British History

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1 Winston Churchill 11x

2 Queen Elizabeth I 8x

3 Oliver Cromwell 7x

4 India 7x

5 Henry VIII 7x

6 Margaret Thatcher 7x

7 Queen Victoria 7x

8 Benjamin Disraeli 7x

9 the Magna Carta 6x

10 Florence Nightingale 6x

11 the Tower of London 5x

12 George III 5x

13 Eton 5x

14 Wales 4x

15 tea 4x

16 France 4x

17 Cornwall 4x

18 Charles II 4x

19 parliament 4x

20 Thomas Becket 4x

21 Charles Darwin 4x

22 (Samuel) Pepys 4x

23 William the Conqueror 3x

24 William & Mary 3x

25 Westminster Abbey 3x

26 the House of Lords 3x

27 Scotland 3x

28 Oxford 3x

29 Mary 3x

30 Lady Jane Grey 3x

31 Julius Caesar 3x

32 James I 3x

33 Jack the Ripper 3x

34 Henry VII 3x

35 Canterbury 3x

36 the Pope 3x

37 the Chunnel 3x

38 Prince of Wales 3x

39 Newton 3x

40 Elizabeth II 3x

41 Drake 3x

42 Windsor 2x

43 William Wallace 2x

44 Welsh 2x

45 Tudor 2x

46 Thomas More 2x

47 the Wars of the Roses 2x

48 the Vikings 2x

49 the Suez 2x

50 the Spanish Armada 2x

Sample Clues

The only British Prime Minister to win the Nobel Prize for Literature

Winston Churchill

The Tudor dynasty ended in 1603 with the death of this queen

Queen Elizabeth I

When he died in 1658, his son Richard succeeded him as Lord Protector

Oliver Cromwell

Robert Clive made about $1,000,000 while bringing much of this country into the British Empire

India

He's buried in St. George's Chapel in Windsor Castle, beside his third wife

Henry VIII

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Other 568

Margaret Thatcher (8) Oliver Cromwell (8) Benjamin Disraeli (7) Queen Victoria (7) Henry VIII (6) Elizabeth I (6) Florence Nightingale (6) the Tower of London (5) George III (5) Eton (5)

Medieval 52

the Magna Carta (7) Tudor (2) Henry VII (2) the Vikings (2) Henry VIII (1) Sir Gawain (1) (Samuel) Pepys (1) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1) jousting (1) Wessex (1)

Ancient 26

Julius Caesar (3) Britannia (2) the Druids (2) the BBC (1) Big Ben (1) Winston Churchill (1) Albion (1) Elgin (1) Hadrian's Wall (1) Villas (1)

World War II 16

Winston Churchill (9) Rudolf Hess (1) Enigma (1) Dunkirk (1) Clement Attlee (1) Africa (1) D-Day (1) Baskin-Robbins (1)

Colonial / Exploration 13

Sir Walter Raleigh (3) Drake (2) Rhodes (1) Livingstone (1) Shackleton (1) Sir Richard Burton (1) Bermuda (1) Belize (1) India (1) Elizabeth I (1)

Civil War 9

the English Civil War (2) Wales (1) Model Army (1) the Cavaliers (1) the Puritans (1) the Wars of the Roses (1) Oxford (1) Whitehall (1)

Revolutionary Era 6

the Industrial Revolution (1) Glorious (1) India (1) Cornwallis (1) James II (1) 1688 (1)

World War I 6

the Mauretania (1) the Royal Air Force (1) the Channel Islands (1) Lloyd George (or Asquith) (1) Churchill (1) Neville Chamberlain (1)

Cold War 1

the Cuban Missile Crisis (1)

Modern (post-1990) 1

Tony Blair (1)