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1500s 6 questions.
1500-1599
Pub quiz question 8680 by pjh
  1. Question: Q: Which monarch officially made Valentine's Day a holiday in 1537?
  2. Answer: A: Henry VIII
  3. Categories: General Knowledge (4) Royalty (4) 1500s (4)
Pub quiz question 8029 by pjh
  1. Question: Q: The earliest surviving English private correspondence is by which Norfolk family?
  2. Answer: A: The Pastons.
  3. Notes: *: 1422 -1509
  4. Categories: Literature (9) 1400s (8) 1500s (8)
Pub quiz question 7232 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Who was locked in the Tower for secretly marrying Elizabeth I's lady-in-waiting Elizabeth Throckmorton?
  2. Answer: A: Sir Walter Raleigh
  3. Categories: 1500s (7) Royalty (6)
Pub quiz question 7236 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Whose reputation for laying down his cloak to keep Elizabeth I's feet from touching a puddle is actually a Victorian invention?
  2. Answer: A: Sir Walter Raleigh's
  3. Categories: Royalty (1) 1500s (1)
Pub quiz question 7650 by pjh
  1. Question: Q: Which island was visited by Raphael Hythloday?
  2. Answer: A: Utopia.
  3. Notes: *: Published 1516
  4. Categories: Literature (6) 1500s (6)
Pub quiz question 7234 by pjh2
  1. Question: Q: Which famous explorer, poet, and courtier was born at East Budleigh, Devon, in 1552?
  2. Answer: A: Sir Walter Raleigh
  3. Categories: 1500s (3)