The Making of the Book
Animals
Colours
Famous Pages
The Journey of the Book
100

The number of calves that were used to make the Book of Kells.

What is 150?

100

The fish symbolizes this in the Book of Kells.

What is Christ?

100

This is the material where the red colour in the Book of Kells came from.

What are minerals?
100

The figure in black pictured in the Temptation of Christ page.

Who is the devil?

100

This is the current location of the Book of Kells.

What is Trinity College.

200

The number of years that it took to create the Book of Kells.

What is 30 years?

200

This animal appearing in the Book of Kells represents the apostle Mark.

What is the Lion?

200

This is the material where the white colour from the Book of Kells originated.

What is gypsum?

200

This illuminator is responsible for the Chi-Rho page as well as the introductory page of the Gospels and the eight-circles cross page.

Who is the Goldsmith?

200

The name of the Island off the coast of Scotland where the Book of Kells is said to have originated

What is Iona?

300

The minimum number of writers identified in the book of Kells

What is 4?

300

This animal represents immortality in the Book of Kells.

What is the peacock?
300

This is the plant in which the pink and purple colours from the book of Kells were gathered from.

What is lichen?

300

This illuminator is responsible for the portrait pages of Matthew, John, and Christ.

Who is the Portraitist?

300

This was the event that facilitated the books move to Dublin, Ireland.

What is a Viking raid?

400

The writing tool used in the Book of Kells.

What is a goose or raven quill?

400

This insect represents the resurrection of Christ in the Book of Kells?

What is the moth?

400

This is the plant from which the ink for the Book of Kells was gathered.

What is oak-galls or berries?

400

This illuminator is responsible for The Virgin and The Child, The Arrest of Christ, and The Temptation of Christ.

Who is the Illustrator?

400

This was the presumed reason the Book of Kells was stolen from Kells.

What is it's cover?

500

This is another name for the calf skin used to make the book.

What is Vellum?

500

This animal in the Book of Kells represents the apostle John.

What is the eagle?

500

The blue pigment in the Book of Kells has recently been identified as originating from this.

What is woad?

500

This famous page represents the birth of Christ and the birth of the Earth.

What is the Chi Rho page?

500

The book of Kells was located in this type of body of water after it was stolen.

What is a bog?

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