Quiz questions

1. What did Hugh Bigod build?
2. Where was a famous nunnery founded in 1258?
3. When was The Great Fire of Bungay?
4. In which church is the end of the rood beam visible in an outside wall?
5. 6. Which bridge proclaims itself to be the oldest iron bridge in Suffolk and whose coat of arms is on it ?
7. Which Bungay pub was where the Nat West Bank now is?
8. Which thatched roof was destroyed by fire in 1979?
9. Which church, if it collapsed, might experience the rub of the green?
10. Indicate which of these churches has a square or round tower :- Ringsfield, Barsham,Redisham, Mettingham, Ilketshall St.Andrew.
11,12. Who left his claw marks on which church door ?
13. What used to be on the site of the Bungay Post Office
14,15. Where can you find an Australian city and a Mediterranean harbour, and what are they?
16. Where was the seat of the Adairs ?
17. Where were you once able to see every week, with absolute regularity, a heron?
18. In which church is the complete pattern of a blocked three light window visible on the outside wall?
19. How is the Duke of Bronte better known, and with which parish is he connected?
20. Which two families are remembered side by side in which churchyard for having lost three children?
21. Where in Bungay can you see written LONDON PROVINCIAL BANK LTD?
22. Where sheep once grazed - one assumes - a man now lives in a holy place. Where is it?
23. Ethel Mann (local historian) and Frederick Smith (Town Reeve) once lived here - in which house?
24. Where was the Bungay horse fair held?
25. When was the present buttercross built?
26. Who was the King of the Norfolk Poachers and who wrote his life in the 1930s ?
27. Which Hundred was Mettingham in?
28. 29. Who painted a picture of Mettingham Castle situating it on a cliff near the sea, and where is it hung?
30. Who was the Lord of the Manor in Mettingham in the reign of Edward I?
31. Where does the C.C.T. have an interest?
32. Which mustelids used to be seen in enclosures?
33. Complete the following : Beccles for a .............Bungay for the ..........
34,35. What was moved from Raveningham to Mettingham Castle in 1393/4?, and then still in the 14th century which Manor was passed to it ?
36. Where are there three churches in one parish within a few yards of each other?
37. Where is CorkBrick?
38. In which decade did commercial navigation in Bungay end?
39. Where are ST.EDMUND'S HOMES 1895?
40. Approximately how many inhabitants were there in Mettingham in 1874?
41. Whose name became associated with the tower at Mettingham castle?
42. What connection does Benacre have with Mettingham?
43. Who built Flixton Hall?
44. The park of this Hall, the other side of the river, was landscaped by Capability Brown. Which Hall is it ?
45. Which family comes to mind when you think of the sound of leather on willow?
46, 47. The home of Lilias Rider Haggard is set on which Hill? and which Hundred was it in?
48. This Tudor Hall hosted an annual event in the latter half of the 20th century.
49. A large silk mill was built here around 1833.
50. It was once thought to be a Minster, but it is now thought to be a Bishop’s private chapel in his estate. Where is it?


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