Quiz  /  Kings and Emperors (Part I) Quiz

  • 1. 
    Henry VIII’s marriage to which woman led to his break with the Roman Catholic Church?

  • Catherine Howard
  • Jane Seymour
  • Catherine Parr
  • Anne Boleyn

  • 2. 
    Which Egyptian monarch’s tomb was discovered intact by Howard Carter in 1922?

  • Akhenaten’s
  • Cleopatra’s
  • Tutankhamen’s
  • Ramses I’s

  • 3. 
    Which king prevented England from falling to the Danes in the 9th century?

  • Guthrum
  • Alfred
  • Ethelred the Unready
  • Charlemagne

  • 4. 
    Which king of England was sainted because of his reputation for piety?

  • Edward
  • Aethelred I
  • William I
  • Ethelred II

  • 5. 
    Which king defended the Holy Roman empress Matilda’s rights to the English throne?

  • David I
  • Henry Plantagenet
  • Malcolm III
  • Stephen

  • 6. 
    Which king of England has been portrayed by William Shakespeare and others as a hunchbacked monster of unparalleled villainy?

  • Richard III
  • Henry VI
  • Edward VI
  • Edward V

  • 7. 
    Which site is famous as Napoleon I’s place of exile?

  • Tuscany
  • Elba
  • Wellington
  • Waterloo

  • 8. 
    Who was the Siberian peasant and mystic whose curious ability to heal the son of the Russian emperor Nicholas II made him an influential favourite at the court?

  • L. Martov
  • Mikhail Borodin
  • Vladimir Purishkevich
  • Grigori Rasputin

  • 9. 
    Who was the principal adviser to England’s King Henry VIII and was eventually executed for heresy and treason?

  • Simon de Montfort
  • Thomas Cromwell
  • Oliver Cromwell
  • Edward Seymour

  • 10. 
    Which city was the favourite residence of the Holy Roman emperor Charlemagne and later the principal coronation site of medieval German kings?

  • Berlin
  • Cologne
  • Vienna
  • Aachen

  • 11. 
    Who fabricated the Popish Plot of 1678, during the reign of the English king Charles II, which led to the execution of some 35 alleged conspirators?

  • Guy Fawkes
  • Thomas Danby
  • Titus Oates
  • Benedict Arnold

  • 12. 
    Which law, passed in 1701, was responsible for the accession of the German house of Hanover to the English throne?

  • Triennial Act
  • Mutiny Act
  • Act of Settlement
  • Toleration Act

  • 13. 
    Which English architect did King George IV patronize?

  • George Gilbert Scott
  • John Nash
  • Christopher Wren
  • Inigo Jones
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