Answers to the Quiz

Here are the answers to the Kenilworth quiz:

1. What was the old name for School Lane and what was the name's origin?

Pepper Alley, alluding to the 'peppering' of oponents in a bout of fighting

2. Which famous author visited Kenilworth in 1838 and penned in his diary that the town was "delightful - beautiful beyond expression"?

Charles Dickens

3. Which three Kenilworth roads bound the site where Simon de Montfort is reputed to have held the first English Parliament?

Love Lane, Upper Spring Lane and Coventry Road

4. Where is Betsy's grave and what boundary does it mark?

Close to junction of Rouncil Lane and Warwick Road, marking the Parish boundary between Kenilworth and Leek Wootton

5. What part did Kenilworth play in the development of the Concorde aircraft?

George Rawlings and Partners devised calibration model for testing wind tunnel used in R&D work leading to Concorde

6. Which Kenilworth company helped to create the 1956 film Moby Dick?

M.H.Hurst made compressed air equipment to operate the whale and its spout

7. A unique dinosaur fossil was uncovered in Kenilworth in 1843 by Joseph Sturley. What was the dinosaur named?

Dasyceps bucklandii, the labyrinthodont 'Daisy'