People From Yorkshire Trivia Quiz

Answer: Barbara Hepworth

Barbara Hepworth was one of Britain's leading modernist visual artists. She was born in Wakefield. She studied in Leeds, London and Italy. She is closely associated with St. Ives where she had her studio and where she also died. Her studio is now a museum dedicated to her life's work.

Henry Moore was born in Castleford. He studied at Leeds School Of Art alongside Hepworth. He was hugely successful and made a fortune, most of which went straight to the Henry Moore Foundation, with the aim of promoting visual arts. The foundation now runs Moore's house in Hertfordshire where you can see his studios and wander in the huge grounds looking at his work.

David Hockney was born in Bradford, West Yorkshire. He lived in the USA for many years but is now a UK resident again. Salt's Mill in Saltaire includes a gallery dedicated to his work.

Victorian painter Atkinson Grimshaw was born in Leeds. He is known for his grim scenes of the his home town, but he also painted London, Liverpool and Glasgow.

Answer: Brian Glover

Brian Glover was born in Sheffield, but grew up in Barnsley. Before getting into films, he'd followed his dad into professional wrestling, as well as teaching. His first film was the cult classic "Kes", which is set in the environs of Barnsley. He wasn't a trained actor and got the part through author Barry Hines, another local lad and fellow teacher. He plays a PE teacher in the film. Glover passed away in 1997.

Brian Blessed was born in Mexborough in 1936. He's most known for his role as Prince Vultan in "Flash Gordon" (1980). He also played Richard IV in British TV comedy classic, "Blackadder".

James Mason was born in 1909 in Huddersfield. He died in 1984 in Switzerland.

Ben Kingsley was born Krishna Pandit Bhanji in 1943 in Scarborough.

Answer: Arthur Scargill

Arthur Scargill was born in 1938. He was president of the National Union of Mineworkers from 1982 to 2002 and led the miners against Margaret Thatcher in the 1984 miner's strike. The strike ended in 1985, but Scargill continued to be regarded as a threat to government stability. He founded the breakaway Socialist Labour Party in 1996.

Guy Fawkes was born in 1570 in York. His involvement in the Gunpowder Plot of 1605 has secured his place in British consciousness, albeit as an effigy to be burnt on a bonfire every 5th November.

William Wilberforce was born in Kingston Upon Hull. He led a movement to abolish slavery, and his work wasn't in vain, the Slave Trade Act being brought in by 1807 and the Slavery Abolition Act in 1833. He also campaigned against cruelty to animals.

Labour politician Harold Wilson was born in 1916 in Huddersfield. He was Prime Minister of the United Kingdom twice.

Answer: Biff Byford

Although Saxon are generally associated with Barnsley and Sheffield in South Yorkshire, Biff was actually born in West Yorkshire. In his autobiography, "Never Surrender", he talks about growing up there and in particular the Arthington Viaduct that inspired "Princess Of The Night". He now lives in France.
Byford is remarkable for his campaign to get metalheads to put "heavy metal" as their religion on the UK 2011 Census .

Paradise Lost formed in Halifax in the late 1980s and signed to Peaceville, a local (Dewsbury) set-up that was fast becoming a major player on the extreme metal scene. In the early days Holmes was known for his deep, growling vocals that went hand in hand with the heavy extreme music. They changed direction after a few albums and introduced keyboards and a much more mainstream sound.

Fellow Yorkshire metallers, My Dying Bride, also signed to Peaceville. They have always kept their music very heavy, doom-laden and gothic.

Def Leppard vocalist Joe Elliot was born in Sheffield, South Yorkshire. He now lives in Ireland.

Answer: Jack Charlton

Jack Charlton was born Ashington (Northumberland) in 1935. He played for Leeds United from 1952 until 1973, appearing 773 times. He got 35 England caps and was a pivotal member of the 1966 World Cup winning team.

Joseph Kevin Keegan was born in Doncaster in 1951. He found fame playing for Liverpool.

Aaron Lennon was born in Leeds in 1987. He started out at Leeds United and was the youngest player ever to play in the Premiership when he came on against Tottenham in 2003, aged 16. He moved to Tottenham in 2005.

David Batty was born in Leeds in 1968. He started at Leeds United, then moved to Blackburn Rovers and Newcastle United before coming home to Leeds United.

Answer: Boddington's

Boddington's is from Manchester, in Yorkshire's arch enemy territory.

Theakston's was founded in Masham, North Yorkshire in 1827. It hasn't always been family owned, and had ended up being owned by a large company until 2004 when a small group of family members bought it back. In 1988 Paul Theakston broke away and started the rival Black Sheep brewery, also in Masham. Old Peculier is the most well-known ale, and its production goes back to the 1890s.

Timothy Taylor Brewery was founded in Keighley (West Yorkshire) in 1863. Timothy Taylor's Landlord is the most widely available beer.

Samuel Smith Brewery is the oldest brewery (since 1758) in Tadcaster (North Yorkshire), a town which has a long tradition of brewing. The brewery prides itself on being independent, still using dray horses for local delivery, and still using the Yorkshire Square system. The latter means the beer is produced in large, square tanks made of pure slate, giving it a distinctive flavour.

Answer: Alan Bennett

Alan Bennett was born in 1934 in Armley, Leeds. He made his name as a member of "Beyond The Fringe", an offbeat comedy group alongside Dudley Moore, Jonathan Miller and Peter Cook in 1960. By 1968 he was writing plays as well as acting. His voice is immediately recognizable to Brits, partly due to his Leeds accent. His prose manages to find comedy in sadness, disappointment and bleak ennui.

The stage play was called "The Madness Of George III" but it was changed for the film so as not to put off punters worried about not having see the first two!

Barbara Taylor Bradford was also born in Armley, and attended primary school with Alan Bennett. In terms of success, she has had the far more remunerative career, but Bennett has enjoyed more critical acclaim.

John Braine was born in in 1922 in Bingley, West Yorkshire. He's mostly remembered for his 1957 novel "Room At The Top", which is classed as part of the "angry young men" literature of the era.

Ted Hughes was British Poet Laureate from 1984 until his death in 1998. Hughes was born in the brilliantly named Mytholmroyd, West Yorkshire.

Answer: Richard II

I grew up in Pontefract (West Yorkshire) and have heard this story on so many school trips I feel like I was there when he got done in.

William Shakespeare's Richard III:
"Pomfret, Pomfret! O thou bloody prison,
Fatal and ominous to noble peers!
Within the guilty closure of thy walls
Richard the second here was hack'd to death;
And, for more slander to thy dismal seat,
We give thee up our guiltless blood to drink."

The castle was mostly destroyed by Parliamentarians during the English Civil War.

Pontefract is also known for Pontefract cakes, which are actually liquorice sweets that have an image of the castle (before it was cannoned) stamped onto them like a seal.

Answer: Robin Hood

Although Robin Hood is overwhelmingly associated with Nottingham, many a town has laid claim to him, and many believe he was active around the Doncaster area, thus the naming of the airport in 2005. The airport had previously been a military airfield and was very active in World War I.

Doncaster Dave was (allegedly) one of Robin Hood's band of merry men.

Richard "Dick" Turpin (1705 - 7 April 1739) was an 18th century English highwayman, born in Essex but executed in York. He rode Black Bess.

Zorro is usually up to his shenanigans in California.

Answer: Captain James Cook

James Cook was a brilliant cartographer and navigator. He was born in the village of Marton (North Yorkshire) in 1728.

Cook was fond of sailing around relatively uncharted waters and naming islands. In 1778 his ship was the first European vessel to visit the Hawaiian Islands. According to some scholars he was mistaken for the incarnation of god Lono and celebrated appropriately. When he left and then returned unexpectedly the locals weren't best pleased and tensions rose. After a theft and kidnapping, an altercation ensued, leaving Cook dead. He got the equivalent of a state funeral though. This involved disembowelment, roasting, and his bones being kept like relics.