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  • Who restored Protestantism and defeated the Armada?
    Anne
    Victoria
    Elizabeth I
    Mary I
  • Which monarch approved the Magna Carta?
    Edward I
    Henry III
    Richard I
    King John
  • Which king started the Reformation in England?
    Elizabeth I
    Edward VI
    Henry VIII
    Mary I
  • Which king reigned during the American Revolution?
    William IV
    George II
    George III
    George IV
  • Who became king in 2022?
    Henry IX
    George VII
    Charles III
    William V
  • Which war was fought between the red and white roses?
    Hundred Years’ War
    Glorious Revolution
    Civil War
    Wars of the Roses
  • Who were the “Princes in the Tower”?
    Edward V and his brother
    Henry VII’s sons
    Richard III’s nephews
    Tudor heirs
  • Which battle in 1066 ended Anglo-Saxon rule?
    Yorktown
    Battle of Hastings
    Stamford Bridge
    Bosworth Field
  • During which king’s reign did the monarchy become less political?
    Victoria
    George III
    George V
    Edward VII
  • Which queen’s reign marked Britain’s industrial and imperial peak?
    Elizabeth I
    Mary II
    Victoria
    Anne
  • Which battle made Henry V famous?
    Bosworth Field
    Agincourt
    Hastings
    Bannockburn
  • Which Plantagenet king began the Hundred Years’ War?
    Edward III
    Edward II
    Henry V
    Richard II
  • Who was the first king to rule all England?
    Æthelstan
    Edgar
    Edward the Elder
    Edmund I
  • Who abdicated in 1936 to marry Wallis Simpson?
    Edward VIII
    Edward VII
    George V
    George VI
  • What did George V change the royal family’s name to?
    York
    Windsor
    Plantagenet
    Hanover
  • What type of monarchy is the UK today?
    Elective
    Republican
    Constitutional
    Absolute
  • Who was the “Hammer of the Scots”?
    Edward II
    Edward I
    Henry V
    Edward III
  • Which king was the last to lead troops in battle?
    George III
    George IV
    George I
    George II
  • What describes Elizabeth II’s reign?
    Conflict with Parliament
    War and rebellion
    Longest and most stable
    Short and turbulent
  • Who was killed at the Battle of Bosworth Field?
    Henry VII
    Richard III
    Richard II
    Edward V
  • Who is often considered the first “King of the English”?
    Edward the Elder
    William the Conqueror
    Egbert
    Alfred the Great
  • How many years did Elizabeth II reign?
    70
    63
    55
    52
  • Which king was deposed in the Glorious Revolution?
    George I
    Charles II
    William III
    James II
  • Which king created the Church of England?
    James I
    Henry VII
    Edward VI
    Henry VIII
  • What group replaced the British Empire during her reign?
    The EU
    The League of Nations
    The Commonwealth
    The UN
  • Who was called the “Virgin Queen”?
    Elizabeth I
    Victoria
    Anne Boleyn
    Mary I
  • Which monarch built Buckingham Palace?
    Victoria
    Edward VII
    George IV
    George III
  • Which king lost the American colonies?
    Edward VII
    George II
    William IV
    George III
  • Which monarch symbolized the British Empire’s height?
    Mary II
    Elizabeth II
    Queen Victoria
    Anne
  • Which king signed the Magna Carta in 1215?
    King John
    Henry II
    Richard I
    Edward I
  • Who was king during World War II?
    Edward VIII
    Charles III
    George V
    George VI
  • Which dynasty followed the Stuarts?
    Windsors
    Tudors
    Hanoverians
    Plantagenets
  • Which dynasty ruled England for over 300 years after 1154?
    Plantagenet
    Lancastrian
    Tudor
    Norman
  • Who was Britain’s first Prime Minister?
    Lord Salisbury
    Benjamin Disraeli
    Sir Robert Walpole
    Pitt the Younger
  • Who founded the Tudor dynasty?
    Henry VII
    Edward IV
    James I
    Richard III
  • What new royal family name was adopted in 1917?
    Hanover
    Saxe-Coburg
    Plantagenet
    Windsor
  • Which king ruled for only 41 days?
    Sweyn Forkbeard
    Edmund Ironside
    Æthelred II
    Harold II
  • Who succeeded Victoria in 1901?
    George V
    Edward VIII
    Edward VII
    George VI
  • Which king united the crowns of England and Scotland?
    Edward VI
    James I
    Charles I
    Henry VIII
  • Which king was German and spoke little English?
    George III
    Edward VII
    William IV
    George I
  • Which document limited the monarch’s power in 1689?
    Act of Union
    Bill of Rights
    Magna Carta
    Reform Act
  • Who ruled jointly after the Glorious Revolution?
    Henry VII and Elizabeth of York
    Edward VI and Mary I
    Anne and George I
    William III and Mary II
  • What united England and Scotland in 1707?
    Treaty of London
    Peace of Paris
    Act of Union
    Bill of Rights
  • Who is called the “Sailor King”?
    Edward VII
    William IV
    George IV
    George V
  • Which queen became monarch in 1952?
    Elizabeth II
    Anne
    Mary II
    Victoria
  • Who modernized the monarchy’s image in the early 1900s?
    George VI
    Edward VII
    Edward VIII
    George V
  • What was restored in 1660 after Cromwell’s death?
    The Church of Rome
    The Monarchy
    Parliament
    The Empire
  • Which Anglo-Saxon king defeated the Danes and reformed England?
    Alfred the Great
    Æthelred II
    Edgar
    Edmund I
  • During which king’s reign did Britain fight World War I?
    Edward VII
    Edward VIII
    George VI
    George V
  • Which “Sailor King” approved the Reform Act 1832?
    George V
    William IV
    George IV
    Edward VII
  • Who led England as Lord Protector after the Civil War?
    Charles II
    Oliver Cromwell
    William III
    James II
  • Which queen ruled at the time of the Act of Union 1707?
    Queen Anne
    Victoria
    Mary II
    Elizabeth I
  • Who was the first English king executed by his people?
    James I
    Charles I
    Henry VIII
    Richard III
  • Who was the first Hanoverian king?
    George II
    George IV
    George III
    George I
  • Who ruled briefly after Oliver Cromwell?
    Anne
    Charles II
    Richard Cromwell
    James II
  • Who built the Tower of London?
    Edward I
    William the Conqueror
    Stephen
    Henry II
  • Which event did Elizabeth I’s navy win in 1588?
    Defeat of the Spanish Armada
    Hundred Years’ War
    Restoration
    Battle of Agincourt
  • How long did Queen Victoria reign?
    50 years
    63 years
    70 years
    40 years
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