Beat the teacher quiz: could you pass Year 7 history?

Beat the teacher: could you pass Year 7 history? So you consider yourself a history whiz... but could you pass a Year 7 history exam? Try your hand at these questions set by Matt Bryant.

Mr Bryant is a history teacher at Malmesbury School in Wiltshire.

A tower in the inner part of a castle, where stores were usually kept and where defenders would retreat to as a last resort, was called... William the Conqueror was crowned king of England in Westminster Abbey on Christmas Day 1066. The shouts of approval during the service led to what? William the Conqueror died six weeks after rupturing his belly in a fall from his horse, when the animal reared up and threw him against the pommel of his saddle. What happened to William’s body as the monks of Caen attempted to put it into a stone coffin? As Richard I set off on the Third Crusade, he introduced a law by which anyone caught thieving while at sea on the way to crusade was to… What, in 1346, did the Mongols catapult into Kaffa in the hope of taking the city? Lions used to be kept in the Tower of London. The cost of keeping a prisoner in the Tower was a penny a day. The cost of keeping the lion each day was… At the battle of Agincourt in 1415, many of the English archers fought naked from the waist down because… At the age of seven, the son of a knight would be sent away to another castle to learn about life. He was called a... Joan of Arc was a 17-year-old shepherdess French girl who led an army against the English. When she was eventually caught, the English sentenced her to death for... Better luck next time... Not bad... Amazing! To try your hand at our other Beat the Teacher quizzes, from Years 7 to 12, click here.