Playing quiz-master at your next online quiz night, or just think you know everything about Manchester?
We've put together some questions and a downloadable answer sheet for you to test your knowledge on the history of Greater Manchester.
- Seen around the city from bins to pin badges, which animal is the symbol of Manchester?
- In which city-centre hotel did Charles Rolls famously meet Henry Royce, prior to forming the Rolls-Royce company?
- The first computer to have a stored programme and memory was developed in Manchester. What was its nickname?
- Can you name the three rivers that run through Manchester city centre?
- The world’s first passenger railway opened in 1830, operating between Manchester and which other city?
- Which local borough is well-known for its black pudding?
- Based in Manchester, which library was the very first public library in the English-speaking world?
- Manchester is home to the world’s longest running TV soap opera – Coronation Street. What year did it first air?
- In which local borough was the famous Co-Operative movement founded in 1844?
- Which physicist, known as the father of nuclear physics, first split the atom at the University of Manchester in 1917?
- Which gig at the Lesser Free Trade Hall famously gave birth to a number of Manchester bands?
- Which 2D material was isolated by Professors Andre Geim and Kostya Novoselov at the University of Manchester in 2004, earning them the Nobel Prize for Physics?
- Which all-women advocacy organisation dedicated to "deeds, not words" was founded by Emmeline Pankhurst in Manchester?
- Including the newly complete Trafford Park Line, how many Metrolink stops are there currently?
- In which local borough are the famous Uncle Joe’s Mint Balls produced?