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  • What did Florence Nightingale do?
    Married a wealthy man, and became a good wife as expected.
    Made nursing a skilled and respected profession.
  • Who broke with Rome and established the Protestant Church?
    Martin Luther
    Henry VIII
    King Harold II
    Julius Caesar
  • When could women in England get to vote?
    1928
    1997
    1955
    1967
  • How many wives did Henry VIII have during his life?
    4
    11
    8
    6
  • When did Great Britain first come to existence as a state?
    1707
    1881
    1914
  • When did the Industrial Revolution in Britain begin?
    Late 1800s
    Early 1600s
    1700s
    1825
  • What does this picture represent?
    Work in the Victorian Age
    Alcohol abusion in Britain
  • When did most of Ireland become independent of Britain?
    1916
    1922
    1800
    1950
  • Who was Britain's prime minister during most of the Second World War?
    David Lloyd George
    Clement Atlee
    Winston Churchill
  • During which English monarch's reign did Shakespeare write most of his plays?
    Queen Elizabeth I
    King James I
    Queen Victoria
  • What happens in 1707?
    Act of Union between England and Wales.
    Act between England and Scotland, creating Great Britain.
    Slavery is abolished in the British Empire.
    Victoria comes to the throne.
  • Who was called "Bloody Mary"?
    King Henry's famous warship
    A woman accused for witchcraft
    Queen Mary I of England
  • Who is called the "Virgin Queen"?
    Queen Victoria
    Queen Mary
    Holy Mary
    Queen Elizabeth I
  • Who did Britain defeat in 1815?
    King Fredrik VI (Denmark)
    Napoleon (France)
    Bismarck (Germany)
    Philip II (Spain)
  • Which Queen was later crowned Empress of India?
    Queen Mary
    Queen Elizabeth II
    Queen Victoria
  • What does the Union Jack Represent?
    It represents the Union of the different countries.
    It represents the ships of England
  • Who was Oliver Cromwell?
    Lord Protector when England had no monarch
    Henry VIII's Chief minister.
    19th century Irish republican leader
  • Which King is so famous that Disney made a movie about him as a child?
    King John
    King Arthur
    King George
    King James
  • When did the "Black death" reach England?
    1348
    1254
    1329
    Early 1400s
  • Who was the successor of Queen Elizabeth I?
    King Henry VIII 
    King James I
    King Harold II
    King George 
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