Kids Quiz: British History for Kids: 10 Questions | For Children

Answer: Concrete Age

Pre-history is the period in time before people made written records. Instead, they left many monuments and artifacts behind. Examples include Stonehenge (shown in the photo) which was built about 5,000 years ago.

Answer: Mosaic

The Romans invaded Britain nearly two thousand years ago and with it they brought roads, aqueducts and a new language to the Brits called Latin. They built houses, baths and places of worship which they decorated with mosaic tiles in many different designs.

Answer: Hengist and Horsa

The Romans had to leave Britain because there was fighting in their own country of Italy. Many years passed, called the Dark Ages, before Hengist, Horsa and their fierce warrior army invaded Britain. They built small communities of wooden houses, lived off the land and brought with them various trades such as weaving and textile production.

Answer: Longship

The Vikings came from the Scandinavian countries of Sweden, Denmark and Norway. They travelled across the North Sea in their long boats, first invading the small island of Lindisfarne, then moving further down the east coast and inland.

Answer: Normans

Edward the Confessor was king of England but he died childless in 1066. Harold II took over the throne, but this was contested by William the Conqueror, who led the Norman conquest of Britain at the Battle of Hastings and became the future king. The Normans were descended from Vikings who had settled in Normandy, France, and became known as Normans.

Answer: William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare was a very famous writer who lived from 1564 to 1616. "To be or not to be" is a quote taken from one of his best known stories, "Hamlet". The Tudor period lasted from 1485 to 1603 and included King Henry VIII as one of the rulers.

Answer: Fifth

The House of Stuart was a royal dynasty which ruled Scotland (1371 to 1714) and England (1603 to 1714). In 1701, Great Britain officially became known as one country with the merger of the English and Scottish monarchy. The Gunpowder Plot was an unsuccessful attempt by a group of men to blow up the Houses of Parliament on 5th November, 1605.

Answer: The Industrial Revolution

The majority of the Industrial Revolution took place from 1760 to 1840. Machines were being invented to manufacture goods in bulk, steel works grew which meant that bridges and ships could be built, and steam trains replaced canals as the main travel network through the country. The Georgian era lasted from 1714 to 1837.

Answer: Queen Victoria

Queen Victoria was born on 24th May 1819 and came to the throne on her father's death in 1837. It was to be the start of the Victorian era which lasted until her death in 1901. During this period, the first Penny Black stamp was issued, Florence Nightingale saved the lives of soldiers serving during the Crimean War, and children up to the age of 12 years old were made to go to school.

Answer: King Richard III

King Richard III fought at the Battle of Bosworth Field during the War of the Roses. He ruled England during the Plantagenet era which lasted from 1126 to 1485. This marked the end of the period known as the Middle Ages. The remains of his body were discovered during an excavation of a car park in Leicester in 2012.

A DNA test proved conclusively that he was the royal king, the last British monarch to die during battle. His body was re-interred inside Leicester Cathedral on 26th March 2015.