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Britain - The Middle Ages 0001   Mixed

 
 
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1. How are the early Middle Ages often described?
 
Dark Ages
Great Depression
Sad Times
Sombre Period
 
 
2. In 1154, Henry II became the first English sovereign from which House?
 
Blois
Norman
Plantagenet
Tudor
 
 
3. Who was the rebels' leader during the Peasants' Revolt of 1381?
 
Wat Tyler
Watt Taylor
What Tailor
Wot Tiler
 
 
4. Which two factions fought the Wars Of The Roses in the 15th century?
 
Hull and Liverpool
Lancaster and York
Leeds and Manchester
St Helens and Wakefield
 
 
5. Where was Thomas Becket murdered in 1170?
 
Canterbury Cathedral
Hampstead Heath
New Forest
Westminster Great Hall
 
 
6. When did Wales become a principality of England?
 
1254
1264
1274
1284

Wales was passed exclusively to the heir to the English throne in 1301
 
 
7. Richard the Lionheart conquered which Byzantine province in 1191?
 
Cyprus
Malta
Rhodes
Sicily

Richard subsequently joined Phillip II Augustus of France at the siege of Acre
 
 
8. When did Robert the Bruce defeat the English at Bannockburn?
 
1304
1314
1324
1334

In 1328 the English monarchy recognised the independence of Scotland
 
 
9. How did king Henry V die in 1422?
 
Arrow in the eye
Beheaded by the French
Dysentery
Fell from his horse
 
 
10. In which century was the White Tower, within the Tower of London, erected?
 
11th
12th
13th
14th

Begun in approx 1078, close inside the old Roman city wall
 
 
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