Knights Templar

What do you know about medieval knights who fought in the crusades?

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1. When were the Knight Templars established?

1100s ✓

1300s ✓

1200s ✓

1400s ✓

2. Where were the Knight Templars headquarters?

Jerusalem ✓

Paris ✓

Rome ✓

Marseilles ✓

3. What was the original purpose of the Knights Templar?

Protection of trade routes and pilgrims ✓

Mercenaries ✓

Private army of the King of France ✓

Protection of the Pope ✓

4. Who created a military order the Knights Templar?

Bernard of Clairvaux ✓

Hugues de Payens ✓

Gerard de Ridefort ✓

Guillaume de Chartres ✓

5. How many relatives and acquaintances founded the Knights Templar order?

15 ✓

9 ✓

12 ✓

25 ✓

6. Which temple is referred to in the full name of the Knights Templar?

Solomon's Temple ✓

Herod's Temple ✓

Temple Church ✓

Zerubbabel's Temple ✓

7. Which symbol was typically used as a seal by Knights Templar grand masters?

Jerusalem cross ✓

The two riders ✓

Square and compasses ✓

Maltese cross ✓

8. What event marked the destruction of the last remaining Crusader refuge in the Holy Land?

Siege of Jerusalem ✓

Battle of Pelagonia ✓

Siege of Antioch ✓

Fall of Acre ✓

9. Who ordered the arrest and suppression of the Knights Templar in 1307?

Philip IV of France ✓

Alfonso IV of Aragon ✓

Edward I of England ✓

Albert I of Germany ✓

10. After the fall of Jerusalem in the late 13th century to which island did the Knights Templar withdraw?

Crete ✓

Malta ✓

Rhodes ✓

Cyprus ✓

11. How were the Knights Templar dressed?

White mantles with red cross ✓

Black mantles with red cross ✓

Black mantles with white cross ✓

White mantles with black cross ✓

12. Who was the 23rd and last grand master of the Knights Templar?

Guillaume de Beaujeu ✓

Thibaud Gaudin ✓

Thomas Bérard ✓

Jacques de Molay ✓

13. What are the Knights Templar allowed to do?

To gamble ✓

To swear ✓

To eat meals together ✓

To get drunk ✓

14. By the early 1500s the Templars had joined the Knights Hospitallers. What was their name after 1530?

Knights of Malta ✓

Teutonic Knights ✓

Order of Saint Lazarus ✓

Knights of Sicily ✓

15. Which Grand Master of the Knights Templar was beheaded by Saladin in 1189 at the Siege of Acre?

Landry de Lauzon ✓

Guillaume de Nogaret ✓

Godfrey de Saint-Omer ✓

Gérard de Ridefort ✓

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