Getting your questions ready
Getting your questions ready
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Q 01Which Tudor king of England came to the throne at age nine, when Henry VIII died?
Edward VI
Edward VI died at fifteen, and on his deathbed he tried to pass the crown to his cousin Lady Jane Grey instead of his half-sisters.
Q 02Which palace did Louis XIV, king from age four, make the seat of his court?
Versailles
Louis XIV moved his court to Versailles in 1682, partly because the Fronde revolts of his childhood had left him feeling threatened in his capital.
Q 03Which name was Tutankhamun given at birth, before becoming pharaoh at around eight or nine?
Tutankhaten
He was born Tutankhaten, 'living image of Aten', and swapped the ending for Amun as his court dismantled Akhenaten's sun-disc cult and restored the old gods.
Q 04Where did Charles II have bones presumed to be the Princes in the Tower placed in an urn?
Westminster Abbey
Westminster Abbey holds the urn, but the bones inside have never been proven to be twelve-year-old Edward V and his younger brother Richard.
Q 05Which war did England wage to force the infant Mary, Queen of Scots, to marry Henry VIII's son?
The Rough Wooing
The Rough Wooing followed Scotland's rejection of the marriage treaty; after defeat at Pinkie, Mary, queen since she was six days old, was taken to France for safety.
Q 06Which southern African kingdom did Sobhuza II rule, having become its king at just four months old?
Swaziland
Sobhuza II became king of Swaziland when his father died, reigned until his own death in 1982, and married 70 wives along the way.
Q 07Who ruled Spain as regent for Alfonso XIII, king from the moment he was born?
His mother
His mother, Maria Christina of Austria, ruled as regent until Alfonso XIII turned sixteen; he reigned until 1931, when he left Spain as the Second Republic was proclaimed.
Q 08Which law was later cited for barring women from France's throne, a rule first applied when baby King John I died?
Salic law
Salic law went unmentioned in 1316; a monk first cited it for the crown in 1358, against Charles II of Navarre, whose mother Joan had been passed over.
Q 09What did Puyi, China's last emperor, publish after prison and a stint working as a gardener?
An autobiography
Puyi's autobiography came out after his 1959 amnesty, and in 1964 he was made a member of China's political consultative conference; he died in 1967.
Q 10Who is the youngest person ever to succeed to the English throne, at eight months old?
Henry VI
Henry VI also became king of France when his grandfather Charles VI died weeks later; after losing France and then his throne, he died in the Tower of London in 1471.