Royal Family Quiz
Questions: 16 · 10 minutes
1. Which monarch abdicated in 1936 before being crowned, after choosing to marry Wallis Simpson?
George V
Edward VIII
George VI
Edward VII
2. A royal portrait is described as showing the monarch who ruled when the Spanish Armada was defeated in 1588. Who is depicted?
Elizabeth I
Mary I
Anne
Mary II
3. Parliament declares that the monarch cannot suspend laws or levy taxes without parliamentary authority. Which document from 1689 most directly expresses these limits?
The Bill of Rights
Magna Carta
The Act of Settlement
The Reform Act
4. During the First World War, George V replaced the royal house’s German-derived name with which name?
Windsor
Hanover
Mountbatten
Stuart
5. Which monarch was tried and executed in 1649 following the English Civil Wars?
James II
Charles II
William III
Charles I
6. Which monarch became King of England after winning the Battle of Hastings in 1066?
Edward the Confessor
Harold I
Henry I
William I
7. A historian is tracing the English Crown’s break with papal authority during the 1530s. Which monarch should be central to that account?
Edward IV
James I
Henry VIII
Charles II
8. The Wars of the Roses were primarily a dynastic struggle between which two royal houses?
Lancaster and York
Normandy and Wessex
Stuart and Hanover
Tudor and Windsor
9. Which English king sealed Magna Carta in 1215 after pressure from rebel barons?
Richard I
Henry II
John
Edward I
10. A biography mentions a reign from 1837 to 1901, a Diamond Jubilee, and prolonged mourning after Prince Albert’s death. Who is its subject?
Queen Anne
Queen Victoria
Queen Elizabeth II
Queen Mary
11. Elizabeth I died without children in 1603. Which Scottish king then inherited the English throne, uniting the crowns under one monarch?
Charles I of Scotland
James IV of Scotland
Robert III of Scotland
James VI of Scotland, who became James I of England
12. After a general election produces a clear Commons majority, what does the monarch conventionally do when appointing a prime minister?
Select any member of the royal household with government experience
Choose the longest-serving member of the House of Lords
Hold a separate national vote on the appointment
Invite the person most likely to command the confidence of the House of Commons
13. A timeline notes that the Acts of Union took effect in 1707 during Queen Anne’s reign. What changed?
Great Britain and Ireland became the United Kingdom
England and Scotland first began sharing the same monarch
England and Scotland became the Kingdom of Great Britain while retaining distinct legal systems
Scotland’s courts and legal system were abolished
14. A timeline places a royal accession immediately after George VI’s death in 1952 but before the coronation held in 1953. Who had already become monarch?
Queen Mary
Elizabeth II
Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother
Princess Margaret
15. After James II was deposed in the Glorious Revolution, which pair accepted the English throne?
George I and Sophia
Charles II and Catherine of Braganza
William III and Mary II
James III and Anne
16. Which outcome was central to the Act of Settlement 1701?
It united England and Scotland into one kingdom
It secured a Protestant succession and excluded Roman Catholics from the throne
It abolished the monarchy in favor of a republic
It introduced elections for the monarch