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Quiz about Where are British Kings and Queens Buried

Where are British Kings and Queens Buried? Quiz

This quiz covers British kings and queens from 1066 onwards. They are buried in all manner of surprising places. If you get them right, maybe you can go pay them a visit!

A multiple-choice quiz by Rhubarbeater. Estimated time: 5 mins.

Author
Rhubarbeater

Time
5 mins

Type
Multiple Choice

Quiz #
364,687

Updated
Dec 03 21

# Qns
10

Difficulty
Tough

Avg Score
5 / 10

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417

Awards
Top 35% Quiz

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Question 1 of 10

1. William I grew very fat and was thrown from his horse in Mantes, France while sacking the town. He died of abdominal injuries in a church in Rouen on 9th September 1085. Where is he buried? Hint

Rouen, Normandy

Windsor Castle

Westminster Abbey

Caen, Normandy

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Question 2 of 10

2. William II, son of William the Conqueror, and known as Rufus, was killed mysteriously by an arrow in 1100 while hunting in the New Forest. Where was he hurriedly buried? Hint

Salisbury Cathedral

Winchester Cathedral

Portsmouth Dockyards

St Georges Chapel, Windsor

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Question 3 of 10

3. Henry I, fourth son of William the Conqueror, died of eating too many lampreys (a kind of parasitic eel) in Lyons La Foret, near Rouen, Normandy in 1135. Where is he buried? Hint

Westminster Abbey

Notre Dame de Paris

Reading Abbey

Rouen Cathedral

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Question 4 of 10

4. Bad King John gets a really bad press these days. Nicknames such as Softsword and Lackland do nothing for his reputation. He reneged on the Magna Carta that he had approved the previous year and in 1216 was running from his baronial enemies when he lost his crown jewels in the Wash and died in Newark of eating too many peaches and cider. Where is he buried? Hint

Newark Castle

St Paul's Cathedral

Nowhere - they threw his body into the river

Worcester Cathedral

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Question 5 of 10

5. Edward I was rushing up to hammer the Scots when he died of bowel cancer and dysentry (yuk!) in the Solway Firth. Where is he buried? Hint

Carlisle Cathedral

Westminster Abbey

Fontevrault Abbey, France

York Minster

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Question 6 of 10

6. Edward II was the complete opposite of his father Edward I. Parliament tired of him and imprisoned him in Berkeley Castle, Gloucestershire. When he refused to die of starvation or sickness, they pushed a red hot poker up his rectum. Where is he buried? Hint

Gloucester Cathedral

Berkeley Castle

Westminster Abbey

A paupers' grave in Bath

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Question 7 of 10

7. As Henry IV was preparing for a holy crusade, he was told he would die in Jerusalem. And he did, without leaving England, for he died while praying in the 'Jerusalem Chamber' in Westminster Abbey. Where is he buried? Hint

Westminster Abbey

Canterbury Cathedral

Jerusalem - they took his body on crusade

Windsor Castle

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Question 8 of 10

8. Henry VIII had six wives, allegedly wrote Greensleeves and created himself head of the Church in England. Blah blah, we all know that. But where is he buried? Hint

Hampton Court Palace

Whitehall Palace

St George's Chapel, Windsor

Next to Anne Boleyn in the Tower of London

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Question 9 of 10

9. George I is a very unappealing monarch. He refused to learn English. He was imported from Germany to fill a Protestant throne and had many mistresses, his favourites being 'the Maypole' and 'the Elephant'. Where is he buried? Hint

Hanover

Westminster Abbey

St James Palace

Berlin

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Question 10 of 10

10. Queen Victoria is Britain's longest reigning monarch. She died in her favourite place, Osborne House on the Isle of Wight. But where is she buried? Hint

Cowes, Isle of Wight

St George's Chapel, Windsor

Frogmore House, Windsor

Westminster Abbey

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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts

1. William I grew very fat and was thrown from his horse in Mantes, France while sacking the town. He died of abdominal injuries in a church in Rouen on 9th September 1085. Where is he buried?

Answer: Caen, Normandy

He was buried in the abbey he founded in Caen, the Abbaye aux Hommes. While he was being buried his bloated body exploded causing a huge stench, so they had to hurry the burial along a bit. All that remains of William in his tomb is a solitary thigh bone as the rest of his bones were scattered by Huguenots in the 16th century.

2. William II, son of William the Conqueror, and known as Rufus, was killed mysteriously by an arrow in 1100 while hunting in the New Forest. Where was he hurriedly buried?

Answer: Winchester Cathedral

William II's exact burial spot is unknown. For a while he was mistaken for Henry, Bishop of Winchester from 1129 to 1171. Now they think his bones are mixed with various Saxon kings and queens in some mortuary chests around the cathedral quire, the tombs and chests having been vandalised by Parliamentarian soldiers in the 17th century.

3. Henry I, fourth son of William the Conqueror, died of eating too many lampreys (a kind of parasitic eel) in Lyons La Foret, near Rouen, Normandy in 1135. Where is he buried?

Answer: Reading Abbey

Henry died without a male heir, despite enjoying siring over 20 illegitimate children. There was only one legitimate son who survived to adulthood, and he drowned in the Channel before Henry died. The uncertain succession that this caused led to nearly 20 years of civil war between Henry's daughter Matilda and his nephew Stephen.

Answer: Worcester Cathedral

John has a magnificent tomb of Purbeck marble in Worcester Cathedral. Very unfitting for such a disastrous king!

5. Edward I was rushing up to hammer the Scots when he died of bowel cancer and dysentry (yuk!) in the Solway Firth. Where is he buried?

Answer: Westminster Abbey

'Longshanks' or 'The Hammer of the Scots' was a formidable king, ambitious, warlike and domineering. Yet he loved his wife (Waltham Cross and Charing Cross were two of his memorials to her) and was an enthusiastic reformer of laws and parliament.

Answer: Gloucester Cathedral

As with many English Kings, the magnificence of Edward's tomb is in direct contrast to his reputation as a monarch. His son, the much more successful Edward III, turned his tomb into a shrine, and donations from pilgrims enabled a beautiful alabaster and Purbeck marble canopy, built later.

Answer: Canterbury Cathedral

Henry's rather beautiful tomb, with jewel encrusted figures and marble canopy, is a stone's throw from the tomb of the Black Prince (whose son, Richard II, Henry usurped) and from the shrine to Thomas a Becket (Henry IV also had an archbishop put to death - Richard le Scrope, like his ancestor Henry II).

8. Henry VIII had six wives, allegedly wrote Greensleeves and created himself head of the Church in England. Blah blah, we all know that. But where is he buried?

Answer: St George's Chapel, Windsor

To go from model prince to monster king in under 40 years, now that's a transformation. Internationally, he achieved little, but his legacy in England is immense. Rather like his body when he died.

Answer: Hanover

George I was heading back to his beloved Hanover when he died in Osnabruck Castle, in the same room in which he had been born 67 years earlier. His remains are now in the lovely Herrenhausen Gardens in Hanover (or as the Germans prefer, Hannover).

10. Queen Victoria is Britain's longest reigning monarch. She died in her favourite place, Osborne House on the Isle of Wight. But where is she buried?

Answer: Frogmore House, Windsor

Queen Victoria, so great they named an era after her! Her tombstone is in a specially constructed mausoleum in the grounds of another favourite retreat of hers, Frogmore House.

Source: Author Rhubarbeater

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