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Get me to the church on time!

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Get me to the church on time game quiz
"Visiting English cathedrals one learns a great deal about history from Roman times to the present day."

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1. Which cathedral in London was destroyed in the Great Fire of 1666 and rebuilt under the direction of Sir Christopher Wren?
    Westminster Abbey
    Exeter Cathedral
    Lincoln Cathedral
    St Paul's Cathedral


2. Canterbury Cathedral was the site of a famous murder during the reign of Henry II. Who was the victim?
    John Fitzwilliam
    Henry Seymour
    Edward Spencer
    Thomas a Becket


3. Which cathedral in the north of England, reputed to be one of the most beautiful pieces of Norman architecture in Europe, contains some of the bones of St Cuthbert?
    Durham Cathedral
    Sheffield Cathedral
    Liverpool Cathedral
    Newcastle Cathedral


4. During WWII the German Air Force bombed Kent intensively. Which cathedral there was targetted?
    Dover Cathedral
    Folkestone Cathedral
    Luton Cathedral
    Canterbury Cathedral


5. Which English cathedral is known as the Ship of the Fens?
    Canterbury Cathedral
    Ely Cathedral
    Westminster Abbey
    York Cathedral


6. This cathedral in Devon suffered a direct hit during a German bombing raid on the night of 4/5th May, 1942. Do you know its name?
    Dartmouth Cathedral
    Crediton Catheral
    Plymouth Cathedral
    Exeter Cathedral


7. Two Queens were buried in this cathedral during the Tudor period, Katherine of Aragon and Mary, Queen of Scots. What is its name?
    Plymouth Cathedral
    Westchester Cathedral
    Peterborough Cathedral
    Wembley Cathedral


8. Salisbury Cathedral, in the lovely county of Wiltshire, holds the best preserved original document that is one of the most important in English history, in fact, its provisions still influence the system of law in many western countries. (hint: signed in 1215)
    British Constitution
    US Bill of Rights
    Last Will and Testament of Henry V
    Magna Carta


9. Canterbury Cathedral, in Kent, has a memorial to the Allied Forces who took part in D-Day, when the combined forces of their armies, navies and air forces lauched their attack on the German forces at Normandy. What was that date?
    29th July, 1944
    6th June, 1944
    3rd April, 1943
    15 September, 1943


10. While it is not, strictly speaking, a Cathedral as it does not have a Bishop as its chief clergyman, do you know the name of the very important London church where the English monarchs are crowned?
    London Cathedral
    Westminster Abbey
    Mayfair Cathedral
    Kensington Cathedral


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