Tudor Fiction Quiz - The Tudor Society

It's wonderful that Tudor history inspires novelists the way it does, and it's wonderful to meet our favourite historical characters in novels that bring them and their world to life, but how much do you know about historical novelists and their works?

Q1) Which novelist wrote "The Queen's Fool" and "The Constant Princess"?

Alison Weir

Philippa Gregory

Jean Plaidy

Suzannah Funn

Correct!

Wrong! It's Philippa Gregory.

Q2) Hilary Mantel is known for her Thomas Cromwell series of novels, but how many times has she won the Booker Prize?

None

Once

Twice

Three times

Correct! In 2009 for Wolf Hall and in 2012 for Bring Up the Bodies.

Wrong! It's twice. In 2009 for Wolf Hall and in 2012 for Bring Up the Bodies.

Q3) Alison Weir writes fiction and non-fiction, but who was the subject of her first novel, which was published in 2007?

Elizabeth I

Anne Boleyn

Catherine of Aragon

Lady Jane Grey

Correct! The novel was Innocent Traitor.

Wrong! It was Lady Jane Grey and the novel was Innocent Traitor.

Q4) Who wrote "The Autobiography of Henry VIII: With Notes by His Fool, Will Somers"?

Margaret George

Jean Plaidy

Norah Lofts

Robin Maxwell

Correct!

Wrong! It's Margaret George.

Q5) "The Other Boleyn Girl" famously focuses on Mary Boleyn, but the 1983 novel "The Last Boleyn" featured her first. Who wrote it?

Kate Emerson

Karen Harper

Jean Plaidy

Diane Haeger

Correct!

Wrong! It's Karen Harper.

Q6) Complete the title of this novel by Jean Plaidy: "Murder most......"

Murder Most Foul

Murder Most Horrid

Murder Most Royal

Murder Most Unladylike

Correct!

Wrong! It's Murder Most Royal.

Q7) True or false: Novelist Brandy Purdy is known as Emily Purdy in the UK?

True

False

Correct!

Wrong! It's true.

Q8) C J Sansom's Shardlake series of novels are set in the Tudor period, but what is the first name of his character Shardlake?

Thomas

Edward

Sebastian

Matthew

Correct!

Wrong! He's Matthew Shardlake

Q9) What's different about Laura Anderson's "Boleyn Trilogy"?

They're alternate history

It's not a trilogy at all as she wrote a fourth book

They feature time travel

Anne Boleyn solves mysteries

Correct!

Wrong! They're alternate history.

Q10) Which of these pen names did novelist Eleanor Hibbert use?

Jean Plaidy

Victoria Holt

Eleanor Burford

All of the above

Correct! She also used Elbur Ford, Kathleen Kellow, Ellalice Tate, Anna Percival and Philippa Carr.

Wrong! She used all of them. She also used Elbur Ford, Kathleen Kellow, Ellalice Tate, Anna Percival and Philippa Carr.