1. On this day in 1536, which English Monarch decreed that churches had to replace all Latin Bibles with English translations?

   1. Elizabeth I

   2. Henry VII

   3. Edward VI

   4. Henry VIII

2. On May 6 1940, which author was awarded the Pulitzer prize for arguably his greatest work?

   1. John Steinbeck

   2. F Scott Fitzgerald

   3. Margaret Mitchell

   4. Arthur Koestler

3. Which prominent French revolutionary, famous for instituting the Reign of Terror and for contributing to the drafting of 'The Declaration of the Rights of the Man and the Citizen', was born on May 6 1758?

   1. Napoleon Bonaparte

   2. Marquis de Lafayette

   3. Maximilian Robespierre

   4. Jean-Jacques Rosseau

4. On 6 May 1983, a panel of experts revealed which journal to be an elaborate hoax?

   1. Diary of Samuel Pepys

   2. 1969-1979: The Python Years

   3. The Diary of a Young Girl

   4. The Hitler Diaries

5. Which Austrian psychiatrist and author of Three Essays on the Theory of Sexuality was born on this day in 1856?

   1. Carl Jung

   2. Sigmund Freud

   3. Robert Waelder

   4. Heinz Hartmann

6. Which English poet began his lengthy period of confinement in St Luke's Hospital for Lunatics in London on 6 May 1757?

   1. Christopher Smart

   2. Samuel Johnson

   3. Percy Bysshe Shelly

   4. Thomas Gray

7. On this day in 1966, Myra Hindley and Ian Brady were sentenced to life in prison for the Moors murders. Which poet controversially explored the nature of their relationship from the point of view of Hindley in their poem 'The Devil's Wife'?

   1. Jo Shapcott

   2. Catherine Smith

   3. Carol Ann Duffy

   4. James Fenton

Solutions

1:D, 2:A, 3:C, 4:D, 5:B, 6:A, 7:C

Scores

1. 1 and above.

   Oh dear, you're about as useless as a Latin Bible in the mid-16th century.

2. 4 and above.

   Not bad at all. You must make a very good date

3. 7 and above.

   Brilliant! You certainly keep an eye on the calendar