MR DORSEY’S – DID YOU KNOW – BONFIRE NIGHT / GUY FAWKES

MR DORSEY’S – DID YOU KNOW – BONFIRE NIGHT / GUY FAWKES!

How much do you know?  Mr Dorsey, the best teacher in this universe, challenges you – what do you know?  Mr Dorsey has taught the lesson below and claims everything is true – but we believe only 50% of Mr Dorsey’s ‘facts’ are actually truths and the other 50% is false.  Can you spot what is true and what is false?  Can Mr Dorsey be trusted?  Is 100% of what he teaches correct?  Maybe not in this universe – is he instead really out of this world?

Guy Fawkes’ real name was Guido
The first bonfire night celebrations happened in 1764
Guy Fawkes was the leader of the group of treasonous conspirators
The main person who would have been blown up was King James 1
There were 10 conspirators in the plot to blow up the King
The Kings’ palace was the building to have been blown up
Guy Fawkes was burnt for treason
Guy Fawkes was found in the cellar of the House of Lords
The conspirators wanted to get rid of the King because he was not lenient to their Catholic religion
Bonfire night was known as Pope Day as late as the 18th Century in New England