The Gunpowder Plot: A Historical Quiz Quiz - Test Your Knowledge

according to The Gunpowder Plot: Exploding The Legend, had the plot succeeded, it would have created more persecution of English Catholics rather than less.

one of the eyes of Edward Oldcorne, who was tortured into revealing his participation in the Gunpowder Plot, is kept as a holy relic.

the Van de Passe family engraved portraits of important people in Jacobean England including the Gunpowder Plotters (pictured) and Pocahontas.

British Conservative Party politician William Carlile owned Gayhurst House in Buckinghamshire, the former home of one of the conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot.

Robert Keyes was related to five of the other Gunpowder Plot conspirators.

Edward Vaux, 4th Baron Vaux of Harrowden did not marry Elizabeth, daughter of Thomas Howard, until 27 years after plans for their marriage were abandoned in the wake of the Gunpowder Plot.

Humphrey Littleton informed on a priest wanted in connection with the Gunpowder Plot after seeing him give mass at Hindlip Hall.

John Wright (pictured), one of the Gunpowder Plotters, was considered the finest swordsman in Britain.

Christopher Wright, one of the conspirators in the Gunpowder Plot, could be the source of the letter that betrayed the plan.

The Gunpowder Plot: A Historical Quiz

1 Where is Gunpowder Plot?

2 By coincidence, on the same day that Garnet was found, the surviving conspirators were arraigned in ________.

3 In 1897 Father John Gerard of ________, namesake of John Gerard (who, following the plot's discovery, had evaded capture), wrote an account called What was the Gunpowder Plot?, alleging Salisbury's culpability.

4 Which of the following is a quote about/from Gunpowder Plot?

5 On 6 November, with Fawkes maintaining his silence, the fugitives raided ________ for supplies and continued to Norbrook to collect weapons.

6 The senior judges of the English legal system, most of the Protestant aristocracy, and the bishops of the ________, would all have attended in their capacity as members of the House of Lords, along with the members of the House of Commons.

7 When was the Gunpowder Plot?

8 Humphrey Littleton, who had escaped from the authorities at Hagley, got as far as ________ in Staffordshire before he was captured.

9 As its existence was revealed to him through ________, Garnet was prevented from informing the authorities by the absolute confidentiality of the confessional.

10 They continued on to Holbeche House on the border of ________, the home of Stephen Littleton, a member of their ever-decreasing band of followers.

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