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Quiz about Oddities From British History

Oddities From British History Trivia Quiz

It's often the silly little facts that get most of our attention in 'history', as any tourist guide may tell you.Just check your knowledge on some such 'odd facts' from British and occasionally Irish history.

A multiple-choice quiz by flem-ish. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
flem-ish

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
56,646

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Average

Avg Score
6 / 10

Plays
7352

Awards
Top 35% Quiz

Last 3 plays: Guest 65 (5/10), NETTLES1960 (6/10), Guest 86 (7/10).

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Question 1 of 10

1. We all have heard of Hadrian's Wall between Bowness and Newcastle upon Tyne. But which Emperor had another Roman wall built slightly to the north of the first and linking the River Clyde with the Firth of Forth? Hint

Caligula

Claudius

Antoninus

Vespasianus

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Question 2 of 10

2. Who is the Celtic Queen who is commemorated by a statue near Westminster Bridge in London for her ferocious revolt against Roman rule in Britain? Hint

Offa

Aethelbalda

Horsa

Boudicca

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Question 3 of 10

3. When at the Battle of Culloden the Scottish troops under Bonnie Prince Charles had been defeated by Prince William, Duke of Cumberland, the English gave the Duke a flattering nickname: 'Sweet William'.- What other nickname did the English give him? Hint

The Fat Oxen

Butcher Cumberland

Bloody Billie

Willy Woodhead

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Question 4 of 10

4. What Anthony Hopkins film is partially about the so-called 'Cliveden Set' and attempts by the 2nd Viscount Waldorf Astor to 'appease' Nazi Germany by making further concessions to Herr Hitler? Hint

The Remains of the Day

The Road to Welville

Shadowlands

The Bunker

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Question 5 of 10

5. Which famous Irish rebel had already shown his defiant character by writing a scathing report on the 'Congo Free State' in 1903 before he became one of the leaders of the Easter Rebellion in 1916? Hint

Patrick Pearse

Eamon de Valera

James Connolly

Sir Roger Casement

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Question 6 of 10

6. Which Norfolk-born nurse was court-martialled by the Germans, executed in Brussels (1915) and is commemorate by a statue in London near Trafalgar Square five years later? Hint

Edith Cavell

Mabel Keaton Staupers

Florence Nightingale

Sue Sophia Dauser

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Question 7 of 10

7. What was the name of the Scottish personal servant of Queen Victoria who, after the death of Prince Albert, rose to a prominence far in excess of his humble station ? Hint

James Brown

John Smith

James Smith

John Brown

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Question 8 of 10

8. What happened to the corpses of those followers of Cromwell who had signed the death warrant of King Charles I, once the Monarchy had been restored ? Hint

dug up and publicly burned

dug up and 'hanged'

dug up and re-buried in unholy ground

dug up and thrown into the river Thames

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Question 9 of 10

9. Which V.I.P. of American history was descended from the English De Wessington family ?

Answer: ( Two words, or just surname )

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Question 10 of 10

10. Why was the banker Lionel de Rothschild never allowed to actually sit in Parliament though he had been correctly elected for the Whig Party ? Hint

he refused to take the oath of allegiance to the Queen as Head of the Church

Queen Victoria did not like him

he refused to take the oath of allegiance to the Queen as Head of the State

A few hours after the election results were known , he fell out with his party leadership

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

Answer: Antoninus

Caligula, born 12 AD, ruled from 37 AD till 41 AD - Claudius, born 10 BC ruled from 41 AD till 54 AD - Vespasian, born 9 AD, ruled from 69 till 79 AD - Antoninus, born in 86 AD, ruled from 138 AD till 161 AD.

2. Who is the Celtic Queen who is commemorated by a statue near Westminster Bridge in London for her ferocious revolt against Roman rule in Britain?

Answer: Boudicca

There was a King Offa who ruled Mercia from 757 till {796;} died July 796.- Hengist and Horsa were brothers and were the legendary leaders of the first AngloSaxon invaders in England. - King Aethelbald reigned from 716 to 757. No Athelbalda ... Boudicca, Queen of the Iceni, attacked the Roman camp at Londinium after Roman legionaries had raped her daughters. When captured, she committed suicide before the Romans could put her to death. The traditional Latin spelling of her name is
Boadicea.

Answer: Butcher Cumberland

Another nickname they gave him was 'Stinking Willie'.

4. What Anthony Hopkins film is partially about the so-called 'Cliveden Set' and attempts by the 2nd Viscount Waldorf Astor to 'appease' Nazi Germany by making further concessions to Herr Hitler?

Answer: The Remains of the Day

In 'The Bunker'(1981) Hopkins portrays Adolf Hitler. -In 'Shadowlands' he is the English writer C.S.Lewis. - In 'The Remains of the Day' his role is that of a butler (Stevens) who seems to be utterly incapable and afraid to love.

Answer: Sir Roger Casement

Patrick Henry Pearse was born in 1879 and executed on 3rd of May 1916. - James Connolly, born in 1868 was executed 9 days after Pearse.- Eamon de Valera's life was spared (1882-1975). - Sir Roger Casement,born 1864, had been the British consul in Mozambique, Angola, the Congo Free State and Brazil.

He was arrested when trying to smuggle weapons into Ireland (Banna Strand). He was hanged in 1916.

6. Which Norfolk-born nurse was court-martialled by the Germans, executed in Brussels (1915) and is commemorate by a statue in London near Trafalgar Square five years later?

Answer: Edith Cavell

Cavell (1865-1915) had tried to smuggle captured British soldiers out of Belgium back to England. - Florence Nightingale was born in 1820 and died in London in 1910 . Her byname was 'the Lady of the Lamp'. Staupers(1890-1989) was a Barbados born nurse who tried to eliminate segregation from the USA Armed Forces Nurse Corps. - Dauser(1888-1972) was the organiser of the Navy Nurse Corps in World War II.

7. What was the name of the Scottish personal servant of Queen Victoria who, after the death of Prince Albert, rose to a prominence far in excess of his humble station ?

Answer: John Brown

There is of course the singer James Brown (born 1933) and the freestyle wrestler John Smith (born 1965)..there is even the American Abolitionist John Brown (1800-1854) but this John Brown was what in Scotland is called a 'gillie', a scout, guide, companion for travellers.

8. What happened to the corpses of those followers of Cromwell who had signed the death warrant of King Charles I, once the Monarchy had been restored ?

Answer: dug up and 'hanged'

One of those unlucky Cromwellians was John Ireton, Cromwell's son-in-law.

9. Which V.I.P. of American history was descended from the English De Wessington family ?

Answer: Washington

10. Why was the banker Lionel de Rothschild never allowed to actually sit in Parliament though he had been correctly elected for the Whig Party ?

Answer: he refused to take the oath of allegiance to the Queen as Head of the Church

As a Jew he had a problem of conscience.

Source: Author flem-ish

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