Bonfire Night Facts & Quiz

Did you know that up to 1959, it was illegal; to NOT; celebrate Bonfire Night? However, the event was celebrated indoors.

The above dictate was only allowed after World War I and WW II, as in those periods, no one was allowed to set off fireworks; for fear of alerting the enemy to where people were. This legislation, was cemented with The Defence of the Realm Act in parliament in 1914.

Now, on with the quiz:

1. What temperature can a sparkler reach?
2. Why do you see the fireworks before you hear the bang?
3. What speed can a firework rocket reach?
4. Chinese scientists accidentally invented gunpowder by mixing chemicals; and this turned into the first fireworks. But what country did the inventors come from; that made a casing allowing fireworks to go into the air?
5. Not everyone is crazy about fireworks. What is the name for those that have a fear of the loud sound they make?
6. What year did the first fireworks display take place in England?
7. The above-mentioned display was for a wedding – who got married?
8. What was Guy Fawkes first name?
9. The Gunpowder Plot was an attempt to kill a King – which one?
10. What is the ‘technical’ name for fireworks – hint, it begins with a P?
11. What’s the cake associated with bonfire night, made with black treacle and oatmeal – it also begins with a P?
12. What was the Gunpowder Plot, originally known as?

Hopefully you didn’t peek at the answers below before you started!

Answers

1. 1000-1600 Celsius.
2. Because, light travels faster than sound.
3. 150 miles per hour.
4. Italy. 
5. Phonophobia
6. 1486.
7. Henry VII to Elizabeth of York.
8. Guido. 
9. King James I.
10. Pyrotechnics.
11. Parkin.
12. Jesuit Treason.

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