TEST 24

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#1. Which event in 1665 caused many deaths in London shortly before the Great Fire?

#2. Which royal house ruled Britain after the death of Queen Anne?

#3. Why was the Act of Settlement important?

#4. Which 18th-century Prime Minister is associated with Britain’s rise during the Seven Years’ War?

#5. Which conflict helped Britain gain global influence in the 18th century?

#6. Which country became independent from Britain after the American War of Independence?

#7. Which political thinker wrote The Wealth of Nations?

#8. Which Scottish intellectual movement influenced science, economics and philosophy in the 18th century?

#9. Which inventor is associated with the spinning jenny?

#10. Which invention was improved by James Watt and helped industrial development?

#11. Which industry was central to early industrial growth in northern England?

#12. Which city became strongly associated with cotton textiles during the Industrial Revolution?

#13. Which development allowed goods and raw materials to move more efficiently in the 18th and 19th centuries?

#14. Which scientist is associated with vaccination against smallpox?

#15. Which 19th-century novelist exposed social hardship and inequality in many works?

#16. Which novelist wrote Middlemarch?

#17. Which Brontë sister wrote Jane Eyre?

#18. Which Brontë sister wrote Wuthering Heights?

#19. Which author wrote Frankenstein?

#20. Which organisation was founded in the 19th century to preserve places of historic interest and natural beauty?

#21. Which reforming Prime Minister is linked with the modern police force?

#22. Which term is commonly used for police officers because of Robert Peel?

#23. Which Prime Minister was associated with social reform and imperial policy in the Victorian period?

#24. Which Liberal Prime Minister was a major rival of Disraeli?

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