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1 trivia quiz  Charlemagne - Larger than Life? icon
Charlemagne's name has rung out in chansons de geste, ballads, legends and films down the years - but how much do you really know about the great king?
Average 10Q
384 plays
Nov 21 04
Aethelflaed
2 trivia quiz  The Life of Charlemagne
This is an examination of the life and history of Charlemagne.
Tough 10Q
660 plays
Jun 11 00
socratessoul

Some sample questions from this category:

* We know most of what we know about Charlemagne due to the biography or biographies that we have about him. Who wrote this or these biographies?
* Who crowned Charlemagne in 800 AD?
* Pope Stephen II crowned Pepin the Short as king of the Franks in 754 AD, because Pepin promised to support the church. The current king was Childeric the III, last of which dynasty?
* What is the name of Charlemagne's efforts to improve education and literacy in his kingdom?
* Which French dynasty later claimed, through the church, to have found documents tracing their line back to Charlemagne himself?
* Charlemagne had three sons and three daughters by his second wife Hildegard. The daughters were named Rotrude, Bertha and Gisela. What were the names of the three sons?
* Charlemagne was crowned emperor on Christmas Day in which year?
* You probably know Charlemagne was a great soldier - but which of these facts about him is *not* true?
* Married three times, Charlemagne fathered a brood of children, but what tradition regarding his many daughters was carried on by many of his successors with their own daughters?
* With the eldest daughter of which of his contemporaries did Charlemagne try to arrange a wedding for his eldest son?
* How do we know so much about Charlemagne?
* Which of the following did Charlemagne never learn to do?
* Charlemagne originally had to share his kingdom - what event gave him the opportunity to hold it all?
* Charlemagne's famous father was the first of the family to be king - but what was his grandfather's name and achievement?
* What later empire is Charlemagne widely thought to have inspired?

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