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Athelney, Somerset, 23 February 2003

Time Team 100th anniversary quiz

As Time Team celebrates its 100th anniversary – 100 programmes and still counting – why not try our quiz to see how much you know about the past ten years of the popular archaeology programme?

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

1. What was unique about the first ever Time Team programme at Athelney, in Somerset?

 

2. What is a 'baldric'?

 

3. Whose palace did Time Team look for in Sutton, Hereford?

 

4. How many countries outside the UK has Time Team visited to make programmes?

 

5. On which island are Tony Robinson and Mick Aston first reputed to have discussed the idea of a popular archaeology programme?

 

6. What was Time Team looking for in its first ever 'live' dig in 1997?

 

7. From which country did Time Team illustrator Victor Ambrus flee to come to Britain?

 

8. What is Tony Robinson's favourite Time Team find?

 

9. Who knits Mick Aston's stripey jumpers?

 

10. Time Team has only once kept the cameras rolling and extended a dig to a fourth day. Where did it happen?

 

11. What was Time Team looking for in the deepest hole ever dug for the programme, in Blaenafon, south Wales?

 

12. What caused Time Team special problems during their excavation of a second world war aircraft at Reedham Marshes, Norfolk?

 

13. On which remains does Time Team's occasional expert Andy Current place great store for dating purposes?

 

14. What did the 'Cardiff giant' have in common with a site investigated by Time Team at Llygadwy, in Wales?

 

15. Which county does Carenza Lewis's first name come from (although neither Carenza nor her family have any connection with that county)?

 

16. The predecessor to Time Team was a four-programme series screened in 1991. What was it called?

 

17. What does Time Team archaeologist Phil Harding blame for the fact that he never had an academic career?

 

18. Why did Time Team have to take special care over digging at Richmond Palace for the 1998 series?

 

19. Where hasn't Time Team been?

 

20. Who put her first class archaeology degree to use as a guest presenter with Time Team?

 

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