Elizabeth Specific evidence

Question 1

When did Elizabeth I become Queen?

Answer 1

1558

Question 2

How old was Elizabeth I when she became Queen?

Answer 2

25

Question 3

When was Henry VIII King of England?

Answer 3

1509-47

Question 4

When was Edward VI King of England?

Answer 4

1547-53

Question 5

When was Mary I Queen of England?

Answer 5

1553-58

Question 6

When was the Religious Settlement created?

Answer 6

1559

Question 7

When did Mary, Queen of Scots arrive in England?

Answer 7

1568

Question 8

Whose slave ships were attacked by the Spanish, and when did it happen?

Answer 8

John Hawkins, in 1568

Question 9

When did the Pope excommunicate Elizabeth I?

Answer 9

1570

Question 10

What was Elizabeth’s title under her Religious Settlement?

Answer 10

Supreme Governor of the Protestant Church of England

Question 11

When was the Ridolfi Plot?

Answer 11

1571

Question 12

Who was executed as a result of the Ridolfi Plot?

Answer 12

The Duke of Norfolk

Question 13

When did Elizabeth start to send secret aid to Protestants in the Netherlands?

Answer 13

1572

Question 14

When was the Vagabonds Act?

Answer 14

1572

Question 15

Vagabonds Act aims (2)

Answer 15

Local Justices of the Peace to:

(1) Keep a register of the poor
(2) Raise a poor rate to provide shelter for the elderly and sick

Question 16

In what year was there a disastrous harvest followed by four consecutive bad ones?

Answer 16

1573

Question 17

Poor Relief Act (date)

Answer 17

1576

Question 18

Poor Relief Act aims (2)

Answer 18

Local Justices of the Peace had to provide raw materials for poor people to work with

Question 19

When did Jesuit missionary priests first land in Europe to spread Catholicism?

Answer 19

1580

Question 20

When was the Throckmorton Plot?

Answer 20

1583

Question 21

When did Parliament pass tougher laws against Catholic priests?

Answer 21

1585

Question 22

When was Walter Raleigh’s first colony in Virginia set up?

Answer 22

1585

Question 23

When was the Babington Plot?

Answer 23

1586

Question 24

When was the Spanish Armada launched against England?

Answer 24

1588

Question 25

When was Mary, Queen of Scots executed?

Answer 25

1587

Question 26

When did Francis Drake singe the King of Spain’s beard?

Answer 26

1587

Question 27

How many Spanish ships did Francis Drake destroy when he singed the King of Spain’s beard?

Answer 27

24

Question 28

When did the Rose Theatre open, and what was one very popular show?

Answer 28

1587

Christopher Marlowe’s “Doctor Faustus”

Question 29

What was the population of England at the time of Elizabeth I?

Answer 29

About 3 million

Question 30

Punishments for vagrancy

Answer 30

Whipping
Boring through ear
Death