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BONFIRE NIGHT
1 WHICH TWO statements are false? A. Guy Fawkes was the ringleader of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 B. Guy Fawkes was born a Protestant C. Guy Fawkes was sent to trial and then hanged, drawn and quartered
D. Guy Fawkes was praised by James I, who described him as having ‘a Roman resolution’ 2 GuY FAWkES put gunpowder under the Houses of Parliament. It would have caused damage up to how far from the blast? A. Three metres B. Thirty metres C. A third of a mile D. Three miles 3 IS it TRuE or FALSE that Britons were forced by law to ‘Remember, remember, the fifth of November’ and mark each anniversary of the Gunpowder Plot for more than 250 years? 4 WHEN must you stop letting off fireworks on November 5? A. 10pm B. 11pm C. Midnight D. There is no cut-off time
5 THE Edenbridge Bonfire Society in kent marks Bonfire Night with effigies of controversial celebrities. Which of these has not been burnt? A. Lance Armstrong B. Sepp Blatter C. Jonathan Ross D. David Cameron 6 WHICH of these tributes has Guy Fawkes NOT received since his death?
A. Statue in the Houses of Parliament B. An island named after him C. Named the 30th Greatest Briton in a poll D. Inspired the word ‘guy’, meaning man
ANSWERS
1) A. Guy Fawkes was the ringleader of the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 C. Guy Fawkes was sent to trial and then hanged, drawn and quartered The ringleader was robert Catesby. But, of the 13 conspirators, Fawkes is the one we remember because he was the one who had the job of igniting the explosives and who was caught with 36 barrels of gunpowder.
Fawkes was central to the plot to kill the Protestant king, James I, and restore a Catholic monarch to the throne. however, the plotter was himself born a Protestant, only converting as a teenager after his father died and his mother married a Catholic.
he was not hanged as intended because he jumped from the gallows to his death, dying of a broken neck — in order to avoid being castrated and disembowelled. 2 C. A third of a mile ACCORDING to research by experts at the University of Wales, who found that 2,500kg of gunpowder could have caused destruction over a 490m radius — from St James’s Park to where the London eye is today. 3 TRUE In 1606, Parliament passed the observance of 5th november Act 1605, making attendance at church and the ringing of bells compulsory. It was not repealed until 1859. 4 C. Midnight NORMALLY, you can’t use fireworks between 11pm and 7am, according to gov.uk. But on Bonfire night, the cut-off is midnight. 5 D. David Cameron ROSS was featured in 2008, Armstrong in 2012 and Blatter in 2015, gaining three times more votes than david Cameron. 6 A. Statue in the Houses of Parliament he was named the 30th Greatest Briton in 2002 by a BBC poll and has an uninhabited island in the Galapagos named after him. The word ‘guy’ was first used to describe effigies of Fawkes before coming to mean, more generally, a man, fellow or person.