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Exploring Manchester: A Knowledge Quiz

Test your knowledge about Manchester with this comprehensive quiz covering various aspects of the city, including its history, culture, and geography.

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1 What is Manchester classified as?

2 [26] In ________, New Zealand and South Africa, the term "manchester" is used for household linen: sheets, pillow cases, towels, etc.

3 Manchester is the commercial, educational and cultural focus for ________, and is ranked as the third or fourth biggest retail area in the UK by sales.

4 What type of subdivision is Manchester?

5 What is the postcode of Manchester?

6 [152] The first edition of ________ was broadcast from a studio (a converted church) in Rusholme on New Year's Day 1964.

7 [148] Granada produces the world's oldest and most watched television soap opera, ________, which is screened five times a week on ITV1.

8 [15] Their territory extended across the fertile lowland of what is now Salford and ________.

9 The population density of Manchester: How many people are there per square kilometre?

10 The ________, Britain's first wholly artificial waterway, was opened in 1761, bringing coal from mines at Worsley to central Manchester.

💡 Interesting Facts

  • the Manchester Art Treasures Exhibition in 1857 attracted over 1.3 million visitors, about four times the population of the city at that time.
  • the Daily Express Building (pictured), an Art Deco former printing press, is one of Manchester's only listed buildings constructed in the 1930s.
  • the Albert Medal was one of the awards given to Mark Addy for rescuing more than 50 people from the highly polluted River Irwell, Manchester, in the 19th Century.
  • on 28 February 1828, dozens of people died when The Emma was launched on the River Irwell in Manchester.
  • most of Manchester's Grade I listed buildings are Victorian, because of Manchester's growth during the Industrial Revolution.
  • the firm formed by John Brogden to build Manchester Victoria station and various railroads to the rapidly expanding Manchester in mid-19th century began as a contractor to undertake the sweeping, cleansing and watering of the city.
  • the Teach First organisation which helps top graduate students teach in some of the most deprived areas in London and was inspired by Teach for America, is now expanding to Manchester and Israel.
  • the village of Worsley is centred around the coal mines that helped kickstart the industrial revolution in nearby Manchester.
  • two of the oldest buildings in Manchester's Shambles Square (pictured) were physically moved twice – once in 1974 and again in 1999.
  • the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, today a prominent academic journal in statistics, had as its first work a simple door-to-door survey of occupations in Manchester.
  • the Upper Brook Street Chapel in Manchester, designed by Sir Charles Barry shortly before he designed the Palace of Westminster, is said to be the first neogothic Nonconformist chapel.
  • the turnpike trusts in Greater Manchester (milestone pictured) had a huge impact upon the way business was conducted around Manchester, England.
  • installation of about 25,000 pail closets in 19th-century Manchester, England helped clear the city's drains and rivers of up to 3,000,000 gallons of waste.
  • in 1806, Murrays' Mills (pictured) in Ancoats, Manchester was the largest mill complex in the world.
  • Hulme Arch Bridge in Manchester (pictured) follows the design of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, Missouri, and rejoins two halves of a road that was sundered in 1969.
  • Ivory Williams competed against Usain Bolt in a 150-metre street race as part of the Great City Games in Manchester, England.
  • Cine City in Manchester, England, the third cinema to open in England in 1912 as "The Scala", has recently been demolished.
  • Chetham's Library in Manchester, England is the oldest public library in the English-speaking world.
  • Carrington Moss was used to dispose of Manchester's night soil, and was a Starfish site in World War II.
  • Wythenshawe Aerodrome was Manchester's first purpose-built municipal airfield, but was closed after one year due to the completion of Barton Aerodrome.
  • Peel Park in England was the first of three public parks to be opened for the people of Manchester and Salford in 1846.
  • The Guardian newspaper was founded 189 years ago in Manchester, England as a direct response to the Peterloo Massacre.
  • a word square found in Mamucium (pictured), a Roman fort in Manchester, may be one of the earliest examples of Christianity in Britain.
  • The Towers, a residence in Didsbury, Manchester originally built for the editor of the Manchester Guardian, is now a cotton research facility.
  • The Old Wellington Inn in Manchester has been in three different locations in its 458-year history.
  • Platt Fields Park in Manchester, England, was used as a country park for over 400 years before being converted for public use in 1908–1910.
  • Wilmslow Road in Manchester is reputed to have the busiest bus corridor in Europe.
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