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The Gunpowder Plot

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Fun Trivia : Quizzes : UK History : The Gunpowder Plot

Introduction:
"A brief quiz about the plot remembered in England with Bonfire Night each November."


1. 'Remember, remember the Fifth of November, gunpowder, treason and plot'. The fifth of November of which year?
    1605
    1555
    1505
    1655


2. Against which British Monarch (and his or her government) was the 'Plot' directed?
    Elizabeth I
    Charles I
    Henry VIII
    James I (VI of Scotland)


3. Guy Fawkes is the best remembered of the plotters, but who was their leader?
    Guy Fawkes
    Thomas Wintour
    Thomas Percy
    Robert Catesby


4. Had the plot succeeded in killing the Monarch (and most of the government), the plotters planned to set up whom as puppet ruler?
    Prince Charles
    Prince Henry
    Princess Elizabeth
    Princess Mary


5. Hiding places were constructed in most country homes of the Catholic gentry, and were used mostly by Priests (who were outlawed from entering England). The man who built many of the most ingenious of these died under questioning following discovery of the 'Plot'. Can you name him?
    Guy Fawkes
    Thomas Percy
    Robert Catesby
    Nicholas Owen


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