Q 01/05

Who was Elizabeth I's mother?

A) Anne Boleyn

B) Catherine of Aragon

C) Jane Seymour

D) Catherine Howard

Answer · why

A) Anne Boleyn

Anne Boleyn. Henry VIII broke with Rome to marry her in hope of a son, yet before their daughter turned three he had her executed on charges of adulte...

Q 02/05

Elizabeth I shared her first name with both grandmothers; which one was the mother of Henry VIII?

A) Elizabeth Woodville

B) Elizabeth of York

C) Elizabeth Howard

D) Elizabeth Blount

Answer · why

B) Elizabeth of York

Elizabeth of York. Her marriage to Henry VII joined the rival houses of York and Lancaster after the Wars of the Roses, so their granddaughter carried...

Q 03/05

Which wife of Henry VIII gave Elizabeth I a half-brother, the future Edward VI, and died days after the birth?

A) Anne of Cleves

B) Catherine Howard

C) Jane Seymour

D) Catherine Parr

Answer · why

C) Jane Seymour

Jane Seymour. Henry married her eleven days after the execution of Elizabeth's mother, and the arrival of her son pushed Elizabeth, already declared i...

Q 04/05

Which governess, at Elizabeth I's side from early childhood, served as her chief gentlewoman until dying in 1565?

A) Kat Ashley

B) Blanche Parry

C) Lady Troy

D) Sybil Penn

Answer · why

A) Kat Ashley

Kat Ashley. Sent to the Tower in 1549 over the Lord Admiral's pursuit of the princess, she was cleared of treason and back in Elizabeth's household wi...

Q 05/05

At 12, Elizabeth I translated whose Prayers or Meditations into Italian, Latin and French as a gift for her father?

A) Erasmus's

B) Thomas Cranmer's

C) Catherine Parr's

D) Margaret Beaufort's

Answer · why

C) Catherine Parr's

Catherine Parr's. Henry VIII's sixth wife had taken her stepchildren's schooling in hand, and her own small book of prayers sold so well that it ran t...