Q 01/05

In which years was the war fought?

A) 1642 to 1651

B) 1648 to 1657

C) 1655 to 1664

D) 1660 to 1669

Answer · why

A) 1642 to 1651

Historians often split it into First, Second and Third wars, all part of the wider Wars of the Three Kingdoms.

Q 02/05

Supporters of the king were nicknamed what?

A) Roundheads

B) Levellers

C) Diggers

D) Cavaliers

Answer · why

D) Cavaliers

The word shares a root with the Spanish caballero and had been an Elizabethan insult implying pro-Spanish sympathies.

Q 03/05

Parliament's supporters got which nickname from some Puritans' cropped hair?

A) Levellers

B) Clubmen

C) Roundheads

D) Ironsides

Answer · why

C) Roundheads

Generals on both sides actually wore their hair at much the same length.

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

The 59 commissioners had judged him a 'tyrant, traitor, murderer and public enemy'.

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.