British Empire-1857-1967;who's who quiz

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Name two mid Victorian male missionaries who went into the African interior?
David Livingstone and John Kirk
1 of 50
Who organised the Berlin Conference?
Otto Von Bismarck
2 of 50
Which politican decided that the Conservatives would be 'the psrty of empire?'
Disraeli
3 of 50
Who came into power in Egypt in 1863, determined to modernise Egypt?
Isma'il Pasha
4 of 50
Name the Liberal politican who was Prime Minister 3 times furing the late 19th century?
Gladstone
5 of 50
Who was assassinated by a mob in Khartoum in 1885?
General Gordon
6 of 50
Who was the first Viceroy of India?
Charles Canning
7 of 50
Name two female missionaries and soical reforms?
Mary Carpenter and Amy Carmichael
8 of 50
Name an entrepreneur who developed trade in Africa?
Cecil Rhodes, George Goldie
9 of 50
Which British edministrator was responsible for supervising improvements to Egypt's government?
Evelyn Baring
10 of 50
Name the British Army general who was a centeral figure during the Battle of Omdurman?
Kitchener
11 of 50
Who was responsible for the partition of Bengal?
Curzon
12 of 50
Who was the only British monarch to visit India whilst it was within the Empire?
George V
13 of 50
Who served as Governor of Hong Kong and Nigeria?
Lord Lugard
14 of 50
Which Conservative politcian convened the London Colonial Conference in 1902?
Joseph Chamberlin
15 of 50
Who became Prime Minister of Cape Colony in 1890?
Cecil Rhodes
16 of 50
Who was the High Commissioner in South Africa who helped bring about the Second Boer War?
Alfred Milner
17 of 50
Name the economist who was an early critic of the Empire?
John Hobson
18 of 50
Who was the British welfare vampaigner who exposed the horrors of the concentration camps during the Second Boer War?
Emily Hobhouse
19 of 50
Name the leading liberal politican who served as Chancellor of the Exchequer and who criticised Britain's role in the Second Boer War?
David Lloyd George
20 of 50
Who wrote 'The Jungle Book' and 'The White Man's Burden'
Rudyard Kipling
21 of 50
Name the prominent Indian nationalist of the late 19th century?
Lokmanya Bal Gangadhar Tilak
22 of 50
Who was the key political figure for the Boers before and during the Second Boer War?
Kruger
23 of 50
Which British administrator proposed 'responsible self-government for India' in acknowledgment for India's contributions to the First World War?
Edwin Montagu
24 of 50
Which Foreign Secretary declared sympathy and support for a Jewish homeland in 1917?
Balfour
25 of 50
Other than Gandhi, name two other prominent Indian nationalists?
Muhammad Ali Jinnah and Jawaharlal Nehru
26 of 50
Name the eminent British economist during the inter-war years?
John Maynard Keynes
27 of 50
Who based their resistance of the British on the Hindu principles of satyagraha?
Gandhi
28 of 50
Who served as Viceroy of India from 1935 to 1943?
Lord Linlithgow
29 of 50
Who was the first Director General of the BBC?
John Reith
30 of 50
What was the name given to the British army regiment who reinforced the Royal Irish Constabulary during the Irish Civil War?
The black and tans
31 of 50
Where did the Amritsar massacre take place?
Jallianwala Bagh
32 of 50
What was the name given to the militant Jewish nationalist gang?
The Stern Gang
33 of 50
Who was the first black Prime Minister of the Gold Coast/Ghana?
Kwame Nkrumah
34 of 50
Which British administrator described the Gold Coast as 'most able to rule themselves?'
Sir Andrew Cohen
35 of 50
Who served as Governor General in the Gold Coast from 1945 to 1947?
Burns
36 of 50
Nme the key African nationalist who led Northern Rhodesia to independence as Zambia
Kenneth Kaunda
37 of 50
Name the key African nationalist who led Nysaland to independence as Malawi
Dr Hastings Banda
38 of 50
Who helped form the Rhodesia Front Party and became Prime Minister if Rhodesia in 1964?
Ian Smith
39 of 50
Name the key figure in the Burmese independence movement
Aung San
40 of 50
Name the British Prime Minister who gave the 'winds of change' speech in 1960
Harold Macmillan
41 of 50
Name the British Prime Minister who was responsible for the Suez Canal crisis
Anthony Eden
42 of 50
Who led a military coup in Egypt in 1952?
Colonel Nasser
43 of 50
Which two countries had left the Commonwealth by 1961?
Ireland and South Africa
44 of 50
Who was the most influential Kenyan nationalist that helped the independence cause?
Jomo Kenyatta
45 of 50
Who was the most influential Ugandan nationalist that helped the independence cause?
Apolo Milton Obote
46 of 50
Who helped the form the youth wing of the ANC
Nelson Mandela
47 of 50
What was the name of the ship that brought the first wave of Caribbean migrants to the UK?
Windrush
48 of 50
What was the name of the prison camo where the atrocities took place during the Mau Mau rebellion?
Hola Camp
49 of 50
Name the Kenya tribe most associated with the Mau Mau rebellion
Kikuyu
50 of 50

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