10 questions🇬🇧English
💥 The Gunpowder Plot & Bonfire Night
Remember, remember the fifth of November! Test your knowledge of the plot and the fireworks that followed.
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Questions
Which monarch did the Gunpowder plotters plan to kill on 5 November 1605?
King Henry VIII
King James I
King Charles I
Queen Elizabeth I
20s
Complete the rhyme: 'Remember, remember the fifth of November, gunpowder, treason and…'
plot
flame
king
fire
20s
On Bonfire Night, what is the straw-stuffed figure traditionally burned on the bonfire called?
A Guy
A Tom
A Jack
A Kit
20s
Who was the leader who organised the Gunpowder Plot?
Guy Fawkes
Thomas Percy
Robert Catesby
Robert Cecil
20s
Where was Guy Fawkes caught guarding the gunpowder?
In a vault beneath St Paul's Cathedral
In a cellar beneath the House of Lords
In a storeroom at the Tower of London
In a crypt beneath Westminster Abbey
20s
What was the main reason the plotters wanted to blow up Parliament?
Anger at the treatment of Catholics
Anger at high taxes on gunpowder
Protest against the union with Wales
Support for a Spanish invasion of Scotland
30s
Approximately how many barrels of gunpowder were hidden beneath Parliament?
1,000
36
6
360
20s
What sentence was passed on Guy Fawkes and the other captured plotters in January 1606?
To be beheaded with an axe
To be banished from England for life
To be hanged, drawn and quartered
To be burned at the stake
30s
Lord Monteagle passed the anonymous warning letter to which of the King's chief ministers?
Francis Walsingham
Francis Bacon
Robert Cecil
Thomas Cromwell
30s
Before each State Opening of Parliament, which guards ceremonially search the cellars in memory of the plot?
The Metropolitan Police
The Household Cavalry
The Yeomen of the Guard
The Coldstream Guards
30s