Can you name the territories of the British Empire at its largest extent in 1920? by Tomyris

Year Acquired	Territory	Date of Independence
1839		1967 (Yemen)
From 1886		1967 (Yemen)
1899		1956 (Sudan)
1650; under British Leeward Islands from 1833		British Overseas Territory
1632; under British Leeward Islands from 1833		1981 (Antigua and Barbuda)
1815		British Overseas Territory
Whole of country claimed 1829		1931
1629		1973
1861, 1880 protectorate treaties		1971
1624		1966
1628; under British Leeward Islands from 1833		1981 (Antigua and Barbuda)
1868		1966 (Lesotho)
1885		1966 (Botswana)
1609		British Overseas Territory
From 1819; claimed 1908		British Overseas Territory
From 1887 (lease of coast from Zanzibar)		1963 (Kenya)
1796-1815		1966 (Guyana)
1638		1981 (Belize)
1884-7		1960 (Somaliland)
1914 occupied; mandate 1920		1956 (Ghana)
1666 occupied; annexed 1672; under British Leeward Islands from 1833		British Overseas Territory
1888		1984
1824-6; 1852; 1885		1948
Federation created 1867		1931
1939 Anglo-American condominium		1979 (Kiribati)
1670		British Overseas Territory
1795-6		1948 (Sri Lanka)
1810
1888; under crown colony of Straits Settlements 1867		1957 under Australian control
1857; under crown colony of Straits Settlements 1867		1955 under Australian control
1878		1960
1761; under British Leeward Islands from 1871		1978
1882; protectorate 1914		1922
1766 first settlement		British Overseas Territory

Year Acquired	Territory	Date of Independence
1755 earliest foothold; grouped together 1908
1895 union		1957 (Malaysia)
1871 first settlement; crown colony 1874		1970
1661 earliest foothold		1965
1621 earliest foothold		1957 (Ghana)
1704		British Overseas Territory
1892 protectorate; colony from 1916		1976 (Kiribati, Tuvalu)
1762, ceded 1763		1974
1841, ceded 1842		1997 to China
Crown rule 1858		1947 (India, Pakistan, Bangladesh)
1915 occupied; mandate 1920		1932
From 1169		1931 (Ireland, Northern Ireland)
1655		1962
1885 protectorate; part of Unfederated Malay States from 1909		1957 (Malaysia)
1909 part of Unfederated Malay States		1957 (Malaysia)
1909 part of Unfederated Malay States		1957 (Malaysia)
1899		1961
1846; under crown colony of Straits Settlements 1867		1963 (Malaysia)
1824; under crown colony of Straits Settlements 1867		1957 (Malaysia)
1887 protectorate		1965
1798-1800		1964
1810		1968
1632; under British Leeward Islands from 1871		British Overseas Territory
1861; de facto protectorate extended 1891		1971
1914 Australian occupation; mandate 1920		1968
1628 first settlement; under British Leeward Islands from 1833		1983
1887 Anglo-French condominium		1980 (Vanuatu)
1769 claimed by Captain James Cook; annexed 1840		1931
1497 claimed for England; annexed 1583		1949 joined Canada
1861-1914		1960
1881 British North Borneo Company; protectorate 1888		1963 joined Malaysia as Sabah
1889-1900		1964
1889		1964 (Malawi)
1917 occupied; mandate 1920		1948 (Israel/Palestinian Territories)

Year Acquired	Territory	Date of Independence
1884; 1914		1975 (Papua New Guinea)
1867 under crown colony of Straits Settlements		1957 (Malaysia)
1909 part of Unfederated Malay States		1957 (Malaysia)
1838		British Overseas Territory
1868		1971
1651 occupation by British East India Company		British Overseas Territory
1623 first settlement; under British Leeward Islands from 1833		1983
1605 first settlement; permanent control 1803		1979
1627		1979 (St Vincent and the Grenadines)
1841 ruled by Brooke rajahs; British protectorate 1888		1963 (Malaysia)
1794 occupied		1976
1787		1961
1819 ceded to Stamford Raffles; to Britain 1824; under crown colony of Straits Settlements 1867		1963 joined Malaysia; independent 1965
1893		1978
Union formed 1910		1931
1915 occupied by South Africa; mandate 1921
1888
1890-3		1968
1916 occupied; mandate 1920		1968 (Tanzania)
1909 part of Unfederated Malay States		1957 (Malaysia)
1762		1962 (Trinidad and Tobago)
1900		1970
1917-18		1946 (Jordan)
1797		1962 (Trinidad and Tobago)
1816		British Overseas Territory
From c.1820 informal protectorate; extended 1892		1971 (United Arab Emirates)
1678		British Overseas Territory
1890		1962
1877 protectorate		1926 to New Zealand (Tokelau)
1898		1930 to China
1914 occupied by New Zealand; mandate 1920		1962 (Samoa)
1862		1963 (Tanzania)

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The British Empire At Its Largest Extent Quiz

by Tomyris

Created Oct 2, 2009 in History
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	peanut4:	Oct 2nd, 2009 at 23:54 GMT	7 points
	Great quiz.

	johnlk:	Oct 3rd, 2009 at 02:57 GMT	1 point
	Why no Gilbert and Ellice Islands?

	Tomyris:	Oct 3rd, 2009 at 09:23 GMT	3 points
	Thanks for pointing out the ommission - sharp eye there! I've added them in! :)

	dolby:	Oct 3rd, 2009 at 10:52 GMT	1 point
	myanmar should work for burma....

	Tomyris:	Oct 3rd, 2009 at 13:18 GMT	2 points
	Enabled that, and also both 'Saint' and 'St' Helena!

	Tomyris:	Oct 3rd, 2009 at 16:20 GMT	3 points
	Also, typing in British Leeward Islands, British Western Pacific Territories and Straits Settlements will now give you all the territories which were parts of those colonies in 1920.

	mdunne:	Oct 4th, 2009 at 13:26 GMT	3 points
	fantastic quiz!

	rhebus:	Oct 4th, 2009 at 15:52 GMT	-1 points
	south georgia?

	Tomyris:	Oct 4th, 2009 at 15:57 GMT	3 points
	If you type in 'South Georgia' it will show up as 'Falkland Islands Dependencies'. Also, by typing in 'British Malaya' or simply 'Malaya' it will give you all its constituent parts - the territories making up the 'Straits Settlements', 'Unfederated Malay States' and 'Federated Malay States'.

	QuizKingJon:	Oct 4th, 2009 at 17:12 GMT	4 points
	Good quiz. What about Jersey / Guernsey (channel island crown dependencies), isle of man, etc. Not part of the UK so probably should count. I have a quiz on a similar topic: http://www.sporcle.com/games/QuizKingJon/commonwealth_games_teams

	naylor182:	Oct 4th, 2009 at 19:25 GMT	2 points
	Excellent quiz! I'd have like that you'd have been more controversial and included Wales, but oh well! Well done.

	DRB:	Oct 4th, 2009 at 22:47 GMT	7 points
	Really interesting quiz, as a Brit I should have got many more than I did! I would have thought that England, Scotland and Wales should have counted (as well as the Channel Islands, Isle of Man etc) as they were British territory in 1920?

	anAmatuer:	Oct 5th, 2009 at 01:05 GMT	10 points
	Surprised it's not already a Sporcle-published quiz.

	steeltown:	Oct 5th, 2009 at 04:25 GMT	0 points
	Hugely entertaining and challenging. I wasted some time by not reading the 1920 date & wondered if we were supposed to start with Wales, Scotland & Ireland, or with Virginia, Massachusetts, etc. Still very fun.

	hairpile:	Oct 7th, 2009 at 09:55 GMT	0 points
	Awesome, loved the idea. Kinda pissed i missed Ireland Is there a way to put it into 4 colomns or something? I imagine those using standard laptop screens can't see most of it.

	stilicho:	Oct 26th, 2009 at 20:22 GMT	5 points
	Shouldn't this include Britain itself?

	Curtmudgeon:	Oct 27th, 2009 at 14:55 GMT	3 points
	Missed Cameroons (with the 's') -- German Kamerun was divided in WWI into Cameroun (French) and Northern & Southern Cameroons (British). N/S Cameroons were then split between Nigeria, and a portion which was merged with Cameroun to form modern Cameroon (without the 's').

	Curtmudgeon:	Oct 27th, 2009 at 14:58 GMT	8 points
	Ignore previous comment -- I just noticed the Cameroons mandate wasn't given to UK until 1922, after the quiz's start date. Sorry.

	thamesx2:	Nov 9th, 2009 at 13:48 GMT	1 point
	Should accept "Pitcairn" for Pitcairn Islands, Great Quiz

	papercrab:	Nov 11th, 2009 at 02:23 GMT	3 points
	Things that should work: Pitcairn (agree with above), British Indian Ocean Territory, British Antarctica.

	Tomyris:	Nov 12th, 2009 at 12:29 GMT	4 points
	Changes implemented :D

	amp2006:	Nov 13th, 2009 at 21:13 GMT	4 points
	Very fun to do! Got 76/100. Great idea!

	adzaho31:	Nov 16th, 2009 at 22:22 GMT	2 points
	great quiz, but "somalia" should work for british somalialand

	ulashima:	Nov 21st, 2009 at 08:46 GMT	1 point
	One trick us test takers have fallen into is only entering countries that have gained independence but not the ones stil a territory of the UK. Nice quiz it is, and educating too. "The empire that sun doesn't set on" , indeed it is.

	Skrimshander:	Nov 21st, 2009 at 09:23 GMT	2 points
	Good quiz. Agree with earlier comment re Jersey, Guernsey and the Isle of Man. They are Crown Dependencies of the UK, not part of it.

	adam999:	Nov 21st, 2009 at 16:33 GMT	1 point
	i got 2 from just typing in 'the'

	DrRichie:	Nov 21st, 2009 at 17:19 GMT	6 points
	Oh happy days. The world was a much better place then...

	CitizenSnips:	Nov 21st, 2009 at 19:16 GMT	-3 points
	Not too bad for a little island of tea taxing lime eaters.

	Sewelly:	Nov 27th, 2009 at 22:31 GMT	1 point
	Fantastic quiz!

	Funafuti:	Nov 29th, 2009 at 12:11 GMT	2 points
	B. I. O. T.-british indian ocean territory

	joebobs:	Nov 29th, 2009 at 20:08 GMT	4 points
	I got 87. :D It was one of those quizzes where I spent so long thinking about the hard ones I missed lots of easy ones. I missed South Africa!!! Really great quiz.

	Funafuti:	Dec 13th, 2009 at 14:03 GMT	1 point
	great quiz!!

	Uhlan:	Dec 23rd, 2009 at 11:57 GMT	8 points
	We could make one like this about the USA; Oh no, that's right, we couldn't.

	CantBeArsed:	Dec 29th, 2009 at 23:30 GMT	0 points
	Jolly great! I should say.

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	JayZed:	Feb 26th, 2010 at 23:59 GMT	-1 points
	Really nice quiz. Managed to get Canada, New Zealand etc but missed Australia!

	abanazerb:	Mar 1st, 2010 at 19:00 GMT	4 points
	Great quiz. Well worth a salute and a "last post".

	carbon_rod:	Mar 24th, 2010 at 20:19 GMT	1 point
	Just "Ascension" should work for Ascension Island. It's the Trucial States, not Trucial Oman. Papua and New Guinea were two separate colonies in 1920 (Papua the south, New Guinea the north of what is now Papua New Guinea). Good quiz.

	CanadianQuizeer:	Apr 20th, 2010 at 02:05 GMT	1 point
	Best quiz on the British Empire possessions I've yet to see. However, I did notice a few errors with regards to the date of independence of a few of the Dominions. You used 1931 as the independence date for Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa. However, the Statute of Westminster of 1931 did not mean independence to these countries, just the ability to create legislation free from British control. Canada did not achieve independence until 1982, at which point it did not need approval from the British Parliament to amend its constitution. I believe that Australia and New Zealand passed similar legislation in 1986. Also, Canada should read to say that it was acquired in 1763 when the British gained it from France as a result of the Seven Years War.

	carbon_rod:	Jun 7th, 2010 at 00:27 GMT	2 points
	Two little things: Newfoundland was annexed in 1583, not 1683. Also, won't accept Tokelau for Union Islands.