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