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Quiz Questions
- Which art gallery was built in St Ives between 1988 and 1993 on the site of an old gasworks?
- The St Ives Bay Line is a 4.25 miles railway line that runs from which Cornish town to St Ives?
- Which fish was once commercially important to the area but started to die out in the late 1800s when shoals stopped coming inshore?
- A famous museum and sculpture garden in St Ives, preserves the work of which 20th-century sculptor?
- Which beach on the northern side of St Ives measures approximately half a mile wide?
- What's the title of the traditional nursery rhyme associated with St Ives, dating back to the 18th century?
- Whose 1927 novel To the Lighthouse was influenced by her childhood summers in St Ives?
- Which artist toured Devon and Cornwall in 1811, painting the picture "St Ives from the Island"?
- What did John Smeaton build between 1767 and 1770?
- Which seaside resort overlooking a small bay of the same name, lies just southeast of St Ives?
- Trenwith produced over 13,000 tons of which metal ore between the 1820s and the 1850s?
- Which artistic field was Bernard Leach most associated with?
- Can you name the granite monument overlooking the town constructed by former mayor John Knill?
- Name the Secretary of State for Defence during the Falklands War who served as MP for St Ives from 1966 to 1983?
Answers
- The Tate St Ives
- St Erth
- Pilchards/li>
- Barbara Hepworth
- Porthmeor
- As I was going to St Ives
- Virginia Woolf
- Joseph Mallord William Turner
- A pier (Smeaton's Pier)
- Carbis Bay
- Copper ore
- Pottery (regarded as the "Father of British studio pottery" he worked and lived in St Ives)
- The Knill Steeple
- John Nott