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