British History Trivia Page - 2

Trivia Questions

This envoy for the Archbishop of Canterbury was held hostage in Lebanon for over 4 years before his 1991 release

As early as the 8th century, the English were required to pay Peter's Pence, a tax in support of this person

During the Wars of the Roses, the houses of Lancaster & this one both claimed the English throne

In 1661 the body of this Lord Protector was exhumed, strung up & beheaded

On July 9, 1982 Michael Fagan made headlines when he broke into her bedroom

Because plague closed this university, Newton went home to Woolsthorpe, where he saw that apple fall

Her death in 1603 ended her 45-year reign, & a total of 118 years for the Tudors

The mutineers who left this navigator on James Bay in 1611 were jailed when they got back to England

Charlie Brown could have joined this group of Oliver Cromwell's that beat the Cavaliers in battle in July 2, 1644

As Charles I couldn't attend this in Paris in May 1625, the Duke of Buckingham was his proxy