Knights Templar

What do you know about medieval knights who fought in the crusades?
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1. When were the Knight Templars established?
1200s
1400s
1100s
1300s
2. Where were the Knight Templars headquarters?
Jerusalem
Paris
Rome
Marseilles
3. What was the original purpose of the Knights Templar?
Protection of the Pope
Private army of the King of France
Mercenaries
Protection of trade routes and pilgrims
4. Who created a military order the Knights Templar?
Guillaume de Chartres
Bernard of Clairvaux
Gerard de Ridefort
Hugues de Payens
5. How many relatives and acquaintances founded the Knights Templar order?
9
25
12
15
6. Which temple is referred to in the full name of the Knights Templar?
Zerubbabel's Temple
Solomon's Temple
Temple Church
Herod's Temple
7. Which symbol was typically used as a seal by Knights Templar grand masters?
Square and compasses
Maltese cross
Jerusalem cross
The two riders
8. What event marked the destruction of the last remaining Crusader refuge in the Holy Land?
Fall of Acre
Battle of Pelagonia
Siege of Antioch
Siege of Jerusalem
9. Who ordered the arrest and suppression of the Knights Templar in 1307?
Philip IV of France
Alfonso IV of Aragon
Albert I of Germany
Edward I of England
10. After the fall of Jerusalem in the late 13th century to which island did the Knights Templar withdraw?
Malta
Crete
Rhodes
Cyprus
11. How were the Knights Templar dressed?
Black mantles with red cross
White mantles with black cross
Black mantles with white cross
White mantles with red cross
12. Who was the 23rd and last grand master of the Knights Templar?
Thibaud Gaudin
Jacques de Molay
Guillaume de Beaujeu
Thomas Bérard
13. What are the Knights Templar allowed to do?
To eat meals together
To swear
To get drunk
To gamble
14. By the early 1500s the Templars had joined the Knights Hospitallers. What was their name after 1530?
Knights of Sicily
Teutonic Knights
Order of Saint Lazarus
Knights of Malta
15. Which Grand Master of the Knights Templar was beheaded by Saladin in 1189 at the Siege of Acre?
Gérard de Ridefort
Landry de Lauzon
Guillaume de Nogaret
Godfrey de Saint-Omer
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