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Quiz
- Abbreviated CZ, name the synthetic gemstone used to mimic diamond?
- Which fossilized tree resin is popularly used in jewellery?
- The Olympic Australis is the largest and most valuable example of what gem?
- Which Russian Jeweller exhibited his Imperial Easter Eggs at the Paris Exhibition of 1900?
- Whose jewellery collection were known as the "crown jewels of Hollywood"?
- Nacre is also known as what?
- Incorporated into the Crown Jewels, can you name the largest diamond ever found?
- Rubies are defined as red corundum. All other non-red varieties of corundum are classified as what gemstones?
- Which street and commercial area in the Holborn district of London is famous as the centre of the UK diamond trade?
- What material is often known as 'rich mans' gold'?
- Used in jewellery, what is an alloy of gold and palladium commonly known as?
- 99.9 per cent pure gold is classed as how many carats?
- Which colonel is best known for his attempt to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London in 1671?
- Which South American country is the world's largest emerald producer, with up to 95% of the world's emerald production?
- Name the famous jewellry design house headquartered on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan?
- Who became infamous in 1991 for calling his own jewelley products 'total crap'?
- The Alfred Jewel can be viewed at which museum?
- The four c's of gemstone jewellery, especially diamond jewellery, are carat, colour, clarity and what else?
- Which French jewellery company was founded in Paris in 1847?
- Famous for its jewellery manufacturing industry, the Jewellery Quarter is in which British city?
- What was the gemstone surrounded by 14 solitaire diamonds in Princess Diana's iconic engagement ring?
- Blue zoisite was renamed what by Tiffany & Co. after a country in Africa, the only place in the world where it can be found?
- Which gemstone gets its name from a 14th-century Middle English word meaning 'dark red'?
- What word beginning with the letter 'L' is the practice of shaping stone, minerals, or gemstones into decorative items?
- What was the name of the chain with a T-bar fitting associated with pocket watches?
- Most jewellery allergy is caused by what metal?
- What name is given to gold or silver wire that have been twisted into patterns and soldered into place?
- Which Belgian city is famous for its diamond industry?
- Peridot is one of the few gemstones that occur in only one colour. What colour?
- Amethyst is a version of what mineral?
Answers:
- Cubic zirconia
- Amber
- Opal
- Faberge (Peter Carl Faberge)
- Elizabeth Taylor
- Mother of pearl
- Cullinan Diamond
- Sapphires
- Hatton Garden
- Platinum
- White gold
- 24 carat
- Colonel Blood
- Colombia
- Tiffany's
- Gerald Ratner
- Ashmolean Museum, Oxford
- Cut
- Cartier
- Birmingham
- Sapphire
- Tanzanite (after Tanzania)
- Garnet (comes from the word gernet, meaning 'dark red')
- Lapidary
- Albert chain
- Nickel
- Filigree
- Antwerp
- Olive-green
- Quartz