Stonehenge Quiz

Try out this Stonehenge quiz to test your knowledge. Stonehenge trivia opens a window onto a prehistoric monument on Salisbury Plain in Wiltshire, England, famous for its towering stone ring and enduring mysteries.

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Question 1 · Hard · 40 pts
Radiocarbon dating of some cremated remains at Stonehenge pushed the site's funerary significance back to about 3000 BC. What kind of place does that make Stonehenge one of Britain's earliest known examples of?
Question 2 · Hard · 40 pts
Which excavator first investigated the Aubrey Holes in 1920?
Question 3 · Hard · 40 pts
In the 1950s, who led the major Stonehenge excavations?
Question 4 · Hard · 40 pts
Which archaeologist has argued that Stonehenge was connected with the world of the ancestors?
Question 5 · Hard · 40 pts
A specific rhyolite bluestone source for Stonehenge has been traced to which Welsh outcrop?
Question 6 · Hard · 40 pts
Some of Stonehenge's dolerite bluestones have been sourced to which Preseli-area location?
Question 7 · Hard · 40 pts
Geochemical work linked most of Stonehenge's sarsens to what Wiltshire source area?
Question 8 · Hard · 40 pts
Stonehenge's dressed lintels do something unusually precise for a megalithic ring. What overall shape do they create instead of a rough polygon?
Question 9 · Hard · 40 pts
The central arrangement of trilithons at Stonehenge forms what shape, opening toward the northeast entrance?
Question 10 · Hard · 40 pts
Which numbered stone in the outer sarsen circle still shows a visible mortise for a missing lintel?
Question 11 · Hard · 40 pts
For alignment nerds with a protractor: Stonehenge's axis closely matches the midsummer sunrise at roughly what azimuth?
Question 12 · Hard · 40 pts
Excavation showed the Avenue was not just a path. What paired earthwork features did it originally have?
Question 13 · Easy · 10 pts
On what plain is Stonehenge located?
Question 14 · Easy · 10 pts
Stonehenge stands about 2 miles west of which town?
Question 15 · Easy · 10 pts
What kind of monument is Stonehenge?

Radiocarbon dating of some cremated remains at Stonehenge pushed the site's funerary significance back to about 3000 BC. What kind of place does that make Stonehenge one of Britain's earliest known examples of?

Which excavator first investigated the Aubrey Holes in 1920?

In the 1950s, who led the major Stonehenge excavations?

Which archaeologist has argued that Stonehenge was connected with the world of the ancestors?

A specific rhyolite bluestone source for Stonehenge has been traced to which Welsh outcrop?

Some of Stonehenge's dolerite bluestones have been sourced to which Preseli-area location?

Geochemical work linked most of Stonehenge's sarsens to what Wiltshire source area?

Stonehenge's dressed lintels do something unusually precise for a megalithic ring. What overall shape do they create instead of a rough polygon?

The central arrangement of trilithons at Stonehenge forms what shape, opening toward the northeast entrance?

Which numbered stone in the outer sarsen circle still shows a visible mortise for a missing lintel?

For alignment nerds with a protractor: Stonehenge's axis closely matches the midsummer sunrise at roughly what azimuth?

Excavation showed the Avenue was not just a path. What paired earthwork features did it originally have?

On what plain is Stonehenge located?

Stonehenge stands about 2 miles west of which town?

What kind of monument is Stonehenge?