Home Town Quiz

Whitchurch, Shropshire

This quiz is about my home town. Whitchurch, Shropshire. It's a hard quiz. Good luck.

Photo of Whitchurch Railway Station 27th June 2019.

Results

1. What is the town know for being the home of?

a) Tower clocks

b) Gingerbread

c) Railways

d) Steel

2. Which of these is NOT one of the towns previous names?

a) Mediolanum

b) Westune

c) Album Monasterium

d) Meredune

3. The gent’s toilets of which pub are the only Listed privy in the country?

a) The Wheatsheaf

b) The Bull’s Head

c) Old Town Hall Vaults

d) Red Cow

4. Which long distance walking trail ends/starts in Whitchurch?

a) Sandstone Trail

b) St Peter’s Way

c) Weavers Way

d) Limestone Link

5. Which canal is Whitchurch on?

a) Birmingham and Fazeley Canal

b) Black Bear Canal

c) Llangollen Canal

d) Leeds and Liverpool Canal

6. Which composer was born in the town?

a) William Byrd

b) Sir Edward Elgar

c) Benjamine Britten

d) Sir Edward German

7. Which band played in the old Town Hall Ballroom (now the location of the Civic Centre) on 19 January 1963?

a) The Beatles

b) The Rolling Stones

c) The Kinks

d) The Who

8. Whose embalmed heart is buried under the porch of St Alkmund’s Church?

a) Thomas Fitzalan,5th Earl of Arundel

b) John Beaumont, 1st Viscount Beaumont

c) William la Zouche, 1st Baron Zouche

d) Sir John Talbot, 1st Earl of Shrewsbury

9. Which comedian, who was “storing” £100,000s in suit cases in his attic, owned a property near Whitchurch?

a) Bobby Ball

b) Tommy Cooper

c) Ken Dodd

d) Jethro

10. Which French town is Whitchurch twinned with?

a) Le Havre

b) Neufchâtel-en-Bray

c) Bruay-la-Buissière

d) Saint-Étienne