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1 Oliver Cromwell 6x
2 Henry VIII 5x
3 the Magna Carta 4x
4 Margaret Thatcher 4x
5 Winston Churchill 3x
6 Queen Victoria 3x
7 India 3x
8 Eton 3x
9 Canterbury 3x
10 William the Conqueror 3x
11 the Falkland Islands 3x
12 Disraeli 3x
13 Samuel Pepys 3x
14 Windsor 2x
15 William & Mary 2x
16 the Suez 2x
17 the Spanish Armada 2x
18 the Restoration 2x
19 the Pope 2x
20 the House of Lords 2x
21 the Gunpowder Plot 2x
22 the Domesday Book 2x
23 Stuart 2x
24 John 2x
25 Jack the Ripper 2x
26 Henry VII 2x
27 Charles II 2x
28 Charles I 2x
29 Britannia 2x
30 Alfred the Great 2x
31 Thomas à Becket 2x
32 the corn laws 2x
33 Richard the Lionhearted 2x
34 Queen Elizabeth I 2x
35 Admiral Nelson 2x
36 King George III 2x
37 Bloody Mary 2x
38 Balfour 2x

Sample Clues

Embalmers messed up the body after his 1658 death; in 1661 folks thought putting his head on a pole was a nice finishing touch
Oliver Cromwell
Pope Leo X gave this monarch the title "Defender of the Faith" in 1521 for his written work against Martin Luther
Henry VIII
Containing concessions by the king, this 13th c. document is one of the foundations of English & American law
the Magna Carta
In 1984 she narrowly escaped assassination as her hotel bathroom was destroyed by an IRA bomb
Margaret Thatcher
The only British Prime Minister to win the Nobel Prize for Literature
Winston Churchill
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