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1. Between his terms as prime minister, this person gave a speech at Westminster College that popularized the phrase 'Iron Curtain'

2. The Varangian Guard was named after and primarily composed of a group of these people, who established the Danelaw and attacked the monastery at Lindisfarne in 793 AD

3. A king of this name issued the Hundred Rolls census, which led him to establish quo warranto proceedings

4. He is traditionally credited with founding the English navy

5. Name this agreement that barons forced upon King John that limited the power of the monarchy

6. Mary Wollstonecraft denounced marriages of convenience and redefined 'sublime' and 'beautiful' in her Vindication of the Rights of Men, which was written in response to a tract about this event

7. At the Battle of Calvi, this man lost his right eye, to which heonce drew a telescope in order to ignore an order of retreat from Hyde Parker at the Battle of Copenhagen

8. It created the National Health Service during the administration of Clement Attlee

9. A king of this name started the House of Windsor because Saxe-Coburg sounded too foreign

10. Samuel Pepys [' peeps' ] was a diarist in this city who recorded an outbreak of Bubonic Plague

11. These people pioneered a construction technique called 'clinker building'

12. The winner of this war was later challenged by the pretenders Lambert Simnel and Perkin Warbeck

13. At the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, the Royal Navyprimarily used coal from the southern region of this country

14. This country is home to the parties Fianna Fail (FEE-en-uh FOIL) and Sinn Fein (shin fayn)

15. This man came to power after the collapse of the South Sea Bubble

16. Its later leaders included Daniel O' Connell and Charles Parnell, and it finally gained self-government after the passage of the Home Rule Act

17. This war was briefly halted after the Battle of Tewkesbury when the heir apparent, Edward, was slain

18. Pride's Purge, which created the Rump Parliament, was undertaken by his allies in the New Model Army

19. His forces conducted brutal sacks of Wexford and Drogheda as part of his conquest of Ireland

20. That was the Gunpowder Plot

21. Panic over the Shrule massacre distracted this entity from the arrest of a group including Arthur Haselrig and Denzil Holles, and it rather presumptively auctioned off foreign lands to would-be 'Adventurers'

22. Another man of this name was assassinated by Balthasar Gerard and had previously instigated the Eighty Years' War against Spain

23. A monarch gained power during it through the Titulus Regius

24. The result of this battle was the defeat of the English and the death of their leader Harold II

25. FTP, name this important English constitutional document written in response to the abuses of King John that established the principle that no one is above the law, signed at Runnymede in 1215

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