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Discerningly Versed - Effective Iterative Learning Quiz Questions - Hereford Cathedral
Discerningly Versed - Effective Iterative Learning


The Chained Library houses how many medieval manuscripts ?

 

15
130
230
30

 The new library building, opened by HM Queen in 1996, was made possible by which benefactor

 

Howard Hughes
Lord Rothschild
Bill Gates
Sir Paul Getty
Which city lies at the heart of the Mappa Mundi ?

 

London
Jerusalem
Rome
Nazareth

 Which unique treasures does the Cathedral boast ?

 

Magna Carta/Hereford Gospels
Chained Library/Magna Carta
Mappa Mundi/Chained Library
Mappa Mundi/Magna Carta
The Chained Library was 'chained' for reasons of

 

Security
Aesthetics
Indexing
Practicality

 The earliest Library book at Hereford, the Hereford Gospels, dates back to

 

8th Century
4th Century
2nd Century
12th century
The predominant language in the Chained Library is

 

Greek
Latin
Old English
French

 Which Angle King was murdered by King Offa & was later canonised in Hereford

 

Alfred
Edgar
Ethelbert
Ethelbald
The Mappa Mundi has been dated back to

 

200 BC
800 AD
1000 AD
1300 AD

 The Mappa Mundi is important as it is the first known

 

Astrological Chart
Map of Europe
Astronomical Chart
Map of the World


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