Q 01/05

What colour was the cross worn on the Templars' white mantles?

A) Red

B) Black

C) Gold

D) Green

Answer · why

A) Red

Red: the cross was a later addition to the white cloak, which the order's first rule reserved for full knights as a sign that they had sworn themselve...

Q 02/05

The Templars' original headquarters stood on which site in Jerusalem?

A) The Citadel of David

B) The Temple Mount

C) Mount Zion

D) The Mount of Olives

Answer · why

B) The Temple Mount

The Temple Mount: the king of Jerusalem gave them a wing of his own palace there, in the captured Al-Aqsa Mosque, and the knights took their name from...

Q 03/05

For what purpose were the Templars originally founded?

A) To guard the Pope outside Rome

B) To protect pilgrims travelling to Jerusalem

C) To convert Muslims in Spain

D) To lend money to crusading kings

Answer · why

B) To protect pilgrims travelling to Jerusalem

To protect pilgrims travelling to Jerusalem: raiders were robbing and killing them on the roads, and the new crusader kingdoms had too few soldiers to...

Q 04/05

Which French knight founded the Templars and became their first grand master?

A) Raymond of Toulouse

B) Hugues de Payens

C) Robert de Craon

D) Godfrey of Bouillon

Answer · why

B) Hugues de Payens

Hugues de Payens: in the late 1120s he toured the courts of Europe for recruits and gifts, and came back with the men and money that turned a handful ...

Q 05/05

What is the Templars' seal of two knights sharing a single horse traditionally said to symbolise?

A) The order's poverty

B) The brotherhood of Christians and Muslims

C) The two founding families

D) Their skill in cavalry warfare

Answer · why

A) The order's poverty

The order's poverty: the image was only a symbol, since the Templars' own rule allowed every knight three horses and a squire.