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