The Earl of Derby who eventually and decisively sided with Henry Tudor at the Battle of Bosworth 1485 was Thomas .......?
The English physician who traced a cholera outbreak in London to a public water pump in 1854 resulting in major changes to water and waste systems was John .......?
The Scottish civil engineer, designer and builder of lighthouses was Robert .......?
The English mechanical engineer and 'Father of Railways' who built the Stockton and Darlington Railway 1822-25 was George .......?
The Scot who founded the Special Air Service (SAS) during WWII was David .......?
The Chancellor and Archbishop of Canterbury beheaded by the rebels during the Peasant's Revolt of 1381 was Simon .......?
The explorer who died along with his team returning from the South Pole in 1912 was Robert Falcon .......?
The English gained control over the English Channel by defeating the French in which major naval battle fought in 1340 during the Hundred Year's War?
General John Burgoyne was defeated in which battle of 1777 during the American Revolution that encouraged the French to support the Americans?
British General Redvers Buller was defeated by Louis Botha in which battle fought in 1900 during the Second Boer War?
The English Romantic poet who wrote 'Ode to the West Wind' and 'To a Skylark' who drowned in the Gulf of Spezia Italy in 1822 was Percy Bysshe ......?
The Anglo-Irish satirist and author of 'Gulliver's Travels' published 1726 was Jonathan .......?
The Victorian explorer who became the first European to reach Lake Victoria in 1858 claiming it to be the source of the White Nile was John Hanning .......?
The first battle of the Wars of the Roses which saw the deaths of the Lancastrian Dukes of Somerset, Buckingham and Lord Clifford was fought where in 1455?
In which battle of 1812 during the Peninsula War was it said that the Duke of Wellington defeated a French army of 40,000 in 40 minutes?
The Act of Parliament 1701 that barred Roman Catholics from the throne was called the Act of .......?
The physicist and chemist most famous for his role in the development of the first incandescent light bulb patented 1880 was Joseph .......?
Admiral George Rodney defeated a French fleet hoping to capture the valuable Caribbean sugar islands at which battle fought 1782 near Dominica?
The Welsh explorer who found the missing missionary David Livingstone at Ujiji Tanzania in 1871 was Henry Morton .......?
An East India Company army defeated and killed the pro-French 'Tiger of Mysore' Tipu Sultan and took control of the Kingdom of Mysore at which siege and battle in southern India 1799?
The campaigner for the abolition of the slave trade whose efforts led to the founding of the Province of Freedom in 1787 that became Freetown, Sierra Leone was Granville .......?
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