Question

On Christmas in 1950, four Scottish students stole one of these objects and hid it in (20[1])Arbroath (20[1])Abbey (20[2])after it broke in half. (0[2])The sarsen variety of these (20[1])objects are found at Avebury, as well as a “Heel” (20[2])example (20[1])located on an avenue in Wiltshire. One of these things was moved from Edinburgh Castle back to Westminster (20[2])Abbey (0[1])for King Charles’s (20[1]0[1])coronation (0[1])and is (20[1])named (20[1]0[2])for originally being kept at (*) Scone Abbey. (10[4]0[1])In a castle by Cork, visitors dangle by their ankles and bend (10[2]0[1])backwards to kiss one of these objects (10[1])said to bestow (10[1])the gift of the gab. (10[1])In Britain, (10[1])body weight is measured in an imperial (10[1])unit named for these objects (10[1])equal to fourteen pounds. (10[1])Blarney Castle is home to one of, for 10 points, what objects that stand on the Salisbury plain (10[2])in a “henge?” (10[2])■END■ (10[5])

ANSWER: stones [accept Blarney stone or Stone of Scone or Coronation Stone or sarsen stone or Heel stone or Stonehenge; prompt on rocks or boulders or slabs]
<Benjamin Chapman, Geography - Europe&gt; ~26002~ &lt;Editor: Ganon Evans>
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