History

Question 1

Why did Anglo Saxon Harold and his brothers have Viking names?

Answer 1

Viking king of England Cnut the great ruled in the Saxon way using Anglo Saxon advisors including Earl Godwyn who married in, with a Viking wife and Viking named children

Question 2

Who was the first Norman English king?

Answer 2

Edward the confessor

Question 3

Which English king rules contemporaneously to Macbeth?

Answer 3

Edward the confessor

Question 4

How many miles did the Harold’s English march to get to Stamford bridge to meet Hardrada and Tostig?

Answer 4

190 miles in 5 days

Question 5

When did a jury of 12 become the norm for trying royal cases?

Answer 5

1154 Under Henry 2

Question 6

When did a jury of 12 become the norm for trying royal cases?

Answer 6

Under Henry 2

Question 7

Which king had the archbishop of Canterbury killed, maybe unintentionally?

Answer 7

Henry 2

Question 8

What precipitated the First Baron’s war?

Answer 8

1215 John refused to comply with Magna Carta

Question 9

How were Simon de Montfort and Henry 3 related?

Answer 9

They were brothers in law; Simon married Henry’s sister

Question 10

Under what circumstances was Henry 3 captured by Simon de Montfort and company?

Answer 10

He was requesting money and men for a Sicilian crusade

Question 11

What charter does Schwarma say made England cease to be an autocracy?

Answer 11

1258 The provisions of Oxford, under Henry 3

Question 12

Who was the first prince of Wales?

Answer 12

Edward 2

Question 13

Give an example where a hostage not killed returned to kill the taker

Answer 13

Edward 1 (de Montfort)

Question 14

What king took Berwick for England?

Answer 14

Edward 1

Question 15

Which king was compared to a leopard?

Answer 15

1272 Edward 1

Question 16

Who led the Scottish sent to Ireland in the “pan-Gaelic alliance”?

Answer 16

1315 Edward Bruce

Question 17

What battle produced the saying “if the fish could speak, they wouldve learned French”

Answer 17

1340 Sluyse in the 100 years war

Question 18

Who started Lollardy?

Answer 18

1370s Oxford scholar John Wickliff

Question 19

What did Lollardy teach?

Answer 19

The words of priests were not indispensable for salvation. People could get there by reciting (mumbling?) scripture

Question 20

Why wasn’t Lollardy put down initially as heresy?

Answer 20

John of Gaunt was a supporter

Question 21

Which king invented the handkerchief?

Answer 21

1377 Richard 2

Question 22

Which king fought with the Lords Appellant?

Answer 22

1377 Richard 2

Question 23

Why was Henry Bolinbroke banished from England?

Answer 23

Richard 2 interceded in the trial by combat between Bolingbroke and another noble who accused each other of treason

Question 24

How was Richard 2 deposed?

Answer 24

Bolingbroke returned from exile while Richard 2 was campaigning in Ireland and usurped the throne

Question 25

How did Richard 2 die?

Answer 25

Started to death in Pontefract castle

Question 26

How old was Henry 8 when he became king?

Answer 26

17

Question 27

Who’s book supported Henry 8 because it rejected authority divided between church and state

Answer 27

On the obedience of a Christian man and home Christian rulers ought to govern, william tyndle, 1528

Question 28

Who was the first queen of England to be executed?

Answer 28

Ann Bolyn

Question 29

Which expressly forbade the English women and lower class people from reading the bible?

Answer 29

Henry 8

Question 30

Who was Thomas Cranmer?

Answer 30

Henry 8’s right hand man, who thrust his hand into the flames when burned by bloody Mary

Question 31

Why couldn’t Elizabeth 1 marry Dudley?

Answer 31

His wife’s suspicious death

Question 32

What happened at the Battle of Solway Moss

Answer 32

James 5 of Scotland refused Henry 8 urging to break with Catholicism, the English attacked, the Scots were routed and many drowned in 1542

Question 33

Which king was in power during the 40 years war?

Answer 33

James 1

Question 34

Which king was in power during the 40 years war?

Answer 34

James 1

Question 35

What ate two examples of when the English started fighting each other after failing to beat foreigners abroad?

Answer 35

Civil wars and wars of roses

Question 36

1066 Spain

Answer 36

Sephardic Jews of Granada massacred by muslims when vizier Joseph Ibn Nagrella thought to be plotting to kill the Muslim king

Question 37

Sephardic Jews key points

Answer 37

1. Early Roman era settlement 2. Persecution under Visigoths 5th-8th 3. Relative tolerance under Moors 8th-11th 4. Persecution under Christians and expulsion in 1492

Question 38

Assyrian empire when

Answer 38

21st bc to 7th bc

Question 39

Assyria now

Answer 39

Iraq, Syria, Turkey

Question 40

Assyrian capital

Answer 40

Assur

Question 41

Height of Assyrian power

Answer 41

10th to 7th bc

Question 42

Assyrian chief deity?

Answer 42

Ashur