Year 3 Final Quiz

Shakespeares plays always insulted the Tudor dynasty

The first permanent photograph was taken by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce in what year?

Which year was the gunpowder plot?

There was generally no violence in the plays – Tudor audiences hated it.

Which one of these was NOT a popular form of entertainment in the Elizabethan times?

The role of Hamlet has also been played by women?

Whose reaction did Hamlet watch during the Play-within-the-play?

Shakespeare successfully played the role of which character in Hamlet?

What was this picture of?

The 'Houses of Parliament' is also called the 'Palace of Westminster'

People light bonfires and burn effigies to celebrate that the King did not die that night

How many barrels of explosive was Guy Fawkes discovered with?

The cheapest place was in front of the stage where ordinary people stood. They were known as...

Guy Fawkes was the mastermind who orchestrated the plot.

Football was usually played between villages, with no pitch, goals and no limit on the players.

What year did the new Globe Theatre open? (the reconstructed version there today)

Puritans disapproved of the non-religious nature of the plays which could lead to bad habits and behaviour.

Which of these is NOT a theme in Hamlet?

Shakespeare began writing his plays during Elizabeth’s reign

The theatre was open and plays had to be performed at night

Which one of these was NOT the name of a theatre in London during the 16th century.

King James I became King of Scotland at what age?

‘Morality plays’ showed scenes from the Bible and ‘miracle plays’ showed good and bad conduct.

The first ever self portrait was taken by Robert Cornelius in the back of his family's silver-plating shop in....?

Which historical event was Guy Fawkes one of the conspirators of?

Before the 16th century, like its European neighbours, England was an unqestionably Roman Catholic country.

Claudius murdered his brother by stabbing him

Guy Fawkes was found dressed in a cloak and hat.

Which building did Guy Fawkes and the other conspirators try to blow up?

Which one of these sports were NOT for the poorer society members

Which one of these answers does not mean '(To) Snap'.

When is Guy Fawkes day (Bonfire Night) celebrated?

In Wales, principally Carmarthenshire, Ceredigion and Pembrokeshire, football was referred to as...

At the beginning of the 16th century many plays were based upon religious themes.

What was the name of thieves who would steal purses in the audience?

The themes of plays changed during Elizabeth’s reign and English playwrights began to write comedies and tragedies.

The enjoyment of cruel sports and the theatre was common to all Elizabethans, as was singing and dancing.

A device in which the last word or phrase of one clause, sentence, or line is repeated at the beginning of the next.

What was the first play to be performed at the Globe in 1599?

The Elizabethan Age was...

In which english city was Guy Fawkes born?

Tennis emerged during Tudor times, mainly played by the upper classes.

In what year did a piece of burning wadding set fire to the thatch causing the whole theatre to burn down in an hour.

Prose has a set rhythm (or meter).