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Pam's 23rd lockdown quiz

Total questions: 60

Worksheet time: 31mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Where would you see this tower?

a)

Portsmouth

b)

Southampton

c)

Cardiff

d)

Newcastle

2.

Which poet would you associate with Newstead Abbey?

a)

Lord Byron

b)

Roger McGough

c)

John Keats

d)

Pam Ayres

3.

Which is herringbone pattern?

a)
b)
c)
d)
4.

Who directed the film Battleship Potemkin?

a)

Sergei Eisenstein

b)

Lev Kuleshov

c)

Aleksandr Khanzhonkov

d)

Yuri Gagarin

5.

Which are the barnacles?

a)
b)
c)
d)
6.

Which was the tallest building in London up till 1963?

a)
b)
c)
d)
7.

What name is this tower usually known by?

a)

The Gherkin

b)

The Courgette

c)

The Cucumber

d)

The Aubergine

8.

Who lived and wrote in this Dorset cottage?

a)

Thomas Hardy

b)

Jane Austen

c)

Enid Blyton

d)

William Shakespeare

9.

Which is the sharkskin pattern?

a)
b)
c)
d)
10.

Which band recorded a new score to go with the silent film, Battleship Potemkin released in 2005?

a)

Pet Shop Boys

b)

Radiohead

c)

The Libertines

d)

Black Sabbath

11.

Which is the halibut?

a)
b)
c)
d)
12.

Which was the tallest building in London in 1964?

a)
b)
c)
d)
13.

When was Blackpool tower opened?

a)

1894

b)

1864

c)

1902

d)

1922

14.

Who was born here?

a)

William Shakespeare

b)

Anne Hathaway

c)

Christopher Marlowe

d)

Sir Francis Drake

15.

Which is the argyle pattern?

a)
b)
c)
d)
16.

Which battleship was sunk at the Battle of the River Plate?

a)

Admiral Graf Spee

b)

HMS Achilles

c)

Bismarck

d)

HMS Hood

17.

Which is the Jewel Anemone?

a)
b)
c)
d)
18.

Which was the tallest building in London in 1991?

a)
b)
c)
d)
19.

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?

a)

Birmingham

b)

John o Groats

c)

Coventry

d)

Oxford

20.

Who bought Hilltop Cottage in the Lake District with the proceeds of her first book?

a)

Beatrix Potter

b)

Jane Austen

c)

JK Rowling

d)

Virginia Woolf

21.

Which is the damask pattern?

a)
b)
c)
d)
22.

Which was the first battleship of the dreadnought type to be built in Japan for the Imperial Japanese navy?

a)

Satsuma

b)

Fuji

c)

Tango

d)

Sakuranbo

23.

Which is the bladder wrack?

a)
b)
c)
d)
24.

Which was the tallest structure in London in 2012?

a)
b)
c)
d)
25.

Where would you find this tower?

a)

Stirling

b)

Edinburgh

c)

Dundee

d)

St Andrews

26.

Which poet, writer and broadcaster lived in this house in Laugharne, called the Boathouse, for the last four years of his life?

a)

Dylan Thomas

b)

John Betjeman

c)

W B Yeats

d)

Clive James

27.

Which is stretcher bond brickwork?

a)
b)
c)
d)
28.

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)?

a)

HMS Queen Elizabeth

b)

HMS Ark Royal

c)

HMS Industrious

d)

HMS Invincible

29.

Which is the Common Sunstar?

a)
b)
c)
d)
30.

What is the oldest building in London?

a)
b)
c)
d)
31.

Where would you find Castell Coch?

a)

Cardiff

b)

Disneyland

c)

Caernarvon

d)

Prague

32.

Which poet and his sister lived in this Lake District property?

a)

William Wordsworth

b)

Charles Lamb

c)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

d)

Robert Southey

33.

Which is the stocking stitch?

a)
b)
c)
d)
34.

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?

a)

Scapa Flow

b)

Heligoland Bight

c)

Bay of Biscay

d)

Newfoundland

35.

Which is the basking shark?

a)
b)
c)
d)
36.

Who said “When a man is tired of London he is tired of life”

a)

Samuel Johnson

b)

George Bernard Shaw

c)

William Shakespeare

d)

The Prince Regent

37.

Where is this?

a)

Glastonbury

b)

Amesbury

c)

Cirencester

d)

Lancaster

38.

Who lived here?

a)

Charlotte Bronte

b)

Anne Bronte

c)

Emily Bronte

d)

Jane Bronte

39.

Which curtain heading is the pencil pleat?

a)
b)
c)
d)
40.

The first known armoured ship known in the world was?

a)

The Korean Turtle Ship

b)

The Chinese Queen Beetle

c)

The Formosan Limpet

d)

The Japanese Sea Urchin

41.

Which is the sea mouse?

a)
b)
c)
d)
42.

Great Ormond Street Hospital inLondon owns the copyright to which book?

a)

Peter Pan

b)

Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

c)

Peter Rabbit

d)

Winnie the Pooh

43.

Where is this tower?

a)

Glasgow

b)

Aberdeen

c)

Portsmouth

d)

Swansea

44.

Who lived at Chawton Cottage?

a)

Jane Austen

b)

Enid Blyton

c)

George Eliot

d)

Elizabeth Gaskell

45.

Which is the stem stitch?

a)
b)
c)
d)
46.

Which type of warship was first used in battle in the American Civil War?

a)

Ironclad

b)

U Boat

c)

Paddlesteamer warship

d)

Submarine

47.

Which is the wheatear?

a)
b)
c)
d)
48.

When did the London Underground first open?

a)

1863

b)

1871

c)

1901

d)

1845

49.

Commonly known as Big Ben, which is actually the name of the bell, what is the tower's real name?

a)

Elizabeth Tower

b)

Victoria Tower

c)

St Margaret’s Tower

d)

Alfred’s Tower

50.

Which writer of detective stories lived here at Greenway in Devon?

a)

Agatha Christie

b)

P D James

c)

Dorothy L Sayers

d)

Margery Allingham

51.

Which is the feather stitch?

a)
b)
c)
d)
52.

Which of these ships featured in The BBC comedy programme The Navy Lark?

a)

HMS Goliath

b)

HMS Makepeace

c)

The Empress of Coconut

d)

HMS Troutbridge

53.

Which is the arctic tern?

a)
b)
c)
d)
54.

Whose statue is not in Trafalgar Square?

a)

Queen Victoria

b)

George Washington

c)

Charles I

d)

Lord Nelson

55.

Where is the twisted spire?

a)

Chesterfield

b)

Doncaster

c)

Leicester

d)

Alfreton

56.

Who went to this house in Broadstairs for summer holidays?

a)

Charles Dickens

b)

Wilkie Collins

c)

Rudyard Kipling

d)

P G Wodehouse

57.

Which is the julia set?

a)
b)
c)
d)
58.

What is the name of this game, originally created with pen and paper?

(a)  

59.

Which is the common squid?

a)
b)
c)
d)
60.

“Earth has not anything to show more fair” - first line of Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802. By whom?

a)

William Wordsworth

b)

John Keats

c)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

d)

Geoffrey Chaucer