Q 01/05

In which Nottinghamshire village did the future Mayflower Separatists meet secretly at a manor house?

A) Scrooby

B) Babworth

C) Gainsborough

D) Austerfield

Answer · why

A) Scrooby

The manor belonged to the Archbishop of York, so the group's own landlord was the churchman they were defying.

Q 02/05

Before crossing the Atlantic, the Separatists spent about a dozen years living in which Dutch city?

A) Amsterdam

B) Leiden

C) Rotterdam

D) Utrecht

Answer · why

B) Leiden

Many of them worked in the city's cloth trades, and William Brewster taught English at its university.

Q 03/05

Which pastor led the congregation in Holland but never made the crossing, dying there in 1625?

A) Richard Clyfton

B) John Smyth

C) John Robinson

D) Robert Cushman

Answer · why

C) John Robinson

He preached a farewell sermon at the quayside; his son Isaac later joined the colony in 1631.

Q 04/05

What were the London investors who financed the Pilgrims' voyage called?

A) the Virginia Company

B) the Plymouth Company

C) the Company of Undertakers

D) the Merchant Adventurers

Answer · why

D) the Merchant Adventurers

The colonists were meant to send fish, timber and furs home to repay the debt, and it took them decades to clear it.

Q 05/05

Which patch of coast was the Pilgrims' intended destination when they set out in 1620?

A) the Kennebec River

B) the Delaware River

C) the Connecticut River

D) the Hudson River

Answer · why

D) the Hudson River

That spot was then the northern edge of the Virginia patent, and it became Dutch New Netherland instead.