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Which 20th Century king abdicated after less than a year on the throne in order to marry divorcee Wallis Simpson? | |
Which Conservative Prime Minister sanctioned the ill-advised invasion of Egypt following the Suez Crisis? | |
Which King sparked a succession crisis by supposedly naming both William of Normandy and Harold Godwinson as his heirs? | |
Which Queen had previously been Queen of France and supported her son's failed attempt to overthrow Henry II? | |
What set of sculptures were controversially removed from Athens in the early 19th century and brought to the British Museum? | |
What join-stock company once accounted for half the world's trade and ruled much of India for over a century? | |
Which Anglo-Saxon kingdom was subsumed by Wessex in 825? It survives today as an eastern county. | |
What was the code used by the German military during WWII that was cracked first by the Poles and then at Bletchley Park? | |
Which monarch returned the state religion to protestantism, saw off the Spanish Armada and presided over a 'Golden Age'? | |
At what battle of 1265 did the future Edward I defeat and kill Simon de Montfort to end the earl's de facto rule of England? | |
Seen as the quintessentially English composer, who penned the Enigma Variations and the Pomp and Circumstance Marches? | |
In 1975 a referendum was issued asking whether the UK should remain a member of which international organisation? | |
Bernard Montgomery's victory near which African city proved to be the turning point in the desert campaign of WWII? | |
Harold Godwinson, John, Robert the Bruce and Henry VIII were all kings to suffer what Catholic punishment? | |
What was signed in 2012 by David Cameron and Alex Salmond, establishing a referendum on Scottish independence? | |
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