Places I Visited in England Trivia Quiz

Answer: Buckingham Palace

Windsor Castle has been a royal palace and fortress for Britain's royal family for over 900 years. It is the largest occupied castle in the world. Sandringham and Balmoral are private residences. Holyroodhouse in Edinburgh was the Queen's official Scottish residence.

Answer: Stonehenge

The actual origins and purpose of Stonehenge remains a mystery. No one knows how or why people transported these stones, most weighing at least five tons, from South Wales to the Salisbury Plains in England.

Answer: Dover

Dover is a very strategic location because it is the shortest crossing point over the English Channel between England and France. The tunnels lie under Dover Castle, a fortress that was begun in 1066 by William of Normandy. The current castle was built under the direction of Henry II in the 1180s.

Answer: Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

I recognized the tree and wall featured in the movie before our tour guide pointed it out to us. The gift shop at Hadrian's Wall even has postcards with pictures of the "Robin Hood tree" on the front.

Hadrian's Wall was built by the Romans in 122 AD to separate them from the "barbarians" (Celts). Originally 73 miles long, the wall fell into disrepair in the 400s when the Roman Empire declined and Britain was abandoned.

Answer: Hampton Court Palace

The first buildings on the present site of Hampton Court Palace were built in the 12th century by the Knights Hospitallers of St. John of Jerusalem. In the early 1500s, Lord Chancellor Thomas Wolsey greatly expanded it to an estate home. However, he was forced to relinquish the home to King Henry VIII in 1528.

Henry VIII turned the estate into a palace with 36,000 square feet of kitchens, tennis courts, bowling alleys, and several courts. In the late 1600s, the palace was heavily redesigned, reconstructed, and renovated during the reign of William III.

The palace and its gardens are some of the most beautiful and magnificent in Europe.

Answer: Magdalen College

The Great Tower at Magdalen College was begun in 1492, the same year that Christopher Columbus sailed to the New World. Construction was completed in 1509. The tower stands 144 feet tall, and the figures in the pinnacles are St. John the Baptist and St. Mary Magdalen, alternately. On May Morning, the choir sings part of the College grace from the tower.

It is not known when this custom began, but by the mid-1700s, it was already called an "ancient custom."

Answer: Queen Victoria

Queen Victoria is interred at the royal mausoleum at Frogmore, in the grounds of Windsor Home Park. All others are indeed buried in Westminster Abbey. Approximately 3,300 people were laid to rest there over the last 900 years. In addition, the abbey has been the site of every Coronation since 1066.

Answer: C. S. Lewis

C.S. Lewis attended University College at Oxford. He was elected a Fellow of Magdalen College at Oxford and served as a tutor of English Language and Literature from 1925-1954. In 1954, Lewis joined Magdalene College at Cambridge as the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance Literature. He remained at Cambridge until 1963, shortly before his death.

All other writers attended Cambridge.

Answer: Bath

Bath has quite an extensive history. The Romans discovered the springs about 1,900 years ago and built fine baths there, some of which still remain today. Bath was a resort for the British nobility in the 1700s. Jane Austen frequented Bath, and many of her literary characters visited there as well.

Answer: The Globe

The first Globe Playhouse was built in 1599 and burned in 1613. It was immediately rebuilt but was destroyed and buried in 1644. The current Globe Theatre was completed in 1996 and is located about 200 yards from the site of the original.