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

BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY

1. Who developed ‘Clever Cut’, what is it and on what TV programme was it first featured?

2. Why was April 12, 1988, an important date in the Derry business calendar?

3. Where was the XL Café situated?

4. What was the name of the public house which was situated where Sumra House is now?

5. What was the name of the distillery which used to be at the bottom of Simpson’s Brae?

6. Where was the first Gas Works?

7. Where was the first Electricity Generating Station?

8. Along which streets did the City of Derry Tramway run?

9. When did Northern Ireland Railways take over from the Ulster Transport Authority?

10. What was constructed during the years 1845-1846 that attracted many steamer loads of spectators and eventually ended up with a banquet taking place inside a tunnel?

ANSWERS . . . BUSINESS AND INDUSTRY

1. Northland Computer Services (established with LEDU assistance during 1983). It is a hand-sized portable electronic device that saves waste in the cutting of timber, metal or plastic. It was featured on Tomorrow’s World.

2. Some of the banks introduced lunchtime opening.

3. Sackville Street.

4. McCool’s.

5. Watts.

6. Foyle Street.

7. Strand Road, in the 1890s.

8. John Street, Foyle Street, Shipquay Place, Waterloo Place and Strand Road. It linked the GNR terminus with the Lough Swilly terminus.

9. April 1968.

10. The Derry-Coleraine railway line for which the tunnels between Downhill and Castlerock were blasted.