Tudor Trivia Quiz - The Tudor Society

It's that time of week again! Sunday is the day of the week where we exercise the little grey cells with our Tudor quizzes. This week's quiz is a Tudor trivia quiz - good luck!

Q1) How many pairs of spectacles or eye glasses were listed as being the king's in the inventory taken after his death in 1547?

Correct!

Wrong! It was 44.

Q2) What was the average height of the crew of the Mary Rose ship?

5'4

5'2

5'5

5'7

Correct! The Mary Rose website states: "The average height of the crew of the Mary Rose seems to have been 5’7 (170cm), which isn’t far off the modern UK male average of 5’9 (175cm). Indeed, one of our archers, who we’ve had reconstructed in the museum, was 5’9 (175cm), and wasn’t even the tallest, who was 5’11 (180cm). The shortest adult was 5’3, which while it is quite short, isn’t much shorter than people get today."

Wrong! It was 5'7. The Mary Rose website states: "The average height of the crew of the Mary Rose seems to have been 5’7 (170cm), which isn’t far off the modern UK male average of 5’9 (175cm). Indeed, one of our archers, who we’ve had reconstructed in the museum, was 5’9 (175cm), and wasn’t even the tallest, who was 5’11 (180cm). The shortest adult was 5’3, which while it is quite short, isn’t much shorter than people get today."

Q3) Who gave Henry VIII the very strange looking bespectacled horned helmet?

Francis I

Charles V

Maximilian I

James IV

Correct!

Wrong! It was Emperor Maximilian I.

Q4) Which Tudor woman requested the block the night before her execution so that she could practise with it?

Lady Jane Grey

Catherine Howard

Anne Boleyn

Margaret Pole

Correct!

Wrong! It was Queen Catherine Howard.

Q5) Who was described as having been executed by "a ragged and Boocherly miser, whiche very ungodly perfourmed the Office"?

Thomas Cromwell

Mary, Queen of Scots

Thomas More

Margaret Pole

Correct!

Wrong! It was Thomas Cromwell.

Q6) Who was the first Protestant martyr of Mary I's reign?

Lawrence Saunders

John Hooper

Nicholas Ridley

John Rogers

Correct! He was burnt at the stake on 4th February 1555.

Wrong! It was John Rogers. He was burnt at the stake on 4th February 1555.

Q7) In whose reign did Kett's Rebellion take place?

Mary I's

Edward VI's

Henry VII's

Henry VIII's

Correct! It took place in Norfolk in 1549.

Wrong! It was in Edward VI's reign. It took place in Norfolk in 1549.

Q8) Actor Robert Hardy, who died in August 2017, played the part of which Tudor man in the BBC drama "Elizabeth R" which saw Glenda Jackson as Elizabeth I?

William Cecil

Robert Devereux

Robert Dudley

Francis Walsingham

Correct!

Wrong! He played Robert Dudley.

Q9) Who was Lady Jane Grey's maternal grandmother?

Margaret Tudor

Elizabeth Woodville

Margaret Pole

Mary Tudor

Correct!

Wrong! It was Mary Tudor, Queen of France.

Q10) How old was Henry Tudor when he defeated Richard III at the Battle of Bosworth?

Correct!

Wrong! He was twenty-eight.