QUIZ: Another 10 Quiz Questions About The Liverpool City Region (With Answers): 3rd Edition

How Well Do You Know The Liverpool City Region?

The Ropewalks District in Liverpool City Centre (Credit: The Liverpudlian/Peter Eric Lang).

Do you want to put your local Liverpool knowledge to the test? Take the following quiz to see how much you know. Try it on your own, or with family and friends.

Questions:

1. Which was the first football club to occupy Anfield?

2. How many boroughs are there in the Liverpool City Region?

   1. Plus, you can earn a bonus point if you can name all six boroughs?

3. What was the name of the Liverpudlian that became Prime Minister?

   1. Plus, you can earn a bonus point if you can name the road in which he was born.

4. Which is the largest borough in the City Region by land?

5. Hamilton Square is second only to what other impressive Square in the country?

6. What amazing feat does the Chinese Arch in China Town have?

7. Paul McCartney bought a house for his parents in what of the Borough of Wirral which they had liked for years?

8. Which iconic Liverpool pop sensation has a bronze life-size statue in The Waterfront District?

9. Can you name three Liverpool City Centre Districts/Quarters?

   1. Plus, you can earn a bonus point if you can name at least five in total.

10. Which Liverpool City Region Borough is famous Liverpudlian playwright, Willy Russell, from?

Answers:

1. Everton was the first football club to occupy Anfield.

2. There are six in the Liverpool City Region? The Six Boroughs include:

   1. City of Liverpool

   2. Borough of Wirral.

   3. Borough of Sefton.

   4. Borough of Halton

   5. Borough of St. Helens.

   6. Borough of Knowsley.

3. William Ewart Gladstone was born at 62 Rodney Street in The Georgian Quarter. He later became Prime Minister and served 12 years in the role over the course of four terms between 1868 and 1894.

4. The largest borough in the City Region by land mass is the Borough of Wirral.

5. Hamilton Square has the most Grade 1 Listed Buildings outside of London and is second only to Trafalgar Square.

6. The Chinese Arch in China Town is the largest of its kind outside of China.

7. Paul McCartney bought a house for his parents in the Heswall Area of the Borough of Wirral which they had liked for years.

8. Billy Fury, the Dingle-born singer leapt into success after a meeting at a gig in Birkenhead with fellow Liverpudlian, rock music manager Larry Parnes.

9. Any of the following answers would be accepted:

   1. The Waterfront District/The Pier Head.

   2. The Cavern Quarter.

   3. China Town.

   4. The Ropewalks District.

   5. The Baltic Triangle.

   6. Liverpool ONE.

   7. The Gay Quarter.

   8. The Commercial District.

   9. The Knowledge Quarter.

   10. St. George's Quarter/The Cultural Quarter.

   11. (Please note, this is not an exhaustive list of the possible answers).

10. Liverpool playwright Willy Russell is from the Whiston Area of the Borough of Knowsley.

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