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WorksheetsPam's 23rd lockdown quiz
Total questions: 60
Worksheet time: 31mins
Where would you see this tower?
Portsmouth
Southampton
Cardiff
Newcastle
Which poet would you associate with Newstead Abbey?
Lord Byron
Roger McGough
John Keats
Pam Ayres
Which is herringbone pattern?
Who directed the film Battleship Potemkin?
Sergei Eisenstein
Lev Kuleshov
Aleksandr Khanzhonkov
Yuri Gagarin
Which are the barnacles?
Which was the tallest building in London up till 1963?
What name is this tower usually known by?
The Gherkin
The Courgette
The Cucumber
The Aubergine
Who lived and wrote in this Dorset cottage?
Thomas Hardy
Jane Austen
Enid Blyton
William Shakespeare
Which is the sharkskin pattern?
Which band recorded a new score to go with the silent film, Battleship Potemkin released in 2005?
Pet Shop Boys
Radiohead
The Libertines
Black Sabbath
Which is the halibut?
Which was the tallest building in London in 1964?
When was Blackpool tower opened?
1894
1864
1902
1922
Who was born here?
William Shakespeare
Anne Hathaway
Christopher Marlowe
Sir Francis Drake
Which is the argyle pattern?
Which battleship was sunk at the Battle of the River Plate?
Admiral Graf Spee
HMS Achilles
Bismarck
HMS Hood
Which is the Jewel Anemone?
Which was the tallest building in London in 1991?
This tower, Perrot’s Folly, is understood to have been an inspiration for The Two Towers in Lord of the Rings, but where is it?
Birmingham
John o Groats
Coventry
Oxford
Who bought Hilltop Cottage in the Lake District with the proceeds of her first book?
Beatrix Potter
Jane Austen
JK Rowling
Virginia Woolf
Which is the damask pattern?
Which was the first battleship of the dreadnought type to be built in Japan for the Imperial Japanese navy?
Satsuma
Fuji
Tango
Sakuranbo
Which is the bladder wrack?
Which was the tallest structure in London in 2012?
Where would you find this tower?
Stirling
Edinburgh
Dundee
St Andrews
Which poet, writer and broadcaster lived in this house in Laugharne, called the Boathouse, for the last four years of his life?
Dylan Thomas
John Betjeman
W B Yeats
Clive James
Which is stretcher bond brickwork?
Which of these is the largest and most powerful vessel ever built for the Royal Navy (due for its first full operational deployment in 2021)?
HMS Queen Elizabeth
HMS Ark Royal
HMS Industrious
HMS Invincible
Which is the Common Sunstar?
What is the oldest building in London?
Where would you find Castell Coch?
Cardiff
Disneyland
Caernarvon
Prague
Which poet and his sister lived in this Lake District property?
William Wordsworth
Charles Lamb
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Robert Southey
Which is the stocking stitch?
After the World War I surrender the majority of the surface warships of the German fleet were scuttled on the orders of its Admiral - where?
Scapa Flow
Heligoland Bight
Bay of Biscay
Newfoundland
Which is the basking shark?
Who said “When a man is tired of London he is tired of life”
Samuel Johnson
George Bernard Shaw
William Shakespeare
The Prince Regent
Where is this?
Glastonbury
Amesbury
Cirencester
Lancaster
Who lived here?
Charlotte Bronte
Anne Bronte
Emily Bronte
Jane Bronte
Which curtain heading is the pencil pleat?
The first known armoured ship known in the world was?
The Korean Turtle Ship
The Chinese Queen Beetle
The Formosan Limpet
The Japanese Sea Urchin
Which is the sea mouse?
Great Ormond Street Hospital inLondon owns the copyright to which book?
Peter Pan
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Peter Rabbit
Winnie the Pooh
Where is this tower?
Glasgow
Aberdeen
Portsmouth
Swansea
Who lived at Chawton Cottage?
Jane Austen
Enid Blyton
George Eliot
Elizabeth Gaskell
Which is the stem stitch?
Which type of warship was first used in battle in the American Civil War?
Ironclad
U Boat
Paddlesteamer warship
Submarine
Which is the wheatear?
When did the London Underground first open?
1863
1871
1901
1845
Commonly known as Big Ben, which is actually the name of the bell, what is the tower's real name?
Elizabeth Tower
Victoria Tower
St Margaret’s Tower
Alfred’s Tower
Which writer of detective stories lived here at Greenway in Devon?
Agatha Christie
P D James
Dorothy L Sayers
Margery Allingham
Which is the feather stitch?
Which of these ships featured in The BBC comedy programme The Navy Lark?
HMS Goliath
HMS Makepeace
The Empress of Coconut
HMS Troutbridge
Which is the arctic tern?
Whose statue is not in Trafalgar Square?
Queen Victoria
George Washington
Charles I
Lord Nelson
Where is the twisted spire?
Chesterfield
Doncaster
Leicester
Alfreton
Who went to this house in Broadstairs for summer holidays?
Charles Dickens
Wilkie Collins
Rudyard Kipling
P G Wodehouse
Which is the julia set?
What is the name of this game, originally created with pen and paper?
(a)
Which is the common squid?
“Earth has not anything to show more fair” - first line of Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802. By whom?
William Wordsworth
John Keats
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Geoffrey Chaucer
