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Manchester

Total questions: 14

Worksheet time: 7mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

It was in 1904 a famous duo met for the first time in Manchester’s city center Midland Hotel. Who were they?

a)

Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy

b)

Darryl Hall and John Oats

c)

Charles Rolls and Henry Royce

d)

Noel and Liam Gallagher

2.

In 1903 Emmeline Pankhurst became very well known for what?

a)

Finding the Suffragette movement

b)

Being a badass

c)

Fighting for the right for women to vote

d)

All of these

3.

In what year was the world’s first professional football league was set up at the Royal Hotel in Manchester?

a)

1857

b)

1888

c)

1905

d)

1913

4.

In 1590 Dr John Dee was appointed Warden of the Chetham Library, he was ordered to leave Manchester for allegedly doing what?

a)

Hypnotising the Mayor

b)

Summoning the Devil

c)

Murdering his House maid

d)

Stealing books

5.

12 paintings known as The Manchester Murals are commissioned by Ford Madox Brown in 1879, Which building are they in?

a)

John Rylands Library

b)

Manchester Town Hall

c)

Whitworth Art Galley

d)

Manchester Art Gallery

6.

The Bee Gees are from Manchester, but which suburb are they from?

a)

Sale

b)

Whitefield

c)

Chorlton

d)

Wythenshaw

7.

A Northern Soul nightclub was famously resident in Manchester attracting acts such as Ike and Tina Turner and Eric Clapton. What was it called?

a)

The Hacienda

b)

The Twisted Wheel

c)

The Ritz

d)

Night and Day

8.

Manchester was named by the Romans - Mamucium, what does this loosely translate to?

a)

Breast Shaped Hills

b)

The Animals Land

c)

The River Town

d)

The Fathers Village

9.

The Vegetarian movement was said to have been founded in Salford 1847. What was the first vegetarian church called?

a)

The Pot Roast Cathedral

b)

The Tuber Temple

c)

The Church of Angelical Avocados

d)

The Beefsteak Chapel

10.

During the industrial revolution Manchester had a nickname what was it?

a)

Cotton Town

b)

Cottonopolis

c)

Thread City

d)

The Cotton Club

11.

Trafford is home to the largest Kellogs factory outside the US, what year did it open?

a)

1897

b)

1908

c)

1938

d)

1947

12.

There was only 1 statue of a woman in Manchester until 2019 when Emmeline Pankhurst was commissioned - who is this statue of?

a)

Marie Stopes

b)

Elizabeth Gaskell

c)

Queen Victoria

d)

Eleanor Sykes

13.

Spring Gardens and Fountain Street are actually sites of natural springs and this is how they got their names.

a)

True

b)

False

14.

The Shakespeare Inn is one of the oldest pubs in Manchester, there is said to be a spirit of a ghost of a what?

a)

Drunken old man

b)

A girl in flames

c)

A red eyed dog

d)

An old Monk