Henry VIII Trivia - Statistics

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Hint Answer % Correct
Henry's first daughter Mary I
87%
Mother of Henry Elizabeth of York
85%
Mother of Henry's only legitimate son, Edward VI Jane Seymour
79%
Year Henry became King 1509
69%
Cardinal who gave Henry Hampton Court Palace as a gift Thomas Wolsey
68%
The amount of times Henry's sixth wife, Catherine Parr, was married during her life 4
65%
Chief Minister and architect of the Dissolution of the Monasteries Thomas Cromwell
62%
Year Henry died 1547
59%
The name of that French King Francis I
53%
Author and philosopher who became Henry's Lord Chancellor in 1529 Sir Thomas More
48%
Henry's illegitimate son, concieved with his mistress Elizabeth Blount Henry Fitzroy
45%
The "King's Painter" who was sent to Germany to paint Anne of Cleves Hans Holbein the Younger
44%
Folk song often attributed to Henry, but probably not composed by him Greensleeves
39%
The first Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, installed in 1533 Thomas Cranmer
39%
Duke who married Henry's sister, Mary Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk
37%
Medical condition that Henry is thought to have suffered from Gout
37%
Name given to the 1520 meeting between Henry and the French King Field of the Cloth of Gold
35%
Henry's maternal Grandfather Edward IV
32%
Lantern Gate and Beauchamp were both town quarters in this English-held French town Calais
31%
Courtier executed for having an affair with Catherine Howard Thomas Culpeper
31%
Legislation that declared Henry the head of the English Church Act of Supremacy
24%
1536 Yorkshire uprising against the English Reformation led by Robert Aske Pilgrimage of Grace
24%
Court musician executed for supposedly having an affair with Anne Boleyn Mark Smeaton
22%
Where Henry is buried in Windsor Castle St George's Chapel
16%
Pope who named Henry "Defender of the Faith" Leo X
15%
Palace where Henry was born Greenwich Palace
13%
Common place of execution for traitors and religious martyrs Tyburn
13%
Leading English Protestant reformist who translated the Bible into English William Tyndale
13%
Tudor Palace that used to be on the South Bank of the River Thames Richmond Palace
12%
Church within the Tower of London which contains the remains of Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard Chapel Royal of St Peter ad Vincula
10%
Belgian city captured by English forces in 1513 Tournai
10%
Henry's war on Scotland was given this epithet by Victorian historians The Rough Wooing
9%
Nickname given to Nun Elizabeth Barton, who prophecied that Henry would die within six months if he married Anne Boleyn The Holy Maid of Kent
8%
City where Henry first met his much-maligned fourth wife, Anne of Cleves Rochester
6%
Actor who played Henry in the TV Series and Film "The Six Wives of Henry VIII" Keith Michell
4%
The "King's Ballad", composed by Henry for Catherine of Aragon Pastime with Good Company
2%
Device Fort on the Kent coast, built to counter the threat of invasion Deal Castle
1%
English ballad about Henry's third wife, covered by Joan Baez and Oscar Isaac The Death of Queen Jane
1%
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