Question: When did the abbey suffer damage?
Answer: 1640s

Question: Who attacked the abbey?
Answer: Puritan iconoclasts

Question: What protected the abbey?
Answer: ties to the state during the Commonwealth

Question: Who had a fancy funeral at the abbey in 1658?
Answer: Oliver Cromwell

Question: When was Oliver Cromwell disinterred?
Answer: January 1661

Question: When were the western towers built?
Answer: between 1722 and 1745

Question: Who built the western towers of the abbey?
Answer: Nicholas Hawksmoor

Question: What kind of marble was used for the walls and floors of the abbey?
Answer: Purbeck

Question: Under whom did the 19th century rebulding occur?
Answer: Sir George Gilbert Scott

Question: What were the two western towers built from?
Answer: Portland stone

Question: What was designed for the west front of the abbey but not built?
Answer: A narthex

Question: When was the narthex designed?
Answer: mid-20th century

Question: The abbey was without towers following the renovation by whom?
Answer: Yevele

Question: Westminster Abbey was the third highest place of learning after which two places?
Answer: Oxford and Cambridge

Question: The first third of what was translated at the abbey?
Answer: King James Bible Old Testament

Question: The last half of what was also translated at the abbey?
Answer: New Testament

Question: The New English Bible was composed at the abbey during what time?
Answer: 20th century

Question: Westminster Abbey suffered damage during what on 15 November 1940?
Answer: the Blitz

Question: Who painted the icons hung in the abbey in the 1990s?
Answer: Sergei Fyodorov

Question: What was held at the abbey on 6 September 1997?
Answer: funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales

Question: Who was the first pope to set foot in the abbey?
Answer: Pope Benedict XVI

Question: On what date did the first pope set foot in the abbey?
Answer: 17 September 2010

Question: What nationality was Sergei Fyodorov?
Answer: Russian

Question: Where was Henry III crowned?
Answer: Gloucester Cathedral

Question: When was Henry III crowned?
Answer: 1216

Question: Who had taken control of London when Henry III was to be crowned?
Answer: French prince Louis

Question: Who deemed Henry III's coronation to be improper?
Answer: the Pope

Question: Who is the usual cleric for coronation ceremonies?
Answer: The Archbishop of Canterbury

Question: What is the name of the throne used for coronation?
Answer: King Edward's Chair

Question: What is another name for King Edward's Chair?
Answer: St Edward's Chair

Question: Upon what are kings of Scots coronated?
Answer: the Stone of Scone

Question: Who had stolen the Stone of Scone?
Answer: Scottish nationalists

Question: What kind of church is Westminster Abbey?
Answer: collegiate church

Question: Who created Westminster Abbey as the Collegiate Church of St Peter Westminster?
Answer: Queen Elizabeth I

Question: Who governs the church?
Answer: the Dean and Chapter of Westminster

Question: Who are the members of the chapter of Westminster?
Answer: the Dean and four canons residentiary

Question: Who assist the chapter of Westminster?
Answer: the Receiver General and Chapter Clerk

Question: How many lay vicars are there?
Answer: 12

Question: How many choristers are there at the abbey?
Answer: 10

Question: When was the office of Priest Vicar created?
Answer: 1970s

Question: Henry III rebuilt the abbey in honour of whom?
Answer: Edward the Confessor

Question: When did George II of Great Britain die?
Answer: 1760

Question: Who was Edward the Confessor?
Answer: a royal saint

Question: Where was Henry VI buried?
Answer: St George's Chapel at Windsor Castle

Question: Where was Richard III buried?
Answer: Leicester Cathedral

Question: Where were aristocrats buried from the Middle Ages?
Answer: inside chapels

Question: Geoffrey Chaucer was employed as what?
Answer: master of the King's Works

Question: Henry Purcell was buried where?
Answer: in the abbey

Question: Oliver Cromwell began buring national figures in the abbey starting with whom?
Answer: Admiral Robert Blake

Question: Who was buried in the abbey on 4 April 1727?
Answer: Isaac Newton

Question: Who was buried in the abbey on 26 April 1882?
Answer: Charles Darwin

Question: Who was buried in the abbey on 3 August 1833?
Answer: William Wilberforce

Question: Who was buried next to William Wilberforce?
Answer: William Pitt

Question: In the early 20th century it became more common to bury what kind of remains?
Answer: cremated

Question: In what year was Sir Henry Irving cremated?
Answer: 1905

Question: Who was buried in the south choir aisle in 2014?
Answer: Frances Challen

Question: What family has the Northumberland Vault?
Answer: Percy Family

Question: When was The Unknown Warrior buried?
Answer: 11 November 1920

Question: Where is the memorial chapel of the airmen of the RAF?
Answer: At the east end of the Lady Chapel

Question: The memorial chapel of the airmen of the RAF has a window for what?
Answer: the Battle of Britain

Question: The window for the Battle of Britain replaced what that was destroyed?
Answer: Tudor stained glass window

Question: When was the formal funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales?
Answer: Saturday September 6, 1997

Question: When was a second public service held for Princess Diana?
Answer: Sunday

Question: Who designed Diana's dress?
Answer: Catherine Walker

Question: Who gave Diana the rosary beads?
Answer: Mother Teresa

Question: What are also in the precincts of Westminster Abbey?
Answer: Westminster School and Westminster Abbey Choir School

Question: Who required the Benedictine monks to maintain a charity school?
Answer: the Pope

Question: When were the Benedictine monks required to maintain a charity school?
Answer: 1179

Question: The choirboys of the abbey are trained where?
Answer: Westminster Abbey Choir School

Question: Who built the organ?
Answer: Harrison & Harrison

Question: When was the organ built? 
Answer: 1937

Question: When was the organ first used?
Answer: the coronation of King George VI

Question: What was included in the new organ from the previous Hill organ of 1848?
Answer: pipework

Question: Who designed the two organ cases?
Answer: John Loughborough Pearson

Question: What part of the organ is not connected or playable?
Answer: the Celestial Organ

Question: When were the bells overhauled?
Answer: 1971

Question: How many bells make up the abbey ring?
Answer: Ten

Question: When were the ten bells cast?
Answer: 1971

Question: Who cast the abbey bells?
Answer: Whitechapel Bell Foundry

Question: Who cast the two service bells?
Answer: Robert Mot

Question: When were the two service bells cast?
Answer: 1585 and 1598

Question: When was the Sanctus bell cast?
Answer: 1738

Question: Who cast the Sanctus bell?
Answer: Richard Phelps and Thomas Lester

Question: Where is the "dish bell" kept?
Answer: in the refectory

Question: Under whom was the chapter house built?
Answer: Henry III

Question: Who restored the chapter house in 1872?
Answer: Sir George Gilbert Scott

Question: What style is the octagonal chapter house?
Answer: Geometrical Gothic style

Question: There is an octagonal what below the chapter house?
Answer: crypt

Question: What kind of ceiling is in the chapter house?
Answer: vaulted

Question: What kind of windows are in the chapter house?
Answer: 4-light quatre-foiled windows

Question: The architecture of the chapter house is contemporary with what?
Answer: the Sainte-Chapelle, Paris

Question: What kind of tiled pavement is in the chapter house?
Answer: mid-13th-century

Question: A door in the vestible dates back to when?
Answer: 1050

Question: When were the exterior flying buttresses added?
Answer: the 14th century

Question: Who else met in the chapter house?
Answer: King's Great Council and the Commons

Question: What formed the undercroft of the monks' dormitory?
Answer: The Pyx Chamber