Know your British history? Quiz..

[asterix]

9/10. I was 2 years out on the date England joined Scotland. I was rubbish at history at school (except WW1 when I got 97%).

 

[NormanD]

an 8 here too

 

[dellzeqq]

ten out of ten. A lesser man would be smug.

 

[StuAff]

9. Like asterix, went for the wrong date for the Act of Union.

 

[MacB]

8 here but plenty of educated guessing, how well would any of us have done if the question was just asking for the date and no multiple choice answers? I might have scraped 4, Battle of Hastings, Magna Carter and Trafalgar I reckon I knew and I may well have guessed at 1919 for The Treaty of Versailles.

 

[Archie_tect]

10/10, the second time... What?

 

[Toshiba Boy]

10/10, always did have a knack of dates sticking in my mind, not that it's done me much good though.

 

[Dayvo]

8
In my day history was taught in an incredibly boring, chronological way and some of the rote-learned dross has stuck.

In your day, Rich, history was current affairs!

 

[martint235]

8. Like Rich, history was a long list of dates at our school

 

[Brains]

8/10

 

[Risex4]

7 disappointingly.

Knew Trafalgar was 18-5, and was early in the c., just picked the wrong one. And Versailles I went for date of effect rather than signatory date. Serves me right for being a smart arse.

 

[User482]

ten out of ten. A lesser man would be smug.

Likewise. Though I must confess that one of the answers was a guess.

 

[Vapin' Joe]

5/10

My history teacher was crap, his lessons consisted of dictating to us while we struggled to keep up as we wrote his perils of wisdom in our exercise books. He'd be drummed out today.

 

[mcshroom]

9/10 - Trafalgar caught me out by a few years

 

[dellzeqq]

Likewise. Though I must confess that one of the answers was a guess.

hah! I call that 9 with a rosette!