Tea All You Can Be! Open the Lipton Tea Chest to find out what you know in our quiz.
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Congratulations! You have reached the end of the quiz. We hope you enjoyed it. It’s a bit of fun, but equally an opportunity to better understand who Sir Thomas Lipton was and the times in which he lived. The quiz may also have given you some ideas on topics to explore, so why not see what else you can find out.
Congratulations! You have reached the end of the quiz. We hope you enjoyed it. It’s a bit of fun, but equally an opportunity to better understand who Sir Thomas Lipton was and the times in which he lived. The quiz may also have given you some ideas on topics to explore, so why not see what else you can find out.
#1. In which area of Glasgow was Thomas Johnstone Lipton born in 1848?
#2. The Lipton family did not come from Glasgow but emigrated from Ireland only a few years before Thomas was born. From which county in Ireland in the province of Ulster?
#3. When Thomas was only three years old in 1851, a new sporting competition began. It would become the oldest trophy in international sport. What is it called?
#4. As a boy, Thomas used to sail and race model yachts made out of wooden chests and paper with his friends. What nickname did they give him?
#5. What name did Thomas give to the model yacht he made for races with his friends in Glasgow?
#6. What did Thomas buy when he was a boy because of what he called his ‘passion for ships and shipping and everything connected with the ocean’?
#7. One of Thomas’s first jobs as a teenager was on a ship of the Burns Line sailing between Glasgow and Belfast. What job did he have?
#8. Thomas first crossed the Atlantic as a teenager. He arrived in New York in 1866. Which war had only just ended in 1865?
#9. One of the main reasons for the war in America before Thomas arrived had been about the ending of what?
#10. Thomas first worked on a tobacco plantation in a US State, whose capital is Richmond, which was a major hub in the 1862-65 war. What is the name of the State?
#11. In New York, Thomas was inspired by, and worked for, the department store entrepreneur, Alexander Turney Stewart? Where did Turney Stewart come from?
#12. On his return from the United States how much money did Thomas have to start his own grocery store business in Glasgow in 1871?
#13. What name did Thomas give his grocery store in 1871, painted on a big sign above the entrance?
#14. In which city did Lipton open his first grocery store in England in 1881?
#15. What giant gift weighing 11,200 pounds did Thomas Lipton offer to Queen Victoria for her Golden Jubilee in 1887?
#16. Where did Thomas Lipton buy his first tea plantations in the early 1890s?
#17. Before steamships, sailing ships that brought tea from around the world to countries that did not grow tea, like Britain, had a particular name what was it?
#18. The world’s only surviving extreme sailing ship that used to transport tea and other cargo around the world is a visitor attraction at a dry dock in London. What is the ship called?
#19. Whose idea was it to organise a dinner for thousands of London’s homeless people so they could celebrate Queen Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee in 1897?
#20. The huge sum of £30,000 was needed to pay for the Diamond Jubilee dinner for London’s homeless in 1897. What did Thomas Lipton give anonymously?
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About us
Founded in 2010, the Sir Thomas Lipton Foundation is a registered charity.
We care deeply about propelling 10 to 12 year old children – at school in areas of acute social and economic disadvantage – into their critical teenage years with an unforgettable experience of sailing, enterprise and achievement.
At the heart of Buoyed Up is a narrative about the life and example of Sir Thomas Lipton.
