Q 01/05

In which Yorkshire village were Charlotte, Emily and Anne Brontë born, before the family moved to Haworth?

A) Mirfield

B) Thornton

C) Keighley

D) Halifax

Answer · why

B) Thornton

Thornton: the house where they and Branwell were born spent years as a butcher's shop and then a cafe. After a community fundraising campaign bought i...

Q 02/05

Charlotte Brontë said the pen names Currer, Ellis and Acton Bell were chosen because they were what?

A) Names of Yorkshire villages

B) Anagrams of their own names

C) Not clearly male or female

D) Names of famous clergymen

Answer · why

C) Not clearly male or female

Not clearly male or female: Charlotte wrote that the sisters scrupled to take names 'positively masculine' yet did not want to declare themselves wome...

Q 03/05

Patrick Brontë, a poor farmer's son, entered which university in 1802 at the age of 25?

A) Cambridge

B) Edinburgh

C) Oxford

D) St Andrews

Answer · why

A) Cambridge

Cambridge: he arrived at St John's College as Patrick Brunty, a former village schoolmaster and tutor, and it was there that he began to sign himself ...

Q 04/05

One theory says Patrick Brontë chose his new surname to echo which admiral, who was Duke of Bronte?

A) Cuthbert Collingwood

B) Francis Drake

C) William Bligh

D) Horatio Nelson

Answer · why

D) Horatio Nelson

Horatio Nelson was made Duke of Bronte in 1799 by the King of Naples and Sicily, a reward for defending his throne, and Patrick is said to have admire...

Q 05/05

Although the Brontës are tied to Yorkshire, their father Patrick was born in which country?

A) Scotland

B) Ireland

C) Wales

D) France

Answer · why

B) Ireland

Ireland: Patrick was born in County Down on St Patrick's Day 1777, one of ten children of a family so poor that he had to make his own way from his te...