Cardiff Heritage Trail Quiz
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1. Which close friend of Nelson Mandela would play the piano loudly when resistance plans were discussed, so the conversation could not be picked up on secret service microphones?​
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2. Who was the first female winner of the Booker prize?
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3. Who sponsors the Booker prize?
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4. Who put a chess problem in their shop window and offered a prize to whoever solved it?
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5. Who is Donald Gordon and why is he significant for Cardiff?
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6. Who was Dora Stoutzker, and where is her Hall?
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7. What is the oldest surviving Jewish-owned business in Cardiff?
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8. And which Jewish business has been longest in the same street?
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9. Which former Lord Mayor and admirer of Hitler, wrote in the Western Mail: “No-one doubts that the poorer class of Jew in the large cities was actively working for Communism…and to these no treatment, however severe, is considered too drastic.” (1933)?
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10. Where is the purpose-built synagogue that became a Hindu temple and is now a Christian Pentecostal church?
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11. Where was the last kosher butcher in Cardiff…?
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12. Where was the last kosher bakery?
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Harold Rubens
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Bernice Rubens
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Crankstart (Michael Moritz and his wife, the novelist Harriet Heyman).
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Robert Greenwood (A. Rose).
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The main auditorium of the Wales Millennium Centre was named after benefactor Donald Gordon, the South African-British son of Jewish immigrants from Lithuania.
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Dora Stoutzker (born Dora Cohen) was a music teacher in Tredegar. The main concert hall in the Royal Welsh College of Music & Drama is named the Stoutzker Hall.
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Bogod.
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Rapport.
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Mr Forsdike, a former Lord Mayor of Cardiff and admirer of Hitler
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The Beth Hamedrash at the corner of Clare Road and Merches Place, Grangetown.
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Krotosky’s Butchers, 211 City Road.
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S. Wien, 62 Albany Road.