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Quiz about Time Travel Through History
Quiz about Time Travel Through History

Time Travel Through History Trivia Quiz


Let's take a journey through time to witness some major events we can only read about.

A multiple-choice quiz by JaneofGaunt. Estimated time: 7 mins.
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Author
JaneofGaunt
Time
7 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
238,367
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
7 / 10
Plays
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Top 5% quiz!
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Question 1 of 10
1. We are in Rome, some 800 years after the birth of Christ, taking part in the Christmas Day services in old St. Peter's, when we see Pope Leo III do something we didn't expect. He turns from the altar and appears to either touch, or place an item on, the head of a person who is kneeling in prayer at the front of the church. What have we just witnessed? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. We are in a castle about 70 miles north of London on the night of February 7th, 1587. We are in tears but our mistress keeps us busy with tasks to keep our minds occupied. She herself stays up very late writing letters. What is expected to happen the following day? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. We are a group of Greek teenagers who have been taken, as tribute by a sea-faring nation, to an island where we have been trained in a ritual performed before the goddess-on-earth and the wealthy courtiers of King Minos. Our first 'show' (if one may call it such) is tomorrow. What is going to happen? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. It is Sunday November 26th, 1922 and we are in a small gathering of individuals in a corridor at the bottom of a flight of rough-hewn stairs. Tension runs high as a gentleman carefully looks through a small opening in one part of the wall in the corridor. What are we witnessing? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. We are in a room in a castle or fort and we are watching four brothers in various states of emotion. It appears that the brothers are saying goodbye to one of their number, who has just signed a document, and which they have witnessed. It's cold outside and we can hear Christmas carols being sung in the distance. What's taking place in this room? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. We are part of a large crowd gathered in a town square somewhere in France. The mood is solemn and we soon find out that the sympathy of the people lies with the prisoner upon whom punishment is about to be carried out. A young priest stands near a stack of firewood holding a long staff with a cross fashioned at the end; he also holds a small crucifix which he intends passing to the prisoner. What are we about to witness? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. It is a hot late Fall day downtown in a bustling city in the U.S.A. and we've decided to have a lunchtime picnic in a small grassy park close beside one of the main streets of the city. There are some very special VIPs visiting today, and with luck we'll see their motorcade pass by. Just as they reach us something unexpected happens. What has happened? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. It's a cold, clear night in a small town near Salzburg, Austria, shortly after the end of the Napoleonic Wars, and the stars are brilliant in the heavens. From the local church comes the sound of a single guitar, and we wonder what's happened to the organ. Doesn't matter really, because what we're hearing now is just so right with the guitar. What are we listening to? Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. It's another cold December and we are listening to a very angry king rant on about the person who was once his best friend and is now his sworn enemy. We notice four of our companions nod to each other, as if agreeing to something and then they slip out of the room. We learn later that they are about to commit an act which they hope will please the king. What is it they are planning to do? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. It's a hot day in July in the year of Our Lord 1040 and we are at the weekly market of our town. We have been forewarned of an event that is to take place on this day and when it occurs, in respect we avert our eyes, all except one of our number, whom we hold in contempt thereafter. What is it that we chose not to see? Hint



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1. We are in Rome, some 800 years after the birth of Christ, taking part in the Christmas Day services in old St. Peter's, when we see Pope Leo III do something we didn't expect. He turns from the altar and appears to either touch, or place an item on, the head of a person who is kneeling in prayer at the front of the church. What have we just witnessed?

Answer: The coronation of Charlemagne as Emperor.

On Christmas Day, 800 AD, Charlemagne was crowned by Leo III and proclaimed "Emperor", a title Charlemagne himself never used. Contrary to a widedpread misconception he was simply proclaimed "August Emperor": the first references to "Holy Roman" date from at least 230 years later! Charlemagne, the son of Pepin the Short and Bertrada of Laon, grew tall and strong, merry and wise, and administered his vast domains from his capital, Aachen.
2. We are in a castle about 70 miles north of London on the night of February 7th, 1587. We are in tears but our mistress keeps us busy with tasks to keep our minds occupied. She herself stays up very late writing letters. What is expected to happen the following day?

Answer: The execution of Mary, Queen of Scots in Fotheringhay Castle.

Mary faced her execution with great courage and dignity. It took three strokes of the axe to decapitate her; the first glancing off the base of her skull, upon which she was heard to whisper, "Dear Jesu!" the second almost severed the head from the body, the third, a sawing motion, completed the task.

The headsman picked up Mary's head to show to the spectators, and found himself holding a wig, while Mary's head rolled around on the floor. When her son, James VI of Scotland inherited the throne of England, he had his mother's remains removed to a fitting tomb in Westminster Abbey, where she lies not far from the Queen who signed her death warrant, Elizabeth I.
3. We are a group of Greek teenagers who have been taken, as tribute by a sea-faring nation, to an island where we have been trained in a ritual performed before the goddess-on-earth and the wealthy courtiers of King Minos. Our first 'show' (if one may call it such) is tomorrow. What is going to happen?

Answer: We will perform the Bull Dance.

From the murals found on the walls of the labyrinthine Palace of Knossos on Crete, it would appear that youths, both male and female, took part in the Bull Dance, gripping the horns of a charging bull and leaping up and over onto the bull's back then gracefully jumping back to earth.

It was a dangerous sport, and it is theorized that the youths taken as tribute by the Cretans were used in this way.
4. It is Sunday November 26th, 1922 and we are in a small gathering of individuals in a corridor at the bottom of a flight of rough-hewn stairs. Tension runs high as a gentleman carefully looks through a small opening in one part of the wall in the corridor. What are we witnessing?

Answer: The opening of the tomb of King Tutankhamun.

When Howard Carter was asked if he could see anything through the opening in the wall, he replied, "Yes, wonderful things!" And so the tomb of the 18-year-old Pharoah was opened and catalogued; his mummy was examined, and it appeared he had been killed by a fierce blow to the head.

The young king now rests in his original burial place in one of the beautiful sarcophagi which encased his body.
5. We are in a room in a castle or fort and we are watching four brothers in various states of emotion. It appears that the brothers are saying goodbye to one of their number, who has just signed a document, and which they have witnessed. It's cold outside and we can hear Christmas carols being sung in the distance. What's taking place in this room?

Answer: The formal abdication of King Edward VIII.

Edward VIII signed the Articles of Abdication on the night of December 10th, 1936 at Fort Belvedere, witnessed by his three brothers, Albert, Duke of York who became King George VI, George, Duke of Kent, and Henry, Duke of Gloucester. He thus became the only British monarch to resign voluntarily.

As the Duke of Windsor, he then married Wallis Simpson, the American divorcee whom he could not marry and remain king.
6. We are part of a large crowd gathered in a town square somewhere in France. The mood is solemn and we soon find out that the sympathy of the people lies with the prisoner upon whom punishment is about to be carried out. A young priest stands near a stack of firewood holding a long staff with a cross fashioned at the end; he also holds a small crucifix which he intends passing to the prisoner. What are we about to witness?

Answer: The burning of Joan of Arc in the old market square of Rouen.

Joan, acting upon the tasks laid upon her by God, was instrumental in returning France to the French in the last years of the Hundred Years' War between England and France. Her capture and subsequent trial by pro-English clergy was tainted by bribery. Joan was only 18 or 19 when she was convicted on various charges - among them, claiming to hear voices of saints, the wearing of men's clothing, both considered heretical - and burned at the stake in Rouen on May 30th, 1431.

In 1456, following a lengthy posthumous re-trial process, Joan was declared innocent by the Inquisition on July 7th; it took the church until 1920 before naming Joan a Saint. Today, she is revered as both a hero and saint.
7. It is a hot late Fall day downtown in a bustling city in the U.S.A. and we've decided to have a lunchtime picnic in a small grassy park close beside one of the main streets of the city. There are some very special VIPs visiting today, and with luck we'll see their motorcade pass by. Just as they reach us something unexpected happens. What has happened?

Answer: President John F. Kennedy has just been assassinated.

In Dallas, Texas on Friday 22nd November, 1963, President John F. Kennedy was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald, who in turn was shot by Jack Ruby following Oswald's arrest. Many theories still abound about shots coming from the "Grassy Knoll" while it is widely believed that Oswald acted alone, shooting from the Texas Book Depository Building.
8. It's a cold, clear night in a small town near Salzburg, Austria, shortly after the end of the Napoleonic Wars, and the stars are brilliant in the heavens. From the local church comes the sound of a single guitar, and we wonder what's happened to the organ. Doesn't matter really, because what we're hearing now is just so right with the guitar. What are we listening to?

Answer: The first playing of the hymn "Silent Night".

At the midnight mass on Christmas Eve, 1818, in the church of St. Nicholas in Oberndorf, Austria the lovely carol "Stille Nacht! Heilige Nacht!" was heard for the first time. The words were written by Father Joseph Mohr in 1816 and the choir director of St. Nicholas', Franz Gruber, composed the tune for guitar in 1818.

The two men sang it that night and the choir joined in at the last two lines. "Silent Night" is probably the most loved Christmas carol and has been translated into over 300 languages and dialects.
9. It's another cold December and we are listening to a very angry king rant on about the person who was once his best friend and is now his sworn enemy. We notice four of our companions nod to each other, as if agreeing to something and then they slip out of the room. We learn later that they are about to commit an act which they hope will please the king. What is it they are planning to do?

Answer: Murder the Archbishop of Canterbury, Thomas Becket.

Henry II of England was notorious for his temper tantrums, and this one got him into serious trouble. Tired of fighting with his old friend Thomas, he is alleged to have roared, "Who will rid me of this turbulent priest?" and the four knights went and did just that on the night of December 29th, 1170.

They received no thanks from their king who ended up doing public penance for instigating the murder of the "holy blissful martyr", later St. Thomas Becket.
10. It's a hot day in July in the year of Our Lord 1040 and we are at the weekly market of our town. We have been forewarned of an event that is to take place on this day and when it occurs, in respect we avert our eyes, all except one of our number, whom we hold in contempt thereafter. What is it that we chose not to see?

Answer: The ride of Lady Godiva naked through the marketplace of Coventry.

The basic facts of Godiva's ride are correct. She was the wife of Leofric, Earl of Mercia, whom she had begged to remit the heavy taxes on the townspeople. He said he would if she would ride naked through the streets of the town. She did, and he did.

The story has been embellished over the years; that she asked for everyone to stay indoors and not look; that a tailor used a peephole in his shutter to see her - Peeping Tom who was struck blind; that her long hair covered her nakedness. In fact, her hair was in two long braids; she was accompanied by two ladies riding on each side of her and a little farther back; the people watched respectfully, but they watched nevertheless, and probably blessed her as she passed.
Source: Author JaneofGaunt

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