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South West England P2 April 2018 South West England Blue Badge - Paper 2 – 18th April 2018 Candidate No……………… SOUTH WEST ENGLAND BLUE BADGE TOURIST GUIDE REGISTRATION EXAMINATIONS Wednesday 18th April 2018 at 10:00 PAPER TWO Time allowed: TWO HOURS (120 MINUTES) This paper comprises 200 questions, ALL of which should be answered. Each question is worth one mark. NOTES Please write your Candidate Number at the top of all pages. The answers should be written on the question paper in the spaces provided. Please write legibly in ink. Please deposit your completed paper as instructed by the Invigilator. 1 CANDIDATE NUMBER________________ SOUTH WEST What opened between Bristol and 1 London in June 1841? Which geographical term links 2 Plymouth Sound, the Kingsbridge Estuary and Carrick Roads? a) Name the TWO “Russell Group” 3 leading universities located in the SW. b) What natural phenomenon affected 4 The Bristol Channel coastline in January 1607? Which company supplies water to 5 customers in Dorset, Somerset, most of Wiltshire and parts Gloucestershire? What is the link between the village of Newton St Loe (near Bath), Poundbury 6 (a suburb of Dorchester) and the Isles of Scilly? What countryside designation is 7 shared by the Quantock Hills, the Blackdown Hills and the Cotswolds? What is the link between Derriford 8 (Plymouth), Musgrove Park (Taunton) and Southmead (Bristol)? Name TWO UNESCO World Heritage a) 9 Sites (Cultural or Natural) that fall within the SW Region. b) 2 South West England Blue Badge - Paper 2 – 18th April 2018 CANDIDATE NUMBER________________ What is the quickest journey time by rail between Penzance and Bristol 10 Temple Meads? (One mark given for 30 minutes either way. Half a mark given for an hour either way). What is the name of the highest point 11 in the region? Where in the South West can you 12 watch a Premier League football match? Name the English monarch responsible for the construction of St 13 Mawes, Pendennis and Portland Castles. Which novelist links the village of Higher Bockhampton in Dorset and the 14 parish church of St Juliot in the Valency Valley, Cornwall? Which feature runs 630 miles between 15 Minehead and Studland? From which age do you associate the settlements at Maiden Castle (Dorset), 16 Little Solsbury Hill (Bath) and Battlesbury Camp (Wiltshire)? Name TWO areas of the South West a) 17 where the underlying rock type is granite. b) Name the Cornish chemist who 18 inhaled Nitrous Oxide (laughing gas) whilst investigating gases in Bristol. 3 South West England Blue Badge - Paper 2 – 18th April 2018 CANDIDATE NUMBER________________ BRISTOL What is the (literal) translation of 19 “Brycg Stowe”, the Saxon name for Bristol? Name the attraction to the north of 20 Bristol that opened on 17th October 2017. a) Saxon Bristol developed at the junction 21 of which TWO rivers? b) Name the current elected mayor of 22 Bristol. What kind of festival is celebrated at 23 Upfest? Which bridge in Bristol is named after 24 an African slave? Whose statue can be seen riding a 25 horse in the middle of Queen Square? Name the new rapid transit system 26 being built between central Bristol and the suburbs. Name the Bristol merchant and alleged slave-trader that has caused a school 27 and popular music venue in the city to want to change their names. 4 South West England Blue Badge - Paper 2 – 18th April 2018 CANDIDATE NUMBER________________ Name the 15th century explorer who is 28 linked by a tower, a shopping centre and a ship called the Matthew. Which event occurred in Bristol from 29 29th to 31st October 1831? In which building will you find the 30 Saxon stone known as the “Harrowing of Hell”? To whom is the artwork entitled “The 31 Mild Mild West” attributed? Name the film studios that have been 32 created from former Harvey’s Bristol Cream warehouses. Name the engineer who designed 33 Bristol’s Floating Harbour between the years 1804 to 1809. Which other transatlantic passenger ship, apart from the SS Great Britain, 34 was designed by Isambard Kingdom Brunel and built in Bristol? Name the longest continuously-running 35 theatre in the UK, founded in Bristol in 1766. Who founded the British and Colonial 36 Aeroplane Company Limited in 1910? In 1754, Bristol wine merchant William 37 Vick left £1000 in his will for the construction of what? 5 South West England Blue Badge - Paper 2 – 18th April 2018 CANDIDATE NUMBER________________ Who is said to have described St Mary Redcliffe Church as the “Fairest, 38 goodliest and most famous parish church in England”? Name the Bristol-based film studio 39 responsible for creating the animated movie “Early Man” in 2018. Name the stadium where both Bristol 40 City Football Club and Bristol Rugby Club play their matches. Which bombed out church in Castle Park remains as a memorial to Bristol’s 41 civilians who lost their lives during the German bombing raids of WW2? Which motorway runs from the centre 42 of Bristol to the M4? Which current Bristol establishment 43 gained university status in 1992? Which Bristol landmark designed by 44 Sir George Oatley contains a bell known as Great George? CORNWALL Name the patron saint of Cornwall and 45 tinners. Which towns do fishing boats with a) these letters come from: 46 a) FY? b) PW? b) 6 South West England Blue Badge - Paper 2 – 18th April 2018 CANDIDATE NUMBER________________ What is the meaning of the Cornish 47 motto “Kernow Onen Hag Oll”? Which recently re-introduced bird from 48 the crow family is also a county symbol? Which Cornish beach, according to legend, is named after a giant who 49 used the offshore rock stacks as stepping stones at high tide? Which poet is said to have penned 50 “For the Fallen” on Pentire Point, Polzeath? What can be found on top of Roche 51 Rock, just outside the village of the same name? Name the lake on Bodmin Moor that 52 was home to the “Lady of the Lake” in Arthurian legend. a) Name TWO of the five inhabited 53 islands of the Isles of Scilly. b) Name the architect responsible for the 54 Eden Project’s Rainforest and Mediterranean Biomes. What has been quarried since the 55 early 17th century, just outside the village of Delabole? Which headland, near Lands End, was considered to be Cornwall’s most 56 westerly point until the first Ordnance Survey maps proved otherwise 200 years ago? 7 South West England Blue Badge - Paper 2 – 18th April 2018 CANDIDATE NUMBER________________ In which town is the National Maritime 57 Museum Cornwall? Name the author who moved to 58 “Ferryside”, next to the Fowey- Bodinnick Ferry, in 1926. What name is given to towns such as Lostwithiel, Bodmin and Liskeard, 59 where tin was refined, assessed, coined and sold? Who is credited with discovering China 60 clay in 1746? Who, in his 1138 History of the Kings of Britain, first associated the 61 legendary King Arthur with the castle at Tintagel? What are the meanings of these in Cornish place names: a) 62 a) Pol? b) b) Pen? 63 What is an oggie? What happened on 16th August 2004 in 64 Boscastle, Cornwall? What name has often been used to describe the mountain-like spoils from 65 the china-clay workings around St Austell? Which Cornish fishing village stars as 66 “Portwenn” in the television series “Doc Martin”? 8 South West England Blue Badge - Paper 2 – 18th April 2018 CANDIDATE NUMBER________________ Where is the location of the datum point used by Ordnance Survey for 67 measuring heights above sea level for the whole of Great Britain? Why has Prideaux Place, Padstow 68 seen a large increase in German visitors over recent years? Name the creator of the “Puffing Devil”; which in 1801 became the world’s first 69 passenger carrying steam road locomotive. With what group do you associate 70 Stanhope Forbes, Walter Langley and S. J. “Lamorna” Birch? DEVON Which city was known as Isca 71 Dumnoniorum in Roman times? The 400th anniversary of which 72 important event will be commemorated in Plymouth in 2020? 73 What does the name “Lundy” mean? 74 Name the author of Tarka the Otter. Name the Devon Rugby Union team 75 that became Aviva Premiership champions for the first time in 2017. 9 South West England Blue Badge - Paper 2 – 18th April 2018 CANDIDATE NUMBER________________ What type of castle is Totnes Castle a 76 fine example of? Name the Devonian seafarer and 77 merchant who is also considered to be the first English slave trader. Which Arthur Conan Doyle story was 78 inspired by the legend of Squire Richard Cabell of Buckfastleigh? 79 What is Red Ruby Devon? What was the name given to the D- Day rehearsal in Lyme Bay during April 80 1944 that resulted in the deaths of nearly 1000 American servicemen? Name the hotel in Exeter, claimed to 81 be the oldest in England, destroyed by fire on 28th October 2016. Which Devon town holds an annual 82 “Tar Barrels” carrying event around the time of Bonfire Night? Which Plymouth church, now a ruined shell, has been left as a living 83 memorial to the 1,200 civilians killed during the air-raids on the city during the Second World War? In which prison did Eamonn de Valera, later to become first President of the 84 Irish Republic, spend time after the Easter Rising of 1916? a) Name TWO of the three towns within 85 Torbay Unitary Authority. b) 10 South West England Blue Badge - Paper 2 – 18th April 2018 CANDIDATE NUMBER________________ a) Name the stations at each end of the 86 South Devon Railway.
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