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Total questions: 14
Worksheet time: 7mins
It was in 1904 a famous duo met for the first time in Manchester’s city center Midland Hotel. Who were they?
Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy
Darryl Hall and John Oats
Charles Rolls and Henry Royce
Noel and Liam Gallagher
In 1903 Emmeline Pankhurst became very well known for what?
Finding the Suffragette movement
Being a badass
Fighting for the right for women to vote
All of these
In what year was the world’s first professional football league was set up at the Royal Hotel in Manchester?
1857
1888
1905
1913
In 1590 Dr John Dee was appointed Warden of the Chetham Library, he was ordered to leave Manchester for allegedly doing what?
Hypnotising the Mayor
Summoning the Devil
Murdering his House maid
Stealing books
12 paintings known as The Manchester Murals are commissioned by Ford Madox Brown in 1879, Which building are they in?
John Rylands Library
Manchester Town Hall
Whitworth Art Galley
Manchester Art Gallery
The Bee Gees are from Manchester, but which suburb are they from?
Sale
Whitefield
Chorlton
Wythenshaw
A Northern Soul nightclub was famously resident in Manchester attracting acts such as Ike and Tina Turner and Eric Clapton. What was it called?
The Hacienda
The Twisted Wheel
The Ritz
Night and Day
Manchester was named by the Romans - Mamucium, what does this loosely translate to?
Breast Shaped Hills
The Animals Land
The River Town
The Fathers Village
The Vegetarian movement was said to have been founded in Salford 1847. What was the first vegetarian church called?
The Pot Roast Cathedral
The Tuber Temple
The Church of Angelical Avocados
The Beefsteak Chapel
During the industrial revolution Manchester had a nickname what was it?
Cotton Town
Cottonopolis
Thread City
The Cotton Club
Trafford is home to the largest Kellogs factory outside the US, what year did it open?
1897
1908
1938
1947
There was only 1 statue of a woman in Manchester until 2019 when Emmeline Pankhurst was commissioned - who is this statue of?
Marie Stopes
Elizabeth Gaskell
Queen Victoria
Eleanor Sykes
Spring Gardens and Fountain Street are actually sites of natural springs and this is how they got their names.
True
False
The Shakespeare Inn is one of the oldest pubs in Manchester, there is said to be a spirit of a ghost of a what?
Drunken old man
A girl in flames
A red eyed dog
An old Monk
