BON FIRE´S NIGHT

01 - What happens all over Britain on the night of November 5th?
An effigy (or "guy") representing Fawkes is ritually burnt on the bonfire.
02 - Who do people commemorate that way?
The failed Gunpowder Plot.
03 - What did Guy Fawkes, together with a group of men, try to do with?
They tried to exploit the English Parliament.
04 - What were English Catholics hoping when Queen Elisabeth I died in 1603?
They hoped that his successor, James I, was more tolerant .
05 - Why were they disappointed?
Because their hopes didn't happen.
06 - How did some Catholics react when they saw their hope unfulfilled?
They decided to exploit the Parliament.
07 - Who might have died as a result of their attempts?
The King,including Crown Prince, Prince of Wales and Members of Parliament.
08 - What would people like Fawkes and his fellow conspirators be called now?
They would be called religious extremists.
09 - How did they try to put their murderous plan into practice?
The plan was to fill the English Parliament's basement with powder and did to explode them in the opening ceremony of the State in October 1605.
10 - At what moment did some conspirators start questioning what they were doing?
When some said they would die innocent people that could be fighting for Catholics .
11 - How did one conspirator try to warn a friend of his?
He sent him a letter. In it said that he didn't go near Parliament.
12 - Who was that letter even shown to?
The letter was shown to the King.
13 - What happened to Guy Fawkes when the authorities searched the cellar of the parliament?
He was imprisoned, tortured and executed.
14 - Why might the conspirators' plans have failed anyway?
Because they lost a part of their rights in England.
15 - What other term is often used to refer to Guy Fawkes Day?
The Bonfire Night.
16 - What might some Englishmen be celebrating rather than the traitor's execution?
North Irland's people celebrate the Halloween not the traitor's execution.
17 - How many conspirators were there altogether?
They were thirteen.
18 - Who was their leader?
Their leader was Robert Catesby.
19 - Why did Guy Fawkes become famous even though he wasn't the leader?
Because he was responsible for lighting the flame of gunpowder.
20 - Why wasn't Jeremy Tresham executed like all the others?
Because when he went to the prision, he fell ill and little after he died.
21 - What did the authorities use the conspirators' confessions for?
The government used the confessions to justify the repression anti-Catholic.
22 - How were the traitors executed?
They were hung, and quartered.
23 - Why was that method of public execution chosen?
The authorities did it to sow terror in other potential traitors.
24 - Who might the letter have been 'fabricated' by?
A conspirator didn't be agree with their plan.
25 - What do some historians believe concerning the letter?
Something they were doing.As he didn't want that his friend died.
26 - Which of the traitors is suspected of telling the authorities about their plans?
He was a traitor's friend called Lord Monteagle.
27 - In what year did the tradition of lighting bonfires start?
400 years after the conspiracy's night.
28 - Whose effigy is sometimes burned along with the Guy dummy?
Effigys made by children.
29 - How do children collect money? What do they use it for?
Children on the corner of the streets, selling potatoes and roasted chestnuts to pay for fireworks.
30 - Which town in South East England attracts thousands of visitors for its festivities?
In Lewes (Sussex).
31 - Where has the custom spread to?
In Canada,Australia,Caribbean,Bahamas...