All About Norfolk, England Trivia Quiz

Answer: The Norfolk Broads

Although they do encompass a small part of north Suffolk, most people know these waterways and marshlands as The Norfolk Broads. The Broads, which cover 220 square miles to the north west of Great Yarmouth, were formed as a result of peat digging in medieval times. The Broads are Britain's largest protected wetland.

Answer: River Wensum

The River Wensum snakes through Norwich and links the city to the Norfolk Broads. The name 'Wensum' is believed to be derived from an Anglo-Saxon word meaning 'winding'. The Wensum rises near villages to the south of Fakenham and flows onwards through or near to villages such as Great Witchingham, Swanton Morley and Taverham before reaching the city of Norwich.

The river then flows out of the city via Trowse and merges with the River Yare at Whittlingham. Kings Lynn stands on the River Great Ouse.

The River Nar, which has been designated a Site of Special Scientific Interest, originates near Mileham and joins the River Great Ouse at Kings Lynn. The River Glaven is a fairly short river that rises near Baconsthorpe and flows down to the sea at Blakeney Point.

Answer: Dad's Army

Set during WWII, "Dad's Army" was about a branch of the Home Guard, led by the hilariously pompous Captain Mainwaring. The show ran for nine years, making it longer than the war itself. Forty years after the first TV episodes were made, this classic BBC comedy is still being repeated on British television. Even though it was supposedly set on the South Coast of England; most of "Dad's Army'" was filmed in and around Thetford in Norfolk.

Thetford was chosen because the BBC had permission to film at nearby Stanford Practical Training Area.

Thetford became the fictional South Coast town of Walmington-on-Sea and other Norfolk locations including Bressingham, Weybourne and also Honington in nearby Suffolk featured in the show too, as did some local people who appeared as extras. David Croft, who co-wrote the show with Jimmy Perry, lives at Honington.

Answer: 3

Norfolk's longest boundary is the one that it shares with The North Sea. It also shares a small length of border with the county of Lincolnshire to the north west, the rest of its western boundary being with Cambridgeshire and its southern boundary with Suffolk.

The origins of the names Norfolk and Suffolk come from the terms 'north folk' and 'south folk', referring to the people who lived there.

Answer: Hunstanton

Situated on The Wash, Hunstanton faces the Lincolnshire coast and the 272 foot tower of St Botolph's church, Boston in Lincolnshire(known to most people as Boston Stump) can be seen from Hunstanton. Besides being the only east coast resort to face west, Hunstanton's other claim to fame are some rather unusual cliffs which are made up of three different colours of strata, red, white and brown. Queen Victoria's eldest son, Albert Prince of Wales (who became King Edward VII) once stayed at Hunstanton whilst recovering from typhoid fever.

Answer: Snetterton

Snetterton is approximately 12 miles from the town of Thetford, just off the A11. The village itself is a little to the north west of the location of the market and motor racing circuit. Snetterton raceway is located at a former airbase that was used by the USAF in World War II.

The circuit hosts events from various racing series, including the British Superbikes Championship, British Touring Car Championship and British Formula Three Championship as well as amateur racing of various types and track days.

Answer: Burnham Thorpe

Burnham Thorpe is a small village on the River Burn close to the Norfolk coast. Horatio Nelson, who first went to sea at the age of only 12 and went on to become perhaps Britain's best known naval hero, was born in the village in September 1758, the sixth of 11 children.

His father, the Rev Edmund Nelson, was rector of the village church of All Saints. The old rectory where Horatio Nelson was born is no longer there, but its site is marked with a plaque. Inside the church are a lectern and crucifix made from wood from Nelson's ship HMS Victory. Every year on Trafalgar Day, members of the Nelson Society gather here to commemorate the great man. Nelson specified in his will that we would like to be buried in the graveyard here at All Saints, Burnham Thorpe "unless the King decrees otherwise." After Nelson was killed at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805, King George III had Nelson buried in St Paul's Cathedral in London.

Answer: Swaffham

"Kingdom" has been a typically cosy Sunday night drama shown on itv1 in the UK since 2007. It is about a solicitor working in the fictional town of Market Shipborough and the daily lives of his bizarre family and equally odd locals. The Norfolk town of Swaffham 'stars' as Market Shipborough, although some scenes are shot at other locations.

The fictional Market Shipborough is on the coast but Swaffham is not, therefore other Norfolk locations such as Holkham, Happisburgh and Wells-Next-The-Sea are also used for shots of cliffs, beach and harbour. Actor Stephen Fry, who plays the part of Peter Kingdom, has strong links to Norfolk.

He spent part of his childhood in the Norfolk village of Booton and was also a pupil of the rather exclusive Gresham's school at Holt.

Answer: Kings Lynn

Born at Kings Lynn, Norfolk, on 22 June 1757, George Vancouver was the sixth child of John Jasper Vancouver, a King's Lynn customs official of Dutch decent and Bridget Berners who came from an old Norfolk county family. During his naval career, Vancouver explored the coastline from what is now California all the way up to Alaska.

Some of his early journeys (from 1772 to 1775) were aboard the ships of Captain James Cook. Vancouver led his own expeditions between 1791 and 1795 and as well as exploring North America, also explored near Cape Town, Australia, New Zealand, Tahiti, and Hawaii. Vancouver was the first European to enter what is today known as the Burrard Inlet, the main harbour area of the City of Vancouver, which, like nearby Vancouver Island, was named after him. Captain George Vancouver retired to London at the end of his naval career and is buried in the borough of Petersham.

The City of Vancouver still sends a wreath each year to be placed upon Captain Vancouver's grave.

Answer: Holt

Built by William Marriott in the 1880s (and run by him until 1924), the North Norfolk Railway is a popular tourist attraction offering a ten-and-a-half mile round trip on trains usually hauled by steam locomotives or sometimes by vintage diesel engines.

The headquarters of the NNR are in Sheringham and it also has stations at Weybourne and Kelling Heath Park. The western terminus of the Railway is in the Georgian town of Holt. Much of the original town of Holt was destroyed by fire in May 1708 and the Georgian buildings that replaced the old town are part of the reason that the town is designated a conservation area. Holt's most famous building is Gresham's School, founded by Sir John Gresham in 1555.

The school is no longer located in this historic building and has moved out of the town centre. Now an expensive private educational establishment, Greshams School, Holt counts poet W H Auden, composer Benjamin Britten and writer, actor and TV presenter Stephen Fry as former pupils.