Elizabeth

Question 1

Elizabeth’s age when she became Queen

Answer 1

25

Question 2

How many poeple attended court?

Answer 2

Around 1000

Question 3

Elizabeth originally reduced the number of privy councillors from around 50 to …

Answer 3

19

Question 4

Parliament began openly discussing finding a suitable husband for Elizabeth

Answer 4

1566

Question 5

MP Robert Bell criticised monopolies as being unfair

Answer 5

1571

Question 6

Essex becomes a Privy Councillor

Answer 6

1595

Question 7

Essex successfully attacks Spanish port of Cadiz

Answer 7

1596

Question 8

Essex sent to Ireland with the job of crushing the Earl of Tyrone’s rebellion

Answer 8

1599

Question 9

Essex rebellion (month & year)

Answer 9

February 1601

Question 10

Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex exceuted

Answer 10

25 February 1601

Question 11

Globe Theatre built

Answer 11

1599

Question 12

Number of supporters in the Essex rebellion

Answer 12

200

Question 13

Number of Privy Councillors Essex took hostage

Answer 13

4

Question 14

Bad harvests between ? and ? led to food shortages and starvation

Answer 14

1594 and 1598

Question 15

A terrible flu outbreak in ? killed ? people, including many farmworkers.

Answer 15

A terrible flu outbreak in 1556 killed 200,000 people, including many farmworkers.

Question 16

Population rose from ? to ? during Elizabeth’s reign.

Answer 16

From 2.8 million to 4 million

Question 17

Warning Against Vagabonds by Thomas Harman is published

Answer 17

1567

Question 18

Act for setting the poor on work - placed responsibility on local authorities (not very effective)

Answer 18

1576

Question 19

The Poor Law (first national approach):

1. taxing the rich to pay for care of sick and vulnerable
2. fit and healthy paupers work for food
3. those who refused should be punished or placed in a house of correction

Answer 19

1601

Question 20

Downturn of the cloth trade

Answer 20

1590

Question 21

Act of Supremacy and Act of Uniformity

Answer 21

May 1559

Question 22

Treason Act:

1. anyone who left country for >6 months had land confiscated -> stopped missionaries
2. denying Elizabeth’s supremacy was punishable by death

Answer 22

1571

Question 23

Ridolfi Plot

Answer 23

1571

Question 24

Duke of Norfolk killed for involvement in Ridolfi Plot

Answer 24

1572

Question 25

Ridolfi Plot - how many spanish soldiers were to attack England?

Answer 25

6000

Question 26

Northern Rebellion

Answer 26

1569

Question 27

Northern Rebellion - how many men marched South with the Earls?

Answer 27

4600

Question 28

The papal bull - Pope Pius V excommunicates Elizabeth. Pope's attempt to stir up a rebellion and inspire English catholics to go against their own queen

Answer 28

April 1570

Question 29

Throckmorton Plot

Answer 29

1583

Question 30

Babington Plot

Answer 30

1586

Question 31

Jesuits Edmund Campion and Rovert Parsons arrive in England

Answer 31

June 1580

Question 32

Recusancy fines for catholics- (the rich could pay for these easily and they weren't enforced harshly)

Answer 32

1571

Question 33

Recusancy fines increased to £20 and are more strictly enforced

Answer 33

1581

Question 34

Recusancy fines increased to what in 1581

Answer 34

£20

Question 35

Statute of Confinement - Catholics cannot travel more than 5 miles from their home without permission from authorities

Answer 35

1593

Question 36

Statute of Confinement says that catholics cannot travel more than ? miles from their home

Answer 36

5 miles

Question 37

Act Against Jesuits calls for all jesuits to be driven out of England (many are excecuted)

Answer 37

1585

Question 38

Spanish Armada

Answer 38

1588

Question 39

Prophesyings become more popular

Answer 39

1570s

Question 40

John Field, a prominent Puritan, is banned from preaching

Answer 40

1580

Question 41

Founders of the puritan separatist church are excecuted

Answer 41

1593

Question 42

Edmund Grindal dies Dudley dies Walsingham dies ^influential puritans

Answer 42

1583 1588 1590

Question 43

Mary Queen of Scots flees to England

Answer 43

1568

Question 44

Mary Queen of Scots kept under house arrest for ? years

Answer 44

19

Question 45

Mary Qos put on trial for treason

Answer 45

October 1586

Question 46

Mary Qos found guilty and sentenced to death

Answer 46

25 October 1586

Question 47

Elizabeth signs Mary Qos' death warrant

Answer 47

1 February 1587

Question 48

Mary Qos excecuted

Answer 48

8 February 1587

Question 49

Cost of watching a play in 'the pit'

Answer 49

One penny

Question 50

Number of people going to London theatres every week

Answer 50

Around 15,000

Question 51

Elizabeth called parliament ? times in 45 years

Answer 51

13

Question 52

Dudley given Kenilworth Castle

Answer 52

1563

Question 53

Dudley becomes Earl of Leicester

Answer 53

1564

Question 54

Kenilworth castle built

Answer 54

12th Century

Question 55

Number of carts Elizabeth would travel with on progresses

Answer 55

200-300

Question 56

Elizabeth criticises Kenilworth

Answer 56

1570

Question 57

£ spent of Elizabeth's 1575 Kenilworth progress

Answer 57

£24 million

Question 58

Octagonal Turrests copied from Warwick Castle which was built in the...

Answer 58

14th century

Question 59

Dates of 1575 Kenilworth visit

Answer 59

9-27 July 1575

Question 60

Elizabeth and Dudley had known eachother since they were...

Answer 60

7 years old

Question 61

Dudley marries Lettice Knollys

Answer 61

1578