KINGS AND QUEENS TRIVIA

1) What monarch is sometimes referred to as "the first king of all England"?

Choose Your Answer: A: Aethelwulf, B: Beowulf, C: William I, D: Egbert of Wessex

2) What queen was born Sophie Augusta Fredericka?

Choose Your Answer: A: Cleopatra, B: Catherine II, C: Elizabeth I, D: Mary Queen of Scots

3) According to legend, what ancient king built the Hanging Gardens of Babylon to please his homesick wife?

Choose Your Answer: A: Solomon, B: Amel-Marduk, C: Nebuchadnezzar II, D: Zerubbabel

4) What was the nickname of King Charles II of France?

Choose Your Answer: A: The Fat, B: The Simple, C: The Bald, D: The Short

5) What English monarch wrote the following poem?

NO crooked leg, no bleared eye,
No part deformed out of kind,
Nor yet so ugly half can be
As is the inward suspicious mind.

Choose Your Answer: A: Henry VIII, B: Elizabeth I, C: Anne Boleyn, D: Richard III

6) What Queen of Spain sponsored Christopher Columbus' voyage which resulted in the discovery of America?

Choose Your Answer: A: Isabella I, B: Joan I, C: Dona Maria II, D: Rosalinde I

7) What king of Morocco created a controversial new family code, or Mudawana, in 2004 which granted women more power?

Choose Your Answer: A: Rainier III, B: Mohammed VI, C: Hassan II, D: Rachid I

8) In the Old Testament, what Persian king chooses Esther to be his bride?

Choose Your Answer: A: Mithridates I, B: Xerxes I, C: Darius the Great, D: Darius II

9) What English king was known as "the Lionheart"?

Choose Your Answer: A: Richard I, B: Richard III, C: Henry IV, D: Henry VIII

10) What king of Saudi Arabia was assassinated by his nephew in 1975?

Choose Your Answer: A: King Faisal, B: King Khalid, C: King Fahd, D: King Salman

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