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

PEOPLE

1. Who stood as Labour candidate for Foyle in the Stormont elections of February 1969 and also for the same party in the 1970 General Election?

2. What connection had the famous Irish trade union leader Jim Larkin with Derry?

3. Who stood as Derry Labour and Trade Union Party candidates for the Londonderry seat in (a) the February 1974 General Election and (b) the February 1979 General Election?

4. One of the pioneers of the British Trade Union movement was born in Buncrana – who was he?

5. Who was the delegate from Derry who proposed the first socialist motion at the Trade Union Congress in 1895?

6. Who owned the BSR factories at Bligh’s Lane and Drumahoe?

7. After the closure of William Coppin’s shipyard in 1846, who then undertook the building of large scale vessels?

8. In 1696 a family called Lecky, who originated from Scotland, built a mansion in Derry. Where was it situated?

9. Who was the youngest candidate in the 1967 Londonderry Corporation elections?

10. Where is Knox’s tomb?

ANSWERS . . . PEOPLE

1. Eamonn McCann.

2. He organised Derry dockers into the National Union of Stevedores and Dock Workers in 1907.

3. (a) Dickie Foster. (b) Bill Webster.

4. John Doherty.

5. James McCarron.

6. Scottish millionaire industrialist, Dr Daniel McDonald.

7. Mr W F Biggar opened the Foyle Shipyard in 1882 at Pennyburn on land adjacent to the dry dock. In its ten years of existence, the company built 6 steamships and 26 sailing vessels.

8. The mansion was at Belmount.

9. Eddie Campbell (NI Labour Party), aged 23.

10. Glendermott Churchyard.