RALEIGH 400 QUIZ (1)
Above: Model of the USS Raleigh in the U.S. Navy Museum
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Just one of the items featured in this Raleigh 400 quiz
1.
Why did Raleigh not buy his birthplace in East Budleigh in 1584?
The owner, Richard
Duke, refused to sell it.
2.
What nickname did Queen Elizabeth I give Raleigh?
Water.
3.
Which goddess did Raleigh compare the Queen to in his poems?
Cynthia/Artemis/Diana
4.
Which English judge involved in Raleigh’s 1603 trial for treason is reputed to
have said on his deathbed that ‘the
justice of England was never so depraved and injured as in the condemnation of
Sir Walter Raleigh’.
Sir Francis Gawdy.
5.
What discovery did Raleigh make on the island of Trinidad in 1595?
Asphalt in the Pitch Lake.
6.
The city of Raleigh NC in the USA, named after Sir Walter, has two districts
named after him. Can you name them?
i. Budleigh and ii.
Hayes Barton (Raleigh’s birthplace)
7.
Raleigh sold one of his ships to the Queen. It became the first in the series
of the most famous of the Royal Navy’s warships. What was the name of the ship?
The Ark Raleigh/Ark
Royal
8.
What action of the American Navy in 1776 really annoyed the Royal Navy during
the War of Independence?
Naming one of its
ships the USS Raleigh.
9. The Sir Walter Raleigh cocktail consists of brandy, curacao, grenadine and what
other ingredient?
Rum.
10. What is the name of the Royal
Navy’s Initial Training Establishment in Plymouth?
HMS Raleigh.
11. The theatre at the Royal
Navy’s Initial Training Establishment is named after one of Raleigh’s ships.
What is its name?
The Roebuck Theatre.
12. Raleigh 400 ale has
been brewed in 2018 to mark the 400th anniversary of Raleigh’s
death. What is the name of the brewery?
Black Tor.
13. What book by Raleigh did King
James I describe as ‘too saucy towards princes’?
The History of the World.
14.
Of which Irish town did Raleigh become Mayor?
Youghal.
15.
The name of his house in this town is named after the plant that he is said to
have introduced into England. Name the plant.
Myrtle.
16.
Which Pre-Raphaelite painter was inspired to paint ‘The Boyhood of Raleigh’?
Sir John Everett
Millais.
17.
In which Dorset town did Raleigh build a castle?
Sherborne.
18.
Of what was he accused at an official investigation in the Dorset town of Cerne
Abbas?
Atheism.
19.
What is the name of the church in East Budleigh where Raleigh’s father was
churchwarden?
All Saints.
20.
What was the name of the Spanish ambassador who demanded Raleigh’s execution in
1618?
Count Gondomar.
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