Bommy night short quiz

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1.In which year was the failed Gunpowder Plot?
2.The plotters put 36 barrels of gunpowder in cellars under the Houses of Parliament in a plan to assassinate which king?
3.Was Guy Fawkes a Catholic or a Protestant?

4.Who was the leader of the Gunpowder Plot? It wasn't Guy Fawkes!
5.What was Guy Fawkes main job in the plot: (a)to light the fuse of the explosives, (b)to act as look out, (c)to organise the plot?
6.In the 2017 3-part BBC drama Gunpowder, Tom Cullen played Fawkes, but who starred as the ringleader of the plot?
7.The United Kingdom's most famous Bonfire Night festivities are held in which Sussex town? (Hint: the town also hosts the annual Glyndebourne Festival Opera)
8.Complete the well known phrase "Remember, remember"?
9.How was Guy Fawkes sentenced to be executed: (a)burning at the stake, (b)hanging, or (c)hanged, drawn and quartered?
10.Which gingerbread cake, traditionally made with oatmeal and black treacle, is associated with Guy Fawkes Night?

1. 1605
2. King James I
3. Catholic
4. Robert Catesby
5 (a)to light the fuse of the explosives?
6. ?
7. ?
8. The fifth of November
9. (a )burning at the stake?
10. Parkin

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9 c, hanged drawn and quarted

1. 1605
2. James 1st and 6th
3. Catholic
4. Robert Catesby
5. a. To light the Fuse
6. Kit Harrington
7. Lewes
8. The 5th Of November
9. c. Hanged Drawn and Quartered
10. Parkin.

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1.1605
2,King James I (or sometimes known as James VI of Scotland)
3.Catholic (the plot was an an effort to end the persecution of Roman Catholics by the English government)
4.Robert Catesby

5.(a)to light the fuse (he was discovered in the cellar of the Parliament building with barrels of gunpowder)
6.Kit Harington
7.Lewes
8.The fifth of November
9.(c)Hanged, drawn and quartered (however, he jumped from a ladder while climbing to the gallows and broke his neck)
10.Parkin