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Quiz Questions About Hills
- Which hill is thought to be the location on which the Battle of Hastings took place on 14 October 1066?
- How many hills was the ancient city of Rome built on?
- The popular song "Blueberry Hill" is best remembered for its 1950s rock and roll version by which singer?
- Porlock Hill, the steepest A-road in the United Kingdom and part of the A39, is located in which English county?
- The Black Hills is a small mountain range located mainly in which American state?
- Gold Hill, a steep cobbled street famous for the 1973 "Boy on Bike" television advertisement for Hovis bread, is in which English county?
- What is famously thrown down Cooper's Hill every Spring Bank Holiday?
- What geographical name is given to a long hill formed by the movement of glaciers?
- Spion Kop (or Spioenkop) is a hill in which country?
- Which three letter word is often used to name an exposed granite hilltop on Dartmoor, Devon?
- The Battle of Bunker Hill was fought in which war?
- Can you name the largest historic residential neighbourhood in Washington, D.C.?
- Mount Zion is a hill in which city?
- Which range of hills straddle the border of England and Scotland?
- Which famous hill in east Shropshire, England, is located roughly five miles west of Telford?
- Which range of limestone hills are located to the south of Bristol and Bath?
- Which famous prehistoric artificial chalk mound is near Avebury in Wiltshire?
- The Battle of Hamburger Hill was a battle in which war?
- Mount Manisty is a large man-made small hill created from earth excavated during the building of which 36-mile route completed in 1893?
- The Uffington White Horse is a prehistoric hill figure in which English county?
- What was described by Robert Louis Stevenson as "a hill for magnitude, a mountain in virtue of its bold design"?
- What is a hillock?
Answers:
- Senlac Hill
- Seven hills
- Fats Domino
- Somerset
- South Dakota
- Dorset (in the town of Shaftesbury)
- Cheese (Double Gloucester)
- Drumlin
- South Africa
- Tor
- American War of Independence or the American Revolutionary War
- Capitol Hill
- Jerusalem
- The Cheviot Hills
- The Wrekin
- The Mendip Hills (commonly called the Mendips)
- Silbury Hill
- Vietnam War
- The Manchester Ship Canal
- Oxfordshire
- Arthur's Seat (an ancient volcano which is the main peak of the group of hills in Edinburgh)
- A small hill