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1-5 correct
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6-10 correct
At least you're not on the bottom rung, but, come on, surely you can do better than that.

11-15 correct
Not bad, but you still got almost half the questions wrong. No lollipop for you!

16-20 correct
Pretty good! You can satisfy yourself with the knowledge that you've probably beaten most!

21-24 correct
Considering that some of the questions are fairly hard, you've done well. Of course the credit must chiefly go to the outstanding information provided on my site!

25 correct
You are a champion! (or perhaps a person with no life - yeah, I know - it takes one to know one!). No seriously, well done - you obviously know what you're talking about!

1. The Wars of the Roses was a series of battles between which two families?

(a) Percy and York
(b) Lancaster and York
(c) Tudor and Lancaster
(d) York and Neville

2. The following king was not involved the Wars of the Roses.

(a) Henry IV
(b) Edward IV
(c) Richard III
(d) Henry VI

3. In which battle was Richard III killed?

(a) Barnet
(b) St Albans
(c) Tewkesbarry
(d) Bosworth

4. Before becoming king, by which title was Edward IV known?

(a) The Duke of Gloucester
(b) The Duke of Clarence
(c) The Earl of March
(d) The Earl of Warwick

5.The house of Plantagenet descended from which king?

(a) Henry II
(b) Edward I
(c) Henry III
(d) Richard II

6. Who was Elizabeth Woodville's mother?

(a) Cecily Neville
(b) Anne Mortimer
(c) Jacquetta of Luxembourg
(d) Joan Beaufort

7. Where was Edward IV born?

(a) Rouen
(b) Paris
(c) Acre
(d) York

8. Through what family did Henry Tudor claim his right to the throne?

(a) Plantagenet
(b) Lancaster
(c) York
(d) Beaufort

9. The Beauforts were the children of which son of Edward III?

(a) John of Gaunt
(b) Lionel of Antwerp
(c) Edmund of Langley
(d) Thomas of Woodstock

10. Richard Plantagenet, Duke of York, was killed at which battle?

(a) Tewkesberry
(b) Wakefield
(c) St Albans
(d) Towton

11. Which of the following composers is believed to have been in the service of John, Duke of Bedford in France

(a) Dufay
(b) Josquin
(c) Ockeghem
(d) Dunstable

12. Who governed England during Henry VI's minority?

(a)Humphrey, Duke of Gloucester and John, Duke of Bedford
(b) Richard, Duke of York and Richard, Earl of Warwick
(c) John, Duke of Bedford and John, Duke of Exeter
(d) Thomas, Duke of Gloucester and Richard, Earl of Cambridge

13. How was George, Duke of Clarence supposedly killed?

(a) Suffocation
(b) Killed in battle
(c) A hunting accident
(d) Drowning in wine

14.The following is not a battle of the Wars of the Roses?

(a) Hedgley Moor
(b) Evesham
(c) Losecoat Field
(d) Ludford Bridge

15. Who was king when the Hundred Years war came to an end?

(a) Henry VI
(b) Edward IV
(c) Richard III
(d) Henry VII

16. Which of the following dates are usually given for the Wars of the Roses?

(a) 1399-1450
(b) 1420-1485
(c) 1415-1490
(d) 1455-1485

17.What was Henry VII's title before he became king?

(a) Earl of Richmond
(b) Earl of Somerset
(c) Duke of Lancaster
(d) Lord Tudor

18. Which of the following is not considered a cause of the Wars of the Roses?

(a) Bastard Feudalism
(b) The quarrel between Richard, Duke of York and Thomas, Earl of Lancaster
(c) Henry IV's incompetance
(d) The quarrel between the Percies and the Nevilles.

19. Who led a revolt against the government of Henry VI of 1450?

(a) Wat Tyler
(b) John Conyers
(c) Jack Cade
(d) John Neville

20. The author of the fifteenth century music treatise "Proportionale musices" was:

(a) Tinctorus
(b) Dunstable
(c) Jules Michelet
(d) Lorenzo de Medici

21. Who was killed at the 1st Battle of St Albans?

(a) Edmund, Earl of Rutland
(b) Richard, Earl of Salisbury
(c) Henry, Duke of Exeter
(d) Edmund, Duke of Somerset

22. Which college was established by Henry VI?

(a) Oxford
(b) Winchester
(c) Eton
(d) Harrow

23. How many kings of England were Plantagenets?

(a) 14
(b) 8
(c) 12
(d) 16

24. Edward IV's apparent marriage pre-contract was with whom?

(a) Eleanor Butler
(b) Jane Shore
(c) Elizabeth Woodville
(d) Anne Neville

25. The first date book to be publish in English Dictes and Sayenges of the Phylosophers was translated by which royal relative?

(a) George, Duke of Clarence
(b) John, Earl of Lincoln
(c) Anthony Woodville
(d) John de la Pole