Elizabeth I

Question 1

Robert Dudley, earl of Leicester joins the council

Answer 1

1562

Question 2

Execution of Mary Queen of Scots

Answer 2

1587

Question 3

Death of Robert Dudley

Answer 3

September 1588

Question 4

How many council members did Elizabeth have by 1597

Answer 4

Only 11

Question 5

How many acts were passed by Elizabeth’s parliament

Answer 5

483

Question 6

How many bills did Elizabeth refuse royal assert to

Answer 6

Over 60 bills
No fewer than 15 in 1585 alone

Question 7

When was the issue of marriage raised

Answer 7

January 1559

Question 8

Elizabeth smallpox

Answer 8

October 1562

Question 9

Mary queen of Scots flees to England

Answer 9

1567

Question 10

Ridolfi plot

Answer 10

1571

Question 11

Throckmorton plot

Answer 11

1583

Question 12

Parry plot

Answer 12

1585

Question 13

Babington plot

Answer 13

1586

Question 14

When was MQS death warrant signed

Answer 14

1st February 1587

Question 15

John Hawkin’s attempts on Spanish monopoly

Answer 15

September 1568

Question 16

William of orange assaination

Answer 16

1584

Question 17

Treaty of nonsuch

Answer 17

1585

Question 18

When did the Armarda set sail

Answer 18

22nd July 1588

Question 19

The Spanish Armada battle

Answer 19

30th July- 6th August

Question 20

What was the population by the end of Elizabeth’s reign

Answer 20

4million

Question 21

The poor law act

Answer 21

1576

Question 22

Elizabethan poor law act

Answer 22

1601

Question 23

Elizabeth proclaimed the supreme governor of the church of Ireland

Answer 23

1560

Question 24

Battle of yellow ford

Answer 24

August 1598

Question 25

Earl of Essex sent Ireland

Answer 25

1599

Question 26

The northern rebellion

Answer 26

Began 9th November 1567

Question 27

When did the Antwerp cloth market decline

Answer 27

1550s

Question 28

The Muscovy company

Answer 28

1555

Question 29

The east land company

Answer 29

1579

Question 30

The Levant company

Answer 30

1581

Question 31

The east India company

Answer 31

1600

Question 32

How manny of the harvests in Elizabeth’s reign were poor

Answer 32

According to David Pallister, 9/44

Question 33

Act against seditious secretaries

Answer 33

1593

Question 34

Act of supremacy

Answer 34

1559

Question 35

Act to retain the queens majesty’s subjects in their due obedience

Answer 35

1581

Question 36

Act against jesuits and seminary priests

Answer 36

1585

Question 37

Bond of association for the preservation of the queens majesty’s royal person

Answer 37

By burley and walsingham October 1584