Trafalgar Square Statues

Question 1

Trafalgar Square

Answer 1

1 Nelson’s Victory
2 Cape Trafalgar - off Spain Coast
2 Stable buildings

Question 2

Charles I

Answer 2

1 1649
2 John Rivett - to destroy
3 Buried in garden
4 Restored
5 Kings death warrant signed here
6 Old Charring Cross - centre point

Question 3

Horatian Nelson 1805

Answer 3

1 1843
2 Sir Charles Barry
3 Reliefs French cannon
4 Lions 1867
5 5'4" 
6 Sea sickness
7 Cape Trafalgar 1805

Question 4

Sir Henry Havelock 1857

Answer 4

1 Indian Mutiny
2 Military hero
3 Widespread grief
4 Forgotten

Question 5

George IV

Answer 5

1 1762 - 1830
2 Marble arch
3 Buckingham Palace
4 58 years old
5 Opium alcohol 
6 Fat
7 Very unpopular
8 Charlotte daughter offered hope - died
9 Spent memorial fund

Question 6

Edith Cavell

Answer 6

1 1915
2 Firing squad
3 Spying
4 Stirred up anti-German feeling
5 Red Cross
6 Smuggled prisoners home

Question 7

Oscar Wild

Answer 7

1 1900
Witty
2 Movement - prompted importance of art and pleasure in life
3 Affair Lord AlfredDouglas
4 Father pursued him
5 Died poverty and isolation Paris
6 We are all in the gutter but some of us are looking at the stars

Question 8

George Washington

Answer 8

1 1799
2 1785
3 Copy
4 Fought side of British Indian and French wars
5 Not in favour of independence - dislikes bad admin
6 Americas 1st president

Question 9

James II

Answer 9

1 1633 1701
2 2nd son Charles I
3 Exile
4 Stubborn impatient
5 Catholic
6 Removed power  - William Orange (son in law) daughter Mary
7 Removed statue many times

Question 10

King George III

Answer 10

1 1738 1820
2 Longest king 59 years
3 Mismanaged American colonies
4 Porphyria - mental health
5 Popular