Chew Valley Black History Month

The African Roman Emperor who ruled Britain was...

• Severus Snape

• Severus Septimius

• Septimius Severus

• Septimius Snape

So many black soldiers fought in the British army in WW1 because...

• soldiers were recruited from Britain's many overseas colonise

• WW1 was a world war

• black British people signed up across England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland.

What was the name of the House just outside Bristol that was owned by a Caribbean man born in 1779?

• PriceWater House

• Percy House

• Piercefield House

• Percival House

Where did archaeologists discover the older known Christian church in Sub-Saharan Africa?

• Aksum - modern day Ethiopia

• Akan - modern day Ghana

• Cairo - modern day Egypt

• El Jem - in modern day Tunisia

Obelisk monuments found all over Britain are inspired by which culture?

• Ethiopian

• German

• Syrian

• Egyptian

What is the name of the obelisk monument on London's South Bank?

• Caesar's Salad

• Cleopatra's Thimble

• Tutankhamun's needle

• Cleopatra's Needle

How old is Cleopatra's needle?

• 3,500 years old

• 35 years old

• 350 years old

• 35,000 years old

What was the name of the black English composer and conductor born in Holborn in 1875>

• Samuel Coleridge-Taylor

• Gustav Mahler

• Edward Elgar

• Ivor Novello

Who was Ira Aldridge?

• C19th Shakespearian actor

• C19th film producer

• C19th playwright

• C19th podcaster

The Empire Windrush docked at Tilbury in...

• 1948

• 1848

• 1984

• 1884