With so many St Georges flags on display I thought I'd theme this weeks quiz on England
1. Who was Patron saint of England before St George?
2. Which English physicist, mathematician and astronomer described universal gravitation and the three laws of motion which dominated scientific thinking for the next 300 years?
3. Who is generally accepted as the first king of all England?
4. Who wrote the words to the poem, later turned into a song, "Jerusalem"?
5. Which English author was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and was also deeply involved in the early stages of the French Revolution.
6. Why would some heralds say people are wrong to talk and sing about "three lions on a shirt"?
7. From where does the word "England" derive?
8 Which English author is sometimes called the father of English literature, as he was the first author to use and show the power of vernacular English language, when previously only French or Latin were considered "proper".
9 Which Englishwoman was both the first female doctor and first female Mayor in England?
10 Which Englishman painted this picture?
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Hence the french Angleterre (land of Angles).
5. Adam Smith
correct Issac it was.
nope
Correct Angle Land became England
Yes
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yes, William Blake, Genius and mad man.
9. Elizabeth Garrett
10. Turner
All correct
1. Who was Patron saint of England before St George?
5. Which English author was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and was also deeply involved in the early stages of the French Revolution.
6. Why would some heralds say people are wrong to talk and sing about "three lions on a shirt"?
Correct. A great Englishman
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I know the lions come from Richard of Lionheart's coat of arms but don't really know much more about it. Maybe the coat of arms didn't have three lions?
Don't know about "true" but St Edmund, who is buried at Bury St Edmund (no, really that's how it got its name) was the Patron saint until Edward III decided to have St George instead.
St Edmund The Martyr was King of East Anglia and was killed by the Vikings.
Yes, in heraldic terms they are leopards
French was the language of English government for a few centuries after the Norman occupation and oppression of 1066, and in French blazon a lion, without further description, is always rampant; a lion passant guardant – one that is walking forward and facing outward toward the viewer – is always called a léopard.
A lion rampant guardant is a léopard lionné, and one passant but with its head in profile is a lion léopardé. The terms describe the animal's posture, not his species. Whatever the beast is called, the heraldic lion or leopard should always have at least a hint of a mane.