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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
Hywell the Good
Llewelyn the Great
King Macbeth
2. What did the Romans build in the north of Scotland to keep the Highlanders out?
Offa's Dyke
Antonine Wall
Hadrian's Wall
Glenfinnan Viaduct
3. According to legend, what did St Patrick banish from Ireland?
Snakes
Spiders
Rats
Wolves
4. Which monk went from Rome to England in 597 to preach about Christ?
St David
St Brendan
St James
St Augustine
5. Which Anglo-Saxon kingdom was the first to dominate on the island of Britain in the early 600s?
Mercia
Northumbria
Wessex
Danelaw
6. Where did the Saxons originally come from to the Britain in the 5th century?
Northern Germany
Norway
Iceland
Southern France
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?
Alfred the Great
Charles 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?
Offa
Brendan
Columba
Brian Boru
10. Who became the King of England after Edward the Confessor died?
Harald Hardrada of Norway
Duke William of Normandy
Richard the Lionheart
Harold Godwinson
11. How did William the Conqueror die?
Died from smallpox
Fell off the horse
Stabbed in battle
Black death
12. What event brought the end of the Anglo-Saxon rule of England?
Norman conquest
Wars of the Roses
Black death
Battle of Ashdown
13. Which French Duke conquered England in the Battle of Hastings in 1066 and became King of England?
Charles the Great
Alfred the Great
Clovis
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
The Magna Carta Libertatum
The Charter of Liberties
Domesday Book
15. Who was Archbishop of Canterbury and Lord Chancelor of England, who was murdered in 1170 and later canonized as a martyr?
Edward Grim
Reginald Fitzurse
Thomas More
Thomas Becket
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
Happy 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 Liber Instrumentorum
The Charter of Liberties
The Magna Carta
18. Who led Scotland during the First War of Scottish Independence against England?
William Wallace
Robert the Bruce
Mary, Queen of Scots
Owain Glyndwr
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?
24
8
12
10
21. What was the son of King Edward III called?
The White Prince
The Great Prince
The Red Prince
The Black Prince
22. Which England king claimed to be king of France and that caused the Hundred Years' War?
King Charles IV
King John II
King Edward III
King Philip VI
23. How long did the Hundred Years' War last?
116 years
86 years
99 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
Conqueror
Regent
King
27. Who did England fight in the Battle of Agincourt in 1413?
Spain
Denmark
France
Ireland
28. Who was the powerful wife of mentally ill Henry VI?
Elizabeth of York
Margaret of Anjou
Eleanor of Aquitaine
Isabella of France
29. What was the only city remaining under English control on the continental part of Europe after the Hundred Years' war?
Calais
Le Havre
Dunkirk
Caen
30. Which two houses in medieval England fought for the throne in the Wars of the Roses?
Lancaster and York
Hastings and Byron
Tudor and Wessex
Windsor and Stuart
31. About how long did the Wars of the Roses last?
30 years
2 years
12 years
5 years
32. At which battle the War of the Roses came to an end?
Battle of Hastings
Battle of Normandy
Battle of Bosworth
Battle of Towdon
33. What new royal house took control at the end of the Wars of the Roses?
York
Lancaster
Stuart
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.