Q 01/05

In the Harry Potter books, which wizard owns Fawkes, a phoenix that shares the Gunpowder Plotter's name?

A) Rubeus Hagrid

B) Albus Dumbledore

C) Severus Snape

D) Newt Scamander

Answer · why

B) Albus Dumbledore

Albus Dumbledore's phoenix Fawkes gave the tail feathers inside both Harry's and Voldemort's wands, which is why the two wands will not fight each oth...

Q 02/05

Which royal bodyguard, founded by Henry VII, still searches the cellars beneath Parliament before every State Opening?

A) Coldstream Guards

B) Household Cavalry

C) Gentlemen at Arms

D) Yeomen of the Guard

Answer · why

D) Yeomen of the Guard

The Yeomen of the Guard have searched the cellars before every State Opening since the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, a hunt for a latter-day Fawkes that is ...

Q 03/05

Until what time does the law in England and Wales allow fireworks on Bonfire Night, later than on an ordinary night?

A) Half past eleven

B) Midnight

C) Half past twelve

D) One o'clock

Answer · why

B) Midnight

Midnight is the Bonfire Night exception; New Year's Eve, Diwali and Chinese New Year get 1am, and on ordinary nights fireworks must stop at 11pm.

Q 04/05

Which Oxford museum, Britain's first public museum, holds the lantern Guy Fawkes carried the night he was caught?

A) Pitt Rivers

B) Natural History

C) History of Science

D) Ashmolean

Answer · why

D) Ashmolean

The Ashmolean's lantern, said to be the one Fawkes was carrying, was given to Oxford University in 1641 by Robert Heywood, whose brother Peter joined ...

Q 05/05

Which Game of Thrones actor played his own ancestor, plot ringleader Robert Catesby, in the BBC drama Gunpowder?

A) Kit Harington

B) Richard Madden

C) Iwan Rheon

D) Joe Dempsie

Answer · why

A) Kit Harington

Kit Harington was christened Christopher Catesby Harington, and he developed and produced the 2017 series as well as starring in it.