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.

How much do you know about the town in which you live. Check your general knowledge in round four?

1. The Abergavenny Food Festival celebrated which anniversary this year?

2. What percentage of Abergavenny’s population claim to speak fluent Welsh?

3. Which Shakespeare play includes the character ‘Lord Abergavenny?’

4. In which years has Abergavenny hosted the National Eisteddfod?

5. Earlier this year Abergavenny was voted the ‘Second best place to live in Wales,’ which location pipped the town to the title?

6. Where in Abergavenny would you find the ‘Jesse Effigy?’

7. Who earned £18.90 for an evening’s work in Abergavenny Town Hall on June 22, 1963?

8. Abergavenny lost a familiar face in 2018 when Cibi Walk’s Pete the Potato Man hung up his spatula. What is the nickname of his replacement?

9. James Jones of Nevill Street helped makes Abergavenny famous in Regency times as a centre for which fashion essential?

10. Which Harry Potter character takes a detour to Abergavenny in ‘Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban’?

HISTORY ANSWERS

1, March 17, 1969 at a cost of £3million; 2, Oliver Cromwell, sheep stealing; 3, The son of a local doctor who drowned at that point in the river; 4, Henry VII; 5, The Dog and Bull, The Blue Feathers, The Crown, The Parrot and the Golden Fleece; 6, The street originally passed through a marshy area that was inhabited by large numbers of frogs; 7. As a Suffragette she tried to destroy a post-box with a chemical bomb; 8. The appalling behaviour of the monks; 9. The Second Crusade; 10, In 1485, Sir Richard Evans raised his standard and mustered 3,000 men, who later shared Henry Tudor’s victory at Bosworth Field.

GENERAL ABERGAVENNY KNOWLEDGE ANSWERS

1. 20th

2. 10 per cent

3. Henry VIII

4. 1913 and 2016

5. Mumbles, Swansea

6. St Mary’s Priory

7. The Fortunes, support band to The Beatles

8. Mick the Spud

9. Periwigs

10.Stan Shunpike