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


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

 

Oddington Abbey
Courtenay Abbey
Osney Abbey
St Frideswide Priory

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

 

Edgar
Egbert
Canute
Alfred The Great
In the 12th Century St Frideswides Priory & Osney Abbey were

 

Pilgrim Centres
Derelict buildings
Royal Palaces
Main Centres of Learning

 Major settlement in the area occurred during which period ?

 

Iron Age
Roman
Norman
Saxon
The oldest building in Oxford St Michaels Church was a look out post for marauding

 

Danes
Looters
Robbers
Welsh

 Around 1348 a quarter of the town succumbed to

 

Black Death
Starvation
Fire
Flood
Merton, University & Balliol colleges were all set up by

 

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

 Oxford thrived as a learning centre after 1167 when Henry II stopped students going to

 

University of Edinburgh
University of Rome
University of Paris
University of Vienna
With a Hall, Chapel, lodgings & quarters many early colleges resembled

 

Barracks
Public Schools
Abbeys
Monastries

 During the 11th Century Oxford came under attack from

 

Danes
Picts
Welsh
Normans


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