Q 01/05

Which county faces France across the Strait of Dover and contains Canterbury, seat of England's senior archbishop?

A) Sussex

B) Kent

C) Dorset

D) Suffolk

Answer · why

B) Kent

Kent is where Saint Augustine landed in the 6th century to begin converting the English, becoming the first Archbishop of Canterbury.

Q 02/05

Which county holds Land's End, Tintagel Castle and the vast greenhouse domes of the Eden Project?

A) Dorset

B) Hampshire

C) Wiltshire

D) Cornwall

Answer · why

D) Cornwall

Cornwall kept its own Celtic language, which died out as a community tongue at the end of the 18th century and has since been revived.

Q 03/05

Which Scottish county, still styled a kingdom after its Pictish past, holds St Andrews, the home of golf?

A) Fife

B) Angus

C) Moray

D) Argyll

Answer · why

A) Fife

Fife is home to The R&A at St Andrews, the body that governs golf everywhere in the world except the United States and Mexico.

Q 04/05

Which County Antrim landmark of about 40,000 interlocking basalt columns became a UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1986?

A) Carrick-a-Rede

B) Slemish Mountain

C) Giant's Causeway

D) Rathlin Island

Answer · why

C) Giant's Causeway

Giant's Causeway was, in legend, built by the Irish hero Finn MacCool after a Scottish rival called Benandonner challenged him to a fight.

Q 05/05

Which mountain, the highest in Wales, can be climbed by a rack railway that starts at Llanberis in Gwynedd?

A) Cadair Idris

B) Snowdon

C) Pen y Fan

D) Tryfan

Answer · why

B) Snowdon

Snowdon has carried passengers to its summit by train since 1896, on the only public rack-and-pinion railway in the United Kingdom.