Q 01/05

What is the Cornish-language name for Cornwall?

A) Dumnonia

B) Cymru

C) Breizh

D) Kernow

Answer · why

D) Kernow

Kernow. Like the Corn- of Cornwall, it goes back to a Celtic word for horn, presumably after the horn-like shape of the peninsula.

Q 02/05

Which river forms most of the border between Cornwall and Devon?

A) Fal

B) Camel

C) Tamar

D) Fowey

Answer · why

C) Tamar

Tamar. It rises less than four miles from the north coast and flows to the south, so it almost cuts Cornwall off from the rest of Britain; King Athels...

Q 03/05

What is Cornwall's only city?

A) Penzance

B) Falmouth

C) Bodmin

D) Truro

Answer · why

D) Truro

Truro. It was made a city in 1877, the year after Cornwall regained a diocese of its own following centuries under the bishops of Exeter.

Q 04/05

Which Christmas service was first held in 1880 in a wooden building serving as Cornwall's temporary cathedral?

A) The Christingle service

B) Nine Lessons and Carols

C) The Watchnight service

D) Midnight Mass

Answer · why

B) Nine Lessons and Carols

Nine Lessons and Carols. Bishop Edward Benson devised it for Christmas Eve 1880, and King's College, Cambridge took it up in 1918 for the service now ...

Q 05/05

Land's End is mainland England's westernmost point, but which Cornish headland is mainland Britain's southernmost?

A) Cape Cornwall

B) Gwennap Head

C) Lizard Point

D) Dodman Point

Answer · why

C) Lizard Point

Lizard Point. England's first sight of the Spanish Armada came off this headland in July 1588, as the fleet entered the Channel.