Tom's Cornish Quiz 2025

Our Cornish Quiz was so popular last Christmas, we’ve put together a fresh one for 2025. Are you a Cornish know-it-all? Or just enjoy trivia, Tom’s Cottage style?

There are 20 questions this year with some bonus points available, making a potential top score of 30.

Answers at the end - have fun…

1. Cream or jam first?
2. What is the southern-most point of mainland Cornwall (and therefore Britain)
3. According to Jethro, what day does the train not stop in Camborne?
4. Where are the ‘nearly-there trees’ and can you name them?
5. A Cornish sportswoman received an OBE in the 2025 New Years honours list: who is she and what sport is she famed for?
6. Where, for the first time, could you ‘skate by the sea’ in December ’25?
7. What returned to a Cornish harbour town in time for Christmas, but under fresh (community) management? Bonus point if you know the subtle difference in its name!
8. Expected to air in 2027 and the worst kept secret across Cornwall - what TV adaption was being filmed in various Cornish locations during 2025 for its first series?
9. Opened in 2024 in East Cornwall, what has won awards for immersive visitor experience and architectural design?
10. What variation of a traditional Cornish speciality can be bought over the festive period?
11. What escaped from Paradise Park, Hayle in November and has ended up living wild in France?
12. What was spotted in Cornish waters for the first time in 2025?
13. Name any (or all) of the 3 key first-time performers at 2025’s Eden Sessions.
14. Where did the Fisherman’s Friends perform for the first time this Christmas?
15. The Cornish language was recently upgraded to the highest level of protection, joining which other Celtic languages?
16. Slip n Slide Cornwall moved from St Endellion to near St Columb, but how many seasons has it been operating on the new site?
17. How big is the Cornwall Air Ambulance fleet?
18. What destination do Penzance Helicopters offer flights to, and what are they adding for 2026 to meet increased demand?
19. There are two unrelated products that go by the name ‘Cornish Blue’ – what are they?
20. What did the Cornish bring indoors for Christmas before fir trees became a thing? 

Answers

1. Jam if you’re Cornish, cream if you’re anything else (re: the great cream tea debate)
2. The Lizard – not Land’s End!
3. Wednesday (Jethro was a much loved Cornish comedian, although a little risque)
4. Beside the A30, Exeter side of the River Tamar. Bonus point if you named them as Knapworthy or Cookworthy Knap
5. Helen Glover – rowing
6. Watergate Bay
7. Padstow Christmas Fayre – with the old-world spelling of fayre
8. Harry Potter
9. The Story of Emily – dedicated centre and museum of Emily Hobhouse, humanitarian during the Beor War; situated in her childhood home.
10. Christmas pasties. Turkey tends to replace steak, with each bakery’s own twist on what else goes in (like cranberry sauce or sage and onion.)
11. Frankie the flamingo
12. Orcas (Iberian), bonus point for the Cornwall Wildlife Trust’s find of the Spurilla Neapolitana sea slug
13. Deftones, Biffy Clyro and The Libertines
14. The Princess of Wales’s Together at Christmas Service in Westminster Abbey
15. Welsh, Scottish & Irish Gaelic
16. 3 including 2025
17. 2 – the second helicopter became operational in August ‘25
18. The Isles of Scilly and a third helicopter
19. Crockery (blue and white striped) and cheese (a mild blue type)
20. A holly tree, with berries on

 Let us know how you get on - we'd love to see some scores on faccebook...

Happy Christmas one and all

If you fancy a couple more rounds, check out part 1 and part 2 of last year's Tom's Cornish Quiz!