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Discerningly Versed - Effective Iterative Learning Quiz Questions - Oxford History I
Discerningly Versed - Effective Iterative Learning


During the 9th Century which King fortified towns including Oxford ?

 

Alfred The Great
Canute
Edgar
Egbert

 Around 1348 a quarter of the town succumbed to

 

Flood
Fire
Black Death
Starvation
Oxford thrived as a learning centre after 1167 when Henry II stopped students going to

 

University of Vienna
University of Paris
University of Edinburgh
University of Rome

 The oldest building in Oxford St Michaels Church was a look out post for marauding

 

Welsh
Robbers
Danes
Looters
With a Hall, Chapel, lodgings & quarters many early colleges resembled

 

Monastries
Abbeys
Barracks
Public Schools

 During the 11th Century Oxford came under attack from

 

Normans
Welsh
Danes
Picts
In the 12th Century St Frideswides Priory & Osney Abbey were

 

Main Centres of Learning
Royal Palaces
Pilgrim Centres
Derelict buildings

 Christ Church is built on the site of which priory sacked by the Danes in 1002 ?

 

St Frideswide Priory
Osney Abbey
Oddington Abbey
Courtenay Abbey
Merton, University & Balliol colleges were all set up by

 

Bishop of London
Bishop of Durham
Head of State
Bishop of Lincoln

 Major settlement in the area occurred during which period ?

 

Saxon
Norman
Iron Age
Roman


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