QUICK QUIZ: KINGS & QUEENS

Test your knowledge with 5 questions on Britain’s Kings & Queens. How many will you get right?

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I was a ‘Great’ King of Wessex, who stopped invading Vikings. I may have burnt some cakes along the way!

Alfred the Great

Ethelred the Unready

Edward the Elder

Edward the Confessor

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I was crowned King of England on Christmas Day, 1066 at Westminster Abbey, having won the Battle of Hastings

Harald III Hardraade

Edward the Confessor

William the Conqueror

Tostig Godwinson

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I was the last Norman King of England. I am also the only King of England and the Union with my name…so far!

Peter of Anjou

Stephen of Blois

Geoffrey Plantagenet

Robert of Gloucester

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I claimed my rebellious barons forced me to sign the Magna Carta, which took away any English monarch’s right to Absolute Power – drat!

King John

King Donald

King Oliver

King Henry VIII

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I was seen as a weak king but my reign lasted 56 years. I kept an elephant at the Tower of London and a polar bear, who fished in the Thames – so I had my cool side!

Henry VIII

Henry IV

Edward VIII

Henry III

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I defeated the French at the Battle of Agincourt. I lost 400 of my 6,000 men. The French lost 5,000 of their 30,000 men

Richard II

Henry IV

Charles VI

Henry V

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I broke with Rome and made myself head of the Church of England. I spent heavily on wars and built up the English navy…and I wasn’t necessarily the greatest husband to have

Francis I

James VI

Henry VII

Henry VIII

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I became Queen of England in 1558 when I was 25 years old. I never married. I said my country was my priority

Queen Anne

Queen Elizabeth I

Queen Mary

Queen Mary II

Sir Walter Raleigh named Virginia in North America after me, ‘the Virgin Queen’

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I was the first Stuart King of England. Guy Fawkes tried to blow me up in the Houses of Parliament in the 1605 Gunpowder Plot

King James I

King Charles I

Queen Elizabeth I

King Charles II

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My rule of England, Scotland and Ireland was called the Interregnum – ‘between reigns’ – I was called Lord Protector: kind of a king and yet soooo not a king

Elvis Costello

Oliver Cromwell

John Lilburne

Thomas Cromwell

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The first Hanoverian King to be born in England, I became the first King of the United Kingdom…but lost our American colonies in the American War of Independence

George I

George II

George III

George IV

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I was the first reigning monarch to travel by train

Queen Elizabeth I

Queen Elizabeth II

Queen Victoria

Queen Anne

I married my first cousin, Albert, in 1840. As Head of State I had to propose to him.

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