Six Wives - True or False Quiz Part 2

This week's Sunday fun is a true or false quiz testing your knowledge on Henry VIII's six wives. Part 2 focuses on Anne of Cleves, Catherine Howard and Catherine Parr.

Q1) True or false: Henry VIII's government had to investigate rumours that Anne of Cleves had given birth to the king's son in 1541?

True

False

Correct!

Wrong! It's true!

Q2) True or false: Anne of Cleves was a brunette?

True

False

Correct! Edward Hall described her hair as "fair, yellow and long".

Wrong! Edward Hall described her hair as "fair, yellow and long".

Q3) True or false: Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves were married on the Feast of the Epiphany at Hampton Court Palace in 1540?

True

False

Correct! They got married at Greenwich Palace.

Wrong! They actually got married at Greenwich Palace.

Q4) True or false: Catherine Howard was Anne Boleyn's first cousin?

True

False

Correct! Anne's mother, Elizabeth Howard, and Catherine's father, Edmund Howard, were brother and sister.

Wrong! It's true. Anne's mother, Elizabeth Howard, and Catherine's father, Edmund Howard, were brother and sister.

Q5) True or false: Catherine Howard interceded on behalf of Thomas Wyatt the Elder when he was imprisoned in 1541?

True

False

Correct! Wyatt was released.

Wrong! It's true. Wyatt was released.

Q6) True or false: At her execution on 13th February 1542, Catherine Howard declared "I die a queen, but I would rather die the wife of Thomas Culpeper"?

True

False

Correct! The eye-witness account we have of her execution makes no mention of her saying this.

Wrong! The eye-witness account we have of her execution makes no mention of her saying this.

Q7) True or false: Catherine Parr had been married twice already when she married Henry VIII?

True

False

Correct! Her first two husbands were Sir Edward Burgh and John Neville, 3rd Baron Latimer.

Wrong! It's true. Her first two husbands were Sir Edward Burgh and John Neville, 3rd Baron Latimer.

Q8) True or false: Catherine Parr's motto as queen was "No other will than his"?

True

False

Correct! It was "To be useful in all that I do".

Wrong! It was "To be useful in all that I do".

Q9) True or false: After her death in 1548, Catherine Parr was laid to rest at Winchcombe Abbey, but later moved to St Mary's Chapel, Sudeley Castle?

True

False

Correct! She was laid to rest at Sudeley originally.

Wrong! She was laid to rest at Sudeley originally.

Q10) True or false: Catherine Parr's mother, Maud Green, was a lady-in-waiting to Catherine of Aragon, who probably acted as godmother to Catherine Parr?

True

False

Correct! It is thought that Maud named her daughter after the queen.

Wrong! It's true. It is thought that Maud named her daughter after the queen.