👑 Long Live the Quiz! Test Your Royal Knowledge: Top 50 Kings & Queens Trivia!

Are you a true history enthusiast? Think you know everything about the monarchs who shaped nations? Put your royal knowledge to the test with our comprehensive list of 50 Kings & Queens trivia questions and answers!

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Easy Level

  1. Who was the first Tudor monarch of England?
    Answer: Henry VII
  2. Which queen ruled England for 63 years during the Victorian era?
    Answer: Queen Victoria
  3. What was the name of the French king who was executed during the French Revolution?
    Answer: Louis XVI
  4. Which English king had six wives?
    Answer: Henry VIII
  5. Who is the current monarch of the United Kingdom (as of 2023)?
    Answer: King Charles III
  6. Which Russian queen was known as 'the Great'?
    Answer: Catherine the Great
  7. What was the name of the queen who ruled England during the defeat of the Spanish Armada?
    Answer: Elizabeth I
  8. Which king signed the Magna Carta in 1215?
    Answer: King John
  9. What was the name of the last Tsar of Russia?
    Answer: Nicholas II
  10. Which queen was known as the 'Virgin Queen'?
    Answer: Elizabeth I
  11. Who was the first Norman king of England?
    Answer: William the Conqueror
  12. Which English king was defeated at the Battle of Hastings in 1066?
    Answer: Harold II
  13. What was the name of the queen who ruled England before Elizabeth II?
    Answer: Queen Elizabeth (the Queen Mother, wife of George VI)
  14. Which French king was known as the 'Sun King'?
    Answer: Louis XIV
  15. Who was the mother of Queen Elizabeth II?
    Answer: Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother

Medium Level

  1. Which English monarch established the Church of England?
    Answer: Henry VIII
  2. What was the name of the dynasty that ruled Russia from 1613 to 1917?
    Answer: The Romanov dynasty
  3. Which king of England was known as 'Lionheart'?
    Answer: Richard I (Richard the Lionheart)
  4. Who was the last monarch of the House of Tudor?
    Answer: Elizabeth I
  5. Which queen was executed by her cousin Elizabeth I?
    Answer: Mary, Queen of Scots
  6. What was the name of the king who ruled during the American Revolution?
    Answer: George III
  7. Which monarch was on the throne during the Great Fire of London?
    Answer: Charles II
  8. What was the name of the queen who ruled England for just nine days?
    Answer: Lady Jane Grey
  9. Which king was forced to sign the Petition of Right in 1628?
    Answer: Charles I
  10. Who was the first Hanoverian king of Great Britain?
    Answer: George I
  11. Which queen ruled Castile and funded Christopher Columbus's voyage?
    Answer: Isabella I of Castile
  12. What was the name of the king who was forced to accept the English Bill of Rights?
    Answer: William III (of Orange)
  13. Which English king was known as 'the Confessor'?
    Answer: Edward the Confessor
  14. Who was the last Anglo-Saxon king of England?
    Answer: Harold II
  15. Which queen was known as 'Bloody Mary' in England?
    Answer: Mary I
  16. What was the name of the dynasty that ruled England from 1154 to 1485?
    Answer: The Plantagenets
  17. Which king was known as 'the Merry Monarch'?
    Answer: Charles II
  18. Who was the first king of a united England?
    Answer: Æthelstan (924-939)
  19. Which queen ruled England during the Spanish Armada?
    Answer: Elizabeth I
  20. What was the name of the king who was executed during the English Civil War?
    Answer: Charles I

Hard Level

  1. Which English king was known as 'the Hammer of the Scots'?
    Answer: Edward I
  2. What was the name of the queen who ruled England jointly with her husband William of Orange?
    Answer: Mary II
  3. Which French king was known as 'the Spider King'?
    Answer: Louis XI
  4. Who was the last Byzantine emperor?
    Answer: Constantine XI Palaiologos
  5. Which English king was known as 'the Unready'?
    Answer: Æthelred the Unready
  6. What was the name of the king who established the Star Chamber court?
    Answer: Henry VII
  7. Which queen of England was married to Philip II of Spain?
    Answer: Mary I
  8. What was the name of the king who was forced to accept the Provisions of Oxford?
    Answer: Henry III
  9. Which monarch established the Royal Society in 1660?
    Answer: Charles II
  10. Who was the only English monarch to be executed by beheading?
    Answer: Charles I
  11. Which king of England was also Duke of Normandy?
    Answer: William the Conqueror (and several successors)
  12. What was the name of the queen who was married to both Louis VII of France and Henry II of England?
    Answer: Eleanor of Aquitaine
  13. Which English king was known as 'the Princes in the Tower'?
    Answer: Edward V (one of the princes)
  14. Who was the last monarch of the House of York?
    Answer: Richard III
  15. What was the name of the act that established the line of succession for the British throne in 1701?
    Answer: The Act of Settlement