A Quiz on the 14th Century

Question 1 of 10:

England was struck by famine in 1316 after farms were devastated by...?

Crop disease

A drought

Torrential rain

Civil war

The infamously incompetent King Edward II of England was in 1327 imprisoned and put to death by whom?

The King of Scotland

A mob of peasants

His own wife

The Duke of York

The Hundred Years' War, which stretched from 1337 to 1453, was fought between England and...?

Germany

France

Scotland

Greece

Which city became the great artistic and cultural centre of 1300s Europe after it was favoured by a Roman Emperor?

Brussels

Prague

Copenhagen

Athens

Which Italian wrote the ‘Decameron’, a classic work of comedy that also chronicles the Black Death of the 1300s?

Petrarch

Dante

Boccaccio

Vasari

King Edward III's son, who died in 1376 after a great army career, was dubbed the Black Prince because of his...

Cruelty in battle

Black armour

Black facial birthmark

Unashamed atheism

Disagreements within the Catholic Church in 1378 led to THREE rival popes serving at the same time.

True

False

What was the final straw that triggered the bloody Peasants' Revolt in England in 1381?

The poll tax

Poor living conditions

A new famine

A farmer's execution

The greatest English poet of the century was Chaucer . As well as ‘Canterbury Tales’, he wrote which major work?

Don Juan

The Faerie Queen

Samson Agonistes

Troilus and Criseyde

Which partially disabled but notoriously vicious warrior conquered Persia and India in the late 1300s?

Genghis Khan

Tamerlane

Kublai Khan

Peter the Cruel