Question: How is the British Crown Estate held by Elizabeth?
Answer: in trust

Question: Who was Elizabeth only sibling?P
Answer: Princess Margaret

Question: When was Princess Margaret born?
Answer: 1930

Question: Who was Marion Crawford to the princesses?
Answer: governess

Question: What was the title of the book written by Crawford about the princesses?
Answer: The Little Princesses

Question: Where were the royal princesses educated?
Answer: at home

Question: At what age was Elizabeth when she went on her first solo public appearance?
Answer: 16

Question: Where did Elizabeth visit on her first solo public appearance?
Answer: Grenadier Guards

Question: In case of her father's absence, in what capacity could Elizabeth act? 
Answer: Counsellors of State

Question: When did Elizabeth join the Women's Auxiliary Territorial Service?
Answer: February 1945

Question: In what capacity did Elizabeth serve in the Auxiliary?
Answer: driver and mechanic

Question: Where did Philip serve during WWII?
Answer: Royal Navy

Question: What did Crawford report that some of the King's advisers thought of Philip?
Answer: good enough

Question: To whom did Philip's sisters marry?
Answer: German noblemen

Question: What did Elizabeth's mother call Philip?
Answer: "The Hun"

Question: What did Elizabeth's mother later say that Philip was?
Answer: "an English gentleman"

Question: What was the state of George VI's health during 1951?
Answer: health declined

Question: On what date did Elizabeth's father, King George VI, die?
Answer: 6 February 1952

Question: In what country was Elizabeth when George VI died?
Answer: Kenya

Question: When did the prime ministers of Britain and France discuss the idea of France joining the Commonwealth?
Answer: 1956

Question: What did France sign instead of joining the Commonwealth?
Answer: Treaty of Rome

Question: To what was the European Economic Community the precurser?
Answer: European Union

Question: When did Britain and France invade Egypt?
Answer: November 1956

Question: What did the Treaty of Rome establish?
Answer: European Economic Community

Question: When did the decolonization of Africa and the Caribbean accelerate?
Answer: 1960s and 1970s

Question: How many countries got independence from Britain during decolonization?
Answer: Over 20 countries

Question: When did Britain join the European Community?
Answer: 1973

Question: What did the Rhodesian president declare in 1965?
Answer: independence from Britain

Question: In spite of sanctions by the international community, how long did the Ian Smith's regime last?
Answer: over a decade

Question: During what ceremony were shots fired at the Queen?
Answer: Trooping the Colour

Question: Who was the assailant who shot at Queen Elizabeth? 
Answer: Marcus Sarjeant

Question: Which of Elizabeth's sons served in the Falklands War?
Answer: Prince Andrew

Question: Who was the intruder Elizabeth awoke to find in her bedroom?
Answer: Michael Fagan

Question: What island's invasion angered Elizabeth?
Answer: Grenada

Question: What political feeling is still a minority view in Britain?
Answer: republicanism

Question: What state of affairs produced revelations and problems for Elizabeth?
Answer: Charles and Diana's marriage

Question: In spite of criticisms what kind of approval ratings did Elizabeth have?
Answer: high

Question: What institution was being criticized during the time of Charles and Diana's breakup?
Answer: monarchy

Question: When did Elizabeth write to tell Charles and Diana to get a divorce?
Answer: December 1995

Question: When was the second address to the UN by Elizabeth?
Answer: 2010

Question: Who was UN Secretary General when Elizabeth addressed the UN?
Answer: Ban Ki-moon

Question: As what did Ban Ki-Moon introduce Elizabeth to the UN?
Answer: "an anchor for our age"

Question: For whom was the garden Elizabeth opened a memorial?
Answer: British victims

Question: When was Elizabeth's farewell visit to Australia?
Answer: October 2011

Question: Until she became queen, what flower was on Elizabeth's coat of arms?
Answer: Tudor rose

Question: When did Elizabeth acquire her father's arms?
Answer: Upon her accession

Question: Besides personal flags,what other types of flags does Elizabeth have?
Answer: royal standards

Question: What type of flags are used in foreign countries?
Answer: personal

Question: When did Elizabeth start to bear a coat of royal arms?
Answer: 21 April 1944

Question: In what city was Elizabeth born?
Answer: London

Question: At the time of her birth, what was the rank of Elizabeth's parents?
Answer: Duke and Duchess of York

Question: What were Elizabeth's parents' titles after ascending to the throne?
Answer: King George VI and Queen Elizabeth

Question: How many children did Elizabeth's parents have?
Answer: two daughters

Question: What event caused Elizabeth's father to become King?
Answer: abdication of his brother

Question: When she was born, where in the order of succession was Elizabeth?
Answer: third

Question: Before Elizabeth's father who was next in line for the throne?
Answer: Edward, Prince of Wales

Question: When did Elizabeth's grandfather die?
Answer: 1936

Question: What event caused Edward to abdicate the throne?
Answer: proposed marriage

Question: What did Edward's proposed marriage to Simpson cause?
Answer: constitutional crisis

Question: What name was it assumed Elizabeth would take upon her marriage to Philip?
Answer: Mountbatten,

Question: What Prime Minister objected to the name change?
Answer: Winston Churchill

Question: What name did Elizabeth keep as her married name?
Answer: House of Windsor

Question: What name was adopted for Elizabeth's male-line descendants who do not have royal titles? 
Answer: Mountbatten-Windsor

Question: When did Elizabeth decree the use of Mountbatten-Windsor as the  surname? 
Answer: 1960

Question: Who did Eden recommend that Elizabeth consult about appointing a new  Prime Minister?
Answer: Lord Salisbury

Question: What position did Lord Salisbury have in the government?
Answer: Lord President of the Council

Question: Who did Elizabeth appoint as Prime Minister?
Answer: Harold Macmillan

Question: What position did Lord Kilmuir have ?
Answer: Lord Chancellor

Question: Who in turn did Salisbury and Kilmuir consult?
Answer: British Cabinet

Question: When did Edward Heath ask Elizabeth to call a general election?
Answer: February 1974

Question: Where was Elizabeth when Heath advised that sh call for an election?
Answer: Austronesian Pacific Rim

Question: What did Elizabeth do after Heath adviser her?
Answer: fly back to Britain

Question: What did Heath do after his party could not form a coalition with the Labor party?
Answer: resigned

Question: Who did Elizabeth ask to form a government?
Answer: Harold Wilson

Question: What did high public interest in the  private lives of the royal family cause in the press?
Answer: sensational stories

Question: Who was editor of The Sun in the 1980s?
Answer: Kelvin MacKenzie

Question: What did the editor of The Observer call the sensational stories about the royals?
Answer: royal soap opera

Question: Who, it was rumored,  did Margaret Thatcher say the Queen would vote for?
Answer: Thatcher's political opponents

Question: Who said the Elizabeth was a behind the scenes force in ending apartheid?
Answer: Brian Mulroney

Question: What incident killed Diana in Paris?
Answer: car crash

Question: When did Diana die?
Answer: 1997

Question: How long did Elizabeth and the royal family remain in seclusion at Balmoral?
Answer: five days

Question: What failure did the public find dismaying?
Answer: fly a flag at half-mast

Question: What did Elizabeth do to diffuse hostile public sentiment?
Answer: live television broadcast

Question: How many years has Elizabeth been Queen?
Answer: 60 years

Question: What celebration marks 60 years for Elizabeth as Queen?
Answer: Diamond Jubilee