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What year was the Indian Mutiny?
1847
1857
1879
1919
1947
Burton and Speke were looking for the source of which river?
The Amazon
The Ganges
The Niger
The Nile
Who wrote 'King Solomon's Mines'?
Kipling
Rider Haggard
Henty
Conan Doyle
Name of the High Commissioner who provoked war with the Zulus in 1879?
Bartle Frere
Cecil Rhodes
Alfred Milner
Hercules Robinson
Name of the battle at which Zulu impis defeated British redcoats?
Somme
Rorke's Drift
Plassey
Isandlwana
Which of the following is Joseph Chamberlain?
Which Prime Minister authorised the bombardment of Alexandria in 1882?
Salisbury
Gladstone
Disraeli
Asquith
At what battle were British forces defeated by the Boers in 1880?
Paardeburg
Majuba Hill
Mafeking
Ladysmith
Which region of India did Viceroy Curzon partition in 1905?
Bengal
The Punjab
Pakistan
The North-West Frontier
What was the status of Egypt in the British Empire from 1882 to 1914?
a colony
a dominion
a veiled protectorate
a formal protectorate
What was the name of the doctrine which stated that Egyptian ministers could be dismissed if they did not follow British directives?
Truman
Free trade
Baring
Granville
Which African town was burnt to the ground by General Garnet Wolseley in 1874?
Accra
Kumasi
Cairo
Kampala
In which World War 1 campaign did a significant number of Anzacs die?
East Africa
Somme
Gallipoli
What was the cost of the Boer War?
£19 million
£90 million
£200 million
£600 million
Where did the Indian Army suffer a major defeat in Mesopotamia?
Kut
Baghdad
Basra
Which former Boer Commando joined the Imperial War Cabinet?
Louis Botha
Jan Smuts
Paul Kruger
Jan van der Merwe
Which of these was not a League of Nations mandate?
Tanganika
Egypt
Palestine
Mesopotamia
What building in Dublin was seized by rebels in the 1916 Easter Rising?
The Castle
The Post Office
The Police Station
The Central Hotel
Who was Prime Minister from 1916 to 1922?
Asquith
Lloyd George
Churchill
Baldwin
Who wrote of the British: 'A dull, decent people, cherishing and fortifying their dullness behind a quarter of a million bayonets'.
Gandhi
Winston Churchill
George Orwell
Trotsky
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