1. Henry VIII’s marriage to which woman led to his break with the Roman Catholic Church?

2. Which Egyptian monarch’s tomb was discovered intact by Howard Carter in 1922?

3. Which king prevented England from falling to the Danes in the 9th century?

4. Which king of England was sainted because of his reputation for piety?

5. Which king defended the Holy Roman empress Matilda’s rights to the English throne?

6. Which king of England has been portrayed by William Shakespeare and others as a hunchbacked monster of unparalleled villainy?

7. Which site is famous as Napoleon I’s place of exile?

8. Who was the Siberian peasant and mystic whose curious ability to heal the son of the Russian emperor Nicholas II made him an influential favourite at the court?

9. Who was the principal adviser to England’s King Henry VIII and was eventually executed for heresy and treason?

10. Which city was the favourite residence of the Holy Roman emperor Charlemagne and later the principal coronation site of medieval German kings?

11. Who fabricated the Popish Plot of 1678, during the reign of the English king Charles II, which led to the execution of some 35 alleged conspirators?

12. Which law, passed in 1701, was responsible for the accession of the German house of Hanover to the English throne?

13. Which English architect did King George IV patronize?