IF you are fed up of the festive fare of television Christmas specials and granny monopolising the Monopoly board and cheating at charades, why not take a few minutes to show off about just how well you know Abergavenny and what’s happened in the town over the past year by trying your hand at our unseasonably tricky Christmas quiz.

Each day over the holiday we’ll be putting a new set of questions online along with the answers of the previous day’s puzzlers.

Today we turn our attention to Abergavenny’s amazing past with a challenging set of questions looking at the town’s colourful history - good luck!

1. Exactly whose grave does the tall granite pillar situated in the graveyard at Llanfoist Church mark?

2. In Clydach Gorge there is a bridge which was said to give which famous bard inspiration for one of his plays. Can you name the playwright, the bridge and the play in question?

3. Coldbrook House, situated in the folds of a hill on the left bank of the River Usk, about one mile south of Abergavenny. Was originally the home of Sir Richard Herbert? Which famous war did this brave soldier fight in?

4. Giraldus visited Usk in 1188 and offered to pardon those in prison if they joined him in what?

5. William Marshall who once owned Usk Castle, was still leading men into battle when he was over 50-years-of-age. His fame was assured, when on his death in 1219, the Archbishop of Canterbury said what about him?

6. The tranquil setting of the Punchbowl on the northeast side of the Blorenge mountain was once used as a sort of hillside amphitheatre for what?

7. Which famous sea dog was a regular visit to Monmouthshire?

8. Abergavenny was once famous for making what of a quality unequaled anywhere else in the land?

9. Llanfihangel Crucorney has a haunted pool where a White Lady is said to rise from the waters after dusk wearing a white dress. Her appearance is supposed to warn of an imminent death in the area. What is her name believed to be?

10. Abergavenny’s Town Hall was designed in 1869 by who?

Check tomorrow’s quiz for the answers to today’s questions.

The answers to yesterday’s quiz - and because its the final day of our Christmas quiz - the answers to today’s questions too.

1. Hallam Amos

2. Graham Moore

3. The FAW Trophy

4. An ElliptiGO

5. The Ben Francis Bowl

6. His 80th

7. Moldova

8. Tom Stewart

9. Women’s Premier League Football

10. Bill Owen

1. The Ironmaster Crawshay Bailey

2. Shakespeare/Devil’s Bridge/ Midsummer Night’s Dream

3. War of the Roses

4.The second crusade

5. ‘Behold the remains of the best knight who ever lived’

6. Bare-knuckled boxing

7. Horatio Lord Nelson

8. Wigs

9. Eleanor. Also known also know as the Lady of the Ring, after the locals, believing her to be a witch, forced her to wear a hoop of iron around her waist and threw her in the water

10. Bath-based architects Wilson and Wilcox