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Tricky Qs

1
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George and Robert Stephenson were famous for?

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Famous pioneers of railway engines

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What are Henry Purcell and Ralph Vaughan Williams known for?

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British composers

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John Constable (1776–1837) is known for?

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Landscape painter

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Isambard Kingdom Brunel (1806–59)

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Engineer

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Florence Nightingale (1820–1910)

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established a training school for nurses

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Who was William Wilberforce?

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MP; abolitionist

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The Battles of Marston Moor and Naseby

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Civil war battles

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Who is Jane Austen?

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English novelist.
Pride and Prejudice and Sense and Sensibility

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Adam Smith

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Scottish economics. Enlightenment

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David Hume

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Scottish wrote about human nature. Enlightenment

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William Blake, Lord Byron and Robert Browning

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Poets

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Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Scottish doctor and writer. He was best known for his stories about Sherlock Holmes

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Robert the Bruce

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Scottish king defeated the English at the Battle of Bannockburn in 1314

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Battle of the Somme.

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First World War did the British suffer 60,000 casualties on the first day

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The Bill of Rights of 1689 limited whose powers?

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confirmed the rights of Parliament and the limits of the king’s power

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The Act of Union, known as the Treaty of Union in Scotland

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created the Kingdom of Great Britain - 1707

17
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1588

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Defated the Spanish Armada

18
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Tim Berners-Lee

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Invented the world wide web

19
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Wales united with England during the reign of Henry VIII

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True. Act for the Government of Wales

20
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Industrial revolution - England

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The Industrial Revolution is the name given to the rapid development of industry that began in the 18th century.

21
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Duke of wellington

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Battle of Waterloo. Deafeated Napoleon

22
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Bill of Rights was passed in 1689,

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Whigs and Tories

23
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Dylan Thomas

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Welsh poet.

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