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Multiple Choice City Quiz – Manchester
Can you answer these multiple choice questions about the city of Manchester and its environs? Good luck!
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1. Manchester has been called the birthplace of ...
Rock and roll
The automobile
The Industrial Revolution
The Renaissance
2. Which of these bands is from Manchester?
Coldplay
Oasis
Queen
The Beatles
3. What is home stadium of Manchester United FC?
Anfield
Old Trafford
Stamford Bridge
Wembley
4. What county was Manchester formerly a part of?
Cumbria
Derbyshire
Lancashire
Nottinghamshire
5. What internet-famous newspaper was founded in Manchester in 1821?
The Daily Mirror
The Globe and Mail
The Guardian
The Telegraph
6. What scientific advance was made by Ernest Rutherford at the University of Manchester in 1917?
Discovery of DNA
Discovery of penicillin
Discovery of X-rays
Splitting the atom
7. Whose concert was bombed by an ISIS-affiliated terrorist in 2017?
Ariana Grande
Joy Division
Ed Sheeran
The Weeknd
8. What soap opera takes place in the fictional suburb of Weatherfield?
Coronation Street
Doc Martin
Emmerdale
Neighbours
9. What was Emmeline Pankhurst known for?
Being the first female surgeon
Helping Marx and Engels write the "Communism Manifesto"
Fighting for women's right to vote
Surviving the Titanic
10. What industry was Manchester most known for in the 19th century?
Glass blowing
Ship building
Steel mills
Textile mills
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What has changed is governmental administrative areas, which loosely align with the county bounderies and this has caused the confusion.
It is commonly seen with London boroughs that are unitary authorities under the Greater London council, but each area remains within it historic county - Essex, Herfordshire, Surrey, etc.
For London especially, it was expanded in 1935 (I think) and postcodes were first issued around 1948, so those areas referred themselves as London.
However, when it expanded again in 1965, there was resistance to being considered London, so Chislehurst in Bexley continued to use Kent in its address.
The Post Office did not care as long as the postcode or local sorting office was included (Bromley), so people are free to continue to use their county in their address. Even Greenwich, which is famously in London, can call itself Kent correctly.
The counties of England have changed many times in the past millennium, Lancashire maybe most of all -- it wasn't even created until the 12th century.
The confusion seems to arise over the difference between the historic and ceremonial counties, the latter being created in the 1970s to streamline local governance.
Greater Manchester absolutely does exist and is a county, it's simply ceremonial rather than historic.
Rutherford however was known to split atoms, although he definitely wasn't the first to do so