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So, of course this test (OK, quiz, really) has absolutely no validity at all. Hangy la, it’s only 10 questions<br />
(with the answers at the foot of the page, but no peeking just yet). Let’s say a pass is seven out of ten.<br />
Here goes:<br />
QUIZ<br />
Q1<br />
What’s the name of the castle that sits to<br />
the east of St Peter Port and was once the<br />
official residence of Guernsey’s Governors?<br />
Q6<br />
What is the name of the world’s second<br />
oldest competitive rugby fixture, played<br />
every year between Guernsey and Jersey?<br />
Q2<br />
What’s the only Guernsey parish<br />
that doesn’t have a coastline?<br />
Q7 What is the name of Guernsey’s Bailiff?<br />
Q3<br />
Guernsey’s politicians sit in our parliament<br />
called the States of Deliberation.<br />
What is their political title?<br />
Q8<br />
What is the main ingredient<br />
of a Gâche Melée?<br />
Q4<br />
In the <strong>En</strong>glish Civil War, apart from the castle<br />
mentioned in question one, which side did<br />
Guernsey support?<br />
Q9<br />
Which Guernsey beach did Pierre-Auguste<br />
Renoir paint several times<br />
during his visit to the island in 1883?<br />
Q5 What date is Liberation Day? Q10<br />
One can find the tiny chapel of<br />
St Apolline in the parish of St Saviour’s.<br />
St Apolline is the patron saint of<br />
which profession?<br />
Of course, knowing facts about one’s home<br />
is only one way of looking at things. I think of<br />
my ‘Guernseyness’ in other ways too. I know I<br />
have the fairly commonplace ‘distance revision<br />
syndrome’, whereby a trip to London is easypeasy<br />
with flight times of around 40 minutes, but<br />
somehow driving 20 minutes from St Peter Port to<br />
Torteval seems like a major journey; and actually<br />
do we really need to go all that way? (Of course I<br />
should go - Guernsey’s high parishes are beautiful<br />
and one shouldn’t pass up a trip out west.)<br />
I’ve also caught myself forgetting that not everyone<br />
thinks of their home the way I do about mine. For<br />
example if I meet someone off-island who has a<br />
friend or a contact in Guernsey, I’m very keen to find<br />
out just who that person might be. Guernsey being<br />
Guernsey, often I know them. Or of them. That’s a<br />
familiar scenario to many Guernsey people I suspect.<br />
But lately I’ve had to remind myself that this Guernsey<br />
rule doesn’t really work that well for places with<br />
populations bigger than sixtyish thousand. ‘Oh, you’re<br />
from Australia? I expect you know my friend Tracey,<br />
then? She lives in Perth, works in event management.<br />
She’s from Guernsey and is very friendly. No?’<br />
I’ve come very close to having that sort of<br />
conversation on more than one occasion. Why<br />
I need to remind myself not to ask is a bit of a<br />
worry. It’s surely completely obvious, but it shows<br />
how perspective can change over time.<br />
So, for the most part, a test isn’t required. I like to<br />
think that this is characteristic of the island being a<br />
welcoming sort of place. Along with that intrinsic<br />
friendliness, Guernsey offers a great quality of<br />
life, views that lift the soul, a sense of community,<br />
decent weather and, in the Open Market, a brilliant<br />
entry mechanism for people who might want<br />
to move. And you don’t need to understand the<br />
rules of Euchre or know what a collymochon is.<br />
Now, those answers. How did you do?<br />
1. Castle Cornet 2. St Andrew’s 3. (States) Deputies 4. The Parliamentarians 5.9th May 6. The Siam Cup (won by 46 points to 30 by<br />
Guernsey this year in an entertaining display of power, pace and talent) 7. Sir Richard Collas 8. Apple 9. Moulin Huet 10. Dentists (a bit of a<br />
grisly end it was for St Apolline).<br />
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