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Residents in Thailand's capital Bangkok marked the Thai King's 83rd birthday this weekend by launching lanterns into the sky. King Bhumibol Adulyadej has reigned for over half a century having taken the throne in 1946 at the age of nineteen. Having stuck around for so long he is currently the longest serving Head of State on the planet. Photographs, such as that shown here, have prompted us to take monarchs and monarchies as the theme of today's quiz.

Monarchies Quiz

1 Which English actress played the current British monarch in the 2006 Stephen Frears directed film 'The Queen', which provided a fictional account of the immediate aftermath of the death of Princess Diana?

2 Dido was Queen of which ancient city State located in what is now modern Tunisia?

3 Russian Queens were referred to by which title?

4 Who wrote the nineteenth century fairy tale 'The Snow Queen'?

5 Shakespeare has which King say 'now is the winter of our discontent, made glorious summer'?

Answers will be published along with tomorrow's quiz.

French Film Quiz Answers

The answers to our previous French Film themed quiz were:-

1 Caesars.

2 Gerard Depardieu.

3 Edith Piaf.

4 'Mannn des Sources'.

5 Krzysztof Kieslowski.