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First Christmas time Quiz 2021

THE ANSWERS ARE POSTED ON A SEPARATE BLOG. I HOPE THEY ARE ALL CORRECT, UNLIKE LAST YEAR; SOMEHOW I DOUBT IT!



ON ENGLISH HISTORY


1 Who was Queen Anne's husband?

2 What relation was Edward VII to Edward VIII?

3 Which monarch never aged on their coins despite reigning for 45 years?

4 Which MP married a Rothschild heiress to further his career? He later became PM

5 Which son of a Liberal PM served in Churchill's Conservative Cabinet in 1951?

6 Which 20th century PM said of another, 'He ought to be hanged?' Name both

7 What was a touch piece?

8 Which English county did NOT exist at the time of Domesday?

9 Which English city witnessed the beginning of the retreat back to Scotland by the Jacobites in The 1745 Rebellion?

10 Which English town was once the capital of Saxon Mercia?



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