Theme: Spalding and South Holland in Lincolnshire

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1 SPALDING GENTLEMEN S SOCIETY QUIZ Theme: Spalding and South Holland in Lincolnshire ENTRY FEE NEW 1 COIN or CHEQUE ADDITIONAL DONATIONS WILL BE GRATEFULLY ACCEPTED CLOSING DATE 30 th SEPTEMBER 2018 First Prize 20 Second Prize 10 Third Prize 5 The Spalding Gentlemen s Society is a registered charity and the quiz is to help raise funds for its continued advancement. We are the oldest provincial learned society in the country, founded in Our museum is the second oldest in the country, after the Ashmolean. For more information on the society, and to download the quiz, please visit our website at Terms & Conditions All entries must be received by 30 th September 2018 Cheque made out to Spalding Gentlemen s Society The answer sheet to be returned to Quiz, Spalding Gentlemen s Society, 9 Broad Street, Spalding. Lincs. PE11 1TB. Only bona fide answer sheets will be accepted, photocopies are allowed. If you give more than one answer to a question, then the first one written will be taken. The quiz setter s decision is final, no correspondence will be entered into. If you would like the answers by post, please send an SAE with your entry. Please print answers legibly, as illegible answers will be marked as incorrect. Correct answers will be sent to all those who supplied a legible or SAE. Please allow time for marking and checking. If you are using internet Q and A websites, please wait until 16th September, and ask for clues only. Good Luck and many thanks for your support. SPALDING GENTLEMEN S SOCIETY REGISTERED CHARITY NUMBER

2 1. In what year was the Spalding Gentlemen s Society founded? 2. What are the two postcode districts for Spalding? 3. Name two of the designers of the Springfields Outlet Gardens? 4. What World Summit was held in Spalding in 2008? 5. In what book is Spalding called Spallinge? 6. Who was born in Spalding and became Mayor of the City of Westminster in 1908? 7. Name the lost river of Spalding? 8. Unscramble the anagram for a listed building in Spalding? cheesy laugh loaf. 9. What is the two word affectionate name for anyone born in Lincolnshire? 10. What chemical links Walter Brydges Waterer and Thomas Bingham? 11. What village is 9 miles SW of Boston, 6 miles N of Spalding, and 8.5 miles NW of Holbeach? 12. Who designed the Great War memorial in Ayscoughfee Gardens? 13. Where was the Spalding WW2 Prisoner of War Camp? 14. Name the two notable 18 th century poets who were members of the Spalding Gentlemen s Society? 15. What mode of transport was named Spalding Town in 2002? 16. Name the company in Spalding, now closed, whose product was invented by Marshall Lloyd? 17. What is the link between the Spalding Gentlemen s Society and Jules Tuerlinckx? 18. What service started in Spalding in July 2005? 19. Who founded the Benedictine Priory in Spalding in 1015? 20. What was the date of the official opening of the original Johnson Hospital? 21. Which building was built by William de Littleport in Spalding in the 13 th century? 22. How many blue plaques are there in Spalding? 23. What type of structure was named after Gilbert Heathcote? 24. Who was the 16 th century founder of the Almshouses in Spalding? 25. What annual event took place in Spalding from 1959 to 2013? 26. How many votes did John Hayes get at the 2017 General Election? 27. Plant your eyes on this anagram for a famous former member of the Spalding Gentlemen s Society? ape jobs shrinks. 28. What long-haired woman has a link with Spalding? 29. Who is the current Patron of the Spalding Gentlemen s Society? 30. What company was founded in Spalding in August 1986 by Agust and Lydur Gudmundsson? 31. What river can come into play on a round at Spalding Golf Club? 32. What memorial is being planned for Ayscoughfee Gardens, Spalding?

3 33. What was the name of the leading journal that was discussed during the early years of the Spalding Gentlemen s Society? 34. Name two Commonwealth Countries that also have at least one place named Spalding? 35. What was the name of the family that built Ayscoughfee Hall? 36. Who comes next in this sequence, Mouncy, Halliday, Dennick, Greaves? 37. What school was founded in Spalding the same year as the Spalding Gentlemen s Society, the school no longer exists? 38. What two towns, one in Germany and one in France are twinned with Spalding? 39. Name the 18 th century freed slave who was a member of the Spalding Gentlemen s Society? 40. In what year was Spalding United F.C. formed? 41. Each year from September to March the Spalding Gentlemen s Society hold fortnightly lectures, where are these held? 42. What historic building in Spalding did Sir John Betjeman write about in the Spectator in 1954, regarding its preservation, but it has since been demolished? 43. An apple for anyone who can unscramble this anagram to get a notable member of the Spalding Gentlemen s Society? wisterias canon 44. Ivo Taillebois lived in Spalding in what type of building? 45. Name the last ever Flower Queen crowned in Spalding? 46. Who visited Spalding in May 1767? 47. Name the Spalding born man who became the President of the Design and Industries Association? 48. Spalding was the first place in the UK to use this on October 7 th 1979, what was it? 49. What was the profession of James Ramsey Munro, and what was named after him? 50. What is the lowest number of pupils Spalding Grammar School has ever had? 51. Who founded the Spalding Gentlemen s Society? 52. What was the name of the historic seat of the Spalding Clan? 53. One G.G.S. designed it, and another G.G.S. supervised its construction, please name the building? 54. What was Barbecue 67? 55. In what year was the population of Spalding at 9,111? 56. In what year was Spalding Grammar School founded? 57. What is the link between Bath Lane in Spalding, and a Dr Norris? 58. Spalding Gentlemen s Society is located on Broad Street, what was Broad Street originally called? 59. Who opened the Johnson Community Hospital in January 2010? 60. What is the river called that runs through Spalding? 61. John Palmer went to York in 1739, and never came back, who was he? 62. What word comes next. Alwyn, Hall, Wimberley, Evington, Walpole?

4 63. What item is made up of the following four Pantone colours, GREEN 355, BLUE 286, YELLOW 109 and RED 186? 64. A watercolour of Spalding painted by Hilkiah Burgess in 1827 shows an item that is now at the Spalding Gentlemen s Society for all to see, what is that item? 65. What noise was alleged to have been heard for the first time in Britain in the year 986 and where was it? 66. What is the name of the 6 th century Anglian tribe that settled in this area? 67. Whose motto is Nobile Servitium and what does it translate to? 68. How many banks or building societies are there in Hall Place, Spalding? 69. How many Wards and Parishes are there in the South Holland District? 70. What transport link was opened on October 17 th 1848? 71. Where were the results of the South Holland 2016 EU referendum announced? 72. How many grade 1 listed buildings are there in South Holland District that are not Abbeys, Churches, Chapels or religious buildings? 73. Of the 326 districts in England, ranking them by population taken from the 2016 statistics, South Holland is ranked where? 74. What links Stonehenge and the Spalding Gentlemen s Society? 75. Who built the Georgian houses on Welland Terrace, Spalding? 76. What was the original name of the Lincolnshire Poacher, the pub on the corner of Double Street and Herring Lane, Spalding? 77. How many square kilometres is the South Holland District? 78. Who from the South Holland District has links with Platform 15 at Euston Station, London? 79. What was built in 1836/7 on Pinchbeck Road, Spalding at a cost of 5,350? 80. What year was the John Grundy map of Spalding produced? 81. What Waterway runs north-west of Spalding, and who is it named after? 82. What is the name of the water tower in Spalding, who is it named after and what year did it open? 83. Whose head is carved over the front door of the Spalding Gentlemen s Society building? 84. Ayscoughfee Hall is in the shape of what letter of the alphabet? 85. Unscramble this anagram family motto? bonuses honour 86. What three word title links Spalding with Flaxborough? 87. Name the house built in 1754 on High Street Spalding, that was named after the builder s wife? 88. For all our salvation, who was in Spalding for two years in the mid 19 th Century?

5 Any finally, please identify the following people, buildings and structures, with questions 94 and 97, what building or structure are they associated with?

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