English Monarchs Quiz
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. The Black Death reaches England in 1348. Which monarch is reigning at the time?
Richard II
Edward II
Henry IV
Edward III
2. An adviser reports that a large Spanish invasion fleet has entered the English Channel in 1588. Which monarch is on the English throne?
Edward VI
Mary I
Elizabeth I
James I
3. The two sons of Edward IV disappear after being lodged in the Tower of London in 1483. During whose reign does their disappearance occur?
Henry VI
Richard III
Henry VII
Edward V
4. An English king presses a claim to the French throne in 1337, helping begin the Hundred Years' War. Which king is he?
Edward II
Henry V
Richard II
Edward III
5. The Acts of Union take effect in 1707, uniting England and Scotland as Great Britain. Which monarch is reigning?
Mary II
Anne
George I
William III
6. Which monarch became king of England after winning the Battle of Hastings in 1066?
Edward the Confessor
Henry I
William I
Harold I
7. Royal officials are sent across much of England in 1086 to record landholders, property, and resources. Which monarch ordered this survey?
Stephen
William II
Henry I
William I
8. After the republican Interregnum, the monarchy is restored in 1660. Who returns to England as king?
Charles I
James II
Charles II
William III
9. Which monarch initiated England's break with papal authority and became Supreme Head of the Church of England?
Edward VI
Henry VII
Henry VIII
James I
10. Who was the last Anglo-Saxon king to be crowned before the Norman Conquest?
Edward the Confessor
Edgar Ætheling
Harold I
Harold II
11. Parliament has put the reigning king on trial after its victory in the English Civil War. Which monarch is subsequently executed in 1649?
James I
Charles I
Charles II
James II
12. During the Glorious Revolution, James II was replaced by which joint monarchs?
William III and Mary II
George I and Sophia Dorothea
Charles II and Catherine of Braganza
Henry VIII and Mary I
13. Which king placed his seal on Magna Carta at Runnymede in 1215?
John
Henry II
Richard I
Henry III
14. The Wars of the Roses were primarily a struggle between which two royal houses?
Lancaster and York
Wessex and Normandy
Tudor and Stuart
Plantagenet and Hanover
15. During the civil conflict known as the Anarchy, Empress Matilda contested the throne with which crowned king?
Henry I
Stephen
Henry II
Richard I
16. Rebels led by Wat Tyler enter London during the Peasants' Revolt of 1381. Which young king meets representatives of the uprising?
Richard II
Henry IV
Edward III
Henry V