Weekend Quiz

Weekend Quiz from Local Counties

1 Who was the first person to cross the Grosvenor Bridge in Chester when it opened in 1832?

2 Where was the home village of George Mallory the famous Everest Mountaineer?

3 Where was Lewis Carroll (Charles Dodgson) born in 1832?

4 Which was the first structure in the world to be built around an iron frame in 1796?

5 Who was the first man to swim the English Channel in 1875?

6 Where was Dr Samuel Johnson born in 1709?

7 Izaak Walton from Stafford was the author of which famous book?

8 How did Rudyard Kipling get his first name?

9 The Marmite Food Company was established in a disused malt house in Burton on Trent, but what is a marmite?

10 What is FLASH, a village in the far North of Staffordshire, famous for?

Answers tomorrow.

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