This quiz ranges across British history’s best-known people, battles, dynasties and turning points. You’ll meet kings and queens, invasions, rebellions, reform and war from Roman Britain to the 20th century.
It starts with famous names and headline events, then moves into trickier territory on unions, succession, civil conflict and lesser-known moments. Ideal for anyone who enjoys castles, crowns and the long story of Britain.
Getting things ready...
1. Which king had six wives?
2. What year is most linked with the Battle of Hastings?
3. Which queen was known as the Virgin Queen?
4. Which document did King John seal at Runnymede?
5. Which house won the Wars of the Roses?
6. Which monarch was executed in 1649?
7. Which fire devastated much of London in 1666?
8. Which battle ended Napoleon's final campaign?
9. Who became queen when Victoria died?
10. Which Act of 1707 united England and Scotland?
11. What was the name of Oliver Cromwell's parliamentarian cavalry?
12. Which pretender was defeated at Culloden in 1746?
13. Which king lost the American colonies during the War of Independence?
14. Who was the last Catholic monarch of Britain?
15. Which crisis in 1936 led to a king's abdication?