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Exploring Brighton: A Quiz on History and Culture

Test your knowledge about Brighton's history, culture, and landmarks with this engaging quiz!

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1 What does the following picture show?  The Brighton Pavilion   A classic Ferrari at the Start Line of the Brighton Speed Trials   Brighton's Kemp Town beach in summer

2 Where does Brighton come from?

3 What does the following picture show?  Petanque at the Peace Statue Terrain, Brighton and Hove, UK   A classic Ferrari at the Start Line of the Brighton Speed Trials   Roedean School.   The Brighton Pavilion

4 ________ American Football Club was started in 2000 for students of the University of Brighton.

5 What is the Westminster constituency of Brighton?

6 What postcode district does Brighton belong to?

7 What does the following picture show?  The Royal Pavilion.   Brighton's Kemp Town beach in summer   Roedean School.   Seafront display of Minis after a London to Brighton drive

8 On 1 September 2007, competitors from the United Kingdom, United States, ________ and other countries convened for the World Beard and Moustache Championship.

9 [18] As part of the ________, 2.6 per cent claimed their religion was Jedi Knight.

10 What region does Brighton belong to?

đź’ˇ Interesting Facts

  • the Chattri (pictured) in Brighton, England, stands on the site of the ghat where Hindu and Sikh soldiers of the First World War were cremated after dying while being treated at the Royal Pavilion.
  • the Clock Tower in Brighton city centre has been variously described as "delightful", "worthless", "a giant salt-cellar", "charmingly ugly" and "supremely confident".
  • the Brighton Forum, a serviced office complex in Brighton, England, was used to train Anglican schoolmistresses before being requisitioned for the Royal Engineers' wartime use.
  • in the 19th century, part of Wykeham Terrace (pictured)—a "charming Gothic confection" in Brighton—was used as an institution for reformed prostitutes.
  • glazed black mathematical tiles, as seen at Patcham Place and 9 Pool Valley, are a characteristic 18th-century architectural motif in Brighton, England.
  • in 1908, the newly built St John the Evangelist's Church (pictured) became the parish church of Preston Village in Brighton, England, after the 13th-century St Peter's Church was seriously damaged by fire.
  • the Pepper Pot tower in Brighton, England, has been used as a public toilet, printworks, Scout headquarters, wartime observation tower and artist's studio, but its original function is unknown.
  • the Athina B became a temporary tourist attraction after becoming beached at an English seaside town.
  • the fragile building material bungaroosh is so prevalent in Brighton that much of the town "could be demolished with a well-aimed hose".
  • the large reredos above the altar in St. Martin's Church in Brighton, England, includes 20 pictures and 69 statues, all of which were carved in Oberammergau, Germany.
  • the former Union Chapel, Brighton's oldest Nonconformist place of worship, was converted into a pub after 300 years of religious use.
  • the former St Stephen's Church (pictured) in Brighton, England, was built as a tavern ballroom a mile away from its present site.
  • the father-and-son architects Amon and Amon Henry Wilds—leading figures in Brighton's development—used the ammonite capital as their signature device as a pun on their first names.
  • the former French Convalescent Home on Brighton seafront is the only such institution in England, and also had the country's earliest known double glazing.
  • despite nine hundred Roman Catholic churches being built in England in the fifty years after 1791, St John the Baptist's Church in Brighton was only the fourth to be consecrated since the Reformation.
  • architect Amon Henry Wilds built the Hindoo-style Western Pavilion as his own home in Brighton, and installed an igloo-shaped bathroom in its dome.
  • Sussex Heights, Brighton's tallest building, has a resident breeding pair of peregrine falcons with their own webcam.
  • Walter Hancock designed the first steam-powered bus to travel from London to Brighton.
  • St Mary the Virgin Church (pictured) in Brighton, England, stands on the site of a former church—designed as a replica of the Greek Temple of Nemesis—which collapsed in 1876.
  • St Joseph's Church, a Roman Catholic church in Brighton, England, was not officially dedicated until 100 years after building work started because a debt had not been settled.
  • Oscar Wilde and his lover Lord Alfred Douglas once crashed their horse and carriage at the prestigious Regency Square in Brighton.
  • 11 Dyke Road, Brighton—latterly a nightclub with names such as Sloopy's, Fozzies, The Shrine and New Hero—was built in 1867 in an "inventive" Gothic style as a school for poor girls.
  • a Coade stone statue built at Brighton's Royal Crescent in 1802 to impress the Prince of Wales had to be removed after excessive weathering made its arm drop off.
  • a seagull dropping a lit cigarette it had apparently mistaken for food may have caused a fire that wrecked a ÂŁ750,000 penthouse at Brighton's Van Alen Building.
  • although the Chapel Royal, Brighton was built to encourage the Prince Regent to attend church while in Brighton, he stopped worshipping there after being offended by a controversial sermon.
  • an Earl of Barrymore once rode his horse up an imitation bamboo staircase in Steine House, Brighton, to win a bet.
  • after London Road viaduct (pictured) in Brighton, England, was bombed in 1943, trains were using it again within 24 hours even though the road below was visible through gaps in the damaged brickwork.
  • a 1960s-era church in Brighton, England, was demolished after just 20 years because it had been built with dangerous high-alumina cement.
  • a planning application for a 42-storey building in the recent New England Quarter development in Brighton, England, was rejected on twenty separate counts, including the negative effect it would have on the local microclimate.
  • Amon Henry Wilds's Italianate Park Crescent development in Brighton was the scene of the infamous "trunk murder" of July 1934.
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