Elizabethan England

Question 1

Year Elizabeth was born

Answer 1

1533

Question 2

Year Edward VI becomes king

Answer 2

1547

Question 3

Year Mary becomes queen

Answer 3

1553

Question 4

Year Elizabeth became queen

Answer 4

1558

Question 5

Year of the revolt of the northern earls

Answer 5

1569

Question 6

Year of the Ridolfi plot

Answer 6

1571

Question 7

Year of the Throckmorton plot

Answer 7

1583

Question 8

Year of the Babington plot

Answer 8

1586

Question 9

Year of the religious settlement

Answer 9

1559

Question 10

The three acts of the religious settlement

Answer 10

Act of supremacy, act of uniformity, royal injunctions

Question 11

Year Mary QoS arrived in England

Answer 11

1568

Question 12

Year Elizabeth was excommunicated

Answer 12

1570

Question 13

Year Mary QoS was executed

Answer 13

1587

Question 14

Year England went to war with Spain

Answer 14

1585

Question 15

Year Elizabeth signed the Nonsuch Treaty

Answer 15

1585

Question 16

Year the Spanish Armada was launched

Answer 16

1588

Question 17

Year Drake ‘singed the King of Spain’s beard’

Answer 17

1587

Question 18

Year Drake circumnavigated the globe

Answer 18

1577

Question 19

Year of the first New World colony

Answer 19

1585

Question 20

Year of the second New World colony

Answer 20

1587

Question 21

Year of the Vagabonds Act

Answer 21

1572

Question 22

Year of the Poor Relief Act

Answer 22

1576