See If You Can Answer The Questions Below:

1. Micklegate Bar is...?
a) A Theme Pub on the Micklegate Run
b) The Great Street's Gate
c) Chocolate


2. What is a Barbican?
a) A Leisure Centre
b) Something you can cook on outdoors
c) A Fortified Corridor attached to the City gate


3. Which Duke had his head displayed above Micklegate Bar in 1460?
a) Duke Ellington
b) The Duke of York
c) The Duke of Edinburgh


4. Why was his head displayed looking towards the City, rather than facing the London Road?
a) Someone made a mistake
b) He didn't like looking South
c) So that he could look upon York


5. What is a Portcullis?
a) A drop gate
b) A cocktail made with Port
c) A Viking dagger


6. Believed destroyed in the 1800's, the Portcullis was re-discovered in 1952. What had it been used for?
a) Growing runner-beans up
b) A bookshelf
c) A room divider


7. Who was prepared to walk from Edinburgh to York to save Micklegate's Barbican?
a) Sir Jimmy Saville
b) Sir Walter Scott
c) Sir Ivanhoe


8. Name one of the last two men to have their heads displayed on Micklegate Bar?
a) James Mayne
b) James Last
c) James Mason


9. Why was there a Policeman at Micklegate Bar at the turn of the century?
a) To arrest the gate keeper
b) Because he lived there
c) Drinks were being served after hours


10. What was the name of the last family to occupy Micklegate Bar in 1914?
a) Wallace
b) Butterfield
c) Burgess

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