Rolling Back the Year Quiz

What do you know about a year in Northern Life? Test your knowledge of our editions of 2023. 

1. What genre of music does Northern-born Radio 3 DJ, Elizabeth Alker, like to play on her late-night show?

2. Sally Wainwright’s BBC/HBO series, Gentleman Jack, tells the story of which nineteenth-century West Yorkshire resident?

3. Former NorthernLife writer Chloe Mclaughlin is now a storyliner on Emmerdale, but what is the soap’s famous watering hole known as?

4. How many times has Joel Hicks won the World Gravy Wrestling Championships?

5. Yorkshire’s ‘Nessie’, dubbed Slippery Sam, was first reported as being seen in which year?

6. In what colour does the renowned photographer Ian Beesley frequently take photographs?

7. Artist Gavin Renshaw’s mural in Padiham depicts what?

8. In the village of Heptonstall lies the grave of which famous poet?

9. Barnoldswick is the home to fairies and other fantastical creations made with what method?

10. What is blue mind thinking?

11. Blackpool-born Faye Butler is making a film about which music phenomenon which swept the North in the 1960s and 70s?

12. One of the most well-known Northern sayings, ey ‘up, is thought to have originated from which languages?

13. What is the name of the novel written by Benjamin Myers, which captures the landscapes of Calderdale and has been adapted into a BBC drama?

14. A Stephen Hawking exhibition took place at Bradford National Science & Media Museum this year, but what region of space/time phenomenon did his work focus on?

15. Lancashire artist Leanne Dunstan’s work mostly features what theme?

16. The largest-ever Yorkshire pudding was created where?

17. Healthier Heroes in Burnley is a project which aims to support which group of people?

18. Golden Acre Park in North Leeds is how many acres long?

19. What is the historical nickname given to people living in Southport?

20. The Be-Ro’s Home Recipes book once helped bakers with their scones, cakes and puddings, but what food product was it promoting?

21. Poster artist Eric Jackson takes his inspiration from which art style?

22. Legend says that Robin Hood once took shelter on the Pennine Moors on a boulder that is now known as what?

23. In 1968, women sewing machinists working at the Ford factories in Dagenham and Liverpool went on strike. How many women were involved in the protests?

24. Metal salvager Steve ‘Stego’ Parker was commissioned to create a scarecrow in the shape of a huge mythical flying creature, but what was the scarecrow called?

25. What did Daniel Defoe refer to the moors around Blackstone Edge as?

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NorthernLife Jan/Feb 24