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Exploring Bristol: A Comprehensive Quiz

This quiz tests your knowledge about various aspects of Bristol, including its geography, history, and cultural significance.

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1 Which of the following is South of Bristol?

2 What timezone is Bristol in?

3 The population density of Bristol: How many people are there per square kilometre?

4 Which of the following subdivisions is Bristol in?

5 Bristol was named "England's first 'cycling city'" in 2008, and is home to the sustainable transport charity ________.

6 Who played centre in the Bristol?

7 Bristol is home to two major institutions of higher education: the ________, a "redbrick" chartered in 1909, and the University of the West of England, formerly Bristol Polytechnic, which gained university status in 1992.

8 The Diocese of Bristol was founded in 1542, with the former ________ of St. Augustine, founded by Robert Fitzharding in 1140, becoming Bristol Cathedral.

9 During the Roman era there was a settlement, Abona, at what is now Sea Mills, connected to Bath by a ________, and another at the present-day Inns Court.

10 Which of the following titles did Bristol have?

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Observatory (pictured) on Clifton Down in Bristol is likely to have been used as a lookout post since at least the Iron Age.
  • the Grotto at Goldney House (pictured), Bristol, which dates from 1739, is encrusted with the shells of over 200 African and Caribbean species.
  • the Royal Fort in Bristol was built with façades in Baroque, Palladian and Rococo styles because it was a compromise between the designs of three different architects.
  • the first psychosurgery in the United Kingdom was performed in Bristol in December 1940.
  • when Arno's Court Triumphal Arch (pictured) was built in 1760, it incorporated statues from the Bristol city gates which were being demolished at the time.
  • every year the Portway trunk road in Bristol is closed to traffic to allow inspection of the limestone cliffs of the Avon Gorge and to allow remedial work on loose rocks to be carried out.
  • although Fairfield Grammar School, Bristol, expelled Cary Grant for going into the girls' lavatories, the city later erected a life-size bronze statue of him.
  • Bristol Byzantine was an architectural style used for industrial buildings in Bristol between 1850 and 1880.
  • Britain's first girls' reform school was set up in 1854 by Mary Carpenter, with the financial help of the poet Lord Byron's widow, at Bristol's Red Lodge (pictured).
  • Horseshoe Bend, Shirehampton, a Site of Special Scientific Interest near Bristol, contains the largest population of True Service-trees in England.
  • John Palmer instigated a major reform of the British postal system in 1784, when his experimental mail coach run from Bristol to London took only 16 hours instead of 38 hours.
  • a riot broke out between English and Irish labourers who had consumed 1000 gallons of strong beer following the completion of the New Cut waterway in Bristol in May 1809.
  • Bristol's classical chamber orchestra, the Emerald Ensemble, play standing up and have performed at a local nightclub.
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