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Did the captain of this wrecked ship have a wheat intolerance? The great British art quiz

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This quiz is brought to you in collaboration with Art UK, the online home of the UK’s public art collections, showing art from more than 3,000 venues, by 45,000 artists. Each day, a different collection on Art UK sets the questions.

Oriel Môn was founded in 1991 and has strived to collect works with local relevance, which is reflected in the wide range of paintings held by the museum. Most of the paintings have been donated by private individuals and institutions, and these are supplemented with purchases made by its governing body, Isle of Anglesey County Council.

You can see art from Oriel Môn on Art UK here. Find out more on the Oriel Môn website here.

This painting by Kyffin Williams depicts a disused windmill. At the height of the milling industry, how many windmills were there on the Isle of Anglesey?

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Richard Robert Jones was born in 1780 in Aberdaron. Known as Dic Aberdaron, he is reputed to have been able to speak how many languages?

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Which dramatic and treacherous Snowdonia feature are the farmers in this painting by Kyffin Williams descending?

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Which British artist produced a personal image library of more than 300 detailed and accurate drawings of wildlife specimens, and kept a collection of more than 50 sketchbooks in his studio as reference material for his art?

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The 1929 National Eisteddfod of Wales was held in Liverpool. How many times has this Welsh cultural festival been held in this city?

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Kyffin Williams worked quickly and applied thick oil paint to his canvases with a palette knife. What is this bold painting technique known as?

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Kyffin Williams is one of Wales’s best-known visual artists. In which Welsh town was he born?

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The harbour at Amlwch was formed in a narrow creek between high rocks. During the 18th and 19th centuries, the copper mines on Parys Mountain were the largest in the world and the port became a hive of activity. What other industry was carried out in this small but busy harbour?

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You got…

There’s farming in you, I can smell it

You’re a bit of a shipwreck yourself!

No woodworm in your brain – well done!


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