Quiz Questions – Answers

Oliver Webb-Carter

The answers to our editor's Christmas Quiz
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  1. Which play, written by Euripides, is set in Thebes during the rule of Pentheus? 
    • The Bacchae
  2. Alexander of Macedon is known as The Great, but what number Alexander was he?
    • Alexander III
  3. After Nero’s botched suicide attempt, Rome entered the year of the four emperors, but can you name them?
    • Galbo, Otho, Vitellius & Vespasian
  4. Who was the writer, living in 8th century England, who is sometimes called ‘The Father of English History’?
    • The Venerable Bede
  5. Which English princess became Empress when married to Henry V, Holy Roman Emperor?
    • Matilda
  6. Henrietta Maria, wife of Charles I, was descended from which two prominent dynasties?
    • Bourbon & Medici
  7. What was the last battle to take place on British soil? Bonus point for the year.
    • Culloden, 1746
  8. Toussaint Louverture led the revolt against the French in which Caribbean nation?
    • Haiti or Saint Domingue
  9. The battle of Isandlwana in January 1879 saw the British annihilated by the Zulus, but who was the Zulu general on the day?
    • Ntshingwayo kaMahole Khoza OR Khoza
  10. What was the name of the last Queen of Romania?
    • Marie, wife of Ferdinand I