English History Quiz.

[Cosmic Joker]

25/30 Was also wrongfooted by Black Death and bubonic plague being apparently different answers. Some lucky, some unlucky guesses.

I'm pretty sure question 17 is wrong and the answer I gave was 200 years before the answer they give as correct?

 

[Biscuit Barrel]

25/30

 

[ofco8]

29, got my Tories and Whigs about face. Should have thought about that one a little longer.

 

[SUA Seagull]

28. Also stupidly mucked up the Tories and Whigs question (wasn't thinking straight) as well as the Winston Churchill question on the Nobel Prize. 3-4 educated guesses upped the score. Very surprised, because I was rubbish at history in school!

 

[kevo]

Which Norman king bested England's King Harold II at the Battle of Hastings in 1066?

Am I the only person who hates the so-called word 'bested'? Why not defeated?

26/30. Couple of really stupid wrong answers.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

mmm..... lowest confessor . . . 20. Fits well with my grade 5 O level. Still, that's an A* in today's money, which if my memory serves correct, is the Euro. Ahem.

My excuse is that I've been drinking. Hang on . . . I scored 166 in an IQ test having downed a bottle of red a year ago. . . . .

Yes, OK, I am embarrassed. But not greatly

 

[Brian Fantana]

29/30. That darned Saxon King question defeated me.

 

[Harry Wilson's tackle]

Which Norman king bested England's King Harold II at the Battle of Hastings in 1066?

Am I the only person who hates the so-called word 'bested'? Why not defeated?

26/30. Couple of really stupid wrong answers.

The more modern equivalent is 'medalled' or 'podiumed'. Stand by for a whole torrential diarrhoea of it over the next few weeks

 

[drew]

26. Length of blitz, saxon kings, and two I can't remember.

 

[RexCathedra]

26/30 and I'm a bleedin' Yank.

 

[Pevenseagull]

Yo! London, England had, WAY, WAY WAY!!!! more history that the U S of A used to have. Before there were pretzels they had some real historical shit going down...... with books and all that kind of shit.

(Proud to have done better on hedgehogs)

 

[Mo Gosfield]

25/30. Kicking myself over some very silly mistakes. Couldn't decide between Edwine and Edwy. Thought Black Death and Bubonic Plague were the same thing and plumped for wrong one. Knew Tories/Whigs but inexplicably clicked wrong one. Got two historical dates wrong on 50/50 calls.
So near and yet so far.

 

[murciagull]

Sorry but what was the last question again. Did 51 per cent of the UK population vote to leave the EU or was it 51% of the people who voted. Or did I read the question wrong?

 

[smeg]

20/30 a couple were stupid mistakes though

 

[lawros left foot]

28 - Tumbledown Dick - WHO?, can he play left-back?

Pardew has just put in a £30 mil bid for him, sees him as a Palace type player