Just for fun Tudor Quiz!

1. Which Tudor couple is said to feature in the children's nursery rhyme Sing a Song of Sixpence?

(a) Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn
(b) Mary Tudor and Philip II of Spain
(c) Henry VII and Elizabeth of York
(d) Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon

2. The rebellion of Thomas Wyatt during Mary I's reign led to the execution of which rival claimant to the throne?

(a) Edward Courtenay
(b) Margaret Pole
(c) Lady Jane Grey
(d) Mary Stuart

3. Which of Henry VIII's queens wrote The Lamentations of a Sinner?

(a) Katherine Parr
(b) Katherine of Aragon
(c) Anne of Cleves
(d) Katherine Howard

4. To which of the Tudors was the renowned English scholar, Roger Ascham, referring when he wrote in admiration that they "readeth here now at Windsor more Greek every day than some prebendary of this church doth read Latin in a whole week"?

(a) Henry VIII
(b) Mary I
(c) Edward VI
(d) Elizabeth I

5. At which royal palace did Elizabeth I contract, and almost die from, smallpox in 1562?

(a) Hampton Court Palace
(b) Windsor Castle
(c) Richmond Palace
(d) Nonsuch Palace

6. Which lady-in-waiting did Elizabeth I refer to as 'that She-Wolf'?

(a) Bess Throckmorton
(b) Lettice Knollys
(c) Bess of Hardwick
(d) Mary Fitton

7. One of Elizabeth I's most cherished possessions was a locket ring.  Whose portrait did it contain, along with her own?

(a) Sir Walter Ralegh
(b) Mary I
(c) Anne Boleyn
(d) Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester