Bath: curses in a hot spring, a dandy's rules and a new planet

Bath has been a place of healing waters since before the Romans arrived, and a stage for fashion, scandal and science since the Georgian era. This quiz invites you to explore its history in 20 questions with pictures.

Where does the steaming water of the Great Bath begin its journey, and which Roman goddess was merged with the Celtic Sulis? What did Romano-British visitors scratch on thin metal sheets before dropping them into the Sacred Spring, why is the carved face over the temple so surprising, and what unusual fuel kept its altar fire alight? Who, according to medieval legend, first found the springs — and with what help?

Then the great church: what happened here in 973 that still echoes in ceremonies today, what do the figures on the west front turrets show, why did a bishop pay for a new roof, and what alarmed a queen in the royal bath in 1613? In Georgian Bath, where was the ruler of the ballrooms born, how did the man who owned the quarries first get rich, which ancient monument set the size of the Circus, why does the Royal Crescent look so different from behind, how were the Assembly Rooms paid for, and which Italian design inspired a bridge lined with shops? What did a famous astronomer do for a living, which novels did Jane Austen set here, and what is really known about Bath's buns and biscuits?

The pictures are old photographs and photochroms, Georgian watercolours, caricatures, engravings and portraits in the public domain, along with public-domain photographs of the Roman remains and the medieval church.