BBC History test - link here

[wolves_wanderer]

esselte said:

11/12 didn't know Thomas Cromwell dissolved the monasteries.

Same

[Eric Mc]

Under instructions from Henry, of course.

[WouldBWelder]

7/12 - not bad ... 90% of the population wouldn't get half right I'd wager ...

[Jaglover]

9/12

Some of the questions are pretty irrelevant to the proper understanding of history in my opinion.

What does it matter what Nelson's body was preserved in and what city Rosa parks made her protest?

[Einion Yrth]

Jaglover said:

What does it matter [...] what city Rosa parks made her protest?

Well if she'd made it in Glasgow, history would have been very different.

[Muncher]

9/12

[Eric Mc]

None of it matters - and all of it does.

We can live our lives reasonably successfully knowing nothing of history - but we are lesser people for our ignorance.

[Jaglover]

anonymous said:

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I had heard of her, and what she did, I did not memorise what city she made her protest in and don't see how it is relevant.

[Witchfinder]

anonymous said:

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Whatever happened to the heroes?
No more heroes any more! No more heroes any more!

[Eric Mc]

Or that Rasputin was Russia's greatest love machine.

Pop music used to be quite educational.

[pdV6]

Never was much good at History at school... 6/12

Tried the tests for the other subjects, though, and was much more pleased with my results!

[TypeR]

7/10 Boo. Must try harder!!
BUT, wasn't Thomas Moore's surname actually spelt More? If so, then the BBC lose points for bad speeling

[Eric Mc]

Thomas Moore was a 19th century Irish song writer.

[wolves_wanderer]

Eric Mc said:

Thomas Moore was a 19th century Irish song writer.

So he didn't dissolve the monasteries then?
As I thought