Q 01/05

In which Yorkshire village were Charlotte, Branwell, Emily and Anne born before the 1820 move to Haworth?

A) Mirfield

B) Thornton

C) Keighley

D) Halifax

Answer · why

B) Thornton

The birthplace near Bradford is a place of pilgrimage; the Haworth parsonage draws hundreds of thousands of visitors a year.

Q 02/05

Under what male pseudonyms did Charlotte, Emily and Anne publish?

A) Charles, Edward and Arthur Bell

B) Currer, Ellis and Acton Hall

C) Carter, Ellis and Ashton Bell

D) Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell

Answer · why

D) Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell

The initials matched their own; the surname Bell may have come from their father's curate Arthur Bell Nicholls.

Q 03/05

What was the original Irish family surname before Patrick Brontë changed the spelling?

A) Bronson

B) Brenton

C) Brunty

D) Bruton

Answer · why

C) Brunty

It anglicised the clan name Ó Pronntaigh, hereditary scribes of Fermanagh; Patrick added the diaeresis to show two syllables.

Q 04/05

One theory says Patrick chose 'Brontë' to link himself with which admiral, who was Duke of Bronte?

A) Cuthbert Collingwood

B) John Jervis

C) Edward Pellew

D) Horatio Nelson

Answer · why

D) Horatio Nelson

Biographer Clement Shorter proposed the idea in 1896.

Q 05/05

Where was Patrick Brontë born in 1777?

A) Cornwall, England

B) County Down, Ireland

C) Yorkshire, England

D) County Cork, Ireland

Answer · why

B) County Down, Ireland

One of ten children of a poor family, he won a scholarship to St John's College, Cambridge.