Oliver Cromwell Quiz #1 - Statistics

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Descended from the sister of this famous advisor to Henry VIII Thomas Cromwell
50%
Year of Birth 1599
44%
Year he became Lord Protector 1653
38%
Town of Birth Huntingdon
19%
His yearly salary as Lord Protector in Pounds 100,000
13%
Number of weeks he deliberated whether to take the crown 6
13%
Earl he was second in command to for the above Earl of Manchester
13%
Welcomed back this group after they were explled by Edward I Jews
13%
Constituted this Parliament after dissolving the Rump by snatching ceremonial mace Barbones Parliament
6%
Religious conviction Calvinist / Puritain
6%
Decisive victory against Scots at this battle after proclamation of Charles II as king Dunbar
6%
Solo in command, he won this decisive victory at this battle against Scottish Engagers Preston
6%
This reportedly raged in Europe on the day of his death Storm
6%
Number of Parliamentary members identified by New Model army as enemies in 1648 and expelled 11
0%
The leader of the Parliamentary 'Peace' party during the civil war Denzil Holles
0%
Fortified Irish port towns he besieged and massacred Drogheda, Wexford
0%
Name of schoolteacher who influenced his beliefs Dr. Thomas Beard
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Army association he was first part of Eastern Association
0%
Full name of wife Elizabeth Bourchier
0%
Name of mother Elizabeth Steward
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Term for the bigshots in the New Model Army who mistrusted the Levellers Grandees
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The above entertained James I with this favourite bird of his Hawk
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His Uncle Sir Oliver Cromwell owned this famous estate Hichingbrooke House
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The two constituencies for where hes was MP Huntingdon, Cambridge
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Name of the first Constitution of the Commonwealth of England drafted by Lambert Instrument of Government
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Two other people who's severed heads were placed on poles outside Westminster Hall Ireton and Bradshaw
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Changed his signature from Oliver Cromwell to this when he became Protector Oliver P
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What poet John Milton called him "our chief of men"
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Name of father Robert
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What ordinance was Cromwell and one other MP exempt to, concerning not simulataneously being a member of Parliament and army leader Self-denying ordinance
0%
Where he was executed posthumously Tyburn
0%
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