Lake District Places and People

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1. Which of the following is not a genuine lake in the English Lake District? Ullswater Bannermere Crummock Water Thirlmere

2. One of the principal cultural attractions of the Lake District is "The Theatre by the Lake". Which lake is it nearest? Derwentwater Coniston Windermere Bassenthwaite

3. Which Lake District peak has the famous "Striding Edge" as one of its most remarkable features? Black Sail Skiddaw Helvellyn Great Gable

4. Which famous poet is buried in St. Oswald's churchyard in Grasmere? William Wordsworth Robert Southey Samuel Taylor Coleridge Lord Tennyson

5. What is the name of the best preserved Roman fort amongst the mountains of Cumbria? Langholm Hardknott Blea Pass Green Gable

6. Windermere is England's longest lake. What is its length? 25 kilometres 17 kilometres 12 kilometres 23 kilometres

7. The famous social reformer and art critic John Ruskin lived in a house by the side of Lake Coniston.What is the name of his famous house which can still be visited? The Heald Brantwood Lakeside Lakeview

8. Which celebrated children's writer wrote and illustrated her books for very young children whilst living at Hill Top Farm at Sawrey? Enid Blyton Shirley Hughes Noel Streatfeild Beatrix Potter

9. In which town in the Lake District is the Cumberland Pencil Museum? Kendal Keswick Cockermouth Ambleside

10. Which ancient monument would you find on the hills just above Keswick? The ruins of Caperham Castle The Castlerigg Stone Circle The ruins of Bodiam Abbey The ruins of Middleham Manor

11. Its water is carried by a 96 mile aqueduct to serve Manchester and district. Which lake was largely created in the 19th century by placing a dam to stop the water flowing out of St.John's Beck? Derwentwater Thirlmere Coniston Bassenthwaite

12. Near which Lakeland town is the beauty spot called Orrest Head? Keswick Windermere Cockermouth Ambleside

13. Which two lakes inspired Arthur Ransome to write his famous children's book "Swallows and Amazons"? Windermere and Ullswater Coniston and Windermere Coniston and Derwentwater Ullswater and Wast Water

14. Which lake has an island that was inhabited by a hermit called St. Herbert and another island that was occupied by a colony of German miners in the 16th century? Derwentwater Coniston Ullswater Bassenthwaite

15. What is the traditional way in which fields are separated from each other on the Lakeland hills and fells? by specially dug drainage ditches by barbed wire by a dry stone wall by small plantations of coniferous trees