Bonfire Night riddles and quiz sheet
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How to use it
- Print a copy per team and keep the answer page for the quizmaster.
- Do the riddles first, then the quiz, while the sparklers come out.
- Most points wins first go on the toffee apples.
Fireworks riddles
- Why did the bonfire go to the doctor?
- Why did the firework go to school?
- What does a bonfire have that you never want to touch?
- What did the sparkler say when it finished?
- Why was the rocket so popular?
- I go up with a whoosh and come down in a shower. What am I?
- What's a Catherine wheel's favourite dance?
- I'm made of old clothes and stuffed with straw. What am I?
- What did one firework say to the other?
- What sweet treat on a stick is a Bonfire Night favourite?
Guy Fawkes quiz
- In which year was the Gunpowder Plot?
- Which building did the plotters try to blow up?
- Which king were they trying to kill?
- How many barrels of gunpowder were found?
- What was the name of the plot's leader?
- What alias did Guy Fawkes use when he was caught?
- What does the rhyme ask you to remember?
- Who still searches the cellars of Parliament before the State Opening?
- Which city was Guy Fawkes born in?
- What is another name for Bonfire Night?
Answers
Fireworks riddles
- It was feeling a bit burnt out
- To get a little brighter
- Its flames
- That was a bright idea
- It always went down a blast
- A rocket firework
- The spin
- A guy
- Your pop is better than mine
- A toffee apple
Guy Fawkes quiz
- 1605
- The Houses of Parliament (House of Lords)
- King James I
- 36
- Robert Catesby
- John Johnson
- The fifth of November, gunpowder, treason and plot
- The Yeomen of the Guard
- York
- Guy Fawkes Night (or Fireworks Night)