Quiz - Who said it? - The Tudor Society

"Who said it?" is the theme of this week's Sunday quiz! Can you match the quotation with the person, or the person they're talking about? I'm sure you can!

So, grab yourself a snack and your favourite beverage, make yourself comfortable, and let's get those little grey cells working. Good luck!

Who said it?

Q1) Who allegedly carved the following poem into the wall of his/her prison at the Tower of London? "For traitors on the block should die; I am no traitor, no, not I! My faithfulness stands fast and so, Towards the block I shall not go! Nor make one step, as you shall see; Christ in Thy Mercy, save Thou me!"

Thomas Cromwell

Thomas More

Elizabeth I

Margaret Pole

Correct! Margaret was executed on 27th May 1541.

Wrong! It was Margaret Pole. She was executed on 27th May 1541.

Q2) Who wrote the following words after being widowed: "Divine Providence ... hath mingled my joy with bitterness of the death of her who brought me this happiness."

Thomas Seymour

Thomas Cromwell

Charles Brandon

Henry VIII

Correct! He was talking about the death of his third wife, Jane Seymour.

Wrong! It was Henry VIII. He was talking about the death of his third wife, Jane Seymour.

Q3) Who said of King Henry VIII: "If my head would win him a castle in France, it should not fail to go."?

Thomas More

Thomas Wolsey

Thomas Cromwell

John Fisher

Correct!

Wrong! It was Sir Thomas More.

Q4) Who said: "Little man, the word 'must' is not to be used to princes."?

Henry VIII

Edward VI

Mary I

Elizabeth I

Correct! She said it to Robert Cecil.

Wrong! It was Elizabeth I. She said it to Robert Cecil.

Q5) Who wrote "I had rather beg my bread with him than be the greatest queen christened"?

Lettice Knollys

Elizabeth Throckmorton

Mary Boleyn

Katherine Grey

Correct! She wrote it about her second husband, William Stafford, in a letter to Cromwell.

Wrong! It was Mary Boleyn. She wrote it about her second husband, William Stafford, in a letter to Cromwell.

Q6) Who said on the day of Queen Anne Boleyn's execution: "She who has been the Queen of England upon earth will to-day become a Queen in heaven"?

Alexander Alesius

Thomas Cranmer

William Kingston

William Latymer

Correct!

Wrong! It was Archbishop Thomas Cranmer.

Q7) Who wrote to Henry VIII "Lastly, I make this vow, that mine eyes desire you above all things"?

Anne Boleyn

Jane Seymour

Catherine of Aragon

Anne of Cleves

Correct! In the last letter she wrote to him.

Wrong! It was Catherine of Aragon in the last letter she wrote to him.

Q8) Who was said to have declared "When I am dead and opened, you shall find 'Calais' lying in my heart"?

Edward VI

Elizabeth I

Mary I

Robert Dudley

Correct! The English territory was lost to the French in 1558.

Wrong! It was Mary I. The English territory was lost to the French in 1558.

Q9) Who was Henry VIII talking about when he said that he was "A good manager, but not fit to intermeddle in the affairs of kings"?

Thomas Cromwell

Thomas Wolsey

Thomas More

Thomas Boleyn

Correct!

Wrong! He was talking about Thomas Cromwell.

Q10) Who wrote "when I think again that you shall depart from me again it makes my heart die to think what fortune I have that I cannot be always in your company" in a letter?

Anne Boleyn

Henry VIII

Catherine Howard

Mary Boleyn

Correct! She wrote it in a letter to Thomas Culpeper.

Wrong! It was Catherine Howard in a letter to Thomas Culpeper.