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Market Harborough: Quiz
  
  

Question 1: The museum opened in 1983 and collect and display objects of local interest including local Roman era ________ finds.
ArchaeologyEngineeringCivil engineeringMining

Question 2: ________ records Bowden as a Royal Manor organised in three manors.
YorkshireSurreyEnglandDomesday Book

Question 3: The most distinguished of these was John Moore, who became Bishop of Norwich in 1691, and ________ in 1707 and also William Henry Bragg, Nobel Prize winner.
Bishop of ChichesterBishop of WorcesterBishop of ElyBishop of Peterborough

Question 4: In Harborough, the King decided to confront Parliamentary forces who were camped near Naseby but the ________ proved a decisive victory for Parliament led by Oliver Cromwell.
Battle of Marston MoorSiege of OxfordBattle of NasebyFirst English Civil War

Question 5: The ________ parish church is dedicated to Saint Dionysius, and is of a broach spire construction.
Church of EnglandBishop of LincolnArchbishop of YorkArchbishop of Canterbury

Question 6: Market Harborough became a centre for ________ with hounds during the nineteenth century when Mr Tailby of Skeffington Hall established a hunt in South East Leicestershire in 1856.
United KingdomFox huntingFox hunting legislationRed Fox

Question 7: The town is served by East Midlands Trains with direct services to Nottingham, ________ and St Pancras International.
PeterboroughDerbyLeicesterBristol

Question 8: The town itself is however an ________, with no town council of its own - the third least populated town of this sort.
Reading, BerkshireLocal Government Act 1972Unparished areaLocal Government Act 1933

Question 9: Harborough figured nationally in the ________ in June 1645, when it became the headquarters of the Kings Army.
EnglandEnglish peopleEnglish Civil WarEnglish Reformation

Question 10: The town is in the southern area of Leicestershire County Council close to the border with ________.
RutlandNorthamptonshireEnglandLincolnshire
















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