Reference
The book sliced by fact type rather than by chapter: every date in one place, the four countries side by side, the pairs that get mistaken for each other. Each page names the mistake it exists to prevent.
The timeline
Every dated fact in the handbook in one place, grouped by era and tiered so the dates that decide the test stand out from the ones that don't.
Dates are the most heavily tested material in the book, and the ones that catch people out are near-twins that live in different chapters and are never shown side by side.
357 entriesCore 82Useful 160Context 115
Pairs that get mixed up
The near-miss facts the real test builds its distractors from, set side by side.
Knowing a fact is not the same as being able to tell it from the fact next to it.
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The four countries
England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland set side by side — saints, flowers, capitals, parliaments, courts and churches — plus what 'Great Britain' leaves out.
Almost nobody fails here for not knowing the facts; they fail for attaching the right fact to the wrong country — the wrong saint, the wrong flower, the wrong member count.
78 entries
Monarchs and succession
The monarchs the handbook names, in order, with what each reign is known for. This is not a complete regnal list: the book names monarchs episodically, when one matters to a story it is telling, so the gaps between these names are real and no reign, house or date has been supplied that the notes do not give.
The facts are learnable; placing them is what goes wrong — Magna Carta, the Armada, the union of the crowns and the Act of Union all get filed under the wrong reign.
56 entriesCore 10Useful 18Context 3