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. On what date, month, and year did Nevill Hall Hospital receive its first patient? And how much did the new hospital cost?

2. It is a well known locally that many people were hanged at possibly Wales’s oldest public house the Skirrid Mountain Inn after being sentenced to death by Bloody Judge Jefferies, but do you know on whose instructions the last person to be executed there was hanged, and for what crime?

3.‘Steel’s Memorial’ which is now submerged in the river Usk, with only the railings surrounding it left above water due to bank erosion, was ironically built to commemorate what in the 19th Century?

4. Jasper Tudor was once made constable of Abergavenny, but who was his famous nephew?

5. During the passing years the appearance of Cross Street has changed very little, apart from the disappearance of public houses. Can you name five of them that called last orders a long time ago?

6. How did Frogmore Street get its name?

7. The Sugar Loaf was given to the National Trust by Margaret Haig Thomas, also known as Viscountess Rhondda, in 1936. However, what was the Viscountess previously sent to prison for?

8. What brought the Bishop of Hereford visit St. Mary’s Priory Church in Abergavenny in the early 1300s?

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

10. How did Crickhowell’s Standard Street get its name?

ENTERTAINMENT ANSWERS

1. It’s a Wonderful Life

2. Peter Stringfellow

3. Emily Blunt

4. Watership Down

5. Mini Me

6. Perfect by Ed Sheeran

7. Stereophonics

8. The Rutles

9. Amy Dowden

10. Mick Jagger

11. AAODS

12. Owen Sheers

13. Nevill Hall

14. A Discovery of Witches

15 Requiem.