Dear CC Listers I nicked this from soc.genealogy.britain from Roy STOCKDILL as thought it might be of interest This list has gone from quiet to SILENT ? Hasnt anyone got anythng to say about genealogy and that in particular of the Central Coast ?? > On 13 Dec 2000 07:25:08 -0800, in soc.genealogy.britain you wrote: > > >AROUND this time for the last couple of years I have posted a Yorkshire > >Christmas Quiz to the Yorkshire lists to which I belong to enable listers > >to keep the brain cells ticking over for a day or two during the seasonal > >festivities. This year I thought I would do something a bit different, so I > >have devised a more general UK Genealogy Quiz, which I thought I would > >share with you. It is based on the format of the hugely popular British TV > >quiz show Who Wants To Be A Millionaire (the one on which Camilla Parker > >Bowles' cousin became the first winner of a million pounds). I am posting > >it early because one or two of the questions may require some research to > >answer - and, in any case, you will all be much too full of the turkey, > >pud, mince pies and brandy over Christmas to want to tax your brains too > >much! No doubt some of you will find it all too easy, but I have tried to > >pitch it at the level of the "experienced beginner" who has been involved > >in family history for a few months. Most of the questions posed here have > >appeared on this list, or been mentioned in some way, at one time or > >another. I should also point out that the quiz is strictly for fun, so > >anyone getting every question right needn't come knocking on my door > >expecting a cheque! > > > >The format is simple - 15 questions, starting off with some gentle and easy > >ones, building to the more difficult ones as the money being played for > >goes up. You are given four options with each question, only one of which > >is the right answer. In the full TV version a contestant who doesn't know > >the answer to a question is allowed an option to "Phone A Friend" just > >once. In our case, I guess it should be "E-mail a Friend"! > > > >THE QUESTIONS > > > >For £100 - What do the initials IGI stand for? > >A: International Genealogical Institute > >B: Irish Genealogists Incorporated > >C: International Genealogical Index > >D: Institute of Genealogical Inspectors > > > >For £200 - When did civil registration of births, marriages and deaths > >begin in England and Wales? > >A: November 1066 > >B: July 1837 > >C: January 1901 > >D: March 1750 > > > >For £300 - Which was the first UK census to give names and addresses? > >A: 1801 > >B: 1831 > >C: 1851 > >D: 1841 > > > >For £500 - What was a wapentake? > >A: A Norman spear used for hunting > >B: An administrative area in Yorkshire > >C: A heraldic device used on shields > >D: A 17th century mug used for toasts > > > >For £1,000 - In which year did Britain switch from the Julian to the > >Gregorian Calendar? > >A: 1752 > >B: 1582 > >C: 1707 > >D: 1850 > > > >For £2,000 - When were parish registers introduced in England and Wales? > >A: 1650 > >B: 1445 > >C: 1700 > >D: 1538 > > > >For £4,000 - What date did civil registration of BMDs begin in Scotland? > >A: July 1837 > >B: June 1850 > >C: January 1855 > >D: January 1864 > > > >For £8,000 - Who was responsible for introducing parish registers into the > >Church of England? > >A: Thomas Cranmer > >B: Thomas Cromwell > >C: Oliver Cromwell > >D: Oliver Hardy > > > >For £16,000 - What date was Lady Day? > >A: March 25 > >B: September 29 > >C: January 1 > >D: July 4 > > > >For £32,000 - What do the initials BT stand for? > >A: British Territory > >B: Bishops' Tithes > >C: Bishops' Transcripts > >D: Building Tax > > > >For £64,000 - What was a villein? > >A: A criminal > >B: An unfree tenant of land owned by a feudal lord > >C: A term found in Poor Law documents > >D: An 18th century shipyard worker > > > >For £125,000 - Between what dates did the Hearth Tax operate? > >A: 1066 to 1100 > >B: 1502 to 1510 > >C: 1801 to 1830 > >D: 1662 to 1688 > > > >For £250,000 - What was a peculiar? > >A: An unusual clause in a will > >B: A parish or manor exempt from the jurisdiction of the bishop in whose > >diocese it was located > >C: In the 18th century, a piece of land belonging to the Crown > >D: A 19th century slang term for an institution for the insane > > > >For £500,000 - What were Posse Comitatus Lists? > >A: Lists of men pressed into the Royal Navy > >B: Registers of applicants for help under the Poor Laws > >C: Lists of the Anglican clergy in the 18th century > >D: Lists of civilians to be called into action in the event of a Napoleonic > >invasion of England > > > >For £1,000,000 - Who said: "People will not look forward to posterity, who > >never look backward to their ancestors"? > >A: George Bernard Shaw > >B: Oscar Wilde > >C: Benjamin Disraeli > >D: Edmund Burke > > > >ENJOY!!! > > > >Roy Stockdill > >Editor, The Journal of One-Name Studies > >The Stockdill Family History Society > >Web page:- http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/roystock > >Web page of the Guild of One-Name Studies:- http://www.one-name.org > >"Never ask a man if he comes from Yorkshire. If he does he will tell you. > >If he does not, why humiliate him?" - Canon Sydney Smith (scholar and > >humorist 1771-1845) > > > Marg Morters > Central Coast Family History Society > Gosford > NSW > Australia