Liverpool History Quiz
Liverpool History Quiz – This quiz contains 69 questions based on some of the history in the city of Liverpool and surrounding areas. Think you know the Liverpool’s heritage? See how many you can get right in this first history quiz edition and check back for more in the future!
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#1. In what year did the Royal Hunting Park of Toxteth have its park status removed?
#2. Duncan St was originally called what?
#3. Who produced this in 1769 – ‘The New and Accurate Plan of The Town and Port of Liverpool?’
#4. Who built Lydiate Hall c1470?
#5. What did Andrew Carnegie fund in Liverpool?
#6. Name the famous Liverpool sporting artist born in Liverpool 1724.
#7. What did the ‘Liverpool Merchant’ trade in 1700?
#8. In 1770 Richard and George Holden start publishing what?
#9. Who bequeathed Liverpool’s first Town Hall (which was Gilde House)
#10. Who built the world’s first lighthouses to use parabolic mirrors?
#11. Who was famously the 15yr old tutor/master at the Toxteth Ancient Chapel c 1611?
#12. Why is Catherine St so named?
#13. Can you name Liverpool’s original 7 streets?
#14. What did Edward Rushton establish?
#15. Why was Falkner Square nicknamed ‘Falkners Folly?
#16. Why did sailors riot in Liverpool in 1775?
#17. Clayton Square was named after Sarah Clayton but who were the streets off it named after?
#18. Where was Liverpool’s first purpose built prison?
#19. What was the cause of the dispute between Lord Molyneux and the Liverpool Corporation in the late 1660’s?
#20. Which four cities is Liverpool twinned with?
#21. What is the statue on top of Liverpool Town Hall?
#22. Who carried out the Leveson St Massacre in 1847?
#23. What is unique about the source of the naming of Fontenoy St?
#24. In what year was the Parliamentary Act passed to allow the building of Steers Old Dock?
#25. What is Molly Bushell famous for?
#26. Who were the original tenants of Radiant House – Bold St in 1938?
#27. Why was the ‘Liverpool Blues Regiment’ raised in 1745?
#28. Liverpool had its first recorded imports of sugar in 1667, what was the name of the ship?
#29. In what year did Liverpool become a parish separate from Walton?
#30. Tower Buildings was once used as a what (1737+)?
#31. Where would you find the ‘Sanctuary Stone’?
#32. Dukes Dock was built for whom in 1773?
#33. What was Whitechapel previously called?
#34. What was the key feature of St Thomas Church, Park Lane?
#35. Mersey Bowmen Society established in 1781 became what?
#36. Who is said to have completed the building of Liverpool Castle in 1235?
#37. Liverpool’s first public gardens opened in 1767 – where were they?
#38. On what day of the year was Liverpool’s historical market held?
#39. The off-springs of which two rivers come together to form the River Mersey?
#40. Why was Addision St previously called ‘’Sickman’s Lane’?
#41. Which family developed Knowsley Hall in the 1700s?
#42. Who won what for the third time in 1977?
#43. Which family lived in the ‘old hall’ in what is now Old Hall St?
#44. St Domingo House, Everton was named after what?
#45. What now stands on the site of ‘Everton Beacon’?
#46. Where was the Octagon Church – 1763?
#47. What was on the site of the now Adelphi in the mid 1700s?
#48. Where would you have found the ‘Fall Well’?
#49. What delayed the building of Georges Dock in the 1760s?
#50. In which year did Liverpool City Council pass a formal motion apologising for the City’s part in the slave trade?
#51. Canning Dock is named after whom?
#52. Where would you find ‘A Case History’ by John King?
#53. William Lynn of Waterloo Hotel, Ranelagh St donated The Waterloo Cup. What was the cup for?
#54. Carnatic Hall - (Mossley Hill House) was built by whom?
#55. Which Liverpool sea Captain is said to have spotted the Spanish Armada from his ship ‘Relief’
#56. Where and what was Clarke’s Basin?
#57. What do the four figures above first floor portico of the Town Hall represent?
#58. Which Toxteth astronomer discovered the ‘transit of Venus’?
#59. In what year was Prince Rupert’s siege of Liverpool?
#60. Who was Berry St named after?
#61. What did George Stubbs release in 1766?
#62. What was a feature of the first numbering of houses 1773?
#63. Where would you have found ‘Jackson’s Dam’?
#64. Who in 1705 said of Liverpool: ‘Liverpool has an opulent, flourishing and increasing trade to Virginia and English colonies in America’
#65. Where was the original Liverpool terminus of the Liverpool-Leeds Canal?
#66. Who was Lydia Ann – Lydia Ann Street?
#67. How much did Thomas Leyland and Dillon win in the state lottery in 1776?
#68. In 1774 – Dr Matthew Dobson, a physician practising in Harrington Street, was the first to discover what?
#69. Who was Williamson Square named after?
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