Torture and Executions Quiz - The Tudor Society

A quiz that might just put you off those tempting Christmas choccies!

Executions and Torture

Q1) Jesuit priest and martyr Edmund Campion was unable to raise his hand to swear at his trial because...

His right hand had been amputated.

His hand had been severely damaged by the use of thumbscrews.

He had been racked several times.

He had been hung from his wrists from a post and could no longer move his hands.

Correct! He was said to have been racked 2-3 times.

Wrong! It was because he had been racked several times.

Q2) Which Protestant martyr thrust his right hand into the flames when he was being burned at the stake to punish it for writing recantations?

Thomas Cranmer

James Bainham

Robert Barnes

Hugh Latimer

Correct! Cranmer was burned to death on 21 March 1556.

Wrong! It was Thomas Cranmer, former Archbishop of Canterbury.

Q3) According to the indictments, what crimes was Anne Boleyn charged with in May 1536?

Adultery, incest, plotting to kill the King and witchcraft

Adultery, incest and plotting to kill the King

Adultery, incest and passing another man's child off as the King's

Witchcraft and incest

Correct!

Wrong! Anne was charged with adultery, incest and plotting to kill the king.

Q4) Who were the Oxford Martyrs?

John Bland, John Frankesh, Nicholas Sheterden and Humphrey Middleton

John Rogers, Lawrence Saunders and John Hooper

Hugh Latimer, Nicholas Ridley and Thomas Cranmer

William Bamford and Thomas Ormond

Correct! Latimer and Ridley were burnt at the stake in October 1555 and Cranmer in March 1556.

Wrong! They were Hugh Latimer, Nicholas Ridley and Thomas Cranmer

Q5) How many Carthusian monks were executed between 1535 and 1536?

Correct! All 18 have been recognised by the Catholic Church as martyrs.

Wrong! 18 were executed and all of them have been recognised as martyrs by the Catholic Church.

Q6) Richard Roose was boiled to death on 5th April 1531 for high treason, but what was he found guilty of doing?

Poisoning the household of Cardinal Wolsey.

Poisoning the household of Thomas More.

Poisoning the household of John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester.

Poisoning the household of John Stokesley, Bishop of London.

Correct! Roose claimed that he had put purgatives in the food “as a jest” and had not meant to harm anyone.

Wrong! He was charged with poisoning soup/pottage served to the household of John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester.

Q7) In what year was the last execution at the Tower of London

1941

1743

1918

1601

Correct! German spy Josef Jakobs was shot by a firing squad at the Tower on 15th August 1941.

Wrong! It was on 15th August 1941 when German spy Josef Jakobs was shot by a firing squad.

Q8) Margaret Pole, Countess of Salibury, was executed in May 1541 because of her association with her son, Cardinal Reginald Pole, but who was her father?

Sir Richard Pole

Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick

George, Duke of Clarence

Edward IV

Correct!

Wrong! Her father was George, Duke of Clarence, brother of Edward IV and Richard III.

Q9) In whose reign was Margaret Clitherow was pressed to death under seven or eight hundredweight at the toll-booth on the bridge over the River Ouse in York?

Elizabeth I's

Mary I's

Henry VIII's

Edward VI's

Correct! Margaret was executed on 25 March 1586.

Wrong! She was executed on 25 March 1586 in the reign of Elizabeth I.

Q10) How many Protestants are said to have been burned during Mary I's reign?

554

720

1000

284

Correct!

Wrong! It's said to have been 284.

Q11) Who was hanged in chains in York in July 1537?

Francis Bigod

Robert Aske

Thomas Darcy

Robert Constable

Correct!

Wrong! It was Robert Aske, one of the leaders of the Pilgrimage of Grace.

Q12) Three brass triangles mounted on the pavement on an island in the middle of Edgware Road (at its junction with Bayswater Road) mark the spot of what?

The Marion burnings

The Tyburn Tree

The place of execution of Guy Fawkes

The execution of Charles I

Correct! The Tyburn Tree was the gallows at Tyburn where it is said that over 50,000 people met their deaths.

Wrong! They mark the spot of the Tyburn Tree, the gallows at Tyburn where it is said that over 50,000 people met their deaths.

Q13) Smithfield is known for being the place where Protestants were burned during Mary I's reign but what else was it known for?

Its book shops and book trade

Being a haunt of lawyers and surgeons

Its meat market

Its cloth market

Correct!

Wrong! It was a meat market.