Throwback Thursday - Tudor Quotes and Poetry Quiz

Throwback Thursday is all about sharing things that you might have missed in the Tudor Society archives or that you might enjoy revisiting. Today's treat is our Tudor Quotes and Poetry Quiz from 2014. So, grab yourself a drink and snack, make yourself comfy, and let's get testing your Tudor knowledge...

Tudor Quotes and Poetry

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

Correct! It comes from her famous Tilbury Speech, given to the troops at Tilbury Fort in July 1588 when England was fearing a Spanish invasion.

Wrong! It comes from Elizabeth I's famous Tilbury Speech, given to the troops at Tilbury Fort in July 1588 when England was fearing a Spanish invasion.

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

Correct! Of course, Thomas More was beheaded in July 1535 for high treason after he refused to swear the oath of supremacy.

Wrong! It was Sir Thomas More, Henry VIII's Lord Chancellor.

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

Correct! He wrote these words in letters sent to those who were in support of his claim to the throne.

Wrong! Henry VII wrote these words in letters sent to those who were in support of his claim to the throne.

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

Correct! England lost Calais in January 1558.

Wrong! It was Mary I. It was when she was queen that England lost Calais to the French in January 1558.

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

Correct! Mary said it to the commissioners appointed to try her at Fotheringhay in October 1586.

Wrong! It was Mary, Queen of Scots and she said it to the commissioners appointed to try her at Fotheringhay in October 1586.

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

Correct!

Wrong! They were said by 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

Correct! Elizabeth wrote them in her French psalter in 1565 after she had learned that Robert Dudley had been flirting with Lettice Devereux.

Wrong! They were written by Elizabeth I in her French psalter in 1565 after she had learned that Robert Dudley had been flirting with Lettice Devereux.

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

Correct!

Wrong! It was written by Christopher Marlowe.

Q9) Henry VIII wrote which famous Tudor song?

Greensleeves

Pastime with good company

Angelus ad Virginem

Spem in alium

Correct! It appears in a songbook thought to have been compiled in around 1518 which contains 20 songs and 13 instrumental pieces ascribed to ‘The Kynge H. viij’

Wrong! It is Pastime with good company, The song appears in a songbook thought to have been compiled in around 1518 which contains 20 songs and 13 instrumental pieces ascribed to ‘The Kynge H. viij’

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

Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey

Henry VIII

Thomas, Lord Vaux

Thomas Wyatt the Elder

Correct! It is thought that Wyatt may have written it about his love for Anne Boleyn.

Wrong! It was Sir 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

Correct! He wrote it in a love letter to Anne Boleyn while he was courting her.

Wrong! It was Henry VIII who wrote it in a love letter to Anne Boleyn while he was courting her.

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

Correct! The words come from the poem "The Silent Lover".

Wrong! The words come from the poem "The Silent Lover" by Sir Walter Ralegh.

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

Correct! It is said that Elizabeth was saddened by the Duke's departure from her court in August 1579.

Wrong! It is said that she wrote it about François, Duke of Anjou and Alençon, one of her suitors, when he departed from her court in August 1579.