Monarchs Trivia Quiz

Answer: Puyi

Puyi was born in 1906 in Beijing. He was crowned emperor at the age of three, and cried most of the way through the ceremony. Although he could not rule at such an early age he was treated very much as an emperor with servants bowing to him and obeying his commands.

Answer: Queen Elizabeth II

Queen Victoria held the record at 63 years and seven months but Queen Elizabeth ll overtook her great great grandmother's record on 9th September 2015. Queen Elizabeth was very young, a mere twenty five years of age, when she came to the British throne on the death of her father King George Vl in February 1952.

Answer: Little Father

This comes from the old paternalistic view of the monarchy when the Tsar was seen to be sent by God to rule over the vast expanse of Russia. Tsar Nicholas II saw it that way and as the people's attitude changed he was unwilling to make any changes or concessions on absolute power.

Answer: King George III

The War of American independence was fought between the British and the Americans between 1775 and 1783. When it was over thirteen north American colonies declared themselves as independent and the U.S.A. was founded. Although Britain lost the American War of Independence it made a rapid recovery and fought effectively against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France later in George III's reign.

Answer: Sweden

King Charles VIII of Sweden was an elderly man in ill health and had no children. Bernadotte was elected to be his successor partly because of his links with Napoleon which were thought to be advantageous to Sweden and partly because he had shown kindness to Swedish prisoners of war.

He reigned as King Charles John and his son succeeded him as King Oscar I. The Bernadotte dynasty has survived in Sweden until 21st century.

Answer: 5

They had five children including four daughters Olga, Tatiana, Marie, and Anastasia, and one son Alexei who was the youngest. Alexei suffered from haemophilia and Rasputin seemed to be able to help him, which was how he became accepted as part of the royal household but was very unpopular with the people.

Answer: Louis XVI

Louis XVl was guillotined in 1793 during the French Revolution. He was called Citizen Louis Capet during the four months that he was in captivity prior to his execution. He was executed in 1793 in the Place de la Revolution in Paris.

Answer: False

Richard III's remains were found in 2013 underneath a Leicester car park. They had been there since he was killed in the Battle of Bosworth against Henry VII in 1485. The bones were examined by scientists and showed clearly that he was not a hunchback, but suffered from scoliosis in his spine which would hardly have been noticeable, and would not have affected his life or his performance in battle.

His bones were interred in Leicester Cathedral in 2015.

Answer: Hirohito

Hirohito was the emperor during the Second World War and ruled as an oligarch. However the decision making processes were shared, but arbitrated by the emperor. During the war the military reduced his power until he was just a figurehead, and as he was very popular this made it easy for them to do as they wished in his name.

Answer: King John

In 1215 Louis VIII of France was in possession of most of England's land. King John fled to King's Lynn in Norfolk but became ill and decided to return to Newark Castle. To get there it was necessary to cross The Wash, a rectangular bay and estuary where Norfolk meets Lincolnshire.

The king himself went by the safer route, but most of his soldiers and carts took the shorter route across the marshes, which was only safe at low tide. Unfortunately the horse drawn carts were too slow and the tide came in.

Many of the carts were lost including the one carrying the royal treasure. It has never been recovered.