QUIZ
There’s nowhere like Norfolk
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These questions will tell you just how Norfolk you are… 1 Do you call the location (pictured above) with a lighthouse… a) Happys-berg b) Haysbru? c) Hapiz-borough 2 These are the first two lines of the Canaries’ football anthem, On The Ball City (the oldest known football song still in use). What are the next three… Kick it off, throw it in, have a little scrimmage, Keep it low, a splendid rush, bravo, win or die… 3 Which of these things did Norfolk hero Horatio Nelson say… a) When confronted with his Brancaster mussels, “I see no chips” b) “I am a Norfolk man and glory in being so” c) “Very flat, Norfolk”
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4 Most church towers are square, in the Norman fashion, but many of Norfolk’s are round. Why? a) In the event of war, round corners can’t be blasted off b) You can’t make square corners with knapped flint c) It was the Saxon style 5 a) b) c)
Samphire is what? An edible salt marsh plant A gentleman’s club in Norwich An early seaplane prototype of the Spitfire, tested on Breydon Water.
6 Before Harry Potter, the best-read children’s story was written by Anna Sewell in Great Yarmouth. What was it? a) Paddington Bear b) Swallows and Amazons c) Black Beauty 7 Who brought the famous Canary to Norwich? a) Flemish refugees who had them as pets because they were ‘cheep’ b) Polish miners who dug chalk under the city c) John Bond when he managed Norwich City FC in the 1970s
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8 Bloaters are what? a) Norfolk rhyming slang for a car b) People who have eaten too many Great Yarmouth market chips c) Herring from Great Yarmouth 9 Who wrote: ‘The principle of an equality of rights is clear and simple. Every man can understand it, and it is by understanding his rights that he learns his duties; for where the rights of men are equal, every man must, finally, see the necessity of protecting the rights of others, as the most effectual security of his own’? a) Thomas a Becket b) Thomas Paine c) Terry Thomas 10 The Erpingham gate at Norwich’s Norman cathedral is named after Sir Robert Erpingham who… a) Led the Welsh archers at Agincourt b) Was a predecessor of legendary cowboy sheriff Wyatt Earp c) Was the Witchfinder General
