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  1. 2. Name of the West End musical that puts a pop-concert spin on Henry’s wives.
  2. 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.
  3. 4. Small mammal native to Wimbledon Common.
  4. 7. The iconic method of execution used during the French Revolution.
  5. 9. In 1066 William the Conqueror became King of England. Before that, he was Duke of this part of France.
  6. 12. The surname of the Prime Minister when the Queen was crowned in 1952 - it was his second term.
  7. 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?
  8. 21. England’s oldest ally - and, in fact, the oldest extant alliance in the world.
  9. 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 _____ _____.
  10. 27. The London __________ first opened during the Victorian era.
  11. 28. A superstition of King Charles II, there must always be _______ in the Tower of London.
  12. 30. Complete the mnemonic: “Divorced, beheaded, and died, Divorced, beheaded, _________.”
  13. 31. World War II and this famous figure ended the British Raj for good.
  14. 32. The former name of the Indian city of Kolkata.
  15. 33. The new London Underground line opened as part of the Platinum Jubilee, the ___________ Line.
  16. 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.
  17. 35. The second leading cause of death in the Blitz: _______ accidents caused by the city-wide blackouts.
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  1. 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.
  2. 5. England and Alaska are at the same latitude; Europe is level with Canada - name the phenomenon that keeps us warm.
  3. 6. The official MI6 codename in the event of the Queen’s death is Operation: ______ _____.
  4. 8. This University first began accepting students in 1096, and is older than the Aztecs.
  5. 10. The former name of the Indian city of Chennai.
  6. 11. Housed in the British Museum, the Rosetta Stone originally belonged to this country.
  7. 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.
  8. 15. Second wife of Henry VIII, and the first one he had beheaded: Anne _____.
  9. 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.
  10. 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.
  11. 18. Only two British Monarchs have celebrated a Diamond Jubilee (60 years), Queen Elizabeth II and Queen ________.
  12. 19. The former name of the Indian city of Mumbai.
  13. 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 _____.
  14. 23. This city was the first capital of England.
  15. 24. The nation that voted to remove the Queen as head of state in November 2021.
  16. 25. The 1640 English Civil War led to the removal of monarchy in Britain - and this Oliver in charge. He famously banned Christmas.
  17. 26. This country invaded the Falkland Islands in 1982, sparking the Falklands War.
  18. 29. Infamous plane flown by British pilots in World War II.