Vive La...Queen Trivia Quiz

Answer: England

Elizabeth I (1533-1603) was the daughter of Henry VIII and his second wife, Anne Boleyn. She became Queen of England following her siblings, Edward VI and Mary I. Her reign lasted for 44 years and it is considered one of the most successful in English history.

Answer: Egypt

Cleopatra VII Philopator (69 BC - 30 BC) was the last queen in the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt. She was a powerful queen, notorious for her battles, alliances and love affairs with the enemy, namely the Romans Julius Caesar and Mark Anthony. After her death, Egypt became a Roman Province.

Answer: Hawaii

Liliuokalani (1838-1917), whose original name was Lydia Kamakaeha, was from a noble Hawaiian family. She was educated in the Western way and became the first and last Hawaiian queen after the death of her brother, King Kalakaua. During her reign, Hawaii was annexed by the United States of America.

Answer: Spain

Isabella I of Castile (1451-1504) became Queen of Spain when she married Ferdinand II of Aragon and the two Kingdoms merged forming the basis for the kingdom of Spain. During the couple's reign, Spain emerged as an overseas empire, mainly because of their support of the early explorers.

Answer: Israel

Jezebel (c. 850 BC) was a Phoenician princess who, upon marrying King Ahab, introduced the Tyrian god Baal to the land of Israel. She persecuted those who opposed her and caused the wrath of the prophet Elijah who predicted that she would have an ugly death. At the end, she was thrown out the window of her palace by her servants.

Answer: China

Empress Dowger CiXi (1835-1908) was consort to Emperor Xianfeng during his reign and a leading figure in China's political history for more than 50 years. She allowed the mild modernization of China but also suffered humiliation and defeat during the Boxer Rebellion.

Answer: Sparta

Helen was a daughter of Zeus and Leda and a sister of Clytemnestra and the Dioskouri. She was so beautiful that when she was to get married, her suitors came from all over Greece to claim her hand. She chose Menelaus, king of Sparta, as her husband but betrayed him for Paris, a prince of Troy. All her suitors gathered to launch a ten-year war against Troy and claim her back.

Answer: Palmyra

Zenobia (240 AD-274 AD) was a queen of the Palmyrene Empire in the Syrian desert. Under Roman rule, she extended her kingdom from Anatolia to Egypt. During a failed attempt to declare independence from the Romans, she was arrested and exiled to Rome where she died.

Answer: Russia

Catherine II (1729-1796) was born in Prussia and she was married to Tsar Peter III. After her husband's death she declared herself Empress and ruled Russia for 34 years. Her reign is considered a great one for Russia since she expanded the borders and proceeded with the Westernization of her country.

Answer: France

Queen Marie-Antoinette (1755-1793) was a consort to French king Louis XVI. She was born in Austria and during her husband's reign she was not liked in her adoptive country. She was executed during the "reign of terror" after the French Revolution of 1789.