Category

1600s 11 questions.
1600-1699
Pub quiz question 8380 by pjh
  1. Question: Q: In what year was The Gunpowder Plot?
  2. Answer: A: 1605
  3. Categories: 1600s (2) History (4) Politics (4)
Pub quiz question 8084 by pjh
  1. Question: Q: The battle fought in Westonzoyland in 1685 is better known as what?
  2. Answer: A: Battle of Sedgemoor.
  3. Categories: 1600s (8) Politics (8) War (8)
Pub quiz question 8022 by pjh
  1. Question: Q: What did Peter Minuit buy in 1626 for around 60 guilders?
  2. Answer: A: Manhattan island.
  3. Categories: 1600s (8) Geography (9)
Pub quiz question 7606 by pjh
  1. Question: Q: What happened to two imperial regents and their scribe, Prague, 1618?
  2. Answer: A: Defenestrated.
  3. Notes: *: Thought to be what prompted the Thirty years war
  4. Categories: War (5) 1600s (5)
Pub quiz question 7231 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Whose final words to the axeman were: 'This is a sharp medicine but it is a physician for all diseases?
  2. Answer: A: Sir Walter Raleigh's
  3. Categories: 1600s (7) Politics (7)
Pub quiz question 7471 by pjh
  1. Question: Q: Which 1661 work was subtitled Chymico-Physical Doubts & Paradoxes?
  2. Answer: A: Robert Boyle's Sceptical Chymist
  3. Categories: 1600s (8) Art (8)
Pub quiz question 7226 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which King was crowned in Scotland in 1651?
  2. Answer: A: Charles II
  3. Categories: Royalty (6) 1600s (6)
Pub quiz question 7233 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: What did Sir Walter Raleigh's wife keep with her for 29 years after his execution?
  2. Answer: A: His head
  3. Categories: 1600s (6)
Pub quiz question 8011 by pjh
  1. Question: Q: Which barefoot preacher cried, "Woe to the bloody city of Lichfield"?
  2. Answer: A: George Fox
  3. Notes: *: 1650s
  4. Categories: 1600s (8) Religion (8) People (9)
Pub quiz question 7501 by pjh
  1. Question: Q: The Restoration of the Stuart monarchy took place when which king returned from exile?
  2. Answer: A: Charles II in 1660
  3. Categories: 1600s (7) History (7) Royalty (6)