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Quiz about King Twice Over
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King Twice Over Trivia Quiz


These people were all king of more than one country during the course of their careers.

A multiple-choice quiz by alan03. Estimated time: 6 mins.
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Author
alan03
Time
6 mins
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Multiple Choice
Quiz #
161,078
Updated
Dec 03 21
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10
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Question 1 of 10
1. Many kings of Poland were rulers of other countries too. Which of the following Polish kings is not one of them? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. James Stuart, son of Mary, Queen of Scots, became James I of England in 1603. By then he had already been king of Scots for 36 years. What was his regnal number as king of Scots? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. Queen Victoria of Great Britain and Ireland was created Empress of India in 1877. Her successors were then known as King-Emperors. Who was the last King-Emperor? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. The Xuantong Emperor (also known as Pu Yi) was the last emperor of China (1908-1911) and the only emperor of Manchukuo (1931-45). To which dynasty did he belong? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. Henry III of Navarre was a Protestant king. To the throne of which Catholic country did he succeed in 1589? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. Who was the last Holy Roman Emperor and the first emperor of Austria? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. Ferdinand II of Aragon (1479-1516) was king of a number of other countries in addition to Aragon. Which of the following was not one of them? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. In 1826 Pedro IV became king of Portugal. But of which country had he been monarch since 1822?

Answer: (One Word)
Question 9 of 10
9. The Emperor Charles V inherited a number of lands and titles via his grandparents. Of which land was he not the monarch? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. In 1397 Eric of Pomerania was crowned king of three kingdoms in a union engineered by his great-aunt, Margrethe. Which was not one of those kingdoms? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. Many kings of Poland were rulers of other countries too. Which of the following Polish kings is not one of them?

Answer: Jan III

Ladislaus was king of Poland 1386-92, when he became king he was already Grand Duke Jogaila of Lithuania. Zygmunt III was the Polish king 1587-1632 and, as Sigismund I, was king of Sweden 1592-99. Henry was the younger brother of the French kings Francois II and Charles IX. He was elected king of Poland in 1572 but was king for only a year before returning to France where, in 1574, be became Henri III.

Jan III, or John Sobieski as he is often known, was a native Pole and was king of Poland 1674-96.
2. James Stuart, son of Mary, Queen of Scots, became James I of England in 1603. By then he had already been king of Scots for 36 years. What was his regnal number as king of Scots?

Answer: James VI

James's grandson, also James, was known as James II & VII. William of Orange was known as William III in England but William II in Scotland.
3. Queen Victoria of Great Britain and Ireland was created Empress of India in 1877. Her successors were then known as King-Emperors. Who was the last King-Emperor?

Answer: George VI

George ceased to be emperor of India when it became independent of Britain in 1947. He remained king of India until the country became a republic in 1949.
4. The Xuantong Emperor (also known as Pu Yi) was the last emperor of China (1908-1911) and the only emperor of Manchukuo (1931-45). To which dynasty did he belong?

Answer: Qing

Pu Yi was deposed when China became a republic in 1911 and in 1925 he was expelled from the capital, Beijing. Although his family had lived in Beijing since overthrowing the Ming Dynasty in 1644, they were ethnic Manchus rather than Han Chinese. When the Japanese set up a puppet government in occupied Manchuria they offered the throne to Pu Yi which he readily accepted, ruling as the Emperor Kangde.

After the Second World War Pu Yi was captured by the Soviets and handed over to the Chinese Communist forces. He was sent to a rehabilitation camp and later became a supporter of the Communist Party, dying in 1967.
5. Henry III of Navarre was a Protestant king. To the throne of which Catholic country did he succeed in 1589?

Answer: France

Henry became Henry IV of France but as a Protestant king in a staunchly Catholic country at first met a great deal of resistance to his rule. He converted to Catholicism in 1593 but in 1598 allowed French Protestants full freedom.
6. Who was the last Holy Roman Emperor and the first emperor of Austria?

Answer: Franz

Franz II was the last Holy Roman Emperor (1792-1806) when the Empire was abolished by Napoleon. He named himself Emperor Franz I of Austria (1804-1835) to maintain his imperial title. The others were all subsequent Austrian Emperors and, in the cases of Franz Josef and Charles, kings of Hungary also.
7. Ferdinand II of Aragon (1479-1516) was king of a number of other countries in addition to Aragon. Which of the following was not one of them?

Answer: Portugal

Ferdinand became king of Aragon in 1479. In the same year he married Isabella I of Castile and ruled jointly with her as Ferdinand V until Isabella's death in 1504 (he then served as regent for their daughter Juana, later known as Juana (or Joanna) the Mad). Ferdinand also ruled Sicily as Ferdinand II from 1468 and Naples as Ferdinand III from 1504.
8. In 1826 Pedro IV became king of Portugal. But of which country had he been monarch since 1822?

Answer: Brazil

The Portuguese royal family had fled to Brazil during the Napoleonic Wars. After the war King Joao VI returned to Portugal leaving his son, Dom Pedro (full name: Pedro de Alcantara Francisco Antonio Joao Carlos Xavier de Paula Miguel Rafael Joaquin Jose Gonzaga Pascual Cipriano Serafim), in Brazil.

In 1822 Brazil declared its independence with Pedro as Emperor. In 1826 he became Pedro IV of Portugal but abdicated in favour of his daughter, Maria II, later the same year. In 1831 he abdicated as emperor of Brazil in favour of his son, Pedro II.
9. The Emperor Charles V inherited a number of lands and titles via his grandparents. Of which land was he not the monarch?

Answer: France

Charles was the son of Philip the Handsome and Joanna the Mad. Philip was the son of the Emperor Maximilian I and Mary of Burgundy. Joanna was the daughter of Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella of Castile. On the death of his father in 1516 Charles inherited the Burgundian lands in what became known as the Spanish Netherlands and is now Belgium. He also became joint ruler of Castile with his mother. The death of Maximilian, also in 1516, made Charles the Holy Roman Emperor.

In 1556 Charles abdicated, his brother Ferdinand inherited the Imperial throne and his son Philip inherited Spain and the Spanish Netherlands as Philip II - he would later also succeed to the Portuguese throne as Philip I.
10. In 1397 Eric of Pomerania was crowned king of three kingdoms in a union engineered by his great-aunt, Margrethe. Which was not one of those kingdoms?

Answer: Saxony

Eric became king, but credit for the Union of Kalmar goes to his great-aunt, Margrethe. She was the daughter of Valdemar IV of Denmark and the wife of Haakon VI of Norway who was himself the son of Magnus II of Sweden. She came to power originally through her son, Olaf (III of Denmark and IV of Norway) and after winning control of Sweden, had Eric placed on the throne of all three countries although she remained the real ruler.

The Union lasted until 1523 when it was dissolved by Sweden. I hope you enjoyed this quiz, if so please feel free to try my follow up quiz, "King Again".
Source: Author alan03

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