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1 What is the name of the historical era during which Henry VIII was King of England?
A The Tudor Period
2 Where did WWII’s ‘Operation Overlord’ take place?
A Normandy
3 Which art historian and surveyor of the Royal Collection, was exposed in 1979as a Russian spy?
A Anthony Blunt
4 British army forces commanded by which Field Marshal defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo?
A The Duke of Wellington (Arthur Wellesley)
5 Which city and centre of learning was the royalist headquarters during the English Civil War, 1642–1651?
A Oxford
6 In which famous battle of the Texas Revolution, was a frontiersman and politician Davy Crockett killed?
A Battle of the Alamo (1836 – a military conflict between the government of Mexico and Texas colonists)
7 Who was the infamous Australian bushranger, cattle rustler and murderer, convicted and hanged in November 1880?
A Ned Kelly
8 Who was the reigning British monarch at the time of the First World War?
A George V
9 During which war did the Battles of Agincourt, Crecy, and Poitiers take place?
A The Hundred Years War (lasted 116 years)
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