Q 01/05

What is the Cornish-language name for Cornwall?

A) Dumnonia

B) Cymru

C) Breizh

D) Kernow

Answer · why

D) Kernow

Cymru is Wales and Breizh is Brittany, its fellow Brittonic-speaking cousins. Dumnonia was the post-Roman kingdom that covered Cornwall and Devon.

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

King Æthelstan fixed the boundary there in 936 after pushing the Britons west. Brunel's Royal Albert Bridge and the Tamar Bridge carry the main crossi...

Q 03/05

What is Cornwall's only city?

A) Penzance

B) Falmouth

C) Bodmin

D) Truro

Answer · why

D) Truro

It gained city status in 1877, a year after the Diocese of Truro was created. Bodmin had been the county town from 1838 but lost its functions to Trur...

Q 04/05

Truro Cathedral was the first new-site Anglican cathedral built in England since which one, in 1220?

A) Canterbury

B) Wells

C) Lincoln

D) Salisbury

Answer · why

D) Salisbury

John Loughborough Pearson's Gothic Revival design went up between 1880 and 1910 on the site of St Mary's parish church.

Q 05/05

Which headland is the southernmost place on mainland Great Britain?

A) Land's End

B) Start Point

C) Gwennap Head

D) Lizard Point

Answer · why

D) Lizard Point

Cornwall is both the westernmost part of the South West Peninsula and the UK's southernmost county. The Lizard is also famous for its carved serpentin...