Throwback Thursday – Tudor Quotes and Poetry Quiz

Q1) Which Tudor woman said: "I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman; but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too."

Elizabeth I

Mary I

Lady Jane Grey

Mary, Queen of Scots

Q2) Who said of Henry VIII "If my head would win him a castle in France, it should not fail to go."

Cardinal Thomas Wolsey

Thomas Cromwell

Sir Thomas More

Bishop John Fisher

Q3) Who described Richard III as "that homicide and unnatural tyrant which now unjustly bears dominion over you"?

William Shakespeare

Margaret Beaufort

Thomas, Lord Stanley

Henry VII

Q4) Who said "When I am dead and opened, you shall find 'Calais' lying in my heart"?

Mary I

Elizabeth I

Edward VI

Henry VIII

Q5) Who said "Look to your consciences and remember that the theatre of the world is wider than the realm of England."

Thomas More

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

Mary, Queen of Scots

Anne Boleyn

Q6) Who said of Anne Boleyn, on the day of her execution, "She who has been the Queen of England on earth will today become a Queen in Heaven"?

Alexander Alesius

Thomas Wyatt the Elder

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

Archbishop Thomas Cranmer

Q7) Who wrote "No crooked leg, no bleared eye, No part deformed out of kind, Nor yet so ugly half can be As is the inward suspicious mind."?

William Shakespeare

Christopher Marlowe

Elizabeth I

Thomas Wyatt the Elder

Q8) Who wrote the play Doctor Faustus (The Tragical History of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus)?

Christopher Marlowe

William Shakespeare

Thomas Kyd

Ben Jonson

Q9) Henry VIII wrote which famous Tudor song?

Greensleeves

Pastime with good company

Angelus ad Virginem

Spem in alium

Q10) Who wrote the poem "Whoso list to hunt"?

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

Henry VIII

Thomas, Lord Vaux

Thomas Wyatt the Elder

Q11) Who wrote in a love letter "Wishing myself (specially an evening) in my sweetheart's arms, whose pretty dukkys I trust shortly to kiss"?

Henry VIII

George Boleyn

Thomas Wyatt the Elder

Sir Walter Ralegh

Q12) "Passions are likened best to floods and streams: The shallow murmur, but the deep are dumb" was written by...

William Shakespeare

Sir Francis Bryan

Sir Walter Ralegh

George Boleyn

Q13) "On Monsieur's Departure" is a poem attributed to Elizabeth I - who is it supposed to be about?

Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester

Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex

Christopher Hatton

François, Duke of Anjou and Alençon