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