Welcome to our 30th Birthday Quiz: 30 Questions for 30 years!
As part of our celebrations for Bath Central Library’s 30 birthday in The Podium, we created this quiz.
There are 10 questions about Bath, 10 questions about books and 10 image questions.
The passing mark is 70%. Good luck!
Questions about Bath
#1. Which planet was discovered in Bath?
#2. What is the name of the biggest park in Bath?
#3. In which year was Bath named a UNESCO World Heritage Site?
#4. The first ever stamp to be mailed was sent from Bath. It was sent on 2nd May 1840, but what was it called?
#5. What is the name of Bath’s oldest pub?
#6. Select all the films which were filmed in Bath:
Select all that apply:
#7. How tall is Bath Abbey in meters?
#8. What name is given to the large bun made with a yeast dough including cream and eggs (similar to brioche) and was first recorded in 1780 in Bath?
#9. What is the name of the goddess who was worshipped at the Roman Baths?
#10. What is the Bath and North East Somerset residents card called?
Questions about Books
#11. Daisy Buchanan is the love interest from which F Scott Fitzgerald novel?
#12. Which Afghan-born American novelist wrote both ‘The Kite Runner’ and ‘A Thousand Splendid Suns’?
#13. What is the name of Harry’s snowy owl?
#14. What is the name of the land the Pevensey children discover at the back of an old wardrobe?
#15. ‘Call me Ishmael…’ is the beginning line of which famous nautical novel?
#16. Which 2012 John Green novel became a 2014 movie starring Shailene Woodley and Ansel Elgort?
#17. A father and son walk alone through a ravaged post-apocalyptic American landscape in which 2006 Cormac McCarthy novel?
#18. Name the book: A chronicle of the history of the French invasion of Russia through the stories of five Russian aristocratic families?
#19. Which eponymous Jane Austen novel has amongst its characters George Knightly and Jane Fairfax?
#20. Which county does Mr. Darcy, reportedly, own half of?
Can you guess the books from their covers?
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#21. Cover 1
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#22. Cover 2
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#23. Cover 3
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#24. Cover 4
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#25. Cover 5
Can you identify these children’s characters?
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#26. Character 1
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#27. Character 2
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#28. Character 3
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#29. Character 4
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