Statistics for The English Civil Wars

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
King of England when the war began:	Charles I	98%
Nickname of the Parliamentary rebels:	Roundheads	80%
Nickname of the king’s supporters:	Cavaliers	76%
Method of the king’s execution:	Beheading	74%
The king was put on trial for this crime:	Treason	70%
From 1649-1651, Cromwell put down a rebellion on this island:	Ireland	69%
In 1653, Cromwell was granted this title:	Lord Protector	69%
Year of the return of the new king:	1660	61%
Parliament was called in 1640 in order to raise funds for war with this county:	Scotland	54%
Oliver Cromwell rose to prominence organizing this:	The New Model Army	49%
Leader of Royalist cavalry and nephew of the king:	Prince Rupert of the Rhine	47%
The king was imprisoned on this island from 1647-1648:	The Isle of Wight	47%
His wife, the queen:	Henrietta Maria of France	44%
Cromwell encouraged this banished religious group to return to England:	Jews	37%
General of the Parliamentary army:	Sir Thomas Fairfax	35%
Archbishop of Canterbury executed in 1645:	William Laud	35%
Leader of the Parliamentary party that opposed the king:	John Pym	33%
This political movement demanded (but didn’t get) universal suffrage:	Levellers	31%
King’s principal adviser, executed in 1641:	Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford	30%
Founder of the Quakers who had religious visions during the Civil War:	George Fox	13%
The king argued that the court did not have this:	Jurisdiction	10%