Q 01/05

In Spain, 'El Camino de Santiago' is also a popular name for which feature of the night sky?

A) The Pleiades

B) The Milky Way

C) Orion's Belt

D) The Great Bear

Answer · why

B) The Milky Way

The Milky Way was said in a common medieval legend to be formed from the dust raised by travelling pilgrims. At night it seems to point the way west a...

Q 02/05

Which animals live in the cathedral of Santo Domingo de la Calzada on the Camino de Santiago?

A) Doves

B) Pheasants

C) Chickens

D) Geese

Answer · why

C) Chickens

Chickens, a live cock and hen, are kept in a henhouse inside the cathedral because of a legend in which two roasted birds came back to life to clear a...

Q 03/05

The Botafumeiro, which swings through Santiago Cathedral at up to 68 km/h, is a giant what?

A) Oil lantern

B) Incense burner

C) Candle chandelier

D) Relic casket

Answer · why

B) Incense burner

An incense burner, the Botafumeiro is set swinging by eight robed men called tiraboleiros, who haul on its rope until it sweeps the length of the tran...

Q 04/05

Which US envoy, later president, followed the Camino de Santiago backwards in 1779 to reach Paris?

A) Thomas Jefferson

B) James Madison

C) James Monroe

D) John Adams

Answer · why

D) John Adams

John Adams landed in Galicia because his ship was leaking and went on overland from there. He later wrote that he always regretted not finding time to...

Q 05/05

Where did the Codex Calixtinus, stolen from Santiago Cathedral in 2011, turn up a year later?

A) In a bank vault

B) In a garage

C) In an antique shop

D) In a monastery cell

Answer · why

B) In a garage

In a garage belonging to a former cathedral employee, who was sentenced to ten years in prison for the theft. One book of the 12th-century manuscript ...