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Exploring the Elizabethan Era: A Knowledge Quiz

Test your knowledge about the Elizabethan Era with this engaging quiz that covers historical events, key figures, and cultural aspects of the time.

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1 The ________ and the early twentieth century idealised the Elizabethan era.

2 It was also the end of the period when ________ was a separate realm before its royal union with Scotland.

3 What proceeded Elizabethan era?

4 The ________ had come to an end under the weight of foreign domination of the peninsula.

5 It was an age of exploration and expansion abroad, while back at home, the ________ became more acceptable to the people, most certainly after the Spanish Armada was repulsed.

6 This was also the time during which ________ flourished, and William Shakespeare and many others composed plays that broke free of England's past style of plays and theatre.

7 The first attempt at English settlement of the eastern seaboard of ________ occurred in this era—the abortive colony at Roanoke Island in 1587.

8 It featured crowning a May Queen, a ________ and dancing around a maypole.

9 Sir Francis Drake circumnavigated the globe between 1577 and 1581, and Martin Frobisher explored the ________.

10 May 1: ________, celebrated as the first day of summer.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • during the Elizabethan era in England, theatres were constructed of wood and were circular in form, open to the elements and with a large portion of the audience standing directly below the stage.
  • the Elizabethan Sir John Thynne (pictured) was twice imprisoned in the Tower of London.
  • the portraiture of Elizabeth I (pictured) contains complex iconography of empire and virginity that conveyed to Elizabethans the majesty and significance of the Virgin Queen.
  • London's Gresham Club (1843—1991) was named after Sir Thomas Gresham, an Elizabethan merchant.
  • St Lawrence's Church, a listed building in Stoak, Cheshire, England, has a Tudor hammerbeam roof, a Jacobean altar, a Georgian pulpit, an Elizabethan chalice and chairs from the time of Charles II.
  • Elizabethan soldier and MP Sir Edward Hoby (pictured) of Queenborough Castle published Protestant theological works, one under the pseudonym "Nick-Groome of the Hobie-Stable Reginoburgi".
  • Dutch mannerist painter Cornelis Ketel began to paint with his toes towards the end of a successful career as a portraitist, (example, right) in Elizabethan London and Amsterdam.
  • Elizabethan mathematician and cartographer Edward Wright is said to be "the only Fellow of Caius ever to be granted sabbatical leave in order to engage in piracy".
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