HISTORY

Question 1

Give approx periods for the Stone /Bronze/ Iron age?

Answer 1

14000 BC/ 2000 BC -Stone
3300 BC / 1100 BC - Bronze
1100 BC / 7-800 BC- Iron

Question 2

What Makes up Bronze?

Answer 2

Copper and Tin

Question 3

Name the indigenous people from the Bronze Age who brought Skills?

Answer 3

Beaker People

Question 4

What makes Steel ?

Answer 4

Iron and Carbon

Question 5

Roman names for
Chester/ Bath / York

Answer 5

Chester- Deva
Bath - Aquae Sulis
York- Eboracum

Question 6

Who wrote ‘ on the Ruin of Britain in 540 AD

Answer 6

Gildas

Question 7

Name the Border Roughly Dividing Wales and England

Answer 7

Offa’s Dyke

Question 8

Who was Great Britain’s 1st King

Answer 8

Egbert of Wessex

Question 9

Who ordered the St Brides Day Massacre?

Answer 9

Ethelred the Unready

Question 10

Who did Ethelreds widow Emma Marry?

Answer 10

King Canute

Question 11

Who was Emma and Ethelreds son?

Answer 11

Edward the Confessor

Question 12

Who was the first Archbishop of Canterbury?

Answer 12

Augustine (597AD)

Question 13

Where/ what is JORVIK?

Answer 13

York

Question 14

What is the Witan ?

Answer 14

Kings Advisors in the Anglo Saxon period

Question 15

Where could you see a copy of the Anglo Saxon Chronicle

Answer 15

British Library 7
Oxford 1
Cambridge 1

Question 16

Where did St columba establish a monastery in 563 AD

Answer 16

IONA

Question 17

When was the doomsday book Written?

Answer 17

1086

Question 18

What was the Anarchy in 1135

Answer 18

Dispute between Heirs of Henry Ist Throne- Matilda and Stephen

Question 19

Who was the Ist Monarch in the house of Plantagenets ?

Answer 19

Henry II - named after his father ‘ Count of Anjou ‘

Question 20

Who was behind the great revolt of 1173?

Answer 20

Henry IIs Enemies including his son Henry.

Question 21

How many phases were in the 100 years war ?

Answer 21

3
Edwardian
Caroline
Lancastrian

Question 22

Which King Founded the order of the garter?

Answer 22

Edward III

Question 23

What were the two houses in the war of the Rose’s

Answer 23

Lancaster( Henry VI)
York (Edward IV)

Question 24

Who won the Battle of Agincourt 1415

Answer 24

Henry V

Question 25

Who is the only English monarch to have been crowned King Of France?

Answer 25

Henry VI

Question 26

Who were the 3 Eleanor's married to ?

Answer 26

Eleanor of Aquitaine ( Henry II) Eleanor of Provence (Henry III) Eleanor of Castile ( Edward I )

Question 27

What did Simon de Montford do in 1200s

Answer 27

Set up parliament

Question 28

Where did Edward II lose to Robert the Bruce

Answer 28

Battle of Bannockburn

Question 29

Which new technology helped in the battle of Crecy

Answer 29

Longbow

Question 30

Who was the founder of the house of Lancaster

Answer 30

John of Gaunt - Uncle to Richard II Farthr of Henry IV

Question 31

Who was king During the Joan of Arc Period?

Answer 31

Henry VI

Question 32

Name any educational institution set up by Henry VI?

Answer 32

Eton/ Kings College Cambridge

Question 33

What battle ended the war of the Roses

Answer 33

Battle of bosworth (1485 Henry Tudor / VII Vs Richard III

Question 34

What were the fields of Gold meetings in 1520

Answer 34

Sumit meeting between Henry VIII +France Ist of France.

Question 35

What was The Hanseatic League

Answer 35

Defensive +bureaucratic organisation During Henry VII Reign

Question 36

What was a diet of worms

Answer 36

A meeting usually religious in a place called Worms.

Question 37

Who wrote Utopia 1500s

Answer 37

Thomas More

Question 38

What did Rebel Robert Aske lead

Answer 38

Pilgrimage of Grace

Question 40

Where was Mary Queen of Scots Executed?

Answer 40

Fotheringay castle 1587 Northamptonshire

Question 42

What was the Tilbury Speech

Answer 42

Queen Elizabeth 1st victory speech after the Spanish Amanda. 1588

Question 43

Who was the Jacobites?

Answer 43

Supporters of King James I VI of Scotland

Question 44

Who was " The Wisest Fool in Christendom

Answer 44

James I

Question 45

What did the Hampton court conference in 1604 lead to

Answer 45

King James Bible

Question 46

Who was rumoured to have a bed Pan baby ?

Answer 46

James II

Question 47

Who was the old pretender ?

Answer 47

James Stuart- son of james II ( Bed Pan Baby )

Question 48

What does Interregnum mean?

Answer 48

Between reigns

Question 49

Which house did Charles II hide in an oak tree?

Answer 49

Boscobel house

Question 50

Who was "Old Rowley"

Answer 50

Charles Ist Ist prize racehorse but also him Philanderer.

Question 51

Who fought in the last battle on English soil? Sedgmoor

Answer 51

Duke of Monmouth ( Charles II illegitimate son vs. James II ( Charles II brother)

Question 52

Whose reign saw the formation of the bank of England

Answer 52

Willam and mary