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Kentish Heroes

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Kentish Heroes game quiz
"Can you name these famous people who all have a connection with Kent, the Garden of England."

15 Points Per Correct Answer - No time limit  



1. Who was the first Archbishop of Canterbury?
    Thomas Becket
    Saint Augustine
    Thomas More
    Saint Paul


2. Which two brothers, who were the first Anglo-Saxon settlers, arrived IN Kent around 450A.D.?
    Dubris and Durobrivae
    Invicta and Niveus Equus
    Durovernum and Londinium
    Hengist and Horsa


3. Who lived at Chartwell House, Westerham, until his death in 1965?
    Anthony Eden
    Neville Chamberlain
    Winston Churchill
    Clement Attlee


4. What Maidstone man, born in 1325, led the peasants' revolt of 1381?
    John Ball
    Wat Tyler
    Jack Straw
    William Walworth


5. Which wife of Henry VIII grew up in her family home was at Hever Castle, near Edenbridge, Kent?
    Anne Boleyn
    Catherine of Aragon
    Anne of Cleves
    Jane Seymour


6. Which British Prime Minister was born at Broadstairs in 1916?
    Harold Wilson
    Edward Heath
    Margaret Thatcher
    Alec Douglas-Home


7. Which poet and dramatist was born in Canterbury in 1564?
    William Shakespeare
    Christopher Marlowe
    Geoffrey Chaucer
    Ben Jonson


8. Who was born on Christmas Day 1945, in Folkestone and played bass guitar for the 'Jimi Hendrix Experience'?
    Mitch Mitchell
    Roger Glover
    Chas Chandler
    Noel Redding


9. Which famous author, one of the fathers of Science Fiction, whose most famous work was 'War of the Worlds' was born at Bromley in 1866 and lived at Sandgate, near Folkestone from 1890 to 1910?
    Jules Verne
    Anthony Burgess
    George Orwell
    H.G. Wells


10. Which actor, born in Canterbury in 1977, played Will Turner in the 'Pirates of the Caribbean' films?
    Johnny Depp
    Orlando Bloom
    Geoffrey Rush
    Bill Nighy

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