St David's Day Quiz

From Peter Macinnis

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 1.  If you saw a sign in Wales saying 'Croeso', what would this mean?
 (A) Inn nearby
 (B) One-way street
 (C) Welcome
 (D) Tobacconist

 2.  What is the national day of Wales?
 (A) St Andrew's Day
 (B) St George's Day
 (C) St David's Day
 (D) St Patrick's Day

 3.  What sport do the Welsh like to watch at Cardiff Arms?
 (A) Badminton
 (B) Rugby
 (C) Darts
 (D) Singing

 4.  On what day does Wales celebrate its national day?
 (A) 23rd April
 (B) 30th November
 (C) 1st March
 (D) 17th March

 5.  What is Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch to the Welsh?
 (A) A village
 (B) A very short river
 (C) A legendary hero
 (D) A mountain

 6.  What is the highest mountain in Wales?
 (A) Mountjoy
 (B) Rough Tor
 (C) Ben Nevis
 (D) Mt Snowdon

 7.  What is the national emblem of Wales, often worn in the cap?
 (A) The leek
 (B) The thistle
 (C) The shamrock
 (D) The rose

 8.  What is the national flower of Wales?
 (A) The thistle
 (B) The daffodil
 (C) The welsh rose
 (D) The shamrock

 9.  What is the national symbol of Wales?
 (A) A red dragon
 (B) A white dragon
 (C) A griffin
 (D) A lion

 10.  What is the Welsh name for Wales?
 (A) Wales
 (B) Cymru
 (C) Croeso
 (D) Powys

 11.  What television series was filmed at Portmeirion?
 (A) Doctor Who
 (B) The Prisoner
 (C) Under Milk Wood
 (D) The Mabinogion

 12.  What was Ossian Ellis famous for?
 (A) He was a poet
 (B) He was a harpist
 (C) He played Rugby
 (D) He was an actor

 13.  What was the Mabinogion?
 (A) A Druidic ritual
 (B) A train near Blaenau
 (C) A collection of Welsh legends
 (D) A horde of gold in Rhiw

 14.  Which Welsh castle is most closely associated with the Prince of
 Wales?
 (A) Caernarfon
 (B) Aberystwyth
 (C) Harlech
 (D) Manorbier

 15.  Which Welsh poet died of alcoholic poisoning in the USA?
 (A) Dafydd ap Gwilym
 (B) Ann Griffiths
 (C) W H Davies
 (D) Dylan Thomas

 16.  Who was the first Prince of Wales in the present line?
 (A) Prince Charles
 (B) Edward VII
 (C) Edward I
 (D) Edward II

 17.  Why is Llangollen famous?
 (A) It is a Welsh profanity
 (B) Its male choir was judged best in Wales for 23 years in a row
 (C) It was the site of a famous miners' strike
 (D) It has a canal that crosses a river

 18.  How Green was my Valley' was filmed in 1941 by John Ford. Who wrote
 the original novel?
 (A) Daniel Owen
 (B) John Cowper Powys
 (C) Dylan Thomas
 (D) Richard Llewellyn

 19.  In what year did Owain Glyndwr raise the Golden Banner?
 (A) 1700
 (B) 1500
 (C) 1400
 (D) 1600

 20.  What is Pen y Fan?
 (A) A writers' retreat on the Lleyn Peninsula
 (B) A bridge near Pontypridd
 (C) An island off Ffestiniog
 (D) The highest mountain in South Wales

 21.  What is the highest mountain named after a Welshman?
 (A) Mt Kosciuszko
 (B) Mt Everest
 (C) Mt Cook
 (D) Mt Snowdon

 22.  What was the most important written work of Giraldus Cambrensis?
 (A) A history of Wales
 (B) A collection of Welsh songs
 (C) A manual on coal mining
 (D) An account of the Welsh druids

 23.  Where is the Centre for Alternative Technology?
 (A) Caernarfon
 (B) Llanfynydd
 (C) Machynlleth
 (D) Pwllheli

 24.  Which famous Welshman first was given the line "I am not in the roll
 of common men"
 (A) Emlyn Williams
 (B) Owain Glyndwr
 (C) Dylan Thomas
 (D) Tom Jones

 25.  Who or what is or was Taliesin?
 (A) A 7th century Welsh warlord
 (B) A 13th century Welsh battle
 (C) A mountain in central Wales
 (D) A 6th century Welsh poet

 26.  Who were 'the daughters of Rebecca'?
 (A) Welshwomen, campaigning to gain the right to vote
 (B) Welshwomen, fighting for temperance in southern Wales
 (C) Welshwomen, who were mistaken for soldiers by Napoleon's troops
 (D) Welshmen dressed as women, who destroyed turnpike gates

 27.  Why is the name of the village in 'Under Milk Wood' memorable?
 (A) It is the name of a British Prime Minister backwards
 (B) It is a Gaelic profanity
 (C) It is a Welsh profanity
 (D) It is a mild English profanity backwards

 28.  Which geological age took its name from the Latin name for Wales?
 (A) Triassic
 (B) Devonian
 (C) Permian
 (D) Cambrian

 29.  Which Welsh poet lost a foot while 'jumping rattlers' in the USA?
 (A) Dylan Thomas
 (B) Dafydd ap Gwilym
 (C) W H Davies
 (D) Ann Griffiths

 30.  Who wrote a poem about New Zealand that ends with the line 'It's undersized; for God's sake throw it back!'
 (A) Wynford Vaughan-Thomas
 (B) Dylan Thomas
 (C) Vaughan Williams
 (D) Henry Lawson>
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 1.  If you saw a sign in Wales saying 'Croeso', what would this mean?

 2.  What is the national day of Wales?

 3.  What sport do the Welsh like to watch at Cardiff Arms?

 4.  On what day does Wales celebrate its national day?

 5.  What is Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch to the Welsh?

 6.  What is the highest mountain in Wales?

 7.  What is the national emblem of Wales, often worn in the cap?

 8.  What is the national flower of Wales?

 9.  What is the national symbol of Wales?

 10.  What is the Welsh name for Wales?

 11.  What television series was filmed at Portmeirion?

 12.  What was Ossian Ellis famous for?

 13.  What was the Mabinogion?

 14.  Which Welsh castle is most closely associated with the Prince of Wales?

 15.  Which Welsh poet died of alcoholic poisoning in the USA?

 16.  Who was the first Prince of Wales in the present line?

 17.  Why is Llangollen famous?

 18.  How Green was my Valley' was filmed in 1941 by John Ford. Who wrote the original novel?

 19.  In what year did Owain Glyndwr raise the Golden Banner?

 20.  What is Pen y Fan?

 21.  What is the highest mountain named after a Welshman?

 22.  What was the most important written work of Giraldus Cambrensis?

 23.  Where is the Centre for Alternative Technology?

 24.  Which famous Welshman first was given the line "I am not in the roll of common men"

 25.  Who or what is or was Taliesin?

 26.  Who were 'the daughters of Rebecca'?

 27.  Why is the name of the village in 'Under Milk Wood' memorable?

 28.  Which geological age took its name from the Latin name for Wales?

 29.  Which Welsh poet lost a foot while 'jumping rattlers' in the USA?

 30.  Who wrote a poem about New Zealand that ends with the line 'It's undersized; for God's sake throw it back!'

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