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Blue Plaques



Blue Plaques Quiz

Who are the famous people on the following blue plaques installed in public places throughout the United Kingdom. Blue plaques commemorate a link between locations and famous people. The answers are below the quiz, or simply hover over the answer link beneath each image.

1. 20 Southend Road, Weston-super-Mare?

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2. Born in Westminster Street, Wigan?

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3. Composer lived at The Terrace, Barnes, Richmond?

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4. The Chestnuts, Branch Hill, Hampstead, London?

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5. Childhood home at St Catherine's Drive, Douglas, Isle of Man?

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6. Lived in Heathfield Hall, Handsworth, Birmingham?

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7. Who was born in Cwmdonkin Drive in the Uplands suburb of Swansea?

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8. Which painter lived at Hackford Road, South Lambeth?

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9. Storeshed No. 9, Portsmouth's Historic Dockyard, Portsmouth?

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10. Mallory Park Racing Circuit, the former site of Kirkby Hall in Kirkby Mallory, Leicestershire?

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11. Born in High Petergate, York?

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12. The sweet shop on Llandaff High Street is now a Chinese Restaurant?

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13. Born at Bridge Street, Lyme Regis?

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14. Besthesda Place, St. Ives, Cornwall?

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15. Born in Cowbridge Road East, Cardiff?

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16. Aldwyn Tower, a former hotel in Malvern, Worcestershire, where an American president stayed during his childhood?

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ANSWERS: (1) Bob Hope, (2) George Formby, (3) Gustav Holst, (4) Paul Robeson, (5) The Bee Gees, (6) James Watt, (7) Dylan Thomas, (8) Vincent Van Gogh, (9) Thomas Telford, (10) Ada Lovelace (daughter of poet Lord Byron), (11) Guy Fawkes, (12) Roald Dahl, (13) Marry Anning, (14) Daphne du Maurier, (15) Ivor Novello. (16) Franklin D Roosevelt