greatreporter.com, October 8th, 2007
Question 1 of 10:
The crowns of
Scotland
and
England
became united in 1603 when which Scot replaced Queen Elizabeth
on the throne?
Charles I
James I
Henry VII
Edward VI
Question 2 of 10:
English
explorer Sir Walter
Raleigh
was beheaded in 1618 after botching a mission to find which legendary place?
Atlantis
Troy
El Dorado
Camelot
Question 3 of 10:
In 1628 it was discovered that the heart pumped blood around the body. Before this, it had been thought that the heart...?
Cleaned the blood
Created new blood
Warmed the blood
Disposed of ‘old’ blood
Question 4 of 10:
Which great philosopher published the words ‘I think, therefore I am’ in 1637?
Hegel
Kant
Descartes
Nietzsche
Question 5 of 10:
King Charles I was executed in 1649, having been handed back to the English after seeking refuge among the...?
The French
The Spanish
The Irish
The Scots
Question 6 of 10:
The monumental Taj Mahal was completed in 1653. A Moghul emperor had ordered it built to commemorate what?
His own reign
Victory in a war
His son's birth
His love for his wife
Question 7 of 10:
Isaac
Newton
, possibly the greatest scientist of the 17th Century, died a virgin.
True
False
Question 8 of 10:
Which great French playwright collapsed and died on stage in 1673 while acting in his own play, ‘The Hypochondriac’?
Moliere
Victor
Hugo
Gustave
Flaubert
Voltaire
Question 9 of 10:
The arrival of settlers to which island would lead to the extinction of the dodo in the 1680s?
Mauritius
Maui
Tasmania
Easter Island
Question 10 of 10:
Henry
Purcell
died in 1695, at the age of 35. One of his major achievements was writing the first English...?
Symphony
Opera
Ballet
Piano sonata
