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Britain in the Middle Ages
Can you name the most important figures and events in medieval history of Britain?
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1. Centuries before the Middle Ages, who led the Britons into a bloody rebellion against Roman rule in 60 AD?
King Macbeth
Queen Boudicca
Hywell the Good
Llewelyn the Great
2. What did the Romans build in the north of Scotland to keep the Highlanders out?
Glenfinnan Viaduct
Offa's Dyke
Antonine Wall
Hadrian's Wall
3. According to legend, what did St Patrick banish from Ireland?
Wolves
Rats
Snakes
Spiders
4. Which monk went from Rome to England in 597 to preach about Christ?
St Brendan
St James
St David
St Augustine
5. Which Anglo-Saxon kingdom was the first to dominate on the island of Britain in the early 600s?
Northumbria
Danelaw
Wessex
Mercia
6. Where did the Saxons originally come from to the Britain in the 5th century?
Iceland
Southern France
Norway
Northern Germany
7. Who was the ruler when the Scots and the Picts joined together in 847?
King Duncan I
King Malcolm
Kenneth MacAlpin
Rhodri Mawr
8. What king of Wessex defeated the Danes and established a treaty with them in 886?
Charles the Great
Alfred the Great
King Aethelwulf
King Henry VIII
9. Which Irish king ended the domination of the High Kingship of Ireland and probably ended Viking domination of Ireland?
Columba
Brian Boru
Brendan
Offa
10. Who became the King of England after Edward the Confessor died?
Harold Godwinson
Richard the Lionheart
Harald Hardrada of Norway
Duke William of Normandy
11. How did William the Conqueror die?
Stabbed in battle
Black death
Died from smallpox
Fell off the horse
12. What event brought the end of the Anglo-Saxon rule of England?
Wars of the Roses
Black death
Norman conquest
Battle of Ashdown
13. Which French Duke conquered England in the Battle of Hastings in 1066 and became King of England?
Alfred the Great
William of Normandy
Clovis
Charles the Great
14. What is the name of the document completed in 1086 by order of William I to record the houses and lands in their kingdom?
Domesday Book
Medieval Manuscript
The Magna Carta Libertatum
The Charter of Liberties
15. Who was Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Chancelor of England, who was murdered in 1170 and later canonized as a martyr?
Thomas Becket
Thomas More
Edward Grim
Reginald Fitzurse
16. According to he stories what is the name of Robin Hood's group who work to rob from the rich and give to the poor?
Merry Men
Happy Men
Brave Men
Little Men
17. What document did the King John sign that said the people had rights and that the king was not above the law?
The Constitution
The Magna Carta
The Liber Instrumentorum
The Charter of Liberties
18. Who led Scotland during the First War of Scottish Independence against England?
Robert the Bruce
Owain Glyndwr
Mary, Queen of Scots
William Wallace
19. According to medieval histories and romances, King Arthur led the defense of Britain against which people?
Vikings
Moors
Franks
Anglo-Saxons
20. The Knights of the Round Table first appeared in literature in the mid 12th century. How many knights were there most of the stories?
10
12
8
24
21. What was the son of King Edward III called?
The Black Prince
The Great Prince
The Red Prince
The White Prince
22. Which England king claimed to be king of France and that caused the Hundred Years' War?
King John II
King Philip VI
King Edward III
King Charles IV
23. How long did the Hundred Years' War last?
99 years
86 years
116 years
100 years
24. Which English poet and writer, considered the greatest English poet of the Middle Ages, is best known for "The Canterbury Tales?"
William Shakespeare
Geoffrey Chaucer
Thomas More
Edmund Spenser
25. Who was the leader of the 1381 Peasants' Revolt in England?
Thomas Becket
Wat Tyler
Roger Bacon
John Ball
26. What title did Richard of York give himself while ruling England?
Protector
King
Conqueror
Regent
27. Who did England fight in the Battle of Agincourt in 1413?
Ireland
Spain
Denmark
France
28. Who was the powerful wife of mentally ill Henry VI?
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Elizabeth of York
Margaret of Anjou
Isabella of France
29. What was the only city remaining under English control on the continental part of Europe after the Hundred Years' war?
Le Havre
Calais
Dunkirk
Caen
30. Which two houses in medieval England fought for the throne in the Wars of the Roses?
Tudor and Wessex
Hastings and Byron
Windsor and Stuart
Lancaster and York
31. About how long did the Wars of the Roses last?
30 years
12 years
2 years
5 years
32. At which battle the War of the Roses came to an end?
Battle of Towdon
Battle of Hastings
Battle of Bosworth
Battle of Normandy
33. What new royal house took control at the end of the Wars of the Roses?
York
Stuart
Lancaster
Tudor
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(28) one of the claimants is known as Harold Godwinson, who is your Earl Harold, but people don't call him that in the UK. Likewise Harald Hardrada over 'King Hardrada'. I think the correct answer rate is so low because Edward the Confessor left a number of claimants, of whom Harold Godwinson triumphed over Harald Hardrada and then lost to William, but was king for most of the year 1066, so that he is a more obvious answer to the question.