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Quiz about Wedding Venues of British Prime Ministers
Quiz about Wedding Venues of British Prime Ministers

Wedding Venues of British Prime Ministers Quiz


Questions related to a wedding venue used by a Prime Minster of Britain.

A multiple-choice quiz by Mugaboo. Estimated time: 5 mins.
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Author
Mugaboo
Time
5 mins
Type
Multiple Choice
Quiz #
392,490
Updated
Dec 03 21
# Qns
10
Difficulty
Average
Avg Score
6 / 10
Plays
121
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Question 1 of 10
1. William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, married Lady Dorothy Cavendish on 8 November 1766 at Burlington House, Piccadilly. The Royal Society moved there in 1857. They moved out in 1968. Where did the Royal Society move to? Hint


Question 2 of 10
2. George Canning married Joan Scott on 8th July 1800 at St George's, Hanover Square, London. Herbert Asquith married Margot Tennant at the same venue on 10th May 1894. Between these two dates, which American president was married at this church? Hint


Question 3 of 10
3. George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, married Lady Katherine Elizabeth Hamilton on on 28 July 1805 at Bentley Prior, Stanmore, London. What use was made of this building during World War II? Hint


Question 4 of 10
4. William Ewart Gladstone married Catherine Glynne in Hawarden Church on 25 July 1839. The designer of the later stained glass in the east and west windows was 34 days short of his sixth birthday at that time. Who was this artist, often associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood? Hint


Question 5 of 10
5. John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, married Frances Anna Maria Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound on 20th July 1841 in the drawing-room at Minto in the Scottish Borders. Minto House was involved in a scandal in 1992; what happened? Hint


Question 6 of 10
6. Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury, married Georgina Caroline Alderson on 11 July 1857 at St. Mary Magdalene Munster Square, St. Pancras, Middlesex, England. The Church was built between 1849 and 1952 on the site of a coach factory. Who was the reigning monarch at the time the first coach was introduced into England? Hint


Question 7 of 10
7. Henry Campbell-Bannerman married Sarah Charlotte Bruce, at All Souls' Church, Langham Place in London, on 13 September 1860. This London church was designed by architect John Nash, and finished in 1823. Which of these places was NOT designed by John Nash? Hint


Question 8 of 10
8. Andrew Bonar Law married Annie Robley on 24 March 1891 in the West Free Church, Helensburgh.

They were married by the Rev. William Leitch, rather than Rev John Baird, father of TV inventor John Logie Baird, who also occasionally preached at that church. John Logie Baird demonstrated the world's first working television in 1926 and the colour version in 1928. This was using a mechanical system.

Who demonstrated the world's first plasma television?
Hint


Question 9 of 10
9. Stanley Baldwin married Lucy Ridsdale on 12 September 1892 at St Margaret's Church, Rottingdean. Just over the village green from the church you will find the house that Rudyard Kipling lived in for five years from 1897. Which of these books was Kipling writing while living here? Hint


Question 10 of 10
10. Alec Douglas-Home married Elizabeth Alington on 3rd October 1936 at Durham Cathedral. In 1650 about 3000 Scottish prisoners of war were held in the Cathedral. After which battle had they been captured? Hint



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Quiz Answer Key and Fun Facts
1. William Cavendish-Bentinck, 3rd Duke of Portland, married Lady Dorothy Cavendish on 8 November 1766 at Burlington House, Piccadilly. The Royal Society moved there in 1857. They moved out in 1968. Where did the Royal Society move to?

Answer: 6-9 Carlton House Terrace

The President, Council and Fellows of the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge, is the oldest national scientific institution in the world, having been founded in 1660. They started off meeting at Gresham College, then after the Great Fire of London (1666) moved to Arundel House, then returned back to Gresham in 1673. In 1710 they moved to Fleet Street and then in 1780 they moved to Somerset House.
Three prime ministers have lived on Carlton House Terrace, Palmerston (No.5), Grey (No. 13) and Gladstone (No. 11). Numbers 6-9 were previously used by the German ambassador.
The other three addresses were early meeting places for the Geological Society of London, the Royal Astronomical Society and the Society of Antiquaries, all of which moved into Burlington House in 1874, and are still there today.

Both the Duke and Duchess were buried at St. Marylebone Parish Church, where another Prime Minister, Robert Peel, married Julia Floyd on 8th June 1820.
2. George Canning married Joan Scott on 8th July 1800 at St George's, Hanover Square, London. Herbert Asquith married Margot Tennant at the same venue on 10th May 1894. Between these two dates, which American president was married at this church?

Answer: Theodore Roosevelt

Theodore Roosevelt married Edith Carow here on 2nd December 1886. This was his second marriage, he had married Alice Lee in Massachusetts in 1880, but she died two days after child birth in 1884.
Millard Fillmore was married in New York; Warren Harding was married in Columbus, Ohio; Gerald Ford was married in Grand Rapids, Michigan.
3. George Hamilton-Gordon, 4th Earl of Aberdeen, married Lady Katherine Elizabeth Hamilton on on 28 July 1805 at Bentley Prior, Stanmore, London. What use was made of this building during World War II?

Answer: RAF fighter command

The RAF used the building between 1926 and 2009, although it ceased to be fighter command in 1968. Queen Adelaide, widow of William IV, spent the last years of her life living here (1848-49). It became a hotel in 1882, and despite having a railway specially built to it, was not a success.

It then became a girls school, that closed in 1924. It became a museum in 2014 owned by the Battle of Britain Trust. Aberdeen's first wife died in 1812. On 8th July 1815 he married Lady Harriet Hamilton, mother of the four year old owner of Bentley Priory. Aberdeen was already James Hamilton's uncle by marriage, now he was his step-father as well.

This marriage also took place at the priory.
4. William Ewart Gladstone married Catherine Glynne in Hawarden Church on 25 July 1839. The designer of the later stained glass in the east and west windows was 34 days short of his sixth birthday at that time. Who was this artist, often associated with the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood?

Answer: Sir Edward Burne-Jones

Burne-Jones painted and did illustration work for books, but his main contribution during the second half of the 19th century were his stained glass windows, which can be found all over Britain. The nativity scene in the west window is supposed to be Burne-Jones' last stained glass design. The east window is a copy of a previous design, made by Morris & Co. The other stained glasses in the church are by Henry Holiday, F. C. Eden and Haswall.
You will also find an interesting plaque (with a photo underneath) remembering Benson's death whilst visiting Gladstone, that says "near this place Edward White Benson Archbishop of Canterbury 'fell asleep in Christ' on October 11 1896"
Sir Edwin Landseer designed Nelson's column, and Sir David Wilkie was a Scottish painter.
5. John Russell, 1st Earl Russell, married Frances Anna Maria Elliot-Murray-Kynynmound on 20th July 1841 in the drawing-room at Minto in the Scottish Borders. Minto House was involved in a scandal in 1992; what happened?

Answer: Within two weeks of being designated a category A listed building, it was demolished

Lord Minto, who had been on the local planning committee, had been trying to demolish it for years, and has been described as a "Text book example" of what an owner should do if he objects to his building being listed. Only about two thirds of it now remain, and can be found five and a half miles northeast of Hawick. It was originally a tower house, rebuilt in the 1740s as a mansion and altered again in the 19th century.
Lord Russell had married Adelaide Lister 11th April 1835, but she died three years later.
6. Robert Arthur Talbot Gascoyne-Cecil, Marquess of Salisbury, married Georgina Caroline Alderson on 11 July 1857 at St. Mary Magdalene Munster Square, St. Pancras, Middlesex, England. The Church was built between 1849 and 1952 on the site of a coach factory. Who was the reigning monarch at the time the first coach was introduced into England?

Answer: Elizabeth I

Introduced by Henry FitzAlan (1512-1580) 19th Earl of Arundel. These were light weight carriages, developed in the Hungarian town of Kottse (or Kocs, called by the French Coche), supposedly by Listhuis, Bishop of Westpriun.

The Marchioness of Salisbury later laid the cornerstone of the North Aisle of the church in 1884.
7. Henry Campbell-Bannerman married Sarah Charlotte Bruce, at All Souls' Church, Langham Place in London, on 13 September 1860. This London church was designed by architect John Nash, and finished in 1823. Which of these places was NOT designed by John Nash?

Answer: Warwick Castle

Warwick Castle was originally built in 1068, well before Nash's time. The re-roofing of Warwick Castle's great hall, that was done during Nash's lifetime, was done by Ambrose Poynter.
Clarence house was built between 1825 and 1827.
Shanbally Castle was built in about 1810, and is the largest house Nash designed in Ireland. Shanbally was demolished in 1960.
The Royal Pavilion was redesigned by Nash between 1815 and 1822.
8. Andrew Bonar Law married Annie Robley on 24 March 1891 in the West Free Church, Helensburgh. They were married by the Rev. William Leitch, rather than Rev John Baird, father of TV inventor John Logie Baird, who also occasionally preached at that church. John Logie Baird demonstrated the world's first working television in 1926 and the colour version in 1928. This was using a mechanical system. Who demonstrated the world's first plasma television?

Answer: Donald Bitzer, H. Gene Slottow and Robert Willson

They did the work at the University of Illinois. The monocrome version was demonstrated in in 1964 and the colour version the following year.
The Hungarian Kálmán Tihanyi, was the person who came up with the idea of a plasma screen in 1936.
George Heilmeier created the first operational LCD, also in 1964.
Tsutae Shinoda worked for Fujitsu on developing the first mass produced colour plasma display panel.

Logie Baird's father was a preacher at St. Bride's Church, only one block to the west of the West Free Church. St. Bride's was demolished in 1990, and the stained glass window of Logie Baird was put into the new Helensburgh library, that was built on the site. Since 2015 what was the West Free Church (it had other names besides) became the Helensburgh Parish Church, as it was the only Church of Scotland congregation left in town. Stanley Baldwin dedicated a new window in the church to Bonar Law, after rebuilding, following a fire in 1924.
9. Stanley Baldwin married Lucy Ridsdale on 12 September 1892 at St Margaret's Church, Rottingdean. Just over the village green from the church you will find the house that Rudyard Kipling lived in for five years from 1897. Which of these books was Kipling writing while living here?

Answer: Just So Stories for Little Children

This consisted of thirteen short stories about how a particular feature of an animal came to be. They originate from stories told to Kipling's daughter to send her to sleep.
"The Tale of Peter Rabbit" is by Beatrix Potter; "Five Children and It" is by E. Nesbit and "The Little White Bird" is by J. M. Barrie. All four are children's books first published in 1902.

Kipling's first cousin was Stanley Baldwin.
10. Alec Douglas-Home married Elizabeth Alington on 3rd October 1936 at Durham Cathedral. In 1650 about 3000 Scottish prisoners of war were held in the Cathedral. After which battle had they been captured?

Answer: Battle of Dunbar

Exact numbers are a bit sketchy, but half of them seem to have died between Dunbar and Durham. Half of those who did arrive died of the poor condition they were kept in at the cathedral. Most if the remainder were deported to New England, Virginia and the Caribbean.
Battle of Neville's Cross that took place near Durham was in 1346, Battle of Nesbit Moor was in 1355, another Battle of Nesbit Moor in 1403 and Battle of Flodden was in 1513.
Between 1933 to 1951 Cyril Alington (Elizabeth's father) served as Dean of Durham. Cyril was headmaster at Eton when Alec Douglas-Home was there. Cyril along with William Temple, Archbishop of York and Hensley Henson, Bishop of Durham conducted the service.
Source: Author Mugaboo

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