Take our Swansea Quiz!

Take our Swansea quiz, so far the highest score from our tenants is 5 out of 7. Can you beat that?

1. The place names of Welsh towns, villages and cities often give away their geographical location. The city of Swansea is known amongst Welsh speakers as Abertawe and it is named as such because it is located somewhere along the River Tawe. Where exactly on the River Tawe can Swansea be found?

A) Tributary

B) Source

C) Mouth

D) Confluence

2. Part of the City and County of Swansea includes the Gower peninsula. What body of water does this stunning piece of land, designated an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AoNB), protrude into?

A) Cardigan Bay

B) Irish Sea

C) Bristol Channel

D) North Sea

3. Like most of the British Isles, Swansea has a temperate climate with erratic weather that goes from very warm temperatures to the complete opposite from one day to the next. The Met Office, who officially monitor and predict incoming weather systems in the UK, released information that ranked Swansea as what?

A) Driest city in Britain

B) Coldest city in Britain

C) Windiest city in Britain

D) Wettest city in Britain

4. Wales has many place names that are quite strange and a few that are unappealing such as the north Walian town of Mold. In the city of Swansea there is a village which shares its name with a verb which means 'speaks in an unclear manner'. What is the name of this village?

A) Stumbles

B) Bumbles

C) Mumbles

D)  Grumbles

5. Within the City and County of Swansea is a geological land formation known as the Three Cliffs Bay named after the three, twenty metres high cliffs that protrude into the bay. Of what type of rock are these cliffs composed?

A) Gneiss

B) Granite

C) Limestone

D) Chalk

6. In the 18th and 19th centuries, Swansea was a fast-growing settlement with population figures increasing at percentages well over 100% decade by decade. The population grew at such a fast rate due to the booming industry that has been the metaphorical backbone of south Walian society for centuries. However, in the 1800s which particular industry underwent a massive expansion to the extent that Swansea was given a nickname related to the produced material?

A) Bronze

B) Flint

C) Slate

D) Copper

7. As ever in society there are issues that unite and divide, however, the local authorities managed to unite the people of the county of Swansea back in 1960 against the formalised cessation of which form of transportation?

A) Helicopter

B) Ferry

C) Tram

D) Hovercraft

Answers:

1 - C

2 - C

3 - D

4 - C

5 - C

6 - D

7 - C

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