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  • 1. How many services are typically held at St Paul's Cathedral every day?
A) Four or five
B) Ten or more
C) Exactly seven
D) One or two
  • 2. Which of the following is a daily service held at St Paul's Cathedral?
A) Wedding
B) Confession
C) Matins
D) Baptism
  • 3. Besides Matins and Eucharist, what other service is commonly held daily?
A) Morning Vigil
B) Midnight Mass
C) Evening Prayer or Choral Evensong
D) Sunrise Devotion
  • 4. Which institution has many special services associated with the cathedral?
A) The Royal Navy
B) The City of London
C) The University of Oxford
D) The British Parliament
  • 5. What is the status of St Paul's Cathedral in London regarding its size?
A) It is the second largest church in London
B) It is the largest church in London
C) It is the smallest cathedral in London
D) It is a medium-sized parish church
  • 6. Which major state function was celebrated at the cathedral?
A) The Golden Jubilee of Queen Victoria
B) The Diamond Jubilee of Queen Elizabeth II
C) The Coronation of King George VI
D) The Platinum Jubilee of King Charles III
  • 7. How often is the cathedral generally open to tourists?
A) Daily
B) Only on weekends
C) Monthly
D) Weekly on Sundays
  • 8. What regular musical performances are held at the cathedral?
A) Jazz concerts
B) Organ recitals
C) Symphony orchestra rehearsals
D) Rock band shows
  • 9. How many individuals currently compose the cathedral chapter?
A) Twelve
B) Seven
C) Five
D) Ten
  • 10. How many residentiary canons are on the cathedral chapter?
A) Three
B) One
C) Two
D) Four
  • 11. What is notable about one of the residentiary canons?
A) It is a retired monarch
B) It is an elected politician
C) It is a foreign ambassador
D) It is exceptionally a lay person
  • 12. How many additional members of chapter and canon non-residentiary are there?
A) Zero
B) Two
C) One
D) Three
  • 13. How many lay canons are on the cathedral chapter?
A) Four
B) Two
C) Three
D) One
  • 14. Who is the Dean of St Paul's as of September 2022?
A) Paula Gooder
B) Sheila Watson
C) Andrew Tremlett
D) Neil Evans
  • 15. When did Andrew Tremlett become Dean?
A) June 2022
B) 9 May 2019
C) 25 September 2022
D) January 2017
  • 16. Which position on the cathedral chapter was vacant as of October 2022?
A) Chancellor
B) Dean
C) Steward
D) Precentor
  • 17. Which other position besides Precentor was vacant as of October 2022?
A) Dean
B) Chancellor
C) Treasurer
D) Steward
  • 18. Who holds the position of Chancellor?
A) Paula Gooder
B) Pamela Jane Baxter
C) Sheila Watson
D) Gillian Bowen
  • 19. When did Paula Gooder become Chancellor?
A) March 2014
B) 25 September 2022
C) June 2022
D) 9 May 2019
  • 20. When did Paula Gooder become a lay reader?
A) 9 May 2019
B) March 2021
C) 23 February 2019
D) January 2017
  • 21. Who holds the position of Steward?
A) Andrew Tremlett
B) Clement Hutton-Mills
C) Gillian Bowen
D) Neil Evans
  • 22. When did Neil Evans take office as Steward?
A) June 2022
B) October 2018
C) January 2017
D) March 2014
  • 23. Who is the additional member of chapter and canon non-residentiary?
A) Sheila Watson
B) Paula Gooder
C) Pamela Jane Baxter
D) Sheila Nicoll
  • 24. When did Sheila Watson assume her role?
A) June 2022
B) March 2014
C) October 2018
D) January 2017
  • 25. What is Pamela (Pim) Jane Baxter's role on the chapter?
A) Lay canon
B) Treasurer
C) Precentor
D) Dean
  • 26. When did Pamela (Pim) Jane Baxter become a lay canon?
A) October 2018
B) March 2021
C) March 2014
D) June 2022
  • 27. What is Pamela Jane Baxter's primary profession outside the cathedral?
A) Head of Public Policy at Schroder Investment Management
B) Managing Director at Goldman Sachs
C) Chief Executive Officer of YMCA London City and North
D) Deputy Director at the National Portrait Gallery
  • 28. Who is the lay canon who serves as Head of Public Policy at Schroder Investment Management?
A) Paula Gooder
B) Pamela Jane Baxter
C) Gillian Bowen
D) Sheila Nicoll
  • 29. When did Sheila Nicoll become a lay canon?
A) January 2017
B) March 2014
C) October 2018
D) June 2022
  • 30. Who is a managing director at Goldman Sachs and a lay canon?
A) Neil Evans
B) Sheila Nicoll
C) Clement Hutton-Mills
D) Andrew Tremlett
  • 31. When did Clement Hutton-Mills become a lay canon?
A) 9 May 2019
B) October 2018
C) March 2021
D) June 2022
  • 32. Who is the chief executive officer of YMCA London City and North who also serves as a lay canon?
A) Gillian Bowen
B) Sheila Watson
C) Pamela Jane Baxter
D) Paula Gooder
  • 33. What additional role does Gillian Bowen hold besides being a lay canon and CEO?
A) Magistrate
B) Managing Director
C) Lay reader
D) Deputy Director
  • 34. Which religious denomination does St Paul's Cathedral belong to?
A) Methodist
B) Roman Catholic
C) Anglican
D) Presbyterian
  • 35. On which hill in the City of London is the cathedral situated?
A) Cornhill
B) Richmond Hill
C) Ludgate Hill
D) Tower Hill
  • 36. In what year was the original cathedral church on the site founded?
A) AD 1087
B) AD 314
C) AD 1240
D) AD 604
  • 37. In what year was the present high-domed structure completed?
A) 1561
B) 1666
C) 1878
D) 1710
  • 38. Who designed the present structure of St Paul's Cathedral?
A) Inigo Jones
B) William Camden
C) Francis Penrose
D) Sir Christopher Wren
  • 39. What architectural style was used for the present cathedral designed by Sir Christopher Wren?
A) Romanesque
B) Classical
C) Gothic
D) English Baroque
  • 40. What was the name of the earlier Gothic cathedral largely destroyed in the Great Fire?
A) Old St Paul's Cathedral
B) The Anglo-Saxon Cathedral
C) St Erkenwald's Cathedral
D) St Peter upon Cornhill
  • 41. What was the height of the present cathedral's dome?
A) 489 ft (149 m)
B) 365 ft (111 m)
C) 585 ft (178 m)
D) 290 ft (88 m)
  • 42. From which year to which year was St Paul's the tallest building in London?
A) 1240 to 1561
B) 1710 to 2000
C) 1666 to 1878
D) 1710 to 1963
  • 43. St Paul's is the second-largest church building in area in the United Kingdom, coming after which cathedral?
A) Westminster Abbey
B) Lincoln Cathedral
C) Liverpool Cathedral
D) York Minster
  • 44. Which royal wedding took place at St Paul's Cathedral?
A) King George III and Queen Charlotte
B) Prince William and Catherine Middleton
C) Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer
D) Queen Victoria and Prince Albert
  • 45. What is the name of the nearest London Underground station to the cathedral?
A) Bank
B) Mansion House
C) Ludgate Hill
D) St Paul's
  • 46. How far is the nearest London Underground station from the cathedral?
A) 130 yards (120 m)
B) 300 yards (270 m)
C) 500 yards (457 m)
D) 50 yards (45 m)
  • 47. According to medieval legend and tradition, what was the location of Londinium's original cathedral?
A) Tower Hill
B) St Peter upon Cornhill
C) Westminster
D) Ludgate Hill
  • 48. What Roman structure did Elizabethan antiquarian William Camden argue had stood on the site of medieval St Paul's?
A) A Roman amphitheatre
B) A temple to Apollo
C) A Roman basilica
D) A temple to the goddess Diana
  • 49. Who was said to have represented London at the Council of Arles in 314 AD?
A) Bishop Cedd
B) Bishop Restitutus
C) Bishop Mellitus
D) Bishop Erkenwald
  • 50. Which King of Kent built the first church dedicated to St Paul in London?
A) Sæberht
B) Æthelred the Unready
C) King Lucius
D) Æthelberht
  • 51. In what year was King Æthelred the Unready buried in the cathedral?
A) 1016
B) 1087
C) 1240
D) 693
  • 52. In what year was the cathedral burnt in a fire along with much of the city?
A) 1087
B) 1666
C) 1561
D) 1135
  • 53. In what year was Old St Paul's finally consecrated after delays caused by a 1135 fire?
A) 1300
B) 1087
C) 1314
D) 1240
  • 54. What material was used for the Gothic ribbed vault of Old St Paul's?
A) Stone
B) Iron
C) Brick
D) Wood
  • 55. Who excavated Old St Paul's in 1878 to determine its dimensions?
A) Sir Christopher Wren
B) Inigo Jones
C) Francis Penrose
D) William Camden
  • 56. What was the length of Old St Paul's as revealed by the 1878 excavations?
A) 585 feet (178 m)
B) 290 feet (88 m)
C) 489 feet (149 m)
D) 365 feet (111 m)
  • 57. What was the approximate height of the spire of Old St Paul's?
A) 365 feet (111 m)
B) 585 feet (178 m)
C) 100 feet (30 m)
D) 489 feet (149 m)
  • 58. Which English monarchs' reigns saw the English Reformation lead to the destruction of interior ornamentation at the cathedral?
A) James I and Charles I
B) Charles I and Charles II
C) Henry VIII and Edward VI
D) Mary I and Elizabeth I
  • 59. Whose skull was reportedly among the collection of relics held in the cathedral before the Reformation?
A) St Paul
B) King Sæberht
C) St Erkenwald
D) Thomas Becket
  • 60. What event destroyed the spire of Old St Paul's in 1561?
A) The Great Fire of London
B) An earthquake
C) A lightning strike
D) The English Civil War
  • 61. Who was commissioned in 1631 to design a new west portico in the classical style for the cathedral?
A) Francis Penrose
B) Sir Rowland Hill
C) Inigo Jones
D) Sir Christopher Wren
  • 62. How did Parliament use the deanery house after voting on it in 1643?
A) As a prison
B) As a gunpowder store
C) As a meeting hall
D) As a cavalry barracks
  • 63. What part of the cathedral was used as a cavalry barracks during the English Civil War?
A) The west portico
B) The choir
C) The south transept
D) The nave
  • 64. In what year did Parliament order St Paul's Cross to be demolished?
A) 1658
B) 1663
C) 1642
D) 1666
  • 65. When was the St Paul's Theatre active?
A) 1630–1666
B) 1560–1590
C) 1669–1711
D) 1575–1606
  • 66. Who converted the Almoner's Hall into the St Paul's Theatre?
A) Sebastian Westcott
B) Sir Christopher Wren
C) Inigo Jones
D) William Sancroft
  • 67. What was Sebastian Westcott's role at the cathedral?
A) Organist
B) Architect
C) Dean
D) Archbishop
  • 68. Which theatre was similar in layout to the St Paul's Theatre?
A) Globe Theatre
B) Rose Theatre
C) Blackfriars Theatre
D) Swan Theatre
  • 69. What audience did the boy actors at St Paul's play to?
A) Paying audiences
B) Free public audiences
C) Royalty only
D) Invited guests only
  • 70. How were the boy companies viewed by the public?
A) Scandalous
B) Rebellious
C) Unimportant
D) Respectable
  • 71. Which group experienced little crowd trouble?
A) The coal tax collectors
B) The cathedral builders
C) The adult companies
D) The boy companies
  • 72. During which years did the boy choristers use the Almoner's Hall?
A) 1569 until 1606
B) 1575 until 1606
C) 1600 until 1610
D) 1575 until 1584
  • 73. When was the task of designing a replacement structure officially assigned to Sir Christopher Wren?
A) 26 October 1708
B) 30 July 1669
C) July 1668
D) 25 December 1711
  • 74. How many city churches are attributable to Wren?
A) More than 50
B) Exactly 25
C) Less than 10
D) Around 100
  • 75. When did Wren begin advising on the repair of Old St Paul's?
A) 1630
B) 1669
C) 1661
D) 1666
  • 76. What did Wren plan to replace the dilapidated tower with?
A) A bell tower
B) A dome
C) A spire
D) A classical facade
  • 77. Who wrote to Wren in July 1668 regarding the new cathedral's design?
A) Dean William Sancroft
B) Sebastian Westcott
C) Christopher Jr.
D) The Archbishop of Oxford
  • 78. What document was the settled design of the cathedral attached to?
A) An act of Parliament
B) An architectural blueprint
C) A tax document
D) A royal warrant
  • 79. How was the building of the new cathedral financed?
A) By funds from the Archbishopric
B) By taxes on theatre tickets
C) By private donations from nobility
D) By a tax on coal
  • 80. Which biblical Psalm was the consecration sermon based upon?
A) Psalm 122
B) Psalm 91
C) Psalm 51
D) Psalm 23
  • 81. How many churches across Britain were attacked between 1913 and 1914 by suffragettes?
A) 12
B) 50
C) 64
D) 32
  • 82. What chemical was the bomb used in the first St Paul's attack made out of?
A) Dynamite
B) Gunpowder
C) Nitroglycerin
D) Potassium nitrate
  • 83. What historic item inside St Paul's likely would have been destroyed if the 1913 bomb had exploded?
A) The Coronation Chair
B) The bishop's throne
C) The main altar
D) The organ pipes
  • 84. The device used in the 1913 attack was made partly out of what everyday object?
A) A mustard tin
B) A biscuit box
C) An oil lamp
D) A tea caddy
  • 85. What historic item was damaged during the bombing at Westminster Abbey?
A) The Coronation Chair
B) The bishop's throne
C) The royal tomb
D) The high altar
  • 86. How much money was requested in the first appeal to reinforce the piers?
A) £100,000
B) £250,000
C) £70,000
D) £29,000
  • 87. What event caused delays in the early restoration work?
A) A Dangerous Structures Notice
B) The Blitz
C) The Second Great Fire of London
D) The First World War
  • 88. How much was the second appeal for in 1922?
A) £250,000
B) £100,000
C) £50,000
D) £70,000
  • 89. Through which medium was the 1930 rededication service broadcast for the first time?
A) BBC Television
B) BBC Radio
C) The Guildhall loudspeaker system
D) Local London newspapers
  • 90. Which part of the cathedral was struck by a bomb on 17 April 1941?
A) The nave
B) The high altar
C) The dome
D) The north transept
  • 91. Who commanded the bomb disposal detachment that defused a time-delayed bomb on 12 September 1940?
A) Temporary Lieutenant Robert Davies
B) Sir Winston Churchill
C) Sapper George Cameron Wylie
D) Herbert Mason
  • 92. Who was awarded the George Cross alongside Temporary Lieutenant Robert Davies?
A) King George V
B) Lisa Jardine
C) Sapper George Cameron Wylie
D) Herbert Mason
  • 93. Who took the photograph 'St Paul's Survives'?
A) Herbert Mason
B) Robert Davies
C) Sir Winston Churchill
D) Lisa Jardine
  • 94. Who wrote about the visual impact of the cathedral during the air-raid, mentioning the pale dome standing proud?
A) King George V
B) Lisa Jardine
C) Herbert Mason
D) Robert Davies
  • 95. When was the American Memorial Chapel completed?
A) 1962
B) 1958
C) 1981
D) 1967
  • 96. When was a new choir school building constructed?
A) 1967
B) 1975
C) 1958
D) 1981
  • 97. What was Westminster Abbey described as regarding royal weddings?
A) The smaller venue
B) The temporary location
C) The traditional site
D) The modern choice
  • 98. Who carried out extensive renovation work on the Dome in 1996?
A) Graeme Knowles
B) Christopher Wren
C) Giles Fraser
D) John B. Chambers
  • 99. Who was the Dean of St Paul's who resigned during the Occupy London protests?
A) Giles Fraser
B) The Right Revd Graeme Knowles
C) John B. Chambers
D) Christopher Wren
  • 100. What messaging software did Shaikh use to try to radicalise others?
A) Telegram
B) Messenger
C) WhatsApp
D) Signal
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