Bonfire Night quiz questions and answers
Two rounds of ten for a Bonfire Night quiz: one on the Gunpowder Plot, one on bonfires, fireworks and food. Answers are under each round. Use them as they are, print them, or swap in your own.
Round 1: Remember, remember: the Gunpowder Plot
- In which year was the Gunpowder Plot foiled?
- Which king did the plotters mean to kill?
- Guy Fawkes is the name everyone remembers, but who actually led the plot?
- In which English city was Guy Fawkes born?
- What false name was Guy Fawkes using when he was caught?
- How many barrels of gunpowder were found beneath the House of Lords?
- An anonymous letter warning of the plot was sent to which lord?
- Before every State Opening of Parliament, which royal bodyguard searches the cellars of the Palace of Westminster?
- Before the plot, Guy Fawkes had fought in the Low Countries for which country's army?
- A 1605 act of Parliament made 5 November a day of public thanksgiving. In which year was it repealed?
Answers
- 1605
- James I (James VI of Scotland also accepted)
- Robert Catesby
- York
- John Johnson
- 36 (accept anything from 30 to 40)
- Lord Monteagle
- The Yeomen of the Guard (not the Yeomen Warders, the Tower of London's "Beefeaters")
- Spain
- 1859
Round 2: Bonfires, fireworks and food
- Complete the rhyme: "Remember, remember, the fifth of November, gunpowder, treason and..."
- Children once wheeled a stuffed effigy round the streets, asking passers-by for "a penny for the..." what?
- Which sticky ginger cake, made with oatmeal and black treacle, is a Bonfire Night tradition in Yorkshire?
- Bonfire toffee, made with black treacle, goes by several other names. Name one.
- Which Sussex town holds the UK's biggest Bonfire Night, with seven bonfire societies of its own?
- In which Devon town do people carry burning tar barrels on their shoulders through the streets on 5 November?
- The spinning Catherine wheel firework is named after Saint Catherine of which city?
- Which chemical element gives fireworks their red colour?
- Which country in the South Pacific still marks Guy Fawkes Night with fireworks?
- The Guy Fawkes mask became a protest symbol after which graphic novel by Alan Moore and David Lloyd, filmed in 2006?
Answers
- Plot
- Guy
- Parkin
- Treacle toffee, plot toffee or Tom Trot (claggum in Scotland also accepted)
- Lewes
- Ottery St Mary
- Alexandria
- Strontium
- New Zealand
- "V for Vendetta"
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