That Which We Call a Rose Trivia Quiz

Answer: York

Edward III was the second-to-last English monarch of the House of Plantagenet, and the two royal houses which followed his were both made up of descendants of his sons. The Lancaster kings were Henry IV, Henry V, and Henry VI. Henry IV was the son of Edward's third son, John of Gaunt.

The three York kings were Edward IV, Edward V, and Richard III. Edward IV was the Third Duke of York and great grandson of Edward III.

Answer: Tudor

Henry VII, founder of the Tudor Dynasty, was from Wales. He combined the red and white roses after taking the crown from Richard III in 1485. Up until then, the use of a red rose for the House of Lancaster was rarely practiced, but Henry, whose mother, Margaret Beaufort, was a Lancastrian, latched onto the symbol to solidify his claims to the throne and combined it with the York white rose when he married Elizabeth of York in 1486.

Answer: Rose of Lima

Saint Rose of Lima is the primary patroness of Peru and of the indigenous peoples of all of Latin America. Born in Peru, she is pictured on that nation's largest denomination banknote. She is also a co-patroness of the Philippines. She was canonized in 1671 by Clement X, making her the first Catholic in the Americas to attain sainthood.

Answer: Resistance to the Nazi Regime

The White Rose ran a leaflet and graffiti campaign in 1942 and 1943 against the Nazi regime. The six most recognized leaders of the group, all students at the University of Munich, were arrested by the Gestapo in 1943 and beheaded. The Scholls and Christoph Probst were the first members of the movement to be put on trial, and became victims of the guillotine on February 22, 1943.

Answer: Nat King Cole

Prior to "Ramblin' Rose," Nat King Cole also had big hits with "Route 66", "Mona Lisa," "Too Young," and "Unforgettable." Bette Midler had a big hit in 1979 with "The Rose," both a song and film. As the star of the movie, she received accolades, winning two Golden Globe Awards and being nominated for an Oscar. Willie Nelson recorded "Honeysuckle Rose" and also performed the song in the 1980 film of the same name. Fats Waller composed "Honeysuckle Rose" and recorded it in 1934, a recording which was inducted into the Grammy Hall of Fame in 1999.

Answer: the Luther Rose

The Luther Seal, or Luther Rose, was designed for Martin Luther when he was living in the Fortress of Coburg while its owner, the Elector of Saxony, was attending the Diet of Augsburg in 1530. It was John Frederick himself who presented Luther the seal in the form of a ring.

Answer: a Japanese propagandist during World War II

More than a dozen females were called "Tokyo Rose" during World War II. Their messages were meant to destroy the morale of Americans fighting in the South Pacific, but their overall effectiveness is not believed to have been high. The woman most identified with "Tokyo Rose" was a Japanese-American named Iva Toguri, who had been stranded in Japan when the war began.

After her return to the States, she was convicted of one count of treason in 1949. In 1974, key witnesses against her claimed to have been forced to lie during their testimonies.

She was pardoned by President Ford in 1977.

Answer: Charles Dickens

A "cultivar" is a cultured variety of flower that has been developed through human intervention, as opposed to a simple "variety," which is a type of flower that has developed naturally. The Charlemagne cultivar, named for one of France's most famous rulers, was developed in 1836. Both the Charles De Gaulle and Charles Aznavour cultivars were developed by Meilland International, a French family-owned rose growing business, in 1975 and 1988, respectively.

The Charles Dickens cultivar was developed in England in 1886.

Answer: the Yellow Rose of Texas

There is general agreement that Emily West was a free black or mixed blood woman who was born in New Haven, Connecticut, around 1815, and that she became indentured to a James Morgan to work for him in Morgan's Point, Texas. There she and other residents of the Texas settlement fell into the hands of Santa Ana's forces. From that point on, the story becomes almost totally legendary.

However, it is relatively certain that she is the figure known today as "the Yellow Rose of Texas," and that she somehow helped with the victory of the Texans at San Jacinto.

Answer: a 1985 Woody Allen film

The offbeat film was written and directed by Allen. It tells the story of a waitress named Cecilia, played by Mia Farrow, for whom a character in a black and white movie named "The Purple Rose of Cairo," physically leaves the screen and joins her in the "real" world. Eventually Cecilia has to choose between the screen character and the actor who plays him.