Mixed UK Trivia Trivia Quiz

Answer: three

"Three lions on a shirt
Jules Rimet still gleaming.
Thirty years of hurt
Never stopped me dreaming."

Baddiel, Skinner and The Lightning Seeds released "Three Lions" in 1996, the year that the European Championships were held in England. The thirty years of hurt in the lyrics represented the lack of silverware for the national side at that time. The song was soon adopted as the official anthem of the England team. The song can still be heard today, sang on the terraces, by devoted fans watching their favourite team.

The history of the three lions date back to the 12th century, when a standard incorporating three gold lions was carried into battle to motivate its troops. The first lion represents Henry 1st. To celebrate his marriage, a second lion was added. The third lion was in honour of Eleanor of Aquitaine, whose family crest was a lion.

Answer: Robin Hood

As legend goes Robin Hood inhabited Sherwood Forest, Nottingham. He supposedly had a band of followers known as his "Merry Men". They were apparently outlaws, and lived in the forest, robbing the rich, and giving to the poor. The gang's main adversary was the Sheriff of Nottingham.

Answer: Derbyshire

The Blue John stones are mined in Castleton, Derbyshire. The area of Castleton is a popular tourist attraction, so the stones are mined when the tourist season is over. These stones which are semi precious are then made locally into jewellery. These stones are calcium fluoride, and once the stones are dried, they become pink and red.

Answer: James Herriot

James Herriot was the pen name of vet, James Alfred Wight. James was born 1916 in Sunderland, County Durham. In 1939 he qualified as a vet from Glasgow Veterinary College. He moved to Thirsk, Yorkshire in 1940, where he practised his profession.

Answer: darts

Eric Bristow, was known for playing darts. He won the World Championship five times in total during the 1980s. He has appeared in the UK reality show, "I'm A Celebrity, Get Me Out Of Here".

Answer: purple

The twenty pound note is purple and has featured such luminaries as Michael Faraday, Edward Elgar and Adam Smith. Red is the colour of the fifty pound note, blue denominates a fiver, and brown is worth ten pounds sterling.

Answer: D

The Cornish Pasty is shaped like a D, it has a hard,crimped crust round the edge, thought to be so that the tin miners, who would hold the pasty, could eat the soft parts and discard the part that they held. The reason for this was that their hands may well have had arsenic on them.

Answer: 1963

The Great Train Robbery occurred on 8th August 1963. A Royal Mail train travelling through Buckinghamshire was intercepted and relieved of its mail bags, by a gang of men who had planned the robbery. They hid at Leatherslade Farm, which was only a few miles from the scene of the crime.

A breakthrough on the crime came when a tipoff from a member of the public alerted the police to the potential whereabouts of the gang.

Answer: No

The RAF Red Arrows are an aerobatic flying corps, who put on displays of their flying and acrobatic abilities. The team is based at RAF Scampton, Lincolnshire.

Answer: Gary Barlow

Gary Barlow was awarded the OBE, by the Queen, as part of her birthday honours list for 2012. The award was for his services to charities, and his musical contributions. Gary Barlow has been in the music industry for over twenty years.