Question: What language did most of Upper Canada speak?
Answer: English

Question: What language did most of Lower Canada speak?
Answer: French

Question: How many convicts per year had Britain been sending to the American colonies?
Answer: one thousand

Question: Where did Britain switch to sending their convicts after the loss of the American colonies?
Answer: Australia

Question: Who discovered Australia in 1606?
Answer: Willem Jansz

Question: What had the Dutch East India Company initially named Australia?
Answer: New Holland

Question: When did the first shipment of British convicts leave for Australia?
Answer: 1787

Question: When was New Zealand discovered by the Dutch?
Answer: 1642

Question: Who discovered New Zealand for the Dutch?
Answer: Abel Tasman

Question: When did Cook visit New Zealand and claim the North Island?
Answer: 1769

Question: What is New Zealand's native population called?
Answer: Māori

Question: Who signed a treaty with the Maori?
Answer: Captain William Hobson

Question: The British Royal Navy blockaded which ports?
Answer: French

Question: Where did the British Royal Navy defeat the French and Spanish in 1805?
Answer: Trafalgar

Question: When were the Netherlands' colonies annexed by Napoleon?
Answer: 1810

Question: When was Napoleon finally defeated?
Answer: 1815

Question: The Napoleonic peace treaty had Ceylon given to which country?
Answer: Britain

Question: When was the Slave Trade Act enacted?
Answer: 1807

Question: What abolished the British slave trade?
Answer: the Slave Trade Act

Question: Which colony was the official British colony for freed slaves?
Answer: Sierra Leone

Question: What abolished slavery throughout the British Empire?
Answer: The Slavery Abolition Act

Question: How long of an 'apprenticeship' did slaves need to have before being fully freed?
Answer: 4 to 6 years

Question: How many square miles of territory were added to the British Empire between 1815 and 1914?
Answer: 10,000,000

Question: How many people were added to the British Empire between 1815 and 1914?
Answer: 400 million

Question: Who was Britain's last serious rival after Napoleon?
Answer: Russia

Question: What was the period of Britain acting as the world's police called?
Answer: Britain's dominant position in world trade

Question: Britain's dominant position in world trade over some countries' economies has been called what?
Answer: Informal Empire

Question: What illegal trade was the British East India Company involved in?
Answer: opium

Question: How many chests of opium did China confiscate in 1839?
Answer: 20,000

Question: The First Opium War led to Britain seizing what island?
Answer: Hong Kong

Question: Which dynasty outlawed opium trade?
Answer: Qing

Question: When did China outlaw opium trade?
Answer: 1729

Question: When did Britain pass the Regulating Act?
Answer: 1773

Question: When did Britain pass Pitt's India Act?
Answer: 1784

Question: When did Britain pass the Charter Act?
Answer: 1813

Question: The British East India Company was dissolved by which act?
Answer: Government of India Act

Question: Who was crowned the Empress of India?
Answer: Queen Victoria

Question: Britain competed with which country to fill the Asian power vacuum in the 19th century?
Answer: Russian

Question: When did Britain first invade Afghanistan?
Answer: 1839

Question: What was the British-Russian rivalry called?
Answer: the "Great Game"

Question: Britain feared Russia would invade what country/territory?
Answer: India

Question: Russian victories against which countries increased British fears?
Answer: Persia and Turkey

Question: When did Russia invade the Turkish Balkans?
Answer: 1853

Question: What was took place in 1854-1856?
Answer: Crimean War

Question: Who lost the Crimean War?
Answer: Russia

Question: When did Britain take over Baluchistan?
Answer: 1876

Question: Which country took over Kazakhstan?
Answer: Russia

Question: When was the southern tip of Africa colonized?
Answer: 1652

Question: Which entity founded the Cape Colony?
Answer: The Dutch East India Company

Question: When did Britain formally acquire the Cape Colony?
Answer: 1806

Question: What African people moved northwards to escape British rule?
Answer: Boers

Question: When did the Second Boer War end?
Answer: 1902

Question: When did the Suez Canal open?
Answer: 1869

Question: Which ocean did the Suez Canal connect the Mediterranean to?
Answer: Indian Ocean

Question: Which French leader ruled when the Suez Canal opened?
Answer: Napoleon III

Question: How much did Britain spend to buy Egypt's share of the Suez Canal?
Answer: £4 million

Question: The Suez Canal became neutral territory by what treaty?
Answer: Convention of Constantinople

Question: Where did France try to invade in 1898?
Answer: Fashoda

Question: What army did Britain and Egypt defeat together?
Answer: Mahdist

Question: When did Britain withdraw from Sudan?
Answer: 1885

Question: What was the period of European empires competing to control Africa called?
Answer: the "Scramble for Africa"

Question: Where was a conference held in 1884 to regulate European competition for Africa?
Answer: Berlin

Question: When was it proposed to unify Upper and Lower Canada?
Answer: 1839

Question: The Act of Union unified Canada into a territory by what name?
Answer: Province of Canada

Question: When was the British North America Act passed?
Answer: 1867

Question: When did Australia achieve self-government?
Answer: after 1900

Question: When did New Zealand achieve self-government?
Answer: after 1900

Question: Which British Prime Minister first supported home rule of Ireland?
Answer: William Gladstone

Question: The first Home Rule bill would have given Ireland less self-control than what other territory?
Answer: Canada

Question: When was the Easter Rising?
Answer: 1916

Question: When was a Home Rule bill passed?
Answer: 1914

Question: The passed Home Rule Bill wasn't implemented because of which war?
Answer: the First World War

Question: Which country seemed like Britain's most likely threat in the early 20th century?
Answer: Germany

Question: Which country did Britain ally with in 1902?
Answer: Japan

Question: Which country did Britain ally with in 1904?
Answer: France

Question: Which country did Britain ally with in 1907?
Answer: Russia

Question: When did the First World War begin?
Answer: 1914

Question: When WW1 began, Britain took the opportunity to take over most of which country's colonies?
Answer: Germany

Question: Who took over German New Guinea?
Answer: Australia

Question: Who took over Samoa?
Answer: Sykes–Picot Agreement

Question: The Sykes–Picot Agreement was signed in what year?
Answer: 1916

Question: When was the Gallipoli Campaign?
Answer: 1915

Question: Which British Prime Minister recognized the Dominions' contributions in 1917?
Answer: David Lloyd George

Question: The Gallipoli Campaign fought against which country?
Answer: the Ottoman Empire

Question: The Imperial War Cabinet was created by which British Prime Minister?
Answer: Gallipoli Campaign

Question: How many people were in the Dominions' armies?
Answer: Over 2.5 million

Question: When was the Treaty of Versailles signed?
Answer: 1919

Question: How many square miles did the Treaty of Versailles add to the British Empire?
Answer: 1,800,000

Question: Which countries' colonies were given to the Allied powers in 1919?
Answer: Germany and the Ottoman Empire

Question: What modern-day country is South-West Africa?
Answer: Namibia

Question: How many people did the Treaty of Versailles add to the British Empire?
Answer: 13 million

Question: When did Britain sign the Washington Naval Treaty?
Answer: 1922

Question: The Great Depression helped which countries' governments become more militaristic?
Answer: Japan and Germany

Question: When Britain had to choose between its Japanese alliance or the US, which did it choose?
Answer: United States