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