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Hull themed quiz.

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  1. Tickton Tiger.

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    Looking for a few Hull based questions for a pub quiz. Any serious suggestions would be welcomed. Odder the better. Thanks.
     
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    You said odd, so here's your starter for 10...
    1. Which famous music hall star is buried in Eastern Cemetery on Preston road?
    2. What was the name of the cinema on the junction of Grimston Street and George Street?
    3. Which famous industrialist was born in Hull on 22 December 1888?
     
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    1 Name a Hull born Battle of Britain pilot who shot down 3 Me109,s before lunch?

    Ron Berry
     
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    The first one is Old Mother Riley. Arthur Lucas. ?'
    Two The Tivoli ?
    3. The bloke who founded Reckitts ?
    Erm, it would be helpful if we had the ( correct) answers to the questions, please.
     
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    You never mentioned answers...!!
    Arthur Lucan is correct.
    2. Criterion
    3. J. Arthur Rank

    Q. Name the road on which the last people to be killed in the UK in WW2 by a German air raid, were killed.
     
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    Owlerdunus Rord. aka Holderness Road.
     
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    Name the Hull man who designed the Grand Hotel in Scarborough and Leeds Town Hall?

    Cuthbert Brodrick.
     
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    Oldest man in The world.. where was he born..
    ... I suppose the theme of the quiz gives the answer away...
     
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    Correct. Right outside the current Boyes store on Holderness Road.


    1..What was the name of the Hull MP who was a signatory to the Treaty of Paris, which paved the way to the creation of the USA?
    2..Which Hull born actor worked in his family's shop on George Street?
    3...In the late 19th and early 20th Century. How many European migrants are believed to have passed through Hull on their way to new lives in the US.

    1....David Hartley
    2....Ian Carmichael.
    3. 2.2 million (see link)

    https://factsabouthull.blogspot.com/2014/09/no38-hull-saw-22-million-trans-migrants.html
     
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    I occasionally run the quiz at our local. last year I did a round themed on places I I have lived. The Hull based questions were
    • The full name of the city I grew up in is Kingston upon Hull. Which king gave the “King’s-Town” it’s royal title?
    • Phone boxes are a thing of the past (more or less), but what was unique about the phone boxes in Hull and the surrounding area?
     
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    Where was the airfield that Amy Johnson got her first taste of flying?
     
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    The full name at that time was more likely, "The City and County of Kingston, upon the River Hull.
     
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    Whats the names of the two clowns ( possibly three) who are killing our club
     
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    I think the Tivoli is where Arthur Lucan dropped dead, hence being buried in Hull.
     
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    Why are the towers of the Humber Bridge 1.4inches wider apart at the top, than they are at the bottom?

    Due to the curvature of the Earth (F*** you Flatearthers!)
     
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    It was "King's town upon Hull". The original charter is in the Guildhall.
     
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    I was referring to the "where I grew up in" as at that time, it was liable to be the County of Kingston, unless you're over 700 years old. :emoticon-0105-wink:
     
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    1. What was the name of the Labour Sect of State for transport who, in 1966, promised to build the Humber bridge, in return for votes?
    2. What is the name of the pop duo who took their name from a shop on Beverley road?
    1.Barbara Castle
    2. Everything, but the Girl.
     
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    Q: Stage & screen actress Pauline Collins, star of "Shirley Valentine", married a Lincolnshire born ,Hull bred film & TV actor, famous for his TV roles in "Please Sir", and "Emergency Ward 10". Who was he ?

    A. John Alderton
     
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    What was the Bethia better known as?
    Which famous Hull poet wrote The Garden?
    Which famous fictional characters father was a merchant called Kreutznaer?

    The Bounty
    Andrew Marvel
    Robinson Crusoe
     
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