History Quiz
You can find all the answers either on this website or in A History of Old Duston & St James by Fred Golby. To see the answers, click on the link at the bottom of the page.
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Up to around 400AD, there was a Roman town in the Duston area. But whereabouts is it thought to have been located? |
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a. |
Old Duston village (around Main Road). |
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b. |
Top of Bants Lane. |
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c. |
Near the site of the Matalan store (Ross Road). |
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2. |
Which road traces the path of the Roman road that passed through the Duston area? |
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a. |
Berrywood Road. |
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b. |
Harlestone Road. |
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c. |
Bants Lane. |
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3. |
To which major Roman road did the one through Duston link? |
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a. |
Watling Street. |
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b. |
Fosse Way. |
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c. |
Ermine Street. |
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4. |
In the Dark Ages, which Saxon kingdom did Duston fall under? |
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a. |
Mercia. |
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b. |
East Anglia. |
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c. |
Essex. |
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5. |
The manor of Duston was founded in 1086 and handed to the Norman nobleman William Peveril. Who is reputed to be Peveril's father? |
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a. |
King Harold. |
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b. |
William the Conqueror. |
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c. |
King Stephen. |
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6. |
Which type of stone was not quarried at Duston? |
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a. |
Sandstone. |
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b. |
Ironstone. |
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c. |
Granite. |
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7. |
The Quarry Arms, which was built for the men who worked in the stone pits, closed at the end of the nineteenth century, but what business now occupies the building? |
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a. |
Duston Bakery in Main Road. |
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b. |
Post Office in Port Road. |
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c. |
The Rifle Butt in Harlestone Road. |
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8. |
Which touring circus once had its winter quarters at Hopping Hill? |
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a. |
Billy Smarts. |
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b. |
Fossetts. |
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c. |
Zippos. |
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9. |
Which Victorian prime minister once owned the Duston manor estate? |
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a. |
Lord Melbourne. |
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b. |
Lord John Russell. |
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c. |
Earl of Derby. |
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10. |
In which TV series did St Crispin Hospital appear? |
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a. |
Emergency Ward Ten. |
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b. |
Dr. Who. |
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c. |
Forsyte Saga. |
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