1. James and Alice
   Charles and Elizabeth
2. William and Mary

Parliament wanted Mary to succeed James II, but she refused, so she and her husband William of Orange took the throne as co-rulers.

1. The first battle was fought near a rose garden.
   Roses appeared on the shields of both families.
2. Roses were the favorite flower of Plantagenet matriarch Mary II.

The House of Lancaster was symbolized by a red rose, and the Yorks by a white rose.

1. Robert II
   Louis III
2. William I

King Harold II was the last Anglo-Saxon king. William the Conqueror of Normandy took over after the Battle of Hastings.

1. Edward III
   Henry VII
2. Henry VIII

Henry VIII's desire for a divorce started the ball rolling on his break with the Roman Catholic Church.

1. Elizabeth I
   Elizabeth II
2. George III

Elizabeth II, who was crowned in 1952, passed her great-great-grandmother for the record in 2015 with 65 years as queen.

1. Sir Thomas More
   Oliver Cromwell
2. Robert Walpole

Parliament leader Oliver Cromwell led a successful civil war against Charles I and installed himself as "lord protector" from 1653 until his death in 1659.

1. Liberal
   Conservative
2. Labour

"The Iron Lady," Great Britain's first female prime minister, was a conservative. She was the leader of the Conservative Party from 1975 to 1990.

1. Windsor and Aragon
   Cambridge and Donegal
2. Lancaster and York

The Lancasters and Yorks were two branches of the ruling Plantagenets that fought for control of the throne. The Lancasters eventually won, and Henry VII became king.

1. 40.3 percent
   51.9 percent
2. 62.7 percent

The "Brexit" vote ended with 51.9 percent opting to leave the EU. The process has not yet been finalized.

1. Henry John Temple
   Robert Walpole
2. Archibald Primrose

Walpole is generally considered the first, serving roughly from 1721-1742.

1. Ireland
   Scotland
2. Wales

England, Scotland and Wales were included in Great Britain, but Ireland stayed out until 1801. Then the name changed to United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland.

1. Ireland/Northern Ireland
   England/Scotland
2. England/Wales

Henry III of England and Alexander II of Scotland signed the Treaty of York.

1. Whigs
   Tories
2. Labour Party

The Tories became the Conservative Party, and the Whigs became the Liberal Party, which declined and was basically replaced by the Labour Party.

1. 1857
   1901
2. 1922

In 1922, Ireland broke from the United Kingdom to form the Irish Free State. Northern Ireland stayed in the U.K.

1. Alice of Lancashire
   Catherine Parr
   Anne Boleyn
   Anne of Cleves
2. Catherine Howard
   Jane Seymour
   Catherine of Aragon

Alice of Lancashire was not one of Henry's six wives.

1. 46
   63
2. 77

Queen Victoria held the throne for 63 years (1837-1901), making her reign the second-longest in English history.

1. He gave up power so easily.
   He fell during his inauguration.
2. After his reign he fell into poverty.

Things quickly fell apart after Oliver Cromwell's death, and his son held power very briefly.

1. Romans
   Celts
2. Gauls

Hadrian's Wall marked the northern edge of the Roman Empire. It extended about 75 miles (121 kilometers) from the North Sea to the Irish Sea.

1. James IV
   Charles II
2. Richard III

Richard III ruled from 1483-1485

1. 1537
   1586
2. 1605

In 1605, authorities foiled the plans of a group of Catholics, including Guy Fawkes, that was plotting to blow up the House of Lords and assassinate King James I.

1. Five months
   Eight months
2. A year

The bombing lasted eight months, from September 1940 to May 1941 and about 40,000 civilians were killed.

1. 135 B.C.E.
   55 B.C.E.
2. 25 C.E.

Caesar's army hit British shores in August of 55 B.C.E., but the Romans didn't conquer Britain until 43 C.E.

1. 1660
   1673
2. 1699

The Restoration period started in 1660. England, Scotland, and Wales were united as Great Britain by the 1707 Act of Union.

1. 338 C.E.
   407 C.E.
2. 986 C.E.

Roman rule over England lasted almost 400 years — they cleared out in 407 C.E.

1. four
   eight
2. 12

Three suicide bombers hit the Underground, and a fourth blew up a bus.

1. 1437
   1453
2. 1480

The Hundred Years' War went a little overtime — it ended in 1453. (There were several periods of peace, though.)

1. Literature
   Peace
2. Economics

The legendary prime minister won the Nobel Prize for literature in 1953 for his numerous memoirs and historical volumes.

1. Edgar
   Ethelred
2. Edward
   Edwine

Edwine is the only fake one on the list.

1. 1966
   1973
2. 1984

The U.K. and Ireland joined up on Jan. 1, 1973 after Charles de Gaulle's resignation in 1969.

1. Black Death
   Polio
2. Tuburculosis

The Black Death of 1348 was one of the worst pandemics ever; it killed up to 200 million people in Eurasia and peaking in Europe from 1347 to 1351.