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