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Amlwch, Anglesey, first screened 4 February 2007

Time Trial

Watched the programme, browsed the web pages? Now try our quick quiz to see how much you know about druids and the ancient Britons.

(The quiz uses JavaScript so you need to be using Netscape 3, Internet Explorer 3.01 or above, and have JavaScript enabled)

What did Julius Caesar say was the 'principal point' of druidic beliefs?

 

What did Caesar say that the druids were forbidden to do with their knowledge?

 

How much druidic literature has survived in either written or oral form?

 

What did Pliny claim that druids cut with a golden knife?

 

What nickname was given to the person whose body was found in a bog at Lindow, in Cheshire, and may have been a druidic sacrifice from around the time of the Roman attack on Anglesey?

 

The modern Irish word, draíocht, derives from the Old Irish druídecht. What does draíocht mean?

 

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