Wars of the Roses Quiz

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1. Quiz #1: Which King was not involved in the Wars of the Roses?

 King Richard III
King Edward IV
King Henry IV
King Henry VI

 2. Who was the famed "Captain of Calais" during this turmultuous period?

 Richard Neville
Henry Tudor
George, Duke of Clarence
Robin of Redesdale

 3. The battle in which King Richard was killed was....

 Barnet
Bosworth field
Wakefield
St Albans

 4. The family fighting for Royal succession in the Wars of the Roses were...

 the Stuarts
the Plantagenets
the Hanovers
the Windsors

 5. Many historians believe the Wars began from a private quarrel between...

the Percys and the Tudors
the Cliffords and the Pastons
the Stoners and the Mortimors
the Percys and the Nevilles

 6. The Kingmaker and his King fell out due to...

 different foreign policy desires
an unliked marriage of the King's
the King not allowing the Kingmaker's daughters to marry Clarence or Gloucester
All of the above

 7. Shakespeare called who a "proud setter up and puller down of kings"?

George, Duke of Clarence
Lord Hastings
Richard, Earl of Warwick
Richard, Earl of Salisbury

 8. The battle of Teweksbury effectively...

ended the Lancastrian chances for power.
ended the Tudor chances for power.
gave the throne to Henry VIII.
ended the power of the Kingmaker.

 9. The battle of Towton was...

a Lancastrian victory
a victory for Queen Margaret
relatively unimportant as a minor skirmish
the bloodiest battle on English soil

 10. The Wars of the Roses were...

devestating to the lower classes, whose lives were upended
of little historical importance to the growth of Britain
of no contemporary importance outside of England
a thirty year war of which actual campaigning lasted less than two years

 11. What Monarch, deposed by questional means, was used by Richard of York to denounce the Lancastrian line?

Richard II
Henry IV
Edward III
The Black Prince

 12. Which of these foreign powers militarily supported King Edward IV?

France
Burgundy
Italy
Spain

 13. Which of these sources is of immense importance to the study of 15th century England?

The Dartmoor Chronicles
Edward IV's personal diary
The Cromwell Papers
The Paston Letters

 14. Which of the following was not a battle during the Wars of the Roses?

Mortimer's Cross
Wakefield
Marston Moor
Bloreheath

 15. Which of these individuals was killed in the First Battle of St. Albans?

Duke of Somerset
Duke of York
Earl of Salisbury
Duke of Gloucester

 16. Which historian takes a traditional view of Richard III?

Paul Murray Kendall
Jeremy Potter
Charles Ross
Anthony Cheetham

 17. This college was established by Henry VI....

Oxford
Eton
Winchester
Warwick

 18. Edward IV was born here in 1442.

London
Dublin
York
Rouen

 19. According to the College of Arms, this was Edward IV's badge as Earl of March.

White Lion
Gold Draught Horse
Chained Antelope
A Bull Passant Sable

 20. This Earl was one of few who made it through the wars unscathed by staying politically and militarily neutral.

William, Earl of Arundel
William Neville, Earl of Kent
Henry Bourchier, Earl of Essex
Anthony, Earl Rivers

 21. According to the studies of K.B. McFarlane, Noble families became extinct at approximately what rate from 1425-1449, 1450-1474, and 1475-1499? (as you can see from the consistancy of the number, the Wars had little effect on the number of families being wiped out)

50%
10%
75%
25%

 22. Henry VII's claim to the throne was through what family (descended from his great-great grandfather, John of Gaunt).

Tudor
Beauchamp
Lancaster
Beaufort

 23. "King Richard, late mercifully reigning upon us was...piteously slain and murdered, to the great heaviness of this city." The civic record of what city includes these words?

York
London
Derby
Norwich