Middle school · British history
This quiz helps revise “The Stuarts: civil war, plague and the Great Fire” in British history for middle school. It has 25 questions in five categories: Crown and Commons, Civil War, Power Changes Hands, Facing the Plague, London Ablaze. Questions get harder as the points go up, from 100 to 500.
The 100- and 200-point questions are open here. The rest show only their first words, and there are no answers: all of that is in the game itself.
England's new king in 1603 already ruled which country on its northern border?
Which king, shown here, was tried and executed in England in 1649?
What belief held that…
In the gameWhat unpopular tax for…
In the gameWhich document accepted by…
In the gameWhat nickname was given to the king's supporters in the English Civil War?
What nickname, linked to short hair, was used for Parliament's supporters in the English Civil War?
What professional fighting force…
In the gameWhich battle in 1645…
In the gameWhich general, shown here…
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Which man, shown here, ruled as Lord Protector from 1653 until 1658?
What word describes a state without a monarch, as England became in 1649?
What name is given…
In the gameWhat name is given…
In the gameWhich English law of…
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What colour cross marked London houses with plague in 1665, as shown here?
Which tiny jumping insects, shown here, can spread plague bacteria through their bites?
What measure kept whole…
In the gameWhich Derbyshire village is…
In the gameWhat were the weekly…
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In which year did the Great Fire of London begin?
In which London street did the Great Fire begin in a bakery?
Which diarist, shown here…
In the gameWhich architect designed the…
In the gameWhat term describes gaps…
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