Q 01/05

In the Harry Potter books, which wizard owns Fawkes, a phoenix named after the Gunpowder Plotter?

A) Rubeus Hagrid

B) Albus Dumbledore

C) Severus Snape

D) Newt Scamander

Answer · why

B) Albus Dumbledore

Albus Dumbledore's phoenix Fawkes takes his name from the Gunpowder Plot conspirator, and his tail feathers sit inside both Harry's and Voldemort's wa...

Q 02/05

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

A) Yeoman Warders

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 since the Gunpowder Plot of 1605, now largely for ceremony, and share the nickname Beefeaters with t...

Q 03/05

Until what time does UK law allow fireworks to be set off on Bonfire Night, later than on an ordinary night?

A) Midnight

B) Half past eleven

C) Half past twelve

D) One o'clock

Answer · why

A) Midnight

Midnight is the Bonfire Night exception; New Year's Eve and Diwali get 1am, and on every other night of the year 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 Museum, opened in 1683 around Elias Ashmole's cabinet of curiosities, keeps Fawkes's lantern among treasures such as the Anglo-Saxon Alf...

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.