Test your knowledge of North East England with quiz number 10.

1. What is the name of the beautiful building pictured above?

2. Which famous poet was married at Seaham?

3. What is the name of the legend involving a hapless knight, a secret cavern, a beautiful maiden, a wicked wizard, a sword and a couple of skeletons that is associated with Northumberland’s Dunstanburgh Castle?

4. Which two North East rivers merge at Warden rocks and what do they become?

5. Friars Goose near Gateshead takes its name from what?

6. Underhill, once a private house and now a Gateshead care home in Low Fell was famous for which world first?

7. On whose body did sculptor Antony Gormley model the Angel of the North?

8. On which plain would you find the ancient site of Maelmin, a Royal centre for kings of Northumbria?

9. Where would you find Benebal Crag and King Edward’s Bay?

10. For what purpose was this eighteenth century building (below) at Westerton near Spennymoor built and who built it?

11. What was the name of the fenced-off Belgian village occupied by 6,000 French and Flemish speaking Belgian nationals during World War One and where in the North East was it located?

12. The mound of this Norman castle (below) can be found on the outskirts of which North East village?

13. Who was the leader of the seventeenth century Levellers political movement who hailed from the North East?

14. Where will you find the memorial to the Felling Colliery disaster and the grave of the miners’ union leader, Thomas Hepburn?

15. Where in the region would you find the ballroom from the Olympic, the sister ship of the Titanic?

16. For what purpose was the building that now forms the famed art gallery BALTIC at Gateshead originally built and on what notable industrial site does it stand?

17. What is the name of this eerie structure pictured below?

18. Where would you find the Kilted Magi and what are they?

19. What family name links the village of Longnewton near Stockton, Wynyard Hall, Seaham Harbour and Old Durham near Durham City?

20. What was the name of the son of William the Conqueror who built a castle of earth and wood at Newcastle in 1080?

21, What was unusual about William Cumin, Bishop of Durham who seized and fortified the hill top church of Kirk Merrington in County Durham during a siege in 1143?

22. What was the occupation of Clavering commemorated by Clavering’s Cross in the moors near Longhorsley, Northumberland and what happened to him?

23. What separates the Blackgate of Newcastle castle from the castle keep?

24. What was the name of the former border stronghold of the Prince Bishops of Durham on the banks of the Tweed in north Northumberland?

25. Born at Morpeth in 1508, who was known as ‘The Father of English Botany’?

26. Plummer Tower, Wall Knoll, Durham Tower and Morden Tower are all part of what extensive medieval structure?

27. What devastating Tyneside event took place on October 6, 1854?

28. What was the former name of the village centred on what is now Gosforth High Street?

29. With which North East town would you associate the legend of the Pollard Brawn?

30. Where would you find the two towers pictured above?

31. Which County Durham church has an interior with a remarkable similarity to the Galilee Chapel of Durham Cathedral and is thought to have been built by the same architect?

32. Where is the modern town centre area (below) called Trinity Square?

33. What is the name of the hill near Sunderland where the carriers of St Cuthbert’s coffin are said to have mysteriously ground to a halt, as the monks sought guidance in finding his final resting place?

34. Who gave Jesmond Dene as a gift to the people of Newcastle?

35. What was first performed on June 5th 1862?

36. To which saint is Newcastle cathedral dedicated?

37. A circle of heads of which creature can be seen peering over the lantern tower of Newcastle Civic Centre?

38. What often riotous event last took place on September 28, 1916?

39. Who was Dickie of Kingswood?

40. Why is Newcastle’s Dean Street so named?

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Answers

1. Sage, Gateshead.
2. Lord Byron.
3. Sir Guy the Seeker.
4. The North Tyne and South Tyne merge to become the Tyne.
5. Friar’s Goose is another name for gorse (or broom).
6. It was Joseph Swan’s house, the first private house in the world to be lit by electricity.
7. Antony Gomley modelled the Angel on his own body.
8. Milfield Plain near Wooler.
9. Tynemouth.
10. It’s an observatory built by astronomer Thomas Wright.
11. Elisabethville at Birtley.
12. Bishopton, near Stockton-on-Tees.
13. John Lilburne.
14. Heworth churchyard.
15. The White Swan Inn, Alnwick.
16. It was originally a Joseph Rank Flour Mill. In earlier times this spot was the site of Hawk’s (Haaks) Gateshead iron works (1858-1890).
17. Winter’s Gibbet, near Elsdon, Northumberland. The body of a local murderer called William Winter was hung here after he was executed at Newcastle in 1791.
18. Medieval stone carvings of three wise men wearing kilts at Kirknewton church near Wooler.
19. Vane Tempest (Marquess of Londonderry’s family name).
20. Robert Curthose.
21. He was a usurper bishop who had seized the County Palatine of Durham under the direction of King David of Scotland. He was not the rightful bishop.
22. Robert Clavering, a High Sheriff of Northumberland who was shot dead at this spot in November 1586.
23. A railway line.
24. Norham Castle.
25. William Turner.
26. Remnants of Newcastle’s medieval town walls.
27.  The great fire of Newcastle and Gateshead.
28. Bulman Village.
29. Bishop Auckland.
30. Cleadon, South Tyneside.
31. St Lawrence church, at Hallgarth, Pittington.
32. Gateshead.
33. Warden Law
34.  William, Lord Armstrong.
35. Geordie Ridley’s song ‘The Blaydon Races’, the song itself mentions the actual races which took place on June 9th a few days later.
36.  St Nicholas.
37. Seahorses.
38.  The Blaydon Races – horse racing event was always a rather riotous occasion.
39. A notorious mosstrooper, horse and cattle thief from Allendale.
40. Because it follows the course of the dene or valley of a stream called the Lort Burn. The spelling should perhaps be ‘dene’ rather than ‘dean’.