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1. I didn't do it! Sir Thomas More, Shakespeare, and many others claim I killed my nephews to usurp the throne. Tudor propaganda! The evidence against me is purely circumstantial. What's more, the Bard made me out to be some kind of hunch backed murderer! Contemporary portraits show me with no deformities (even handsome, I'd say), and I was an accomplished horseman, which would've been impossible if what they say is true.
2. I was the first ruler of the House of Hanover, and wasn't too popular with my subjects. Maybe the fact that I barely spoke any English, hailing from Germany, had something to do with it.
3. When my father died, I was only a few months old. This led to the longest minority in British history. I decided to rule myself at the age of sixteen, and wound up losing pretty much all the gains my noble father had made in France. Who am I?
4. By the time I died in 1901, I had become the longest reigning British monarch, and that's all I have to say.
5. When my half brother died, I took over the crown. Of course, I had to execute some pretenders to the throne, but that's the way we did things back then. At first, I was the popular choice for the crown by most of the gentry, but I became much less popular when I married a Catholic, and started burning Protestants (about 300 or so, but who's counting). I had made good inroads towards restoring England to Catholicism, but unfortunately, I died after ruling for only five years, and my sibling who took over the throne 'botched' up all my good works! Who am I?
6. Lest you think I'm just another buffoon who inherited the crown, let me explain that my popular nickname 'the unready' is actually a corruption of the Viking term 'Unraed', meaning lack of counsel. Speaking of those Vikings, I had to pay them to stop attacking. It only worked for a little while, though, as they came back and I took a 'sabbatical' to nice, safe Normandy for a few years. I eventually came back to rule England, as did two of my sons.
7. I abdicated my throne for the love of a woman.
8. I tried to take over when my brother Richard the Lionheart was taken hostage in Austria, but unfortunately he was freed. Luckily, he died on one of his crusades, and I took over. My nephew had a claim to the throne which Philip II of France supported, until I crossed his palm with gold. I also managed to get excommunicated, but got that reversed (for political, not religious reasons of course). Even though I was a much better administrator than most of my predecessors, and advances in law and civil government were made, I will always be remembered as the guy who was forced to accept the Magna Carta.
9. Yup, I got beaten badly by William the Conqueror in 1066, ending the Saxon rule in England. I don't feel like talking about it.
10. I lost a four year civil war in which, by all accounts, I carried myself bravely. I was beheaded, leading to the 'Commonwealth' rule of the Cromwells.
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