Tudor History Quiz

The Mary Rose was one of King Henry VIII's warships that sunk off the coast of Portsmouth in 1545! The wreck was raised from the seabed in 1982.

This ship, originally called The Pelican but renamed in honour of Drake's patron, Sir Christopher Hatton, was the first English ship to sail around the world!

This was a warship belonging to Queen Elizabeth I. It was given to her by Sir Walter Raleigh.

William Parry, a former spy of the Queen's who plotted against her life, had been executed for treason in 1585!

John Somerville was imprisoned in The Tower Of London in 1583 for intending to kill the Queen. He was condemned to death but hung himself before he could be executed.

Anthony Babington, a secret Roman Catholic and supporter of the Queen Of Scots, plotted with friends to release Mary from captivity and place her on the English throne. The plot was discovered and Babington was put to death.

Francis Drake is most famous for sailing around the world and for helping to defeat the Spanish Armada in 1588!

While it is probably just a myth that Raleigh introduced the potato into the British isles, he certainly popularised tobacco in England by his smoking of it!

Martin Frobisher is most famous for his three voyages to the New World in search of treasure and the Northwest Passage!

The marriage place of Queen Mary I is not the burial place of Queen Elizabeth I!

It is Elizabeth's father, King Henry VIII, who is buried in St George's Chapel, Windsor Castle!

Mary, Queen Of Scots, is also buried here. It is one of history's ironies that the two rival queens, who never met in life, lie only feet away from each other in death!