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Gunpowder Plot
Gunpowder Plot
Gunpowder Plot
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Question 1
Let's start with an easy one... what happened on the 5th of November 1605?
Queen Elizabeth I died
The Battle of Bosworth Field
The Civil War began
Guy Fawkes tried to blow up Parliament
Question 2
Whom did the plotters intend to kidnap on the 5th of November?
Queen Elizabeth
Princess Elizabeth
King James
The Mayor of Coventry
Question 3
Around the late 1500's / early 1600's, how many major plots were hatched to put the Catholics back in power?
Just one
Two
Four
Ten
Hundreds
Question 4
The Gunpowder Plotters pretended to be part of a 'hunting party' - where did they ride from?
Dunchurch
Stratford
Warwick
Coleshill
Question 5
Who was the ringleader of the Gunpowder Plot?
Guy Fawkes
Robert Catesby
King James I
Mary Queen of Scots
Question 6
Where was King James' daughter, Princess Elizabeth, living while the plot was being hatched?
At Coombe Abbey
In the Tower of London
At Dunchurch
In Coventry
Question 7
To which safe place was the nine year-old Princess Elizabeth quickly moved when the plot was discovered?
Kenilworth Castle
Warwick Castle
Buckingham Palace
Palace Yard in Coventry
Question 8
While making their plans at the Bull Inn, the plotters were actually only 400 yards from where the Princess was being kept....
True
False
Question 9
When James became the first Stuart King in 1603, which royal 'house' came to an end?
Plantagenet
Norman
Tudor
Windsor
Question 10
Palace Yard stood until 1940 when it was demolished by a single bomb in the Blitz....
True
False
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