Statistics for Tudor England

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Lord Chancellor who failed to procure Henry VIII's annulment from Catherine of Aragon	Cardinal Thomas Wolsey	67%
Lead Edward VI's Regency Council 1547-9	Edward Seymour, Duke of Somerset	63%
Year Mary Queen of Scots was executed	1587	58%
Archbishop of Canterbury who wrote and compiled the Book of Common Prayer	Thomas Cranmer	52%
Lead a rebellion in Kent against Mary I in 1554	Sir Thomas Wyatt the Younger	48%
Lead Edward VI's Regency Council 1549-53	John Dudley, Duke of Northumberland	45%
Shakespeare's longest play	Hamlet	36%
Battle between England and Scotland where James IV of Scotland was killed	Battle of Flodden Field	32%
Statute that recognized the monarch as the head of the English Church	Act of Supremacy	29%
Title of Henry VIII's illegitimate son, Henry FitzRoy	Duke of Richmond	27%
House from which Henry VII derived his main claim to the English throne	House of Beaufort	22%
Laws that dictated which colors and fabrics could be worn in clothing	Sumptuary laws	9%
Only person in the Elizabethan period who sat for three counties in Parliament	Sir Walter Ralegh	7%
Pointed woman's headdress popular in England c1500-50	Gable hood	6%
Started the rebellion in 1534-5 that lead to the Tudor Conquest of Ireland	Silken Thomas	6%