Frank's Big Tour of England Quiz (July and August 2024)

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A bit of fun with a post Tour draw for eveyone who plays, for a Hamper of Produce - items collected as we tour around England. There are 20 questions in all.

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1. Which artist or sculptor created The Angel of the North?

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Tony Hart

Tracy Ullman

Antony Gormley

Tracy Emin

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2. In post-Covid England, Where's established as the best known landmark in the North East to drive to for an eyesight test?

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Roy Castle

Cateract Racecourse

Specsavers Stadium

Barnard Castle

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3. Which confectioner bought Rowntrees of York in 1988?

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Nestle

Mars

Cadbury

Lindt

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4. Which city is home to The Hepworth?

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Wakefield

Sheffield

Ripon

Barnsley

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5.What sports-related facility stands at Bolero Square, Nottingham?

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The stadium for the oldest proessional football club in the world, Notts County

Trent Bridge, the home of Nottinghamshire Cricket. A six hit by Viv Richards once smashed a car window in the Square

The Nottingham Bullring, a museum of the era of British bullfighting and the Midlands Matadors

The National Ice Centre, used by the GB Short Track Speed Skating team for training

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6.Stilton cheese, takes its name from Stilton in Cambridgeshire. In which three counties is it permitted to make Stilton cheese?

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Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Cambridgeshire

Derbyshire, Leicestershire and Nottinghamshire

Leicestershire, Nottinghamshire and Cambridgeshire

Cambridgeshire, Oxfordshire and Rutland

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7. What ISN'T on as part of the entertainment this summer at Britannia Pier, Great Yarmouth?

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Big Fish Little Fish Family Rave

Nish Kumar - Your Power Your Control

Jim Davidson - Swimming Against The Tide

Sarah Millican - Late Bloomer

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8. Which British Sitcom is not the work of Jimmy Perry and David Croft?

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Are You Being Served?

Dad's Army

It Ain't Half Hot Mum

Hi Di Hi

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9.The iconic Bluewater Shopping Centre is 25 years old this year. Which of the following is NOT TRUE about the centre?

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It has 50 acres of parkland and more than 900 species of wildlife

It employs 7000 people of whom 93 have been there for all 25 years

In 2009, just two days after wining the F1 Championship in Brazil, Jenson Button roared into Blueqwater to race around it in a Mercedes

Swearing was banned at the centre in 2001

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10. Who was nicknamed The Lady With The Lamp?

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Elizabeth Fry

Florence Nightingale

Marie Curie

Elizabeth Browning

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11. Why did the Earl of Sandwich invent the sandwich?

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He wanted to eat roast beef with his hands whilst playing cards

There was too much coronation chicken and leftover bread when Queen Victoria was crowned

Cheese dipped in pickle proved too messy when playing golf on his famous course so he added bread

He didn't invent it, the local publican did but named it after the Earl to secure his partonage

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12. Who was famously shot and killed by an arrow whilst hunting in the New Forest?

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King William II

Lanfranc, Archbishop of Canterbury

King Wenceslas

Robert de Mowbray, Earl of Northumbria

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13. Who wrote The Birds, the short story made famous in the Alfred Hitchcock film?

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Graham Greene

Daphne du Maurier

Arthur Conan-Doyle

Ian Fleming

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14. Banksy's Naked Man dangles from a stencilled window and can be viewed from Park Street, Bristol. What goes on in the building with the graffiti on it?

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It's an art gallery

It's a sexual health clinic

It's a defunct tannery

It's a plastic surgery

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15. The Coventry Transport Museum features Thrust SSC, the car that has held the land speed record since 1997. How fast did it go?

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501mph

693mph

763mph

1009mph

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16. Which Liverpool band or singer made number one with their first three singles?

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Frankie Vaughan

Frankie Goes to Hollywood

Billy Fury

Gerry and the Pacemakers

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17. Which of the following is NOT TRUE about Manchester's Trafford Centre, the shopping centre?

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As of 2011, 10 percent of the UK population lived within a 45-minute drive of the Trafford Centre

The Orient is Europe's largest food court with 1,600 seats and 35 retail outlets

When the Peel Group sold the centre to Capital Shopping Centres in 2011 for £1.6billion it was the largets property deal in British history

The lavish Art Deco and Egyptian design of the centre was to evoke shopping through the centuries from souks to Parisien chic

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18. According to the plaque in Buttermere Church where was fellwalker Alfred Wainwright's favourite place?

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His seat at Blackburn Rover's Ewood Park

Haystacks

Catbells

Home in Kendal

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19. Which of the following DID NOT happen in Carlisle?

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The imprisonment of Mary Queen of Scots

The Jacobite uprising of 1745

Government intervention that saw the city's pubs and breweries nationalised 1916-1971

McVities invented its famous Jaffa Cakes at the Carlisle factory in 1927

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20. What is the primary purpose of Frank's Big Tour of England?

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To raise funds and awareness for deprived children's charity Brathay Trust?

To promote urban-county access and inclusivity through sport?

To help the events industry to connect with, help, and employ young people from challenging backgrounds?

To tell a colourful story of England whilst running 1850 miles in the 62 days of July and August through every county and every cathedral city

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