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