Local History Quiz
Questions (and answers) first posed in the Christmas 2013 Orwell Bulletin, and some further questions to test you!
For those who did not see this particular issue of The Orwell Bulletin, we are repeating the questions here, together with links to get you to the answers. Click on the blue words for the links. Use the back button to return to this page, but note you may have to click on it a second time to bring this page up again.
In addition, below there are another fifteen questions for you to enjoy.
These are the original Bulletin Quiz questions:-
1. Who was the Orwell resident who helped to translate the Bible in 1611?
2. Where does The Brook go to?
3. What was the nickname of the Orwell football team?
4. Where was the village Lock-up?
5. What kind of stone was used in the construction of the village Church?
6. Who installed the organ in the Methodist Chapel?
7. Where is Stacies Barn?
8. What was kept on the land where Pearmains Close now is?
9. Why did Henry VII's mother give Malton Farm to Christ's College?
10. In what year was Victoria Drive used by Queen Victoria to visit Wimpole Hall?
11. When Orwell people went carol singing in the 1940s what instrument provided the accompaniment?
12. What did little Barbara Brown get in her Christmas stocking in the 1920s?
Fifteen more quiz questions: [Click on the blue link words for the answer.]
1. What is the name of this horse?
2. Who had "one Porridge pott 4 Kettles a Skillet and a warming pan"?
3. What used to be cooked in this oven?
4. Why is this being put in this place?
5. What were these people celebrating?
6. What was this house called before it burned down?
7. In this view, what has changed?
8. Where is this?
9. Where was this cobbler's shop?
10. Where was the Or-Well?
11. What is a Woolaway bungalow?
12. Whose medals were these, and how did he earn them?
13. Where was Orwell's brewery?
14. What is this?
15. Where was William Sixer Dash working in 1950?