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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?
Queen Boudicca
King Macbeth
Llewelyn the Great
Hywell the Good
2. What did the Romans build in the north of Scotland to keep the Highlanders out?
Offa's Dyke
Glenfinnan Viaduct
Hadrian's Wall
Antonine 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 Augustine
St Brendan
St James
St David
5. Which Anglo-Saxon kingdom was the first to dominate on the island of Britain in the early 600s?
Wessex
Mercia
Northumbria
Danelaw
6. Where did the Saxons originally come from to the Britain in the 5th century?
Northern Germany
Norway
Southern France
Iceland
7. Who was the ruler when the Scots and the Picts joined together in 847?
King Malcolm
King Duncan I
Kenneth MacAlpin
Rhodri Mawr
8. What king of Wessex defeated the Danes and established a treaty with them in 886?
Charles the Great
King Henry VIII
Alfred the Great
King Aethelwulf
9. Which Irish king ended the domination of the High Kingship of Ireland and probably ended Viking domination of Ireland?
Offa
Brendan
Columba
Brian Boru
10. Who became the King of England after Edward the Confessor died?
Harald Hardrada of Norway
Harold Godwinson
Richard the Lionheart
Duke William of Normandy
11. How did William the Conqueror die?
Stabbed in battle
Fell off the horse
Died from smallpox
Black death
12. What event brought the end of the Anglo-Saxon rule of England?
Wars of the Roses
Norman conquest
Battle of Ashdown
Black death
13. Which French Duke conquered England in the Battle of Hastings in 1066 and became King of England?
Alfred the Great
Clovis
Charles the Great
William of Normandy
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?
Medieval Manuscript
Domesday Book
The Charter of Liberties
The Magna Carta Libertatum
15. Who was Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Chancelor of England, who was murdered in 1170 and later canonized as a martyr?
Thomas Becket
Edward Grim
Reginald Fitzurse
Thomas More
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
Brave Men
Little Men
Happy 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 Charter of Liberties
The Liber Instrumentorum
The Magna Carta
The Constitution
18. Who led Scotland during the First War of Scottish Independence against England?
Mary, Queen of Scots
Owain Glyndwr
William Wallace
Robert the Bruce
19. According to medieval histories and romances, King Arthur led the defense of Britain against which people?
Vikings
Franks
Moors
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?
8
24
10
12
21. What was the son of King Edward III called?
The Red Prince
The White Prince
The Black Prince
The Great 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 Charles IV
King Edward III
23. How long did the Hundred Years' War last?
100 years
86 years
116 years
99 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
Thomas More
Geoffrey Chaucer
Edmund Spenser
25. Who was the leader of the 1381 Peasants' Revolt in England?
Thomas Becket
Wat Tyler
John Ball
Roger Bacon
26. What title did Richard of York give himself while ruling England?
Protector
Conqueror
King
Regent
27. Who did England fight in the Battle of Agincourt in 1413?
Spain
Ireland
Denmark
France
28. Who was the powerful wife of mentally ill Henry VI?
Elizabeth of York
Isabella of France
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Margaret of Anjou
29. What was the only city remaining under English control on the continental part of Europe after the Hundred Years' war?
Caen
Calais
Le Havre
Dunkirk
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 Normandy
Battle of Hastings
Battle of Bosworth
Battle of Towdon
33. What new royal house took control at the end of the Wars of the Roses?
Lancaster
Tudor
York
Stuart
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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.