Famous Beheadings

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1. Second wife of King Henry VIII of England and mother of the future Queen Elizabeth, this person was beheaded on May 19, 1536, after being convicted of adultery. Jane Seymour Anne Boleyn Catherine Cromwell Mary Lancaster

2. Former king of France and married to Marie Antoinette, this monarch was guillotined in 1793 after being found to conspire against the First French Republic (proclaimed four months earlier) Louis XVI Hugh Capet Louis XVIII Napoleon

3. English adventurer, knighted by Elizabeth I in 1585. Immediately fell out of favour with her successor James I and was accused of treason and (almost) executed in 1603. He did eventually suffer this fate, however, carried out in 1618. Sir Francis Drake Guy Fawkes Thomas Cromwell Sir Walter Raleigh

4. Executed in 1554 after a nine-day reign as Queen of England. Installed as monarch contrary to the line of succession and executed under Mary I? Joan of Arc Jane Seymour Lady Jane Grey Marie Claire

5. Beheaded in 1587 for treason, her beheading is regarded as one of history's most gruesome? Mary II Princess Anne of Silesia Lady Jane Grey Mary Queen of Scots

6. Leader of the Committee of Public Safety during much of the initial phase after the French Revolution. Increasingly dissatisfied with the direction the country, he himself was arrested and guillotined in 1794? Louis XVI Maximilian Robespierre Marie Antoinette Jean-Paul Marat

7. In which of the following countries are public beheadings still carried out? Saudi Arabia Ireland Pakistan China

8. Illegitimate son of King Charles II of England, leader of a failed rebellion against James II after his father's death. The Duke of Albany The Duke of Northumberland The Duke of Monmouth The Duke of Cornwall

9. Fifth wife of Henry VIII of England. Anne Boleyn Jane Seymour Catherine Howard Catherine Parr

10. King of England from 1625 to 1649 and sentenced to death in the trial that followed the defeat of his royalist forces in the English Civil War. Charles II James I Charles I James II