Northern News Quiz – Round-Up of 2025

Reckon you’re a proper NorthernLife superfan? Prove it! From sporting crazes and snowy firsts to local history, literary gems – NorthernLife has seen it all in 2025. So get the kettle on and your pens at the ready – let’s see how well you remember it all.

1. What controversial project has been proposed for the moors between Colne and Hebden Bridge?

2. An appeal for lost portraits was started this year for oil paintings of prominent people in Lancaster and Accrington, among them a portrait of Sir Thomas Storey, by which famous Bohemian artist?

3. Which childhood television favourite returned as an audio series this year?

4. A new biography celebrating the legacy of Rachel Kay-Shuttleworth was published this year, but where in Padiham is her collection located?

5. Writer Paul Weatherhead examined the Calverley murders in NorthernLife this year, how was the murderer punished for his

crime?

6. A new play area opened in Foulridge this year, named after which local Paralympian?

7. What anniversary did NorthernLife celebrate in 2025? A) 10 years B) 20 years C) 30 years.

8. Where did Wallace Hartley’s violin eventually end up after sinking with him on the Titanic?

9. Pete from Pendle Plant Craft continued to share his knowledge of wild plants this year, which wild fruit is much smaller and sweeter than its supermarket cousin?

10. Melissa Whitaker examined the Brontë character of Mr St John Rivers in NorthernLife this year. Which real person did she believe the character was based on? Henry Nussey or Henry Martyn?

11. Name Bolton Castle‘s Head Gardener…

12. Who was King George III‘s Yorkshire brother?

13. How many cigarettes would Geoff Crambie’s dad smoke on the train to Blackpool from Colne?

14. A group of locals in Whittlefield came together to tackle litter, but what was the name of their volunteer group inspired by the characters who tidied Wimbledon Common?

15. A new book by Northern photographer Angela Christofilou beautifully captures which tradition game played in a church hall?

16. Name the book by Lancashire photographer, Keiran Perry, which featured circus life.

17. We kicked off the year looking back at a very Yorkshire riot that took place in Leeds 1865. What was it over?

18. Which Lancashire seaside town did Graham Dugdale compare to Sorrento?

19. A Yorkshireman became the first to cycle the UK’s highest mountains this year. What is Wales’s highest peak?

20. Cliffe Castle Park in Bradford celebrated a milestone birthday this year. How old is the Park? A) 75 B) 50 C) 100

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