Q 01/05

Spillers, founded in Cardiff in 1894, is recognised as the world's oldest shop selling what?

A) Bicycles

B) Records

C) Cameras

D) Pianos

Answer · why

B) Records

Records have been sold at Spillers since the age of wax cylinders, when Henry Spiller also sold phonographs and repaired musical instruments.

Q 02/05

Which children's author, born in Cardiff in 1916, has a Cardiff Bay plaza named after him?

A) Roald Dahl

B) Philip Pullman

C) C. S. Lewis

D) Michael Bond

Answer · why

A) Roald Dahl

Roald Dahl spent his early childhood in Cardiff, where at age eight he was caned for hiding a dead mouse in a sweet shop's gobstopper jar.

Q 03/05

Which BBC science-fiction series was relaunched in 2005 with its production moved to Cardiff?

A) Red Dwarf

B) Blake's 7

C) Doctor Who

D) Life on Mars

Answer · why

C) Doctor Who

Doctor Who returned in 2005 with production moved to BBC Wales, and from 2012 it was filmed at the BBC's Roath Lock studios in Cardiff Bay.

Q 04/05

Cardiff grew into the world's largest port for exporting which cargo from the South Wales Valleys?

A) Slate

B) Copper

C) Wool

D) Coal

Answer · why

D) Coal

Coal made Cardiff so central to the trade that the price for the whole British market was set in the city's own exchange.

Q 05/05

Which polar explorer's doomed South Pole expedition sailed from Cardiff aboard the Terra Nova in 1910?

A) Captain Cook

B) Ernest Shackleton

C) Captain Scott

D) Sir John Franklin

Answer · why

C) Captain Scott

Captain Scott reached the South Pole in January 1912, only to find that Amundsen's team had arrived 34 days earlier.