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Who was the intrepid female explorer and mountaineer who bequeathed more than 700 objects to the ethnography collection at the Box Plymouth in 1934 – including these boots which she wore to walk the Silk Road?
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Gertrude Benham
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Geraldine Boxham
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Gertrude Benning
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Geraldine Belham
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What is the name of the designated art collection at the Box Plymouth?
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The Regency Collection
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The Cottonian Collection
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The Rogers Collection
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The Camden Collection
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Which prominent Devon-born artist became the founding president of the Royal Academy, and has a number of works in the art collection at the Box Plymouth?
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Sir James Roberts
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Sir Jacob Rogers
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Sir Joshua Reynolds
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Sir Joseph Redmond
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Roughly how many insects are there in the zoology collection at the Box Plymouth?
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20,000
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50,000
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80,000
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100,000
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To whom did the Egyptian mummy coffins in the care of the Box Plymouth originally belong?
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Iykhat and Lady Tairet
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Ayhat and Lady Tahiry
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Iuhat and Lady Tameri
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Iyhat and Lady Tairy
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Important Bronze Age objects which are now part of the archaeology collection at the Box Plymouth were found in a burial cist on which remote part of Dartmoor?
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Whitecross Hill
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Whitestone Hill
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Whitehorse Hill
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Whitemoor Hill
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What is the name of the rabbit puppet who was the station mascot for Westward Television and Television South West, and is now in the media collection at the Box Plymouth?
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Gus Honeybun
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Gus Hoppybun
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Gus Honeyford
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Gus Bunnybell
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From what year is the oldest moving image in the Box Plymouth’s collection, by Anglo-American film producer Charles Urban?
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1890
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1892
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1894
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1896
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What is the name of the Box Plymouth’s woolly mammoth?
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Matilda
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Martha
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Mildred
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Molly
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Dating back to 1554, the oldest surviving illuminated borough charter in the archival collections at the Box Plymouth is known as what?
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The Queen Elizabeth Charter
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The Queen Mary Charter
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The Queen Anne Charter
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The Queen Catherine Charter
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Solutions
1:A - Correct, 2:B - Correct, 3:C - Correct, 4:D - Correct, 5:D - Correct, 6:C - Correct, 7:A - Correct, 8:D - Correct, 9:C - Correct, 10:B - Correct
Scores
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7 and above.
An excellent result – now name those 100,000 insects.
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4 and above.
A middling result rather than a mammoth one.
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0 and above.
You weren't "boxing" too clever in this quiz.