Tudor History Challenge 13 – Play along with this Tudor history quiz

The Anne Boleyn Files & Tudor Society YouTube channel has just reached over 70,000 subscribers, and I celebrated by putting Tim in the hot seat for another Tudor history quiz!

This time, I asked my channel members to craft the questions, and they came up with some great ones! Tim was in for a real challenge. From annulments and treaties to executed queens and royal lineages, the quiz had it all.

Here’s the quiz and please do play along. You’ll also find the questions and answers below the video. Good luck!

1. Which Pope did Henry VIII ask for his marriage to Catherine of Aragon to be annulled?
2. Edward VI was betrothed to Mary, Queen of Scots, by which treaty in 1543?
3. Can you name all of Catherine Parr’s husbands? There are 4 of them, so a possible 4 points.
4. Can you name the three queens who were executed in the month of February during the Tudor period? 3 points.
5. In which year was Anne Boleyn executed? And for a bonus point, on what date?
6. Which was part of the War of the Rough Wooing in 1547 – The Battle of Pinkie, Battle of Winkel or Battle of Towie?
7. Which Tudor queen was taken hostage during the Pilgrimage of Grace?
8. Can you name a Tudor person who was executed after being found guilty by Act of Attainder rather than by trial?
9. Which two men were arrested and imprisoned in the Tower of London during the fall of Anne Boleyn, but subsequently released? – 2 points.
10. Which 14th century English king was Henry VII descended from?
11. Which Tudor monarch created the Yeoman of the Guard?

Answers….

1. Pope Clement VII
2. Treaty or Treaties of Greenwich
3. Edward Burgh; John Neville, 3rd Baron Latimer; Henry VIII; and Thomas Seymour, 1st Baron Seymour of Sudeley – 4 points
4. Mary, Queen of Scots – 8 Feb 1587, Catherine Howard – 13 Feb 1542, and Lady Jane Grey or Queen Jane – 12 February 1554. – 3 points.
5. 1536, 19 May – 2 points.
6. Battle of Pinkie (or Pinkie Cleugh)
7. Catherine Parr – she and her stepchildren were held hostage to force her husband, Baron Latimer, to join the rebels’ cause.
8. Examples are Catherine Howard, Jane Boleyn, Thomas Cromwell, Margaret Pole. Just one point.
9. Richard Page and Sir Thomas Wyatt the Elder – 2 points.
10. Edward III via his son, John of Gaunt, Duke of Lancaster.
11. Henry VII

18 possible points.