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One-Eye Posts: 72,111 Forumite

5 August 2018 at 10:35PM in Game over

https://global.oup.com/academic/online/library/quiz/

1. Who is known as the "Nine Days Queen"

Answer = Lady Jane Grey

2. Who was the last Tudor monarch?

Answer = Elizabeth I

3. Which of the following words – dreadnaught, laughing stock, caesarean – did not enter the English language during the reign of Henry VIII (1509-1547)?

Answer = dreadnaught

4. Which acclaimed 20th Century British writer referred to Tudor literature as "drab"?

Answer = C.S. Lewis

5. What is Queen Elizabeth I standing on in her portrait attributed to Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger from 1592?

Answer = A map of England



Big thanks to those who offered special help to enable me to do this quiz

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  dadsgoneshopping Posts: 385 Forumite

  

  6 August 2018 at 10:47PM

  Are you sure about dreadnaught?

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  One-Eye Posts: 72,111 Forumite

  

  6 August 2018 at 11:15PM

  dadsgoneshopping wrote: »

  Are you sure about dreadnaught?

  
  laughing stock - 1518
  caesarian - 1528
  dreadnaught - 1592

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