Answers to Tudor Quiz
By Tim Lambert
1. True - if they were rich!
2. False! They used a knife and their fingers.
3. True! Only rich people ate meat often. Poor people ate mostly bread and pottage - a cross between porridge and stew. Grain and vegetables were boiled in water. If you could afford it you added pieces of meat.
4. True! If you went to a feast you might be given a mixture of vegetables with flowers like violets and cowslips.
5. True!
6. True! They only came to England in the 17th century.
7. True! In 1594-97 there was a famine during which people in Cumbria died of starvation.8. True!
9. True!
10. False! The MaryRose was launched in 1511 and she sank in 1545.
11. True!
12. True! Francis Drake was the first English captain to do it.
13. True!
14. False! They were only slightly smaller than we are not much smaller. Men found on the Mary Rose were between 5 foot 7 inches tall and 5 foot 8 inches tall.
15. True!
16. True! Black was an expensive dye.
17. True!
18. False he was only 15 years old.
19. True!
20. False! Tudor women did not wear knickers.
21. False! Clocks were invented in the Middle Ages.
22. False! The Tudors did have glasses - if they were rich! Glasses were very expensive.
23. True! Henry VIII was 55 when he died on 28 January 1547.
24. True! At the beginning of the 16th century glass windows were a luxury. Even by the end many poor people could not afford them.
25. True ! He was called Arthur but he died before his father, Henry VII. Therefore his younger brother became Henry VIII.
26. True!
27. True!
28. False! It was probably around 2 1/2 million.
29. False! It was about 4 million.
30. False!
31. True!
32. True!
33. True!
34. False!
35. True! Thomas Cromwell c.1485-1540 was the son of a blacksmith.
36. True! Cardinal Thomas Wolsey 1474-1530 was the son of an Ipswich butcher.
37. False! They often wore linen shorts.
38. False! However carpets were very expensive. Carpets were usually hung on tables or on cupboards rather than placed on the floor.
39. True! Chairs were very expensive. They did have stools and benches but even in rich people's houses some people sat on the floor on cushions.
40. True! He wrapped her in red cloth.
41 True! They thought it was undignified to hurry.
42 False! A petard was a kind of bomb! It was a container filled with gunpowder with a fuse. You placed it by the gates of a city or fort and lit the fuse. You hoped it would destroyed the wooden gate.
43. False! It was a very bad manners to let a dog in a dining hall. It was also very bad manners to throw bones onto the floor. You put them in a dish.
44. True!
45. True!