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 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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