How Well Do You REALLY Know Tudor History? - Our 80K Subscriber Challenge!

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To celebrate 80,000 subscribers, Tim takes on my Tudor History Challenge! Play along with five rounds of Tudor trivia and tell us your score out of 45 in the comments. Did you beat Tim? Thank you for being part of The Anne Boleyn Files community. Subscribe for more Tudor history, mysteries and research.

QUESTIONS

Round 1: Fact or Fiction?

1. Henry VIII banned football.
2. Henry VIII nearly drowned after falling headfirst into a ditch.
3. Elizabeth I restricted meat on Wednesdays because she thought it was unhealthy.
4. Elizabeth I sentenced a man to death for writing about her marriage prospects.
5. Mary I was England's first crowned queen.

Round 2: Who Am I? (Clues)

1. Imprisoned under Elizabeth I; secretly married Lady Katherine Grey, sister of Lady Jane Grey.
2. Witnessed the 1572 St Bartholomew's Day Massacre; Elizabeth's ambassador to France; organised her intelligence network.
3. A learned Cooke sister, famed for Greek and her library; married William Cecil, Lord Burghley.
4. Claimed to be a Prince in the Tower; supported by foreign rulers; rebelled against Henry VII and was executed in 1499.
5. Powerful under Edward VI; tried to prevent Mary succeeding; executed in August 1553.

Round 3: What Happened Next?

1. Anne Askew refused to implicate Catherine Parr's circle. What did her interrogators do?
2. As Henry Grey, Duke of Suffolk, was about to be beheaded, what did a man in the crowd demand?
3. What was found beneath Mary, Queen of Scots' clothing after her execution?
4. At the Field of Cloth of Gold, Henry VIII and Francis I wrestled. What happened?
5. What happened when Henry VIII's army met French cavalry near Thérouanne in 1513?

Round 4: Who Said That?

1. "I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king."
2. "Some be too stiff in their old mumpsimus, others be too busy and curious in their new sumpsimus."
3. "I am alreadie maried to this common weale, & the faythful membres of the same."
4. Who described a clergyman as "Sometimes the beautiful temple of God, but now the stinking and filthy kennel of Satan"?
5. Who reportedly told his executioner, "Pluck up thy spirits, man, and be not afraid to do thine office; my neck is very short"?

Round 5: The 80K Challenge

1. Which of Henry VIII's wives was married to him for the shortest time?
2. Who crowned Edward VI?
3. Which pretender impersonated the Earl of Warwick and challenged Henry VII?
4. Which niece of Henry VIII was imprisoned in 1536 after secretly becoming betrothed?
5. Which Archbishop of Canterbury died on the same day as Mary I?

ANSWERS

R1: 1 Fact (football restricted by a 1541 law); 2 Fact (Edmund Moody rescued him); 3 Fiction (naval and fishing interests); 4 Fiction (John Stubbs lost his right hand); 5 Fact.

R2: 1 Edward Seymour, Earl of Hertford; 2 Sir Francis Walsingham; 3 Mildred Cooke Cecil; 4 Perkin Warbeck; 5 John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland.

R3: 1 She was racked, then burned for heresy; 2 He wanted money owed to him; 3 A little dog; 4 Francis I threw Henry; 5 The French fled (the Battle of the Spurs).

R4: 1 Elizabeth I; 2 Henry VIII; 3 Mary I; 4 Lady Jane Grey; 5 Sir Thomas More.

R5: 1 Anne of Cleves; 2 Thomas Cranmer; 3 Lambert Simnel; 4 Lady Margaret Douglas; 5 Cardinal Reginald Pole.

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