
1. Which Henry won the batlle of Agincourt?
2. Which Henry was king when St. Thomas More was beheaded?
3. Which Henry inherited his insanity from his grandfather, Charles VI of France?
4. Which Henry married the ex-wife of a French king?
5. Which Henry won the Battle of Bosworth Field? (the jerk)
6. Which Henry inherited the throne when his brother was killed while hunting? (see the latest review in That's All She Read".)
7. Which Henry was king when Thomas Á Becket was murdered?
8. Which Henry was the youngest English monarch ever to be crowned?
9. Which Henry usurped the throne from King Richard II?
10. Which Henry was given the title "Defender of the Faith" for his writings against the actions of Martin Luther?
11. Which Henry was both the son of a king Henry of England and the father of a King Henry of England?
12. Which Henry was the first English monarch to be crowned while still a child?
13. Which Henry lost his son and heir in the wreck of the White Ship?
14. Which Henry founded the Angevin dynasty?
15. Which Henry died while imprisoned in the Tower of London?
16. The warship Mary Rose was one of the favorite ships of which Henry?
17. Which Henry was captured by Simon de Montfort at the Battle of Lewes?
18. Which Henry was king when Owain Glyndwr led Wales in rebellion against the English?
19. Which Henry created the Star Chamber, a closed court that answered to no one but the king?
20. Which Henry was the first English king to read and write English with any ease?
(I got and 20 wrong.)
Click on the About.com link above to take the quiz there and to get the right answers.
And if you have the herman's Hermits song going through your head all day, don't blame me.
I wish my grades were based on that quiz! I got them all right, although the little blurb about Henry V is wrong, most of government was still conducted in French and Latin. It's a common misconception, powered by Henry's somewhat random translation of things into English.
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