These World-Famous Castles Have a Strange History Behind Them. Can You Guess Their Secrets?

Mysterious, alluring and forbidding, these walls tell riveting stories, indeed.

Faye Remedios
Created by Faye Remedios
On May 27, 2022
Help Translate This Item

These castles have fascinating histories. Ace this quiz, and put visiting them up there on your bucket list.

1 / 24

The word castle comes from a Latin word, which means ____.

2 / 24

Built in 950 AD, the oldest standing castle is _____ .

3 / 24

Windsor Castle was built by…

4 / 24

An actual castle called Bran Castle in Transylvania inspired Count Dracula’s castle.

5 / 24

The ____ in medieval castles were called ‘garderobes’.

6 / 24

Stairs in medieval castles turned ____ to hinder potential attackers who would struggle to use their sword arms as they climbed any staircase. 

7 / 24

The ____ was the most vulnerable part of a medieval castle.

8 / 24

The ____ of a castle was known as a ‘Donjon’.

9 / 24

Leeds Castle is found in…

10 / 24

The vibrantly colored Pena Palace is in which country?

11 / 24

The iconic Castle of Good Hope in South Africa which was built by soldiers, volunteers, slaves and Khoisan people undergoing punishment using local materials like granite rock, blue slate and shells, was painted _____.

12 / 24

In 1707, a famous castle’s moat in the Czech Republic was filled with ____ in 1707 to protect the wall, tower gate and drawbridge.

13 / 24

Nijo Castle in Kyoto, Japan, is famous for having….

14 / 24

Occupying an area of almost 70,000 square metres, this is the largest castle in the world.

15 / 24

_____ was the first English royal to live at Buckingham Palace.

16 / 24

For a long time, the majority of castles were made from ____. 

17 / 24

On average, it took about ____ years to build a castle.

18 / 24

_____-shaped castles were easy to attack since it allowed the enemy to dig tunnels under the corners to cause them to collapse.

19 / 24

In 1070, William the Conqueror started the construction of Britain's first stone castle, which was called…

20 / 24

Windsor Castle is the oldest still-occupied castle in the world.

21 / 24

Himeji Castle in Japan is also known as the…

22 / 24

This enormous mudbrick structure located on the edge of the Sahara has been featured in ‘Game of Thrones’, ‘Gladiator’ and ‘The Man Who Would Be King’.

23 / 24

Situated on an ancient volcanic outcrop at the end of the Royal Mile, _____ is considered to be the most besieged place in Britain, with at least 26 major attacks during its over 1000-year lifespan.

24 / 24

In the early 16th century, King François I initially commissioned this 440-room castle as a hunting lodge that took 28 years to construct.

24
Questions left
These are 10 of the World CRAZIEST Ice Cream Flavors
Created by Tal Garner
On Nov 18, 2021