Question

What were the consequences of the Gunpowder Plot?
A)Compulsory military training was provided to the citizens
B)People were encouraged to light bonfires to celebrate the plotters being caught.
C)Use of Gunpowder was banned in Europe.
D)All of the above

Answer 1

Hint: The gunpowder plot was also referred to as Jesuit Treason or Gunpowder Treason Plot was a failed assassination attempt by Robert Catesby, against King James I by a group of provincial English Catholics.

Complete answer:
The plot was to blow up the House of Lords, i.e. the upper house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom on $5^{th}$ November 1605, during the state opening of parliament ( beginning of a session of the parliament), it was organized by Robert Catesby in an attempt to end the persecution of Roman Catholics by the English Government, with an effort to overthrow country’s Protestant government and replace it with Catholic leadership and control.
In November 1605 Guy Fawkes, one of the conspirators was discovered in the cellar of the parliament with gunpowder. several of the conspirators were captured following the discovery of the plot. people were encouraged to light bonfires to celebrate the plotters being caught.
Therefore, Option B is correct.

Note: The discovery of the plot had a humongous impact on the treatment of the Catholics in England and its failure is commemorated to this day on Bonfire night. Eight conspirators were hung, drawn and quartered after being convicted of treason and four were killed in a shoot-out.