Part 1 - 30 Questions

Question 0

What was the name of Henry VIII’s mother?

Answer 0

Elizabeth of York

Question 1

Where was Martin Luther born?

Answer 1

Eisleben, Germany

Question 2

What was the King’s Great Matter?

Answer 2

The divorce from Catherine of Aragon

Question 3

Before Prince Arthur died, what was Henry VIII’s title?

Answer 3

Henry Duke of York

Question 4

What and when was the Pilgrimage of Grace?

Answer 4

A popular uprising in Yorkshire protesting against Henry VIII’s break from Rome, in 1536.

Question 5

What was the surname of the Holy Roman Emperors?

Answer 5

Habsburg

Question 6

Name the first Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury?

Answer 6

Thomas Cranmer

Question 7

Who was Edward VI engaged to marry?

Answer 7

Mary Queen of Scots

Question 8

How many years older than her husband was Mary I?

Answer 8

11

Question 9

Who did Mary I make Archbishop of Canterbury (still the last Catholic Archbishop of Canterbury)?

Answer 9

Cardinal Reginald Pole

Question 10

How old was Elizabeth I when she died?

Answer 10

69

Question 11

What was the most common career of the Protestants killed by Mary I?

Answer 11

Craftsmen / Merchant

Question 12

How many times was Elizabeth married?

Answer 12

None!!!

Question 13

In Elizabeth’s reign, who was the first Englishman to circumnavigate (sail around) the world?

Answer 13

Sir Francis Drake

Question 14

Elizabeth traded raw materials to the Muslim Ottoman Empire, causing horror in Christian Europe. Apart from the money, why was she willing to trade with them?

Answer 14

She was scared of Spain, who were enemies of the Ottomans.

Question 15

What was the name of the French Protestants?

Answer 15

Huguenots.

Question 16

Who was James I’s wife?

Answer 16

Anne of Denmark.

Question 17

Who was the first husband of Mary Queen of Scots?

Answer 17

Francis / François II of France

Question 18

Which of Shakespeare’s plays was written first, Julius Caesar or Richard III?

Answer 18

Richard III (1592); Julius Caesar (1599)

Question 19

What was the Ridolfi Plot trying to do?

Answer 19

Free the Duke of Norfolk and Mary Queen of Scots, kill Elizabeth and bring back Catholicism.

Question 20

What was the difference between English Protestants, like Elizabeth I, and Scottish Protestants like John Knox?

Answer 20

English were Anglicans, had bishops and the monarch was the head of the church. The Scots were Presbyterians, no bishops and the monarch was not the head of the church.

Question 21

How did James I have a claim to the English throne?

Answer 21

His grandmother was Henry VIII’s oldest sister Margaret.

Question 22

Which school did Guy Fawkes attend?

Answer 22

St. Peter’s in York

Question 23

Who was the famous husband of Princess Henrietta Maria of France?

Answer 23

Charles I

Question 24

What happened first, the Great Fire of London or the Great Plague?

Answer 24

Plague 1665 - Great Fire of London 1666

Question 25

What does Renaissance actually mean?

Answer 25

Rebirth

Question 26

What nationality was the great humanist writer Desiderius Erasmus?

Answer 26

Dutch

Question 27

What did Leo X, the Pope when when Germany broke from Rome, and Clement VII, the Pope when England broke from Rome, have in common?

Answer 27

They were both from the Medici family. They were cousins!

Question 28

In Rome, which cathedral is the official seat of the bishop of Rome (i.e. The Pope)?

Answer 28

St. John Lateran

Question 29

Who painted the Sistine Chapel ceiling in Rome?

Answer 29

Michaelangelo Buonarotti