Q 01/05

Which Sussex headland near Eastbourne is the highest chalk sea cliff in Britain, with a lighthouse at its foot?

A) Selsey Bill

B) Beachy Head

C) Seaford Head

D) Portland Bill

Answer · why

B) Beachy Head

Beachy Head has nothing to do with beaches: the name is a corruption of the French for beautiful headland, and the cliff rises 162 metres above the se...

Q 02/05

Which English king was killed fighting Duke William's Norman army in Sussex on 14 October 1066?

A) Edward the Confessor

B) Edmund Ironside

C) Harold Harefoot

D) Harold Godwinson

Answer · why

D) Harold Godwinson

Harold Godwinson was the last crowned Anglo-Saxon king of England, and the victor founded Battle Abbey with its high altar on the spot where he is sai...

Q 03/05

Which king, while still Prince of Wales, began Brighton's domed Royal Pavilion as his seaside pleasure palace?

A) George IV

B) George III

C) William IV

D) Edward VII

Answer · why

A) George IV

George IV had the architect John Nash add the exotic domes and minarets, and Queen Victoria, who preferred the Isle of Wight, later sold the palace to...

Q 04/05

Which Sussex heathland inspired the Hundred Acre Wood in A. A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh stories?

A) New Forest

B) Epping Forest

C) Ashdown Forest

D) Friston Forest

Answer · why

C) Ashdown Forest

Ashdown Forest was where Milne took his son Christopher Robin walking from the family's farm on its northern edge, and a Poohsticks Bridge still stand...

Q 05/05

Which pop group won the 1974 Eurovision Song Contest when it was staged at the Brighton Dome in Sussex?

A) Herreys

B) ABBA

C) Teach-In

D) Baccara

Answer · why

B) ABBA

ABBA won for Sweden with Waterloo, and Britain only hosted that year because Luxembourg, the previous winner, declined to stage the contest twice runn...