How well do you know your village?
Tealing Children’s Quiz

The quiz is for primary school children up to the age of 12 years. Tealing Community Council will provide a prize for the winner, to be announced on the website just after the closing date of Friday 23 April 2010. Entries should be handed in to Tealing Primary School by the closing date. Write your answers on the other side of this sheet.

  1. How many people live in Tealing these days (to the nearest hundred)?
  2. How many people lived in Tealing in 1901?
  3. What is the proper name of the large dual-carriageway that runs through the village?
  4. When was the first house on the site of Tealing House built?
  5. What occasion did Tealing School celebrate in 1972?
  6. What does the word “Tealing” mean?
  7. When was Tealing’s Sir Stewart Duke Elder (surgeon to King Edward VIII) born?
  8. What is diddling?
  9. Which area of Dundee is named after a well known 18th century Tealing family?
  10. When was Tealing earth-house discovered?
  11. What might the earth-house have been used for by the Roman Army?
  12. What year did the Tealing Bazaar take place?
  13. How many Tealing men died in the First World War?
  14. What crops did the Tealing market garden grow in 1949?
  15. What famous Russian leader arrived in Tealing on 20 May 1942 in a huge four-engined aircraft?
  16. What treaty did he later sign with Sir Winston Churchhill?
  17. What did the people of Tealing celebrate at a village gala day in 1953?
  18. When were the houses in Inveraldie built?
  19. Which Tealing Association marched on the town hall with 400 banners in April 1957?
  20. When did the post office in Tealing close?
  21. When was the first church in Tealing founded?
  22. Who is the Chairman of Tealing Community Council?
  23. Name two of Tealing’s elected Angus Councillors?
  24. How many horses and cows were there in Tealing in 1790?
  25. When did the old Tealing Hall burn down?
  26. What purpose did service men use Tealing Hall for during the Second World War?
  27. What is the name of the café in Tealing and when did it open?
  28. Who from Tealing famously appeared on the Wilfred Pickles Show in London?
  29. Which Tealing gamekeeper wrote the poem “Doon by the Burn?”
  30. How old is Tealing Dovecot?

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Please also have a look at our new village website (hint – it may help you with some of the quiz questions!). Then write below any suggestions you have for what else you’d like to see on the website – in the Kid’s Zone or in any other section.