T DAY QUIZ - 2009

So you think you know Gloucestershire?

Questions

1. Which Cotswold Monastery is famous for its distinctive black pottery?

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2. Name the cat in Beatrix Potter’s The Tailor of Gloucester?

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3. Which Gloucestershire Battle effectively ended the War of the Roses?

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4. What is the dominant tree of the Cotswold escarpment?

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5. Which Cotswold Manor produces a fine Goats’ cheese?

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6. What is Hidcote a variety of?

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7. Which 19th Century Manor near Stroud was never finished?

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8. Who visited Cheltenham in 1863 and drew inspiration for one of the most famous children’s stories from a house in Charlton Kings with a mirror in it?

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9. What is traditionally rolled down Coopers Hill on Spring Bank Holiday?

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10. Which Gloucestershire town is home to Edward Jenner’s house where he discovered a vaccine for smallpox?

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11. Well-dressing is a custom more usually associated with Derbyshire, but where in Gloucestershire do they still perform this ancient ceremony?

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12. A factory producing which musical instrument moved to a derelict cloth mill in Woodchester in 1911?

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13. Which is Gloucestershire’s oldest pub dating from 1308?

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14. Eddie the Eagle was Cheltenham’s secret Olympic weapon in which sport?

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15. What is Stinking Bishop?

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16. What colour is the famous Kiftsgate rose?

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17.Winchcombe was well known in the 17th century for what highly profitable crop?

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18. Which nursery rhyme doctor never went to Gloucester again?

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19. Which village did William Morris dub the prettiest village in England?

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20. Which grand country house is the setting for this collection based on wildlife art?

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