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? Richard III Edward VI Henry VI Henry VIII

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"? Sir Francis Drake Magellan Christopher Columbus Captain Cook

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

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 Wilmot, Earl of Rochester John Donne John Dryden Lord Byron

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

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 V Charles II Henry VIII

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"? John Donne Anton Chekhov George Bernard Shaw Lord Byron

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

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

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"? Magellan Sir Francis Drake Sir Walter Raleigh Christopher Columbus