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...and as it’s the last day the answers will be printed below.

Today is your chance to test your knowledge of Abergavenny rich and varied history:

1. Which English king was Abergavenny’s first royal visitor?

2. What did Prior Fulk Gaston take to France from St Mary’s Church in Abergavenny

3. What happened on July 24, 1542?

4. Which English king visited Abergavenny for the trial of Sir Trevor Williams, Baronet of Llangibby?

5. What was the better known name of alleged Abergavenny born spy Charles Baker?

6. To which royal couple did the town of Abergavenny refuse to swear allegiance, leading to the loss of its town charter?

7. What did the family open in Abergavenny’s Nevill Street for the first time in 1790?

8. Which architect of Buckingham Palace fame designed Abergavenny’s town hall?

9. What did businessman Edwin Morgan create in 1871

10 What is Abergavenny’s motto?

Yesterday’s answers:

1. £3million

2. Double yellow lines

3. Councillor Maureen Powell

4. Morrisons

5. Premier Inn

6. Solar farm

7. Four

8. The Gunter Mansion

9. 36 years

10. 4.8 million

Today’s answers:

1. King John

2. The stash of church silver

3. King Henry VIII School opened

4. Charles I

5. David Lewis - later to become St David Lewis, hanged after saying Mass at the Gunter House in Abergavenny

6. William and Mary

7. A bank

8. John Nash

9. The Abergavenny Chronicle

10 Hotes Nunc Amici - Foes now friends