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- 2. Name of the West End musical that puts a pop-concert spin on Henry’s wives.
- 3. The leaders of the world’s three greatest nations during World War I - King George V, Tsar Nicholas II, Kaiser Wilhelm II - were all this word. Their grandma was Queen Victoria - the Kaiser said that if she were still alive, she would never have allowed them to go to war with each other.
- 4. Small mammal native to Wimbledon Common.
- 7. The iconic method of execution used during the French Revolution.
- 9. In 1066 William the Conqueror became King of England. Before that, he was Duke of this part of France.
- 12. The surname of the Prime Minister when the Queen was crowned in 1952 - it was his second term.
- 14. Taken as a spoil of war during the British conquest of India, the Koh-I-Noor remains part of the Crown Jewels to this day despite controversy. But what is it?
- 21. England’s oldest ally - and, in fact, the oldest extant alliance in the world.
- 22. In 1964 Queen Elizabeth’s personal ‘Surveyor of Pictures’ - art professor Sir Anthony Blunt - was unmasked as part of the Cambridge Five, a set of spies with allegiance to the _____ _____.
- 27. The London __________ first opened during the Victorian era.
- 28. A superstition of King Charles II, there must always be _______ in the Tower of London.
- 30. Complete the mnemonic: “Divorced, beheaded, and died, Divorced, beheaded, _________.”
- 31. World War II and this famous figure ended the British Raj for good.
- 32. The former name of the Indian city of Kolkata.
- 33. The new London Underground line opened as part of the Platinum Jubilee, the ___________ Line.
- 34. Elizabeth I’s mother Anne was beheaded when she was two. Good Queen Bess was called the ‘Virgin Queen’ since she didn’t bother having kids - making her the last of this Royal line.
- 35. The second leading cause of death in the Blitz: _______ accidents caused by the city-wide blackouts.
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- 1. Nickname of the 1189 King who ruled the Angevin Empire - when England and France were one country. One of the mane figures of medieval Europe, he played a coeur role in the Third Crusade.
- 5. England and Alaska are at the same latitude; Europe is level with Canada - name the phenomenon that keeps us warm.
- 6. The official MI6 codename in the event of the Queen’s death is Operation: ______ _____.
- 8. This University first began accepting students in 1096, and is older than the Aztecs.
- 10. The former name of the Indian city of Chennai.
- 11. Housed in the British Museum, the Rosetta Stone originally belonged to this country.
- 13. This phrase is commonly attributed to Marie Antoinette, last Queen before the French Revolution, who said these four words upon hearing her peasants had no bread.
- 15. Second wife of Henry VIII, and the first one he had beheaded: Anne _____.
- 16. World War I permanently divided their House of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha - leading King George V to reinvent his image & change his name to this.
- 17. Thought to have been isolated during construction work in the 19th century, there is a unique species of this living in the London Underground.
- 18. Only two British Monarchs have celebrated a Diamond Jubilee (60 years), Queen Elizabeth II and Queen ________.
- 19. The former name of the Indian city of Mumbai.
- 20. Thanks to old Oliver, the original English Civil War between Houses Lancaster and York 200 years earlier had to be retroactively rebranded - to the Wars of the _____.
- 23. This city was the first capital of England.
- 24. The nation that voted to remove the Queen as head of state in November 2021.
- 25. The 1640 English Civil War led to the removal of monarchy in Britain - and this Oliver in charge. He famously banned Christmas.
- 26. This country invaded the Falkland Islands in 1982, sparking the Falklands War.
- 29. Infamous plane flown by British pilots in World War II.