History EQ1 and EQ2 Y8 Key Name

Question 1

Who is Alonso de Zuazo

Answer 1

Spanish government official in the colony of Santo Domingo

Question 2

Margaret Thatcher

Answer 2

First female Prime Minister. Led an all-male cabinet.

Question 3

Mary Queen of Scots

Answer 3

Elizabeth I’s catholic cousin. Involved in plots to kill her.

Question 4

Lord Mountbatten

Answer 4

Cousin of Elizabeth II. Assassinated by the Irish Republican Army (IRA).

Question 5

Sir Francis Drake

Answer 5

Sailor. Led the English navy against the Spanish Armada

Question 6

‘The Few’

Answer 6

Collective term for the RAF pilots in the Battle of Britain

Question 7

William Shakespeare

Answer 7

Elizabethan writer. Wrote classics like Romeo & Juliet

Question 8

Liam Gallagher

Answer 8

Singer in the band Oasis, symbol of Cool Britannia

Question 9

Sir Robert Cecil

Answer 9

Elizabeth I’s leading minister in the all-male Privy Council

Question 10

Leo Africanus

Answer 10

North African writer born in Spain

Question 11

Pliny the Elder

Answer 11

Roman writer whose Natural History described Africans

Question 12

Abd ben Messaoud

Answer 12

Moroccan ambassador who visited England in 1600

Question 13

William Shakespeare

Answer 13

Author of the play Othello

Question 14

Pocahontas

Answer 14

Daughter of Powhatan. Married englishman John Rolfe

Question 15

Elizabeth Key

Answer 15

Enslaved woman freed by a court because he father was white and she was baptised