gunpowder plot

Question 1

what religion was James vi of Scotland?

Answer 1

protestant

Question 2

when did king James come king of England?

Answer 2

1603

Question 3

why were catholics in England happy that he was king?

Answer 3

because his mother Mary queen of scots was catholic

Question 4

what did James promise to abolish?

Answer 4

the fines catholic payed for not going to sunday protestant church services

Question 5

what did James not do that catholics had hoped?

Answer 5

he made catholics life hard fined catholics that didn’t go to church service and educated catholic priests.

Question 6

what did a desperate group of catholics decide to do about this?

Answer 6

blow up the king and lords when they met for state opening of parliment

Question 7

who lead this group?

Answer 7

robert catesby

Question 8

who were the other conspirators?

Answer 8

Thomas Percy,Thomas Winter and Ambrose Rookwood

Question 9

who was the explosives expert?

Answer 9

Guy Fawkes

Question 10

where was he from?

Answer 10

York

Question 11

what was his old occupation?

Answer 11

mercenary solider

Question 12

what did they also intend to do?

Answer 12

seize one of James children and make them a catholic monarch

Question 13

where were they going to place the gunpowder?

Answer 13

under the house of lords

Question 14

how did they first try to get the gunpowder under there?

Answer 14

they tried to tunnel under the house of lords from a house just outside the walls of westminster place and failed

Question 15

what did they do after failing?

Answer 15

they rented a house with a cellar under the house of lords

Question 16

how many barrels of gunpowder did they hide in the cellar?

Answer 16

36

Question 17

how did they hid the gunpowder?

Answer 17

under piles of wood

Question 18

what did they then after hiding the gunpowder?

Answer 18

waited till November 5th 1605

Question 19

who joined the group and when?

Answer 19

Francis Tresham in october 1605

Question 20

what happened later that month?

what did the letter say?

Answer 20

a anonymous letter was sent to lord monteagle (Trishaws brother in law) telling him not to go to parliament on 5/11/1605

Question 21

when did he receive the letter?

Answer 21

while he was having dinner with friends in London house

Question 22

what did he ask his servant to do?

Answer 22

read it aloud

Question 23

what was he alarmed by?

Answer 23

why the letter said terrible blow being received by parliament

Question 24

who did he give the letter to?

Answer 24

robert cecil (the kings chief minister)

Question 25

when did Robert Cecil give the letter to the king?

Answer 25

27th october 1605

Question 26

what happened on the 4th of november 1605

Answer 26

just before midnight guards arrested Guy Fawkes as he was hiding in the cellar to blow the explosives off th next day

Question 27

what did Guy Fawkes say in his defence?

Answer 27

he said he was a servant of Thomas percy called johnson

Question 28

what was done to Guy Fawkes at the tower of London?

Answer 28

he was tortured orders of the king and confessed names of fellow plotters on the 9th

Question 29

what happened on the 7th of november 1605?

Answer 29

a warrant for the nine other plotters as issued and armed men surrounded them in their hideout in holbeache house in in Staffordshire and there was a fierce fight

Question 30

who knew where the plotters were on the 7th November?

Answer 30

Robert Cecil

Question 31

what happened on the 8th of november?

Answer 31

Catestby and Percy were killed with the same bullet

Question 32

what happened to the 8 remaining plotters?

Answer 32

they were arrested and taken to the London for trial

Question 33

what happened in january 1606?

Answer 33

the plotters were hanged drawn and quartered