Who Said What About Whom?

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1. "You have sent me a Flanders mare" was said about Anne of Cleves by whom? Henry VIII Henry VI Richard III Edward VI

2. A US writer once said of whom, "He was not a learned man, but an ignorant; not an honourable man, but a professional pirate"? Magellan Sir Francis Drake Captain Cook Christopher Columbus

3. "He lived a hypocrite and died a traitor" was said by John Foster, a British Historian, about whom? Charles II Oliver Cromwell Charles I Henry VIII

4. Which English poet proposed an epitaph for his wife that read, "Here lies my wife, here let her lie. Now she's at rest and so am I"? John Donne John Dryden Lord Byron John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester

5. Of which English monarch was it once said, "As just and merciful as Nero and as good a Christian as Mohammed"? Henry VIII Charles II Mary Queen of Scots Elizabeth I

6. About whom was it said, "The plain truth is, that he was a most intolerable ruffian, a disgrace to human nature, and a blot of blood and grease upon the history of England"? Richard III Henry VIII Charles II Henry V

7. Of Christopher Marlowe, the English playwright, who was it that said, "It is not suprising to learn that Marlowe was stabbed in a tavern brawl; what would be utterly unbelievable would be his having succeeded in stabbing anyone else"? Anton Chekhov George Bernard Shaw Lord Byron John Donne

8. "The most notorious whore in all the world". About whom did Peter Wentworth, an English MP, say this? Mary Queen of Scots Mary I Elizabeth I Anne of Cleves

9. Who, according to an anonymous critic, was "An inventor of filthiness"? Tintoretto William Shakespeare Michelangelo Robert Louis Stevenson

10. About whom, at his trial in 1601, was it said, "Thou art an odious fellow, thy name is hateful to all the realm of England"? Sir Francis Drake Sir Walter Raleigh Christopher Columbus Magellan