COUNTRYSIDE QUIZ
1. Built on the orders of
Sir Roger Fiennes in 1441, Herstmonceux Castle was one of the first buildings to use which material?
a) Glass
b) Brick
c) Granite
d) Marble
2. Which poet was born in Ottery St Mary, Devon, in 1772?
a) William Wordsworth
b) Samuel Taylor Coleridge
c) Samuel Johnson
d) John Keats
3. In the Domesday Book
(1086), which area was recorded as the most wooded area in England?
a) The High Weald
b) South Downs
c) North Wessex Downs
d) Cranborne Chase
4. The Sussex landscape inspired which artist to paint ‘The Vale of Ashburnham’ in 1816?
a) John Martin
b) John Constable
c) JMW Turner
d) William Blake
5. Where did King Harold repel an invasion by Harald Hardrada of Norway in 1066?
a) Battle, East Sussex
b) Stamford Bridge, East Riding of Yorkshire
c) Colchester, Essex
d) Dover, Kent
6. Born in Bristol, who became the famous pirate known as Blackbeard?
a) John Roberts
b) Sam Bellamay
c) Edward Teach
d) Jack Rackham
7. From which railway line would you be able to see Puffin Island?
a) The Epping Ongar Railway
b) The Riviera Line
c) Conwy Valley Railway
d) Watercress Line
8. Which engineer designed and built the Riviera Line in Devon?
a) Thomas Telford
b) Isambard Kingdom Brunel
c) Robert Stephenson
d) James Kennedy
9. What is the typical prey of the wasp spider?
a) Ladybird
b) Grasshopper
c) Aphid
d) Green shield bug
10. Which 1869 novel is subtitled A Romance of Exmoor?
a) Return of the Native by Thomas Hardy
b) Waverley by Sir Walter Scott
c) Lorna Doone by RD Blackmore
d) Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
11. In which village was Coleridge famously interrupted, mid-flow, while writing Kubla Khan?
a) Lynmouth
b) Nether Stowey
c) Oare
d) Porlock
12. Which bird of prey has a blue-grey head and upperparts, and a brickred back?
a) Kestrel
b) Peregrine falcon
c) Goshawk
d) Buzzard
13. Scallop, a beach sculpture near Aldeburgh, Suffolk, in tribute to Benjamin Britten, is by which artist?
a) Antony Gormley
b) Maggi Hambling
c) Damien Hirst
d) Leigh Dyer
14. Which wildflower is pictured, left?
a) Hairy greenweed
b) Wild thyme
c) Rough hawkbit
d) Marsh helleborine