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These boots were made for walking! But who wore them? Find out in the Art Fund museum of the year quiz

  1. 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?

    1. Gertrude Benham

    2. Geraldine Boxham

    3. Gertrude Benning

    4. Geraldine Belham

  2. 1. The Box Plymouth - The Cottonian Collection

    What is the name of the designated art collection at the Box Plymouth?

    1. The Regency Collection

    2. The Cottonian Collection

    3. The Rogers Collection

    4. The Camden Collection

  3. 2. The Box Plymouth

    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?

    1. Sir James Roberts

    2. Sir Jacob Rogers

    3. Sir Joshua Reynolds

    4. Sir Joseph Redmond

  4. 4. The Box Plymouth - Insect

    Roughly how many insects are there in the zoology collection at the Box Plymouth?

    1. 20,000

    2. 50,000

    3. 80,000

    4. 100,000

  5. 5. The Box Plymouth - Egyptian Mummy Coffin

    To whom did the Egyptian mummy coffins in the care of the Box Plymouth originally belong?

    1. Iykhat and Lady Tairet

    2. Ayhat and Lady Tahiry

    3. Iuhat and Lady Tameri

    4. Iyhat and Lady Tairy

  6. 6. The Box Plymouth - Whitehorse Hill Bracelet

    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?

    1. Whitecross Hill

    2. Whitestone Hill

    3. Whitehorse Hill

    4. Whitemoor Hill

  7. 7. The Box Plymouth - Gus Honeybun

    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?

    1. Gus Honeybun

    2. Gus Hoppybun

    3. Gus Honeyford

    4. Gus Bunnybell

  8. 8. The Box Plymouth - Media Archive

    From what year is the oldest moving image in the Box Plymouth’s collection, by Anglo-American film producer Charles Urban?

    1. 1890

    2. 1892

    3. 1894

    4. 1896

  9. 3. The Box Plymouth - Mildred the Mammoth

    What is the name of the Box Plymouth’s woolly mammoth?

    1. Matilda

    2. Martha

    3. Mildred

    4. Molly

  10. 9. The Box Plymouth - Queen Mary Charter

    Dating back to 1554, the oldest surviving illuminated borough charter in the archival collections at the Box Plymouth is known as what?

    1. The Queen Elizabeth Charter

    2. The Queen Mary Charter

    3. The Queen Anne Charter

    4. The Queen Catherine Charter

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

  1. 7 and above.

    An excellent result – now name those 100,000 insects.

  2. 4 and above.

    A middling result rather than a mammoth one.

  3. 0 and above.

    You weren't "boxing" too clever in this quiz.

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