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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Mother of Henry	Elizabeth of York	86%
Henry's first daughter	Mary I	86%
Mother of Henry's only legitimate son, Edward VI	Jane Seymour	79%
Year Henry became King	1509	70%
Cardinal who gave Henry Hampton Court Palace as a gift	Thomas Wolsey	67%
The amount of times Henry's sixth wife, Catherine Parr, was married during her life	4	63%
Chief Minister and architect of the Dissolution of the Monasteries	Thomas Cromwell	61%
Year Henry died	1547	58%
The name of that French King	Francis I	50%
Author and philosopher who became Henry's Lord Chancellor in 1529	Sir Thomas More	47%
Henry's illegitimate son, concieved with his mistress Elizabeth Blount	Henry Fitzroy	44%
The "King's Painter" who was sent to Germany to paint Anne of Cleves	Hans Holbein the Younger	43%
Folk song often attributed to Henry, but probably not composed by him	Greensleeves	39%
The first Anglican Archbishop of Canterbury, installed in 1533	Thomas Cranmer	37%
Duke who married Henry's sister, Mary	Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk	36%
Medical condition that Henry is thought to have suffered from	Gout	36%
Name given to the 1520 meeting between Henry and the French King	Field of the Cloth of Gold	33%
Lantern Gate and Beauchamp were both town quarters in this English-held French town	Calais	32%
Henry's maternal Grandfather	Edward IV	32%
Courtier executed for having an affair with Catherine Howard	Thomas Culpeper	31%
Legislation that declared Henry the head of the English Church	Act of Supremacy	23%
Court musician executed for supposedly having an affair with Anne Boleyn	Mark Smeaton	22%
1536 Yorkshire uprising against the English Reformation led by Robert Aske	Pilgrimage of Grace	22%
Palace where Henry was born	Greenwich Palace	15%
Where Henry is buried in Windsor Castle	St George's Chapel	15%
Pope who named Henry "Defender of the Faith"	Leo X	14%
Tudor Palace that used to be on the South Bank of the River Thames	Richmond Palace	12%
Common place of execution for traitors and religious martyrs	Tyburn	12%
Leading English Protestant reformist who translated the Bible into English	William Tyndale	11%
Church within the Tower of London which contains the remains of Anne Boleyn and Catherine Howard	Chapel Royal of St Peter ad Vincula	9%
Henry's war on Scotland was given this epithet by Victorian historians	The Rough Wooing	9%
Belgian city captured by English forces in 1513	Tournai	8%
Nickname given to Nun Elizabeth Barton, who prophecied that Henry would die within six months if he married Anne Boleyn	The Holy Maid of Kent	7%
City where Henry first met his much-maligned fourth wife, Anne of Cleves	Rochester	6%
Actor who played Henry in the TV Series and Film "The Six Wives of Henry VIII"	Keith Michell	4%
The "King's Ballad", composed by Henry for Catherine of Aragon	Pastime with Good Company	2%
Device Fort on the Kent coast, built to counter the threat of invasion	Deal Castle	1%
English ballad about Henry's third wife, covered by Joan Baez and Oscar Isaac	The Death of Queen Jane	1%