Quiz: Test your knowledge of the city in the Big Derry Quiz

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

1. Why was the Derry Journal of 3 June 1940 banned by the Minister of Home Affairs, Sir Dawson Bates?

2. What is the oldest piece of sculpture in Derry and where can it be found?

3. Where in Derry would you find lava from Mount Vesuvius?

4. Where in 1852 would it have cost you from 5 shillings to 42 shillings to have an ‘eternal’ rest?

5. Where did Fleetwood Mac and Thin Lizzy play in Derry in the 1960s?

6. Derry’s Walls are constructed mainly of what type of stone?

7. In 1842 the largest ship in the world (at that time) was built in Derry. Who built it and what was it called?

8. Where was the Neptune Bar?

9. What bar in Derry shares the same name as a famous English cricket ground?

10. In what year was the Foyle frozen over and an ox roasted on the ice opposite Shipquay Gate?

11. Where in the city could you have studied Drawing, Geometry, Architectural Drawing and Building Construction in the 19th Century.

12. Where did the Sisters of Nazareth originally come from before they arrived in Derry and when did they come?

13. Where was Miss Watson’s Boarding and Day School?

14. His family fled to the USA during the revolution in France but the name of this French American is well known in Derry today, who is he?

15. What was the ‘Runaway Rabble’?

16. Name the island in Lough Enagh where significant archaeological finds have been discovered?

17. To what period do the artefacts belong?

18. What ancient stone stands in the grounds of Belmont House School and what was it used for?

19. Name the Derry Labour Party paper in 1969-1970.

20. What is the connection between the magician Paul Daniels and the Waterside?

ANSWERS . . . GENERAL KNOWLEDGE

1. ‘The pro-German nature of news headings and articles.’

2. The Stone Knight (about 500 years old) which is thought to have come from the tomb of Cuadh na nGall – O’Cathain Chieftan. It is inside Belmount House School.

3. Along the top of Lumen Christi’s Wall (formerly St. Columb’s College). Bishop Hervey had brought it to Derry to use on the walls if his house at Bishop Street.

4. The newly opened City Cemetery in Creggan.

5. The Embassy Ballroom.

6. Schist.

7. Captain William Coppin – The Great Northern.

8. Fox’s Lane, Strand Road.

9. The Oval Bar.

10. 1740.

11. At Londonderry Government School of Art, Shipquay Street. Established in 1875.

12. Hammersmith, 1892, at the Bishop’s invitation.

13. 22 Pump Street.

14. Eleuthee Irenee Du Pont de Nemours, industrialist and chemist.

15. The second Hiring Fair, held in May and November in the week following the regular Hiring Fair. I helped those dissatisfied with their earlier job and who had run away for some reason or other.

16. Rough Island.

17. Neolithic, bronze and iron age.

18. St Patrick’s Stone. It is believed to be an inauguration stone for kings or chieftans.

19. Ramparts.

20. He married Debbie Magee whose father was born in Bond Street.