Q 01/05

Which wider conflict includes the English Civil War?

A) Thirty Years' War

B) Wars of the Three Kingdoms

C) French Wars of Religion

D) Anglo-Dutch Wars

Answer · why

B) Wars of the Three Kingdoms

Wars of the Three Kingdoms is the wider label because the fighting began with Scottish wars in 1639 and an Irish rising in 1641, before England's own ...

Q 02/05

Supporters of Charles I were nicknamed what?

A) Roundheads

B) Levellers

C) Diggers

D) Cavaliers

Answer · why

D) Cavaliers

Cavaliers started as an insult: the word, kin to the Spanish caballero, had meant a swaggering gallant since Elizabeth's day, and the king's men later...

Q 03/05

What nickname did Royalists give Parliament's supporters in the English Civil War?

A) Levellers

B) Clubmen

C) Roundheads

D) Ironsides

Answer · why

C) Roundheads

Roundheads mocked the close-cropped hair of some Puritans and London apprentices, so unlike courtly ringlets; in fact generals on both sides wore thei...

Q 04/05

Charles I was beheaded on a scaffold in front of which Whitehall building?

A) Banqueting House

B) Westminster Hall

C) St James's Palace

D) Whitehall Gatehouse

Answer · why

A) Banqueting House

Banqueting House has a ceiling by Rubens that Charles himself had commissioned to glorify his father's reign; he walked beneath it on his way out to t...

Q 05/05

In which year was Charles I executed?

A) 1645

B) 1647

C) 1649

D) 1651

Answer · why

C) 1649

The Second Civil War of 1648 had convinced the Army that no settlement with him was possible.