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Last Updated: Thursday, 5 August, 2004, 12:03 GMT 13:03 UK

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Quiz: Do you know your battles?

"So which one's Napoleon then?"

Half of Britain's 16-24 year-olds don't know that Sir Francis Drake defeated the Spanish Armada and more than a fifth thought Alexander the Great put in an appearance at the Battle of Hastings.

The survey, carried out by the BBC to mark a new series called Battlefield Britain, also found that 20% of all age groups forgot about the Roman conquest.

How clued up are you on Britain's land, sea and air battles? Take our quiz to find out.

Question 1

"This is not the first time that the Britons have been led to battle by a woman." Said who?


	A: Margaret Thatcher


	B: Elizabeth I


	C: Boudicca


	D: Mary Queen of Scots

Question 2

Most people know who won the Battle of Hastings. But what was William known as before he became "the Conqueror"?


	A: William the Bastard


	B: William the Just


	C: William the Confessor


	D: William Forkbeard

Question 3

Horatio Hornblower beat the Spanish Armada in 1588 according to 11% of those surveyed. It was, of course, Francis Drake, but which of the following might he have said?


	A: "I see no ships"


	B: "I'll just finish this game"


	C: "To infinity and beyond"


	D: "We shall fight on the beaches"

Question 4

Which famous battle is marked every year in Northern Ireland by Orangemen?


	A: Boyne


	B: Stamford Bridge


	C: Bulge


	D: Helm's Deep

Question 5

More than one in 10 16-24 year olds wrongly thought that the Battle of Britain was in the Hundred Years War. But how long did the Hundred Years War really last?


	A: 98 years


	B: 100 years


	C: 116 years


	D: It never officially ended

Question 6

Owain Glyn Dwr's Welsh rebels defeated the English at the Battle of Pilleth in 1402. What, rumour has it, happened next?


	A: Welsh women obscenely mutilated the fallen English


	B: The sky grew black with ravens


	C: A rainbow was seen over Offa's Dyke


	D: Peasants gathered enough fallen arrows to light fires for a year

Question 7

Who was defeated at Culloden in 1746?


	A: Robert the Bruce


	B: William Wallace


	C: King James VI of Scotland and I of England


	D: Bonnie Prince Charlie

Question 8

What were Cromwell's civil war troops collectively known as?


	A: Modern Puritan Army


	B: New Model Army


	C: Model Parliamentary Army


	D: Oliver's Army

Question 9

Which of the following quotations from Winston Churchill relates to the 1940 Battle of Britain?


	A: "Never in the field of human conflict was so much owed by so many to so few"


	B: "Never give in - never, never, never, never"


	C: "It is perhaps the end of the beginning"


	D: "I have nothing to offer but blood, toil, tears and sweat"

Question 10

Where is Trafalgar?


	A: In London


	B: Between southern Spain and North Africa


	C: Off the coast of Brittany


	D: In the North Sea

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