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What or who are 'The Ladies of the Vale'?

the spires of the cathedral

Who first established Christianity in Lichfield?

S. Chad

Who remembered when 'all the respectable people in Lichfield were drunk every night'?

Samuel Johnson

Which English king contributed to the restoration of the cathedral after the Civil War?

Charles II

Who walked through the streets of the city in 1651 shouting 'Woe to the bloody city of Lichfield!'?

George Fox

To whom did Johnson describe Lichfield as 'a city of philosophers'?

James Boswell

Of which ship was Edward John Smith - whose statue stands in the Museum Gardens - captain?

Titanic

Apart from Samuel Johnson, whose statue stands in Market Place?

James Boswell

Does 'Salve magna parens', the city's motto, mean:

Hail great mother

What or who is Lectocetum?

The Roman site outside the city

Which one of the following didn't attend Lichfield Grammar School?

Henry Fielding

What sort of friars lived in the Lichfield Friary?

Franciscans

What relation was Erasmus Darwin to Charles Darwin, the author of Origin of Species?

Grandfather

Who was 'the Swan of Lichfield'?

Anna Seward

In which of Lichfield's churches are Samuel Johnson's family buried?

S. Michael's

Erasmus Darwin was a central figure in which society?

The Lunar Society

Which Lichfeldian's collection is the basis of an Oxford museum?

Elias Ashmole

What was brought to the Cathedral in 1803 by Sir Brooke Boothby?

the Herkenrode stained glass windows

Which major British artist designed a stained glass window for St. John's Hospital in 1984?

John Piper

Which one of the following never lived in Lichfield?

Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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