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30. The Late Edward Smith "That Means He's Dead" Edward Smith Has What Historical Claim To Fame

A) Head of the British Royal Navy

B) Captain Of The Lusitania

C) Captain Of The Titanic

D) Discoverer of the Northwest Passage

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31. In 1948 A Personnel Officer At ICI Noted That An Applicant Was "Headstrong, Obstinate & Dangerously Self Opinionated" Which Potential Recruit Was Turned Down

A) Margaret Thatcher

B) Indira Gandhi

C) Golda Meir

D) Barbara Castle

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32. What eventually killed Oliver Cromwell

A) Malaria

B) Pneumonia

C) Stroke

D) Dysentery

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33. Who is the only British Prime Minister to be assassinated?

A) Benjamin Disraeli

B) Spencer Percival

C) Winston Churchill

D) Harold Wilson

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34. In 1918 what were Jelly Babies renamed

A) War Babies

B) Liberty Babies

C) Peace Babies

D) Victory Babies

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35. Where are the guards who wear bearskins

A) Windsor Castle

B) Buckingham Palace

C) Tower of London

D) St James's Palace

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36. Which British King had the-longest reign

A) George II

B) William IV

C) George iii

D) Henry III

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37. Who was the last native-born Prince of Wales

A) Edward II

B) Henry V

C) Charles III

D) Owen glendower

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38. What was the largest town in Britain before it became a city in 1992

A) Bolton

B) Sunderland

C) Gateshead

D) Ipswich

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39. 51 what were destroyed by the Great fire of London

A) Churches

B) Cathedrals

C) Homes

D) Markets

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40. In England what year was the Lynmouth flood disaster

A) 1902

B) 1952

C) 1969

D) 1959

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41. When did Baden Powell found the Boy Scout movement

A) 1905

B) 1906

C) 1908

D) 1907

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42. What was the title of Oliver Cromwell when he was head of the Commonwealth

A) Commander-in-Chief

B) President of the Commonwealth

C) King of England

D) Lord protector

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43. What year did Emily Pankhurst chain herself to 10 Downing Street

A) 1905

B) 1909

C) 1907

D) 1911

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44. Leather Apron was an alternative name for what famous figure

A) Jack the Ripper

B) Sweeney Todd

C) H. H. Holmes

D) Albert Fish

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45. Alex Pierrepoint & His Assistant Royston Pickard Executed Who At Holloway Prison On 12th July 1955

A) Ruth Ellis

B) Diane Connolly

C) Barbara Smith

D) Maureen Blake

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46. Who became king of Scotland two years before Edward the Confessor took over as king of England?

A) Duncan I

B) MacBeth

C) Malcolm III

D) Lulach

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47. Who was jethro tull

A) Agriculturist

B) Inventor

C) Botanist

D) Engineer

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48. What was the recently closed Wembley Stadium called in 1923

A) The Empire Stadium

B) British Empire Stadium

C) Wembley Park Stadium

D) London National Stadium

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49. What colour is Queen Elizabeth's blotting paper

A) Blue

B) White

C) Black

D) Green

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50. Who said - Give us the tools and we will finish the job Feb 1941

A) Winston Churchill

B) Franklin D. Roosevelt

C) Joseph Stalin

D) Charles de Gaulle

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