A Quiz on the 11th Century

Question 1 of 10:

Which historical figure, later immortalised by Shakespeare , was born in 1005?

Hamlet

Macbeth

Othello

Falstaff

The Normans were not the first to invade England this century. Who captured London in 1013?

The Danes

The Germans

The Spanish

The Scottish

In the 1020s a Benedictine monk called Guido d'Arezzo came up with the basis of what?

Algebra

Existentialist philosophy

Modern musical notation

Protestantism

Which country would develop both paper money and the world's first military rockets in the 11th century?

France

China

Japan

Turkey

Which Saxon, whose death in 1066 would instigate the Norman Conquest, became King of England in 1042?

Edward the Confessor

Edward the Martyr

Ethelred the Unready

Alfred the Great

Centuries of infighting among Christians came to a head in 1054, when the Church split into two. This was called...?

The Juncture

The Great Schism

The Third Divide

The Counterprogression

What was the name of the abbey that William the Conqueror ordered to be built on the spot where King Harold died?

Harold 's Abbey

Hastings Abbey

Battle Abbey

Conquest Abbey

Who was appointed the Archbishop of Canterbury in 1070?

An Italian lawyer

A French physician

A Spanish general

A Greek astronomer

Which style of architecture was dominant across Western Europe in the latter decades of the 11th Century?

Gothic

Romanesque

Rococo

Baroque

The first Crusades to the Holy Land took place in 1095. Who inspired and organised them?

William the Conqueror

Pope Urban II

King Canute II

Richard the Lionheart