The Lancashire Quiz

1. Where were the Lancashire Witch trials held in 1612?

2. In which town is the only railway station named on the Lancashire version of Monopoly?

3. What did Robert de Lacy build to protect his estates around 1186?

4. Which event inspired the design of the Engineer’s Memorial in Liverpool?

5. Which famous place reputedly got its name from a music hall act by George Formby Senior?

6. Where is Britain’s highest post box? .

7  What would you be crossing on a walk from Arnside to Kents Bank?

8  In 1866 Burnley became the world’s biggest producer of what?

9. Which town calls itself England’s golfing capital?

10. What title was first granted in 1267 to Edmund Crouchback?

11. Which football team won the FA Cup four times between 1923 and 1958?

12. From where did Bill Oddie present the recent BBC Autumn Watch programme?

13. For which agricultural crop is Ormskirk best known?

14. What form or transport would you use to go through the Foulridge Tunnel? .

15. Who is the current Duke of Lancaster?

16. Which town is believed to be the site of the lost Roman port of Portus Setantorium?

17. Who or what are the Bacup Nutters?.

18. From where did Accrington ‘Nori’ brick get its name?

19. What do the towns of Altena, Germany and Peronne, France, have in common? .

20. Which town shares its name with an old Norse word for a small wind instrument used for summoning Vikings to lunch?

21. Where was the Great British R&B Festival held in August 2006?

22. Who became MP for Oldham in 1900? .

23  What did the former Manchester Central Railway Station become in 1986?

24. What position is currently held by Peter Robinson DL?

25. Which real village provided the setting for the BBC drama ‘Born and Bred?

26 Who left Radio Lancashire in 2002 after making an allegedly racist comment on air?

27. Which popular tourist attraction was founded by William George Bean in 1896?

28. Born in Lancashire in 1898, how was Grace Stansfield better known?

29. Which footballer turned down a lucrative transfer to Italian club Palermo in 1952?

30. Which Lancashire firm has two mascots called Ross and Dale? .
 

Answers:

1. Lancaster Castle

2. Bury

3. Clitheroe Castle

4. Sinking of the Titanic

5. Wigan Pier

6. Blackpool Tower

7. Morecambe Bay

8. Cotton cloth

9. Southport

10. Earl of Lancaster

11. Bolton Wanderers

12. Martin Mere Wildfowl Trust

13. Potatoes

14. Canal barge

15. HM The Queen

16. Fleetwood

17. Clog dancers

18. Iron spelled backwards

19. Twinned with Blackburn

20. Oswaldtwistle

21. Colne

22. Winston S. Churchill

23. G-Mex

24. High Sheriff of Lancashire

25. Downham

26. Jim Bowen

27. Blackpool Pleasure Beach

28. Gracie Fields

29. Tom Finney

30. Winfields