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Bury St Edmunds
  • 1. What is the population of Bury St Edmunds according to the 2021 census?
A) 55,100
B) 28,750
C) 32,500
D) 41,280
  • 2. Which company produces Silver Spoon sugar in Bury St Edmunds?
A) Greene King
B) Associated British Foods
C) Tate & Lyle
D) British Sugar
  • 3. Who was responsible for building the town on a grid pattern around 1080?
A) King Edmund
B) King John
C) Abbot Baldwin
D) Abbot Samson
  • 4. What was the town originally called before it was known as Bury St Edmunds?
A) East Anglia
B) Villa Faustini
C) Saint Edmund
D) Beodericsworth
  • 5. In what year was King Edmund the Martyr killed by the Vikings?
A) 869
B) 842
C) 924
D) 1014
  • 6. The name 'Bury' is etymologically connected to the Proto-Germanic word 'burgs', which means what?
A) Market
B) Cathedral
C) Fortress
D) River
  • 7. What type of brewery is famously associated with the town?
A) Adnams
B) Young's
C) Greene King
D) Fuller's
  • 8. Which Roman site have some writers connected Bury St Edmunds with?
A) Villa Faustini
B) Londinium
C) Camulodunum
D) Verulamium
  • 9. Which king founded the monastery at Beodricesworth in 633?
A) Sigebert
B) Edward the Confessor
C) Edmund I
D) Canute
  • 10. What occurred at Bury St Edmunds on 18 March 1190?
A) A massacre of 57 Jews
B) A royal visit by King John
C) The building of the Cathedral
D) The Great Riot
  • 11. Who petitioned King Richard I to evict the Jewish inhabitants?
A) The local merchants
B) Abbot Baldwin
C) Abbot Samson
D) King Edmund
  • 12. What document were the barons believed to have sworn to enforce during a meeting at the abbey in 1214?
A) The Fairs Act
B) Charter of Liberties
C) Edict of Expulsion
D) Magna Carta
  • 13. What was the name of the major riot that occurred in 1327?
A) The Great Riot
B) The Eastgate Fire Riot
C) The Abbey Rebellion
D) The Peasants' Revolt
  • 14. Which king granted the town the privilege of sending two members to Parliament in 1608?
A) Charles II
B) James I
C) Henry IV
D) Elizabeth I
  • 15. The town became a flourishing center for which industry by the 14th century?
A) Coal mining
B) Shipbuilding
C) Steel manufacturing
D) Cloth-making
  • 16. Between what years were witch trials held in the town?
A) 1599 and 1694
B) 1650 and 1750
C) 1500 and 1600
D) 1400 and 1500
  • 17. Which saint's shrine made Bury St Edmunds an important place of pilgrimage?
A) Saint Alban
B) Edmund the Martyr
C) Saint Peter
D) Saint Benedict
  • 18. Which religious order built the new abbey after the original monastery was destroyed?
A) Benedictine
B) Dominican
C) Franciscan
D) Cistercian
  • 19. What archaeological evidence from the 2010s was found on the outskirts of the town?
A) Bronze Age activity
B) Saxon burial mounds
C) Norman armor
D) Viking ships
  • 20. What was the cause of the destruction of 160 dwellings in 1608?
A) An armed revolt
B) A great fire
C) A Viking raid
D) A flood
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