Answers to Christmas Quiz

I hope that you and your families have had a wonderful healthy Christmas and that you are now looking forward to the New Year.  Here are the answers to the quiz that I sent out last week:  

1.  What eight sided building on Colegate did Thomas Ivory build in 1756?   Octagon Chapel

2.  Who was the founder of Colman’s mustard?   Jeremiah James Colman

3.  How many years did the Burston school strike last for?  25 years

4.  What Norfolk disaster prompted the introduction of the Electric Train Tablet System?  Thorpe Railway Disaster 1874

5.  Who was the man who enticed Einstein over to Norfolk in 1933?  Oliver Locker-Lampson 

6.  Which famous Norfolk family owned Wolterton Hall until 2016?  The Walpole Family

7.  Who in 1599 danced his way from London to Norwich in nine days?  Will Kemp 

8.  Who lived in the old Dolphin Inn on Heigham Street during the English Civil War?  Bishop Hall 

9.  When did the Norwich Steam Boat explosion occur?  1817

10.  Which Norfolk family bought Felbrigg Hall in 1621?  The Windham Family

11.  Which Suffolk clock has only three faces?  Beccles 

12.  What famous Norfolk landscape gardener was described as a “Money Minded Cunning Rogue”?  Humphrey Repton

13.  What happened in the Gardeners Arms,Timberhill, Norwich in June 1895?  Millie Miles was killed by her husband Frank

14.  Which Norwich pub is named after Peter the Wild Boy? The Wild Man

15.  Where did the Strangers come from in 1568?  Flanders 

16.  George Vancover discovered Vancover in Canada but in which Norfolk town was he born?  Kings Lynn

17.  What crashed through the doors of St Mary’s Church, Bungay during a storm in 1577?  A black dog

18.  Who undertook the work on the Venetian Waterways in 1928?  Unemployed, who were married and had a least one child

19.  Which famous medieval knight is buried at St Benet’s Abbey (A Shakespearian character was also modelled on him)?  Sir John Fastolf

20.  What building was built on the site of the Great Blow of 1648?  Bethel Hospital