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What is Bishop’s Lynn called today?
King’s Lynn
Which Norfolk towns have piers?
Cromer and Great Yarmouth
Which Norfolk town was once the most important port in England?
King’s Lynn
Which two places beginning with W are linked by the world’s longest 10 1⁄4 inch gauge railway line?
Walsingham and Wells-next-the-Sea
What is the Snettisham Spectacular? A) a hoard of Roman treasure; B) pink footed geese gathering on the sands and lagoons of the shore; C) the village classical music festival which is, by tradition, where royal children give their first public performance
B) pink footed geese
What was built in Norfolk in 2049BC?
Seahenge
Where would a Shannock have been born?
Sheringham
Which Norfolk town has the world’s only museum of gas and local history?
Fakenham
Where is the largest colony of grey seals in England?
Blakeney Point
What is the name of the bird known in Norfolk as the Norfolk plover, thick knee or wailing heath chicken?
Stone curlew
Who is the figure at the top of Nelson’s monument in Yarmouth?
Britannia
What did Burnham Sutton, Burnham Ulph and Burnham Westgate merge to become?
Burnham Market
What are Lolly Moor and Honeypot Wood?
Norfolk Wildlife Trust reserves
What is the name of the largest lowland pine forest in Britain?
Thetford Forest
What is the maximum speed a motor-powered boat can travel on the Broads? ( in miles per hour)
6mph
How do we know Vikings settled on the Isle of Flegg?
13 of its villages end with “by,” meaning “settlement of” in the Viking language – think Hemsby, Scratby, Billockby, Filby, Mautby and Thrigby.
Who said Norwich was “a fine old city”? A) William the Conquerer B) The Nimmo Twins C) George Borrow
C) George Borrow
Where in the Broads will you find tigers and crocodiles?
Thrigby Hall Wildlife Gardens
What were people digging for when they created the depressions which flooded to form the Broads?
peat for fuel
Where in Norfolk did a 14th century king of England imprison his mother?
Castle Rising
What is the land which once linked Norfolk to the Netherlands known as?
Doggerland
From which town did the residents write to Parliament in the 1630s, complaining their community had been devastated by an exodus of ‘most of the able inhabitants.’
Hingham – they had emigrated to America.
The Norfolk hawker is only found in the Broads. Is it A) a dragonfly; B) a bird of prey; C) a door-to-door salesperson
A) a dragonfly
Where did a family leave footprints on the beach more than 800,000 years ago?
Happisburgh
Where did King George V call: “The place I love better than anywhere else in the world.”
Sandringham