Kent specific questions - answers provided in next edition

Who, according to legend, were the founding brothers of Jutish Kent ?   Hengis and Horsa

How many Cinque ports are there in kent, and name them?    4 - Dover, Sandwich Hythe and Romney

Who was murdered in Canterbury Cathedral in 1170 ?     Thomas a Beckett

What was sparked off by a tax gatherers zeal in 1381?  Wat Tyler's Peasants Revolt

Which Kent village has a main street paved with Bethersden Marble?  Biddenden

Name the three main rivers of Kent excluding the Thames?  Medway, Stour, Darent

Who was the original Fair Maid of Kent?  Princess Joan (Plantagenet)

Whose decapitated head was brought to Canterbury by his daughter Margaret Roper?   Sir Thomas Moore

Which Kent born physician discovered the circulation of blood?  Sir William Harvey

What was the name of the American Indian princess who died at Gravesend in 1617?   Pochanontas

Who was the Elizabethan seaman from Gillingham who became the first Englishman to reach Japan?  William Adams

Where is Kent’s largest group of Oast Houses to be found?  Beltring

Which 18^th  century country house is home to a historic collection of keyboard instruments?  Finchcocks at Goudhurst

Who is depicted on the village sign on Bearsted Green? Alfred Mynn - the cricketer

In which village did Charles Darwin write his ‘Origin of Species’ ?  Downe

Which Kent castle was bought in 1903 by an American millionaire William Waldorf Astor ?  Hever Castle

Which village still exhibits an equestrian novelty called a Quintain pole on it’s village green?  Offham

Son of a Canterbury cobbler he became a major Elizabethen dramatist, who was he ?  Christopher Marlowe

What are Lathes and Hundreds ?   divisions of land

King Stephen was buried at an Abbey he founded, where was it ?  Faversham