Question: What did Biraben say about the plague in Europe?

Answer: the plague was present somewhere in Europe in every year between 1346 and 1671.

Answer: was present somewhere in Europe in every year between 1346 and 1671

Answer: the plague was present somewhere in Europe in every year between 1346 and 1671


Question: How many French people were lost to plague between 1628-31?

Answer: almost a million people

Answer: almost a million people

Answer: a million


Question: What did historians do in the absence of census figures?

Answer: propose a range of preincident population figures from as high as 7 million to as low as 4 million

Answer: propose a range of preincident population figures from as high as 7 million to as low as 4 million

Answer: propose a range of preincident population figures


Question: When did the black death technically subside?

Answer: By the end of 1350

Answer: 1350

Answer: By the end of 1350


Question: How many people died in the outbreak of 1471?

Answer: 10–15% of the population

Answer: 10–15% of the population

Answer: 10–15% of the population


Question: When was the great plague of London?

Answer: 1665

Answer: 1665

Answer: 1665


Question: How many people died of plague in Paris in 1466?

Answer: 40,000

Answer: 40,000

Answer: 40,000


Question: The black plague ravaged Europe for three years followed by what country?

Answer: Russia

Answer: Russia

Answer: Russia


Question: Which outbreak was associated with troops in the thirty years war?

Answer: the Italian Plague of 1629–1631

Answer: Italian Plague

Answer: Italian Plague


Question: When was the last plague outbreak?

Answer: The last plague outbreak ravaged Oslo in 1654.

Answer: 1654

Answer: 1654


Question: How many times did plague occur in Venice?

Answer: 22 times between 1361 and 1528

Answer: 22

Answer: 22


Question: How many were killed by plague in Italy in the 17th century?

Answer: some 1.7 million victims

Answer: 1.7 million

Answer: 1.7 million


Question: How many were killed by plague in Naples in 1656?

Answer: about half of Naples' 300,000 inhabitants

Answer: half of Naples' 300,000 inhabitants

Answer: half of Naples' 300,000 inhabitants


Question: How many residents of Seville died of plague in 1649?

Answer: reduced the population of Seville by half

Answer: half

Answer: half


Question: Who fought in the great Northern war?

Answer: Sweden v. Russia and allies

Answer: Sweden v. Russia and allies

Answer: Sweden v. Russia and allies


Question: When was Europe's last major epidemic?

Answer: 1720 in Marseille.

Answer: 1720

Answer: 1720


Question: During which years was the plague present in Islamic countries?

Answer: between 1500 and 1850

Answer: 1500 and 1850

Answer: 1500 and 1850


Question: How many people were lost in Algiers during 1620-21?

Answer: 30 to 50 thousand inhabitants

Answer: 30 to 50 thousand

Answer: 30 to 50 thousand


Question: How long did plague last in the Ottoman empire?

Answer: until the second quarter of the 19th century.

Answer: until the second quarter of the 19th century

Answer: until the second quarter of the 19th century


Question: How many people, at most, have died of plague in Baghdad?

Answer: two-thirds of its population

Answer: two-thirds of its population

Answer: two-thirds of its population


Question: An igneous rock is a rock that crystallizes from what?

Answer: melt (magma and/or lava)

Answer: melt

Answer: rock crystallizes from melt (magma and/or lava)

Answer: melt (magma and/or lava)


Question: Sedimentary rock can be turned into which of the three types of rock?

Answer: metamorphic rock

Answer: metamorphic

Answer: metamorphic rock

Answer: metamorphic


Question: When the three types of rock are re-melted what is formed?

Answer: new magma

Answer: igneous

Answer: new magma

Answer: magma


Question: What are the three major types of rock?

Answer: igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic

Answer: igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic

Answer: igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic

Answer: igneous, sedimentary, and metamorphic


Question: What changes the mineral content of a rock?

Answer: heat and pressure

Answer: heat and pressure

Answer: heat and pressure

Answer: heat and pressure


Question: What was the most important discovery that led to the understanding that Earth's lithosphere is separated into tectonic plates?

Answer: seafloor spreading

Answer: seafloor spreading

Answer: seafloor spreading

Answer: seafloor spreading


Question: Which parts of the Earth are included in the lithosphere?

Answer: the crust and rigid uppermost portion of the upper mantle

Answer: crust and rigid uppermost portion of the upper mantle

Answer: crust and rigid uppermost portion of the upper mantle

Answer: crust and rigid uppermost portion of the upper mantle


Question: What is another word for the Earth's upper mantle?

Answer: asthenosphere

Answer: asthenosphere

Answer: asthenosphere

Answer: asthenosphere


Question: Plate tectonics can be seen as the intimate coupling between rigid plates on the surface of the Earth and what?

Answer: the convecting mantle

Answer: convection of the mantle

Answer: convection of the mantle

Answer: the convecting mantle


Question: In what decade was seafloor spreading discovered?

Answer: the 1960s

Answer: 1960s

Answer: 1960s

Answer: 1960s


Question: What is the area called where two plates move apart?

Answer: divergent boundaries

Answer: divergent boundaries

Answer: divergent boundaries

Answer: divergent boundaries


Question: What is the area called where one plate subducts under another?

Answer: convergent boundaries

Answer: convergent boundaries

Answer: convergent boundaries

Answer: convergent boundaries


Question: What type of fault boundary is defined by having widespread powerful earthquakes, as in the state of California?

Answer: Transform boundaries

Answer: Transform

Answer: Transform boundaries

Answer: Transform boundaries


Question: Whose theory was the theory of continental drift?

Answer: Alfred Wegener

Answer: Alfred Wegener

Answer: Alfred Wegener

Answer: Alfred Wegener


Question: The lithosphere moves over which mantle n the theory of plate tectonics?

Answer: the convecting mantle

Answer: convecting mantle

Answer: convecting

Answer: convecting


Question: What types of waves do seismologists use to image the interior of the Earth?

Answer: seismic waves

Answer: seismic

Answer: seismic

Answer: seismic


Question: In the layered model of the Earth, the outermost layer is what?

Answer: crust

Answer: crust

Answer: lithosphere

Answer: crust and lithosphere


Question: In the layered model of the Earth there are seismic discontinuities in which layer?

Answer: the mantle

Answer: mantle

Answer: mantle

Answer: mantle


Question: Recently a more detailed model of the Earth was developed. Seismologists were able to create this using images of what from the interior of the Earth?

Answer: wave speeds

Answer: wave speeds

Answer: wave speeds


Question: In the layered model of the Earth, the mantle has two layers below it. What are they?

Answer: the outer core and inner core

Answer: outer core and inner core

Answer: outer core and inner core

Answer: outer core and inner core


Question: Why is the second timeline needed?

Answer: second scale shows the most recent eon with an expanded scale

Answer: compresses the most recent era

Answer: compresses the most recent era


Question: Which timeline is further expanded in the fourth scale?

Answer: Quaternary

Answer: Quaternary

Answer: Quaternary


Question: What is the name of the latest epoch?

Answer: The Holocene

Answer: Holocene

Answer: The Holocene

Answer: Holocene


Question: The Pleistocene epoch takes place during which period?

Answer: the Quaternary period

Answer: Quaternary period

Answer: Quaternary

Answer: Quaternary


Question: What principle relates to the formation of faults and the age of the sequences through which they cut?

Answer: The principle of cross-cutting relationships

Answer: cross-cutting relationships

Answer: cross-cutting relationships


Question: When rock formations are found on top of a fault that have not been cut, then they must be older or younger than the fault?

Answer: younger than the fault

Answer: younger

Answer: younger


Question: Finding what helps to determine if a fault is a normal fault or a thrust fault?

Answer: the key bed

Answer: key bed

Answer: key bed


Question: Rocks on top of a fault that are cut are always older or younger than the fault itself?

Answer: older than the fault

Answer: older

Answer: younger


Question: What foreign bodies, which are older than the rocks themselves, occur igneous rocks?

Answer: xenoliths

Answer: xenoliths

Answer: inclusions

Answer: xenoliths


Question: Xenoliths are picked up by what and deposited into the matrix of igneous rocks?

Answer: magma or lava flows

Answer: magma or lava flows

Answer: magma or lava

Answer: magma or lava flows


Question: What is another word for inclusions in sedimentary rocks?

Answer: clasts

Answer: clasts

Answer: clasts

Answer: clasts


Question: What is the principle that states that with sedimentary rocks, inclusions must be older than the formation that contains them?

Answer: The principle of inclusions and components

Answer: principle of inclusions and components

Answer: The principle of inclusions and components

Answer: inclusions and components


Question: What is something that is often torn up and included in sedimentary rock?

Answer: gravel

Answer: gravel

Answer: gravel

Answer: gravel


Question: Which principle is based on the appearance of fossils in sedimentary rocks?

Answer: The principle of faunal succession

Answer: principle of faunal succession

Answer: The principle of faunal succession

Answer: faunal succession


Question: Whose principles were the principle of faunal succession built upon?

Answer: William Smith

Answer: William Smith

Answer: William Smith

Answer: William Smith


Question: The fact that not all fossils may be found globally at the same time causes the principle to become what?

Answer: complex

Answer: complex

Answer: complex

Answer: quite complex


Question: The presence or absence of what can be used to determine the relative age of the formations in which they are found?

Answer: organisms

Answer: organisms

Answer: organisms

Answer: organisms


Question: The principle of faunal succession was developed 100 years before whose theory of evolution?

Answer: Charles Darwin

Answer: Charles Darwin

Answer: Charles Darwin

Answer: Charles Darwin


Question: When was the ability to use radioactive isotopes to date rock formations developed?

Answer: At the beginning of the 20th century

Answer: 20th century

Answer: At the beginning of the 20th century

Answer: beginning of the 20th century


Question: What type of correlation was used previously to help date rock formations?

Answer: stratigraphic correlation

Answer: stratigraphic

Answer: stratigraphic

Answer: stratigraphic


Question: It is now possible to convert old relative ages into what type of ages using isotopic dating?

Answer: absolute ages

Answer: rock units

Answer: new absolute


Question: Previous to isotopic dating sections of rocks had to be dated using fossils and stratigraphic correlation relative to what?

Answer: to one another

Answer: one another

Answer: one another


Question: When dating rocks, what is the absolute isotopic date applied to?

Answer: fossil sequences

Answer: fossil sequences

Answer: fossil sequences

Answer: fossil sequences


Question: What techniques can be used to determine paleotopography?

Answer: Thermochemical techniques

Answer: Thermochemical

Answer: Thermochemical

Answer: Thermochemical


Question: The point at which different radiometric isotopes stop diffusing into and out of the crystal lattice is called what?

Answer: particular closure temperature

Answer: closure temperature

Answer: closure temperature


Question: What type of ratios are used in geochronologic and thermochronologic studies?

Answer: isotope ratios of radioactive elements

Answer: isotope

Answer: isotope

Answer: isotope


Question: How can you find the absolute age of sedimentary rock units which do not contain radioactive isotopes?

Answer: Dating of lava and volcanic ash layers found within a stratigraphic sequence

Answer: Dating of lava and volcanic ash layers

Answer: stratigraphic sequence

Answer: Dating of lava and volcanic ash layers found within a stratigraphic sequence


Question: Rock units become thicker and shorten when placed under this type of compression.

Answer: horizontal compression

Answer: horizontal

Answer: horizontal


Question: Where do thrust faults form?

Answer: In the shallow crust

Answer: shallow crust

Answer: shallow crust


Question: When rock folds deep in the Earth it can fold one of two ways, when it buckles upwards it creates what?

Answer: antiforms

Answer: antiforms

Answer: antiforms


Question: When rock folds deep in the Earth it can fold one of two ways, when it buckles downwards it creates what?

Answer: synforms

Answer: synforms

Answer: synforms


Question: If the tops of the rock units within the folds remain pointing upwards, they are called what?

Answer: anticlines and synclines

Answer: overturned anticline

Answer: anticlines and synclines


Question: This causes the rock unit as a whole to become longer and thinner.

Answer: Extension

Answer: Extension

Answer: Extension


Question: Stretched rocks that pinch into lenses are known by what word?

Answer: boudins

Answer: boudins

Answer: boudins


Question: Where can the entire sedimentary sequence of the Grand Canyon be seen in less than the length of a meter?

Answer: within the Maria Fold and Thrust Belt

Answer: Maria Fold and Thrust Belt

Answer: Maria Fold and Thrust Belt


Question: Rocks that are a depth where they are ductilely stretched are also often what?

Answer: metamorphosed

Answer: metamorphosed

Answer: metamorphosed


Question: What causes rock extension?

Answer: normal faulting and through the ductile stretching and thinning

Answer: normal faulting

Answer: normal faulting and through the ductile stretching and thinning


Question: What is another word for long, planar igneous intrusions?

Answer: Dikes

Answer: Dikes

Answer: Dikes


Question: Where do dikes form?

Answer: in areas that are being actively deformed

Answer: areas that are being actively deformed

Answer: in areas that are being actively deformed


Question: What type of gradients are formed by faulting and other deformational processes?

Answer: topographic gradients

Answer: topographic

Answer: topographic


Question: What activity maintains topographic gradients?

Answer: Continual motion along the fault

Answer: Continual motion

Answer: Continual motion along the fault


Question: What events are often associated with volcanism and igneous activity?

Answer: Deformational events

Answer: Deformational

Answer: Deformational


Question: The Hawaiian Islands are made up almost entirely of what?

Answer: layered basaltic lava flows

Answer: layered basaltic lava flows

Answer: layered basaltic lava flows


Question: What is the oldest known rock in the world?

Answer: Acasta gneiss

Answer: Acasta gneiss

Answer: Acasta gneiss of the Slave craton in northwestern Canada


Question: What type of rock is found at the Grand Canyon?

Answer: sedimentary rocks

Answer: sedimentary

Answer: sedimentary


Question: The rocks at the Grand Canyon have been in place since when?

Answer: Cambrian time

Answer: Cambrian time

Answer: Cambrian time


Question: Where is the oldest known rock in the world located?

Answer: Slave craton in northwestern Canada

Answer: Canada

Answer: northwestern Canada


Question: What is petrology?

Answer: the study of rocks

Answer: study of rocks

Answer: the study of rocks


Question: What is stratigraphy?

Answer: the study of sedimentary layers

Answer: study of sedimentary layers

Answer: the study of sedimentary layers


Question: What is structural geology?

Answer: the study of positions of rock units and their deformation

Answer: study of positions of rock units and their deformation

Answer: the study of positions of rock units and their deformation


Question: What modern formations do geologists study?

Answer: modern soils

Answer: soils, rivers, landscapes, and glaciers

Answer: soils, rivers, landscapes, and glaciers


Question: What do petrologists use electron microprobes in the laboratory for?

Answer: identifying rocks

Answer: identifying rocks

Answer: identifying rocks


Question: What properties are analyzed with a conoscopic lens by petrologists?

Answer: birefringence, pleochroism, twinning, and interference properties

Answer: birefringence, pleochroism, twinning, and interference

Answer: birefringence, pleochroism, twinning, and interference


Question: Stable and radioactive isotope studies provide insight into what?

Answer: geochemical evolution of rock units

Answer: geochemical evolution of rock units

Answer: the geochemical evolution of rock units


Question: Petrologists identify rock samples in the field and where else?

Answer: the laboratory

Answer: laboratory

Answer: laboratory


Question: What type of microscope is used by petrologists?

Answer: petrographic microscope

Answer: petrographic

Answer: petrographic


Question: How else can petrologists understand the pressures at which different mineral phases appear?

Answer: pressure physical experiments

Answer: fluid inclusion data

Answer: fluid inclusion data


Question: How else can petrologists understand the temperature at which different mineral phases appear?

Answer: physical experiments

Answer: high temperature and pressure physical experiments

Answer: pressure physical experiments


Question: Data from physical experiments can be extrapolated to the field to understand what processes?

Answer: metamorphic processes

Answer: metamorphic

Answer: metamorphic


Question: What type of geologists give information about strain within the crystalline structure of the rocks?

Answer: Structural geologists

Answer: Structural

Answer: Structural


Question: How do structural geologists observe the fabric within the rocks?

Answer: microscopic analysis of oriented thin sections

Answer: microscopic analysis

Answer: use microscopic analysis of oriented thin sections of geologic samples


Question: In order to better understand the orientations of faults and folds, structural geologists do what with measurements of geological structures?

Answer: plot and combine

Answer: plot and combine

Answer: plot and combine


Question: What kind of experiments of rock deformation do structural geologists perform?

Answer: analog and numerical experiments

Answer: analog and numerical

Answer: analog and numerical


Question: Zones in which mountains are built along convergent tectonic plate boundaries are called what?

Answer: orogenic wedges

Answer: orogenic wedges

Answer: orogenic wedges


Question: What are among the most well known experiments in structural geology?

Answer: those involving orogenic wedges

Answer: orogenic wedges

Answer: involving orogenic wedges


Question: Horizontal layers of what are pulled along a surface into a back stop in analog versions of orogenic wedge experiments?

Answer: sand

Answer: sand

Answer: sand


Question: What does critically tapered mean?

Answer: all angles remain the same

Answer: all angles remain the same

Answer: all angles remain the same


Question: Which is more sophisticated, numericals model or an analog models of orogenic wedges?

Answer: Numerical models

Answer: Numerical

Answer: Numerical models


Question: The analysis of stratigraphic sections such as drill cores is done by who?

Answer: stratigraphers

Answer: stratigraphers

Answer: stratigraphers


Question: What type of surveys show the location of stratigraphic units in the subsurface?

Answer: geophysical surveys

Answer: geophysical

Answer: geophysical


Question: What can be combined with geophysical data to produce a better view of the subsurface?

Answer: well logs

Answer: well logs

Answer: well logs


Question: What tool do stratigraphers use to see their data in three dimensions?

Answer: computer programs

Answer: computer programs

Answer: computer programs


Question: Stratigraphers try to locate areas for what types of extraction?

Answer: water, coal, and hydrocarbon extraction

Answer: hydrocarbon

Answer: hydrocarbon


Question: Why is it important to precisely date rocks within the stratigraphic section?

Answer: provide better absolute bounds on the timing and rates of deposition

Answer: gain information about past climate

Answer: provide better absolute bounds on the timing and rates of deposition


Question: Who analyzes rock samples from drill cores in the lab?

Answer: biostratigraphers

Answer: biostratigraphers

Answer: biostratigraphers


Question: What types of scientists looks for signs of magnetic reversals in igneous rocks within the drill cores?

Answer: Magnetic stratigraphers

Answer: Magnetic stratigraphers

Answer: Magnetic stratigraphers


Question: Who dates rocks, precisely, within the stratigraphic section?

Answer: Geochronologists

Answer: Geochronologists

Answer: Geochronologists


Question: Fielding H. Garrison believes that the science of geology can be traced to where?

Answer: Persia

Answer: Persia

Answer: Persia after the Muslim conquests had come to an end


Question: Living from 973–1048 CE he was one of the earliest Persian geologists, what was his name?

Answer: Abu al-Rayhan al-Biruni

Answer: Abu al-Rayhan al-Biruni

Answer: Abu al-Rayhan al-Biruni


Question: In China, this person inferred that the land was formed by erosion of the mountains and by silt deposition, what was his name?

Answer: Shen Kuo

Answer: Shen Kuo

Answer: Shen Kuo


Question: This person proposed explanations for the origins of earthquakes and the formation of mountains, what was his name?

Answer: Ibn Sina

Answer: Ibn Sina

Answer: Ibn Sina


Question: What prompted Shen Kuo to believe the land was formed by erosion of the mountains?

Answer: his observation of fossil animal shells

Answer: fossil animal shells

Answer: based on his observation of fossil animal shells in a geological stratum in a mountain hundreds of miles from the ocean


Question: Who is viewed as the first modern geologist?

Answer: James Hutton

Answer: James Hutton

Answer: James Hutton


Question: In 1785 James Hutton presented what paper to the Royal Society of Edinburgh?

Answer: Theory of the Earth

Answer: Theory of the Earth

Answer: Theory of the Earth


Question: James Hutton published a 2 volume version of his theories in what year?

Answer: 1795

Answer: 1795

Answer: 1795


Question: What was the main idea of James Hutton's paper?

Answer: Earth must be much older than had previously been supposed

Answer: Earth must be much older than had previously been supposed

Answer: the Earth must be much older than had previously been supposed


Question: Who produced the first geological map of the U.S.?

Answer: William Maclure

Answer: William Maclure

Answer: William Maclure


Question: In what year was the first geological map of the U.S. produced?

Answer: 1809

Answer: 1809

Answer: 1809


Question: In what year did William Maclure begin the process of creating the first geological map of the U.S.?

Answer: 1807

Answer: 1807

Answer: 1807


Question: What was the memoir entitled which was submitted to the American Philosophical Society?

Answer: Observations on the Geology of the United States explanatory of a Geological Map

Answer: Observations on the Geology of the United States explanatory of a Geological Map

Answer: Observations on the Geology of the United States


Question: To whom did William Maclure submit the map?

Answer: the American Philosophical Society

Answer: American Philosophical Society

Answer: American Philosophical Society


Question: First published by Sir Charles Lyell in 1830 this book was called what?

Answer: Principles of Geology

Answer: Principles of Geology

Answer: Principles of Geology


Question: What doctrine did the doctrine of the Principles of Geology successfully promote?

Answer: uniformitarianism

Answer: uniformitarianism

Answer: uniformitarianism


Question: Which theory states that slow geological processes are still occurring today, and have occurred throughout Earth's history?

Answer: uniformitarianism

Answer: uniformitarianism

Answer: uniformitarianism


Question: Which theory states that Earth's features remained unchanged after forming in one single catastrophic event?

Answer: catastrophism

Answer: catastrophism

Answer: catastrophism


Question: Which famous evolutionist was influenced by the book Principles of Geology?

Answer: Charles Darwin

Answer: Charles Darwin

Answer: Charles Darwin


Question: How many miles south of Edinburgh is Newcastle?

Answer: 103 miles

Answer: 103 miles

Answer: 103 miles


Question: How many miles from the north Sea is Newcastle?

Answer: 8.5 mi

Answer: 8.5 mi

Answer: 8.5 mi


Question: What network is Newcastle a member of?

Answer: Eurocities

Answer: Eurocities

Answer: the English Core Cities Group


Question: What county was Newcastle a part of until 1400?

Answer: Northumberland

Answer: Northumberland

Answer: county of Northumberland


Question: What's the regional nickname for Newcastle and its surrounding area?

Answer: Geordie

Answer: Geordie

Answer: Geordie


Question: Who built a castle in Newcastle in 1080?

Answer: Robert Curthose

Answer: Robert Curthose

Answer: Robert Curthose


Question: What trade was the city an important center of in the 14th century?

Answer: wool

Answer: wool

Answer: the wool trade


Question: What resource was mined in the Newcastle area?

Answer: coal

Answer: coal

Answer: coal


Question: What century was Newcastle's port developed in?

Answer: 16th century

Answer: the 16th

Answer: the 16th century


Question: What globally popular half marathon began in 1981?

Answer: the Great North Run

Answer: the Great North Run

Answer: the Great North Run


Question: What was the first recorded settlement in what became Newcastle?

Answer: Pons Aelius

Answer: Pons Aelius

Answer: Pons Aelius


Question: What river was there originally a bridge across in Roman times?

Answer: Tyne

Answer: the River Tyne

Answer: the River Tyne


Question: What was the estimated population of Pons Aelius around the 2nd century?

Answer: 2,000

Answer: 2,000

Answer: 2,000


Question: Whose wall has fragments visible in places around Newcastle even today?

Answer: Hadrian's

Answer: Hadrian's

Answer: Hadrian's Wall


Question: What tribes were the Romans fearful would invade from the North?

Answer: Pictish

Answer: Pictish

Answer: Pictish tribes


Question: Newcastle served as a northern fortress for which country during the Middle Ages?

Answer: England's

Answer: England

Answer: England


Question: Who granted Newcastle a new charter in 1589?

Answer: Elizabeth

Answer: Elizabeth

Answer: Elizabeth


Question: How high was the stone wall built around Newcastle in the 13th century?

Answer: 25-foot

Answer: 25-foot

Answer: 25-foot (7.6 m) high


Question: What was the name of the King of the Scots?

Answer: William the Lion

Answer: William the Lion

Answer: William the Lion


Question: How many times did Newcastle fight off the Scots during the 14th century?

Answer: three times

Answer: three

Answer: three times


Question: What did a 1530 royal act restrict shipments of?

Answer: coal

Answer: coal

Answer: coal


Question: What was the cartel of Newcastle burgesses known as?

Answer: the Hostmen

Answer: the Hostmen

Answer: the Hostmen


Question: What does the phrase "taking coals to Newcastle" mean?

Answer: a pointless pursuit

Answer: a pointless pursuit

Answer: a pointless pursuit


Question: What was the American Timothy Dexter widely regarded as?

Answer: an eccentric

Answer: an eccentric

Answer: an eccentric,


Question: What did the merchants of Newcastle plot to do to Timothy Dexter?

Answer: ruin him

Answer: ruin him

Answer: to ruin him


Question: Who did the keelmen live with in a tight-knight community east of Newcastle?

Answer: their families

Answer: their families

Answer: their families


Question: How was coal transferred from the river banks to colliers?

Answer: boats

Answer: keels

Answer: keels


Question: How many folks died of plague in Newcastle in the 1630s?

Answer: 7,000

Answer: 7,000

Answer: 7,000


Question: What percentage of Newcastle's population was culled by the plague?

Answer: 47%

Answer: more than one-third

Answer: 47%


Question: The epidemic in Newcastle was the most what in any British city at the time?

Answer: devastating loss

Answer: devastating loss

Answer: devastating loss


Question: Who did the North declare for during the English civil war?

Answer: the King

Answer: the King

Answer: for the King


Question: Who was Cromwell's allies?

Answer: the Scots

Answer: the Scots

Answer: the Scots


Question: What was roaring as Newcastle was stormed?

Answer: drummes

Answer: drummes

Answer: drummes


Question: What does Fortiter Defendit Triumphans mean?

Answer: Triumphing by a brave defence

Answer: Triumphing by a brave defence

Answer: Triumphing by a brave defence


Question: Who was imprisoned in Newcastle by the Scots in 1646 through 1647?

Answer: Charles I

Answer: Charles I

Answer: Charles I


Question: What did the Industrial Revolution cause to happen to Newcastle?

Answer: urbanization

Answer: urbanization

Answer: the urbanization of the city


Question: What was the largest pottery company in the world in 1817?

Answer: the Maling company

Answer: Maling

Answer: Maling company


Question: Newcastle was one of the first cities in the world to have what innovation?

Answer: electric lighting

Answer: the incandescent lightbulb

Answer: the incandescent lightbulb


Question: What were shipbuilding and engineering important to Newcastle for in the 19th century?

Answer: prosperity

Answer: the city's prosperity

Answer: the city's prosperity;


Question: What did Charles Parsons invent?

Answer: the steam turbine

Answer: the steam turbine

Answer: the steam turbine


Question: What type of layout does Newcastle's streets have in many parts?

Answer: medieval

Answer: medieval

Answer: medieval street layout.


Question: What are chares?

Answer: Narrow alleys

Answer: Narrow alleys

Answer: Narrow alleys


Question: What runs from the riverside to higher parts of the city center?

Answer: Stairs

Answer: Stairs

Answer: chares'


Question: What kind of buildings are in the towns of Close, Sandhill and Quayside?

Answer: modern

Answer: modern buildings as well as structures dating from the 15th–18th centuries

Answer: modern buildings


Question: What is the House of Tides?

Answer: a restaurant

Answer: a restaurant

Answer: a restaurant situated at a Grade


Question: What has recently undergone extensive restoration?

Answer: Tyneside Classical

Answer: Tyneside Classical

Answer: Newcastle


Question: What did John Dobson describe Newcastle as?

Answer: England's best-looking city

Answer: England's best-looking city

Answer: England's best-looking city


Question: What street does Nikolaus Pevsner think is one of the finest in England?

Answer: Grey Street

Answer: Grey Street

Answer: Grey Street


Question: When was a part of Grainger Town destroyed?

Answer: in the 1960s

Answer: the 1960s

Answer: the 1960s


Question: What is in Eldon Square?

Answer: Shopping Centre

Answer: Shopping Centre

Answer: the Eldon Square Shopping Centre


Question: What's the name of the green space north of the center of Newcastle?

Answer: Town Moor

Answer: the Town Moor

Answer: the Town Moor


Question: What an the freeman of Newcastle do with their cows on the Town Moor?

Answer: graze

Answer: graze

Answer: graze cattle on it.


Question: What is said to be the largest travelling funfair in Europe?

Answer: The Hoppings funfair

Answer: The Hoppings funfair

Answer: The Hoppings funfair


Question: When is the funfair held in Newcastle?

Answer: June

Answer: June

Answer: annually in June


Question: What honorary title does Bob Geldof hold?

Answer: freemen

Answer: freemen

Answer: Honorary freemen


Question: What has replaced the former shipping premises?

Answer: Large-scale regeneration

Answer: Large-scale regeneration

Answer: new office developments


Question: Who commissioned the Gateshead Milennium Bridge?

Answer: Gateshead Council

Answer: Gateshead Council

Answer: Gateshead Council


Question: Who designed the Sage Gateshead music center?

Answer: Norman Foster

Answer: Norman Foster

Answer: Norman Foster


Question: Why have Newcastle and Gateshead linked together under a common banner?

Answer: tourist promotion

Answer: to spearhead the regeneration of the North-East

Answer: to spearhead the regeneration of the North-East


Question: How many days did the River Tyne have the Bambuco Bridge?

Answer: ten

Answer: ten

Answer: for ten days


Question: What is the historic heart of Newcastle?

Answer: the Grainger Town area

Answer: Grainger Town area

Answer: the Grainger Town area


Question: When was Richard Grainger actively building and developing?

Answer: between 1835 and 1842

Answer: between 1835 and 1842

Answer: between 1835 and 1842,


Question: How high are many of the buildings with turrets?

Answer: four stories

Answer: four stories

Answer: four stories high


Question: How man of Grainger Town's 450 buildings are listed?

Answer: 244

Answer: 244

Answer: 244 are listed,


Question: What earlier market did the Grainger Market replace?

Answer: the Butcher Market

Answer: the Butcher Market

Answer: the Butcher Market


Question: When did Newcastle's first indoor market open?

Answer: 1835

Answer: 1835

Answer: in 1835


Question: How many guests attended the dinner celebrating the opening of the Grainger Market?

Answer: 2000

Answer: 2000

Answer: 2000 guests


Question: How is the opening of the Grainger Market documented in the Laing Art Gallery?

Answer: a painting

Answer: a painting

Answer: a painting


Question: Who listed the Grainger Market architecture as grade 1 in 1954?

Answer: English Heritage

Answer: English Heritage

Answer: English Heritage.


Question: What's the climate like in Newcastle?

Answer: oceanic

Answer: oceanic

Answer: significantly milder than some other locations


Question: What kind of influence does the Gulf Stream exert on Newcastle?

Answer: warming

Answer: warming

Answer: warming influence


Question: What type of shadow does the North Pennines cast?

Answer: rain

Answer: rain

Answer: the rain shadow


Question: When was the coldest temperature in Newcastle recorded?

Answer: January 1982

Answer: 1982

Answer: −12.6 °C (9.3 °F)


Question: What area is Newcastle's milder winters and cooler summers most similar to?

Answer: the British Isles

Answer: the British Isles

Answer: the remainder of the British Isles


Question: What year was Newcastle ninth in retail expenditures?

Answer: 2010

Answer: 2010

Answer: In 2010


Question: What is one of the largest city center shopping complexes in the UK?

Answer: Eldon Square Shopping Centre,

Answer: the Eldon Square Shopping Centre

Answer: the Eldon Square Shopping Centre


Question: What department store is thought to be the first in the world?

Answer: Bainbridge's

Answer: Bainbridge's

Answer: Bainbridges


Question: How did Brainbridge's official ledgers report revenue?

Answer: by department

Answer: by department

Answer: by department,


Question: What year was the new bus station in Newcastle officially opened?

Answer: 2007

Answer: 2007

Answer: 2007


Question: What type of destination is the area around Grey's Monument?

Answer: shopping

Answer: shopping

Answer: shopping destinations


Question: Gosforth and Byker are the largest shopping areas of what type?

Answer: suburban

Answer: suburban

Answer: the largest suburban shopping areas


Question: The largest brand of what store in the UK is located in Kingston Park?

Answer: Tesco

Answer: Tesco

Answer: Tesco store


Question: What is the name of the largest indoor shopping centre in Europe?

Answer: the MetroCentre

Answer: the MetroCentre

Answer: the MetroCentre


Question: Where is the MetroCentre located?

Answer: Gateshead

Answer: Gateshead

Answer: in Gateshead


Question: What was the dominant housing template when industrial centres were growing the fastest?

Answer: The Tyneside flat

Answer: The Tyneside flat

Answer: The Tyneside flat


Question: What were Tyneside flats built as?

Answer: terraces

Answer: terraces

Answer: terraces


Question: Where is this housing style being developed recently?

Answer: the Ouseburn valley

Answer: the Ouseburn valley

Answer: the Ouseburn valley


Question: What profession are Cany Ash and Robert Sakula?

Answer: Architects

Answer: Architects

Answer: Architects


Question: What can be achieved without building high or getting rid of common areas?

Answer: high density

Answer: high density

Answer: high density


Question: What proportion did detached homes rise in 2010?

Answer: 7.8%

Answer: to 7.8%

Answer: (to 7.8%


Question: Where does the proportion of shared and converted houses in 2011 put this dwelling type in the color-coded brackets?

Answer: 5.9%

Answer: highest

Answer: 5.9%


Question: What type of markets is the dwelling type below?

Answer: overinflated

Answer: converted or shared houses

Answer: historic densely occupied, arguably overinflated markets


Question: Harrogate market is in the local what?

Answer: authorities

Answer: authorities

Answer: authorities


Question: What market other than Harrogate, Cheltenham, Bath, inner London, Hastings and Brighton is overinflated?

Answer: Tunbridge Wells.

Answer: Tunbridge Wells

Answer: Tunbridge Wells


Question: The population of Newcastle was 189,863 according to what year's census?

Answer: 2001

Answer: 2001

Answer: 2001


Question: Which borough of Newcastle had a population around 259,000?

Answer: metropolitan

Answer: the metropolitan

Answer: the metropolitan borough


Question: Newcastle is home to a large population of what type of person?

Answer: student

Answer: student

Answer: student


Question: There are two of what type of institution in Newcastle?

Answer: Universities

Answer: Newcastle and Northumbria Universities

Answer: Universities


Question: Jesmond and Heaton are areas filled predominantly with what?

Answer: student populations

Answer: student

Answer: student populations


Question: What is the average age of people who live in Newcastle?

Answer: 37.8

Answer: 37.8

Answer: 37.8


Question: Scottish or Irish describe the type of what people in Newcastle have?

Answer: ancestors

Answer: ancestors

Answer: ancestors


Question: What type of surnames is their a strong presence of?

Answer: Border Reiver

Answer: Border Reiver

Answer: Border Reiver surnames


Question: What is the smallest number of Bolivians it's estimated live in Newcastle?

Answer: 500

Answer: 500

Answer: 500


Question: What percentage of Newcastle's population is it believed the Bolivians account for?

Answer: 1%

Answer: up to 1%

Answer: 1% of the population


Question: What is the dialect of Newcastle known as?

Answer: Geordie

Answer: Geordie

Answer: Geordie,


Question: Who conquered much of England after the end of Roman imperial rule?

Answer: Anglo-Saxon populations

Answer: Anglo-Saxon populations

Answer: the Anglo-Saxon populations


Question: What does the Geordie dialect keep of the older language which came before it?

Answer: many elements

Answer: many elements

Answer: many elements of the old language.


Question: Strang is an Anglo-Saxon word which means what in modern English?

Answer: strong

Answer: strang

Answer: strong


Question: Would word means burn in the Anglo-Saxon language?

Answer: stream

Answer: stream

Answer: stream


Question: "Bairn" and "hyem" have origins from what culture?

Answer: Scandinavia

Answer: Scandinavia

Answer: Scandinavia


Question: Where are some words from the Geordia dialect used?

Answer: Northern United Kingdom

Answer: elsewhere in the Northern United Kingdom

Answer: the Northern United Kingdom


Question: What folks are likely to use words like "howay" and "hadaway"?

Answer: Scots

Answer: Scots

Answer: Scots


Question: What appears to be used exclusively in Newcastle and surrounding areas?

Answer: Many words

Answer: Many words

Answer: Canny


Question: What language does "hoy" originate from?

Answer: Dutch

Answer: Dutch

Answer: the Dutch gooien


Question: What was published in February of 2007?

Answer: a report

Answer: a report

Answer: a report


Question: What was Newcastle named as the most type of city in the UK?

Answer: noisiest

Answer: noisiest

Answer: the noisiest city in the whole of the UK


Question: What's the average decibel level of noise in Newcastle?

Answer: 80.4

Answer: 80.4

Answer: 80.4 decibels


Question: What type of impact can the residents of Newcastle expect the city's noise to have on them?

Answer: negative

Answer: negative long-term

Answer: negative long-term impact on the health


Question: What was one location the noise readings in Newcastle were taken at?

Answer: a motorway underpass

Answer: a motorway underpass

Answer: a motorway underpass


Question: What is referred to as the Diamond Strip?

Answer: Collingwood Street

Answer: Collingwood Street

Answer: Collingwood Street,


Question: What is "The Gate"?

Answer: indoor complex

Answer: a new indoor complex

Answer: a new indoor complex


Question: How many screens does the Empire muliplex cinema have?

Answer: 12

Answer: 12

Answer: 12-screen


Question: What's the name of Newcastle's gay club scene?

Answer: 'The Pink Triangle'

Answer: The Pink Triangle

Answer: The Pink Triangle


Question: What does the Pink Triangle have a range of?

Answer: bars, cafés and clubs

Answer: Times Square

Answer: bars, cafés and clubs


Question: What does Newcastle have a proud history of?

Answer: theatre

Answer: theatre

Answer: theatre.


Question: Who managed the original Theatre Royal in Newcastle?

Answer: Stephen Kemble

Answer: Stephen Kemble


Question: What did Stephen Kemble guide the Theatre Royal through?

Answer: many celebrated seasons

Answer: many celebrated seasons

Answer: many celebrated seasons.


Question: When did the theater in Newcastle originally open?

Answer: 1788

Answer: 21 January 1788

Answer: 21 January 1788


Question: On what street was the Theatre Royal's replacement built?

Answer: Grey Street

Answer: Mosley Street

Answer: Grey Street


Question: What does Newcastle still contain many of?

Answer: theatres

Answer: theatres

Answer: theatres.


Question: What first opened in 1837?

Answer: the Theatre Royal

Answer: the Theatre Royal

Answer: the Theatre Royal


Question: What company has been hosted at the Theatre Royal for over 25 years?

Answer: Royal Shakespeare

Answer: the Royal Shakespeare Company

Answer: the Royal Shakespeare Company


Question: What do other smaller venues of Newcastle tend to feature?

Answer: local talent

Answer: local talent

Answer: local talent


Question: What was NewcastleGateshead voted in 2006?

Answer: arts capital of the UK

Answer: arts capital of the UK

Answer: the arts capital of the UK


Question: What is the largest independent library outside of London?

Answer: The Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle

Answer: The Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne

Answer: The Literary and Philosophical Society of Newcastle


Question: How many CDs does Newcastle's library have?

Answer: 8000

Answer: 8000

Answer: 8000


Question: What was the last name of the designers of Newcastle's library?

Answer: Green

Answer: Green

Answer: John and Benjamin Green


Question: What was the first public building to be lit by electric light in Newcastle?

Answer: lecture theatre

Answer: lecture theatre

Answer: Lit and Phil premises


Question: Who lectured at the Newcastle library on the 20th of October in 1880?

Answer: Joseph Swan

Answer: Joseph Swan

Answer: Joseph Swan


Question: What festival takes place in April in Newcastle?

Answer: The Newcastle Beer Festival

Answer: The Newcastle Beer Festival

Answer: The Newcastle Beer Festival


Question: When is the Evolution Festival hosted?

Answer: May

Answer: Newcastle and Gateshead

Answer: over the Spring bank holiday


Question: How often is the AV Festival held?

Answer: biennial

Answer: biennial

Answer: biennial


Question: What is the festival of food and drink known as?

Answer: EAT!

Answer: EAT!

Answer: EAT! NewcastleGateshead


Question: How many weeks each year does the food and drink festival run?

Answer: 2

Answer: 2

Answer: 2 weeks each year


Question: What is the largest traveling fair in Europe?

Answer: The Hoppings

Answer: The Hoppings

Answer: The Hoppings


Question: When does the largest traveling fair in Europe take place?

Answer: every June

Answer: every June

Answer: every June


Question: What movement did the fair held in June have its origins in?

Answer: Temperance

Answer: the Temperance Movement

Answer: the Temperance Movement


Question: What type of festival is The Northern Rock Cyclone?

Answer: a cycling festival

Answer: a cycling festival

Answer: cycling festival,


Question: Which festival is held in Newcastle's Gay Community in mid-July?

Answer: The Northern Pride Festival

Answer: The Northern Pride Festival and Parade

Answer: The Northern Pride Festival


Question: What is an annual two-day multicultural event held in Newcastle in late August?

Answer: Newcastle Mela

Answer: Newcastle Mela

Answer: Newcastle Mela


Question: Where will the 2009 International Arts Fair be held?

Answer: Sage Gateshead Music and Arts Centre

Answer: Sage Gateshead Music and Arts Centre

Answer: Gateshead Music and Arts Centre


Question: What festival is held in October in Newcastle?

Answer: Design Event festival

Answer: Design Event festival

Answer: Design Event festival


Question: What cultural festival is the SAMA festival?

Answer: East Asian

Answer: East Asian

Answer: East Asian


Question: Who holds an annual International Arts Fair in Newcastle?

Answer: NewcastleGateshead

Answer: NewcastleGateshead

Answer: NewcastleGateshead


Question: What genre of music is Lindisfarne classified as?

Answer: folk-rock

Answer: folk-rock

Answer: folk-rock


Question: What year was the song Fog on the Tyne released?

Answer: 1971

Answer: 1971

Answer: 1971


Question: What band is considered by many to be the first black metal group?

Answer: Venom

Answer: Venom

Answer: Venom


Question: What band is often regarded as the first folk metal group?

Answer: Skyclad

Answer: Skyclad

Answer: Skyclad


Question: What group is Newcastle native Andy Taylor the former lead guitarist of?

Answer: Duran Duran

Answer: Duran Duran

Answer: Duran Duran


Question: Between what dates was the building on Pilgrim Street refurbished?

Answer: November 2006 and May 2008

Answer: November 2006 and May 2008

Answer: between November 2006 and May 2008


Question: Where was a cinema relocated while repairs were underway?

Answer: Old Town Hall

Answer: the Old Town Hall

Answer: the Old Town Hall,


Question: How many cinemas are currently housed at one site?

Answer: three

Answer: three

Answer: three cinemas


Question: What's the name of the United Kingdom's sole remaining news cinema?

Answer: Classic

Answer: Classic

Answer: Classic


Question: Where is the Tyneside Bar located?

Answer: roof

Answer: a roof extension

Answer: a roof


Question: Where is the Science Village located?

Answer: Centre for Life

Answer: the Centre for Life

Answer: Tyneside


Question: What does the Discovery Museum draw attention to?

Answer: life on Tyneside

Answer: life on Tyneside

Answer: life on Tyneside,


Question: What type of heritage does Tyneside have?

Answer: shipbuilding

Answer: shipbuilding

Answer: shipbuilding


Question: What year saw the merger of two museums in Newcastle?

Answer: 2009

Answer: 2009

Answer: 2009


Question: What museum in Newcastle is dedicated to children's books?

Answer: Seven Stories

Answer: Seven Stories

Answer: Seven Stories


Question: What is the earliest known movie featuring scenes filmed outdoors in Newcastle?

Answer: On the Night of the Fire

Answer: On the Night of the Fire

Answer: On the Night of the Fire (1939),


Question: What 1971 film was shot on location in Newcastle?

Answer: Get Carter

Answer: Get Carter

Answer: Get Carter


Question: What genre of film was the 1988 film Stormy Monday?

Answer: gangster

Answer: noir thriller

Answer: gangster film,


Question: Who directed Stormy Monday?

Answer: Mike Figgis

Answer: Mike Figgis

Answer: Mike Figgis


Question: What famous musician starred in Stormy Monday?

Answer: Sting

Answer: Sting

Answer: Sting


Question: Where is Newcastle's horse racing course located?

Answer: Gosforth Park

Answer: Gosforth Park

Answer: Gosforth Park


Question: What is the name of Newcastle's basketball team?

Answer: the Newcastle Eagles

Answer: the Newcastle Eagles

Answer: Newcastle Eagles


Question: What's the name of Newcastle's speedway team?

Answer: Newcastle Diamonds

Answer: Newcastle Diamonds

Answer: Newcastle Diamonds


Question: Where can you see greyhound racing in Newcastle?

Answer: Brough Park

Answer: Brough Park

Answer: at Brough Park in Byker


Question: What famous 5.9-mile athletic event takes place annually in Newcastle in June?

Answer: Blaydon Race

Answer: Blaydon Race

Answer: Blaydon Race


Question: How far is Newcastle's airport from the center of town?

Answer: 6 miles

Answer: 6

Answer: 6 miles


Question: How is Newport's airport connected to the city?

Answer: Metro Light Rail system

Answer: Metro Light Rail

Answer: via the Metro Light Rail system


Question: How long does it take to get to the middle of Newcastle from its outskirts when riding the rails?

Answer: 20 minutes

Answer: 20 minutes

Answer: 20 minutes


Question: How many passengers per year does Newcastle's airport handle?

Answer: over five million

Answer: over five million

Answer: over five million passengers


Question: How many destinations are available worldwide from Newcastle's airport?

Answer: over 90

Answer: over 90

Answer: over 90 destinations


Question: What was enhanced in 2014?

Answer: Victorian architecture

Answer: Victorian architecture

Answer: the Victorian architecture


Question: How many Grade One listed railway stations are in the UK?

Answer: six

Answer: six

Answer: six


Question: What Queen opened the first covered railway station in the world?

Answer: Victoria

Answer: Victoria

Answer: Queen Victoria


Question: Who constructed Newcastle's station?

Answer: Robert Stephenson.

Answer: Robert Stephenson

Answer: John Dobson


Question: What mainline station is to the east of the city center?

Answer: Manors

Answer: Manors

Answer: Manors


Question: How often do trains journey to King's Cross?

Answer: half-hourly

Answer: half-hourly

Answer: half-hourly


Question: How many hours can one expect to ride the train from Newcastle to King's Cross?

Answer: about three

Answer: three

Answer: about three hours


Question: Where do all trains going to Scotland stop at?

Answer: Edinburgh

Answer: Edinburgh

Answer: Edinburgh


Question: Whose trains serve destinations in Yorkshire?

Answer: CrossCountry

Answer: CrossCountry

Answer: CrossCountry


Question: Which train company provides local and regional services?

Answer: Northern Rail

Answer: Northern Rail

Answer: Northern Rail


Question: What underground railways cover much of Tyne and Wear?

Answer: Tyne and Wear Metro

Answer: the Tyne and Wear Metro

Answer: the Tyne and Wear Metro


Question: How many phases was the Metro opened in between 1980 and 1984?

Answer: five

Answer: five

Answer: five phases


Question: What type of tunnels are constructed through Newcastle's city center?

Answer: deep-level

Answer: deep-level

Answer: deep-level tunnels


Question: What did Queen Elizabeth II open in Newcastle in 1981?

Answer: A bridge

Answer: A bridge

Answer: A bridge


Question: How many passengers a year does the rail network in Newcastle carry?

Answer: over 37 million

Answer: over 37 million

Answer: over 37 million passengers


Question: What is the name of the current refurbishment the system is undergoing?

Answer: Metro: All Change.'

Answer: Metro: All Change

Answer: Metro: All Change


Question: What does the replacement of the ticket machines and introduction of ticket gates herald the transition to?

Answer: smart ticketing

Answer: smart ticketing

Answer: smart ticketing.


Question: What is being overhauled as part of the improvement works?

Answer: tracks, signalling and overhead wires

Answer: tracks, signalling and overhead wires

Answer: tracks, signalling and overhead wires


Question: What will be obtained as part of longer term plans for improvements to Newcastle's train system?

Answer: an entirely new fleet of trains

Answer: new fleet of trains

Answer: an entirely new fleet of trains


Question: What type of train would some of the proposed new routes require?

Answer: trams

Answer: trams

Answer: trams


Question: What major Newcastle road stretches from Edinburgh to London?

Answer: the A1

Answer: A1

Answer: the A1 (Gateshead Newcastle Western Bypass)


Question: What Newcastle road heads west to Carlisle?

Answer: the A696

Answer: A69

Answer: A69


Question: What's the nickname for Newcastle's A167?

Answer: the old "Great North Road"

Answer: Great North Road

Answer: Great North Road


Question: What was renumbered in Newcastle upon completion of the Western Bypass?

Answer: the roads

Answer: the roads

Answer: roads


Question: What was increased in November 2011?

Answer: the capacity of the Tyne Tunnel

Answer: capacity of the Tyne Tunnel

Answer: the capacity of the Tyne Tunnel


Question: How many bus companies provide service to the city of Newcastle?

Answer: 3

Answer: 3

Answer: 3


Question: How many major bus stations are in the city of Newcastle?

Answer: two

Answer: two

Answer: two


Question: Who is Newcastle's primary bus operator in the city proper?

Answer: Stagecoach

Answer: Stagecoach

Answer: Stagecoach


Question: What is Nexus?

Answer: the Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive.

Answer: the Tyne and Wear Passenger Transport Executive

Answer: Passenger Transport Executive


Question: What bus company in Newcastle provides the majority of services south of the river?

Answer: Go-Ahead

Answer: Go-Ahead

Answer: Go-Ahead


Question: What year did Newcastle first develop its cycling strategy?

Answer: 1998

Answer: 1998

Answer: 1998


Question: What does the local council hope will help cut down traffic congestion in Newcastle?

Answer: highlighting the usage of cycling

Answer: cycling

Answer: highlighting the usage of cycling


Question: What type of living does cycling promote?

Answer: healthy

Answer: healthy

Answer: healthy living


Question: What streets are contraflows to be implemented on in Newcastle?

Answer: one way

Answer: one way

Answer: one way streets


Question: What would the local council of Newcastle like to link their local bike networks to?

Answer: national networks

Answer: national networks

Answer: to national networks


Question: Who runs a service out of Newcastle's International Ferry Terminal?

Answer: Danish DFDS Seaways

Answer: Danish DFDS Seaways

Answer: DFDS Seaways


Question: When did the DFDS ferry service to Sweden case operation?

Answer: end of October 2006

Answer: the end of October 2006

Answer: the end of October 2006


Question: What did DFDS cite as the reasons it terminated operations?

Answer: high fuel prices and new competition from low-cost air services

Answer: high fuel prices and new competition

Answer: high fuel prices and new competition


Question: When did DFDS terminate its services to Norway?

Answer: late 2008

Answer: late 2008

Answer: late 2008


Question: What cruise line has included Newcastle as a departure port since 2007?

Answer: Thomson

Answer: Thomson

Answer: Thomson cruise lines


Question: How many LEA-funded 11 to 18 schools are there in Newcastle?

Answer: eleven

Answer: eleven

Answer: eleven


Question: How many of the schools in Newcastle are independent?

Answer: seven

Answer: seven

Answer: seven


Question: What is the largest co-ed independent school in Newcastle?

Answer: the Royal Grammar School

Answer: the Royal Grammar School

Answer: the Royal Grammar School


Question: What is the largest general further education college in the North East?

Answer: Newcastle College

Answer: Newcastle College

Answer: Newcastle College


Question: What religion is St Cuthbert's High School dominated by?

Answer: Catholic

Answer: Catholic

Answer: Catholic


Question: How many universities does Newcastle have?

Answer: two

Answer: two

Answer: two


Question: Which university has its origins in a school dealing with medicine and surgery?

Answer: Newcastle University

Answer: Newcastle University

Answer: Newcastle University


Question: What did Newcastle University win in 2000?

Answer: Sunday Times University of the Year award

Answer: Sunday Times University of the Year

Answer: Sunday Times University of the Year award


Question: What happened in 1992 in a UK-wide process?

Answer: polytechnics became new universities

Answer: polytechnics became new universities

Answer: polytechnics became new universities


Question: What university won the award for Most IT enabled organisation?

Answer: Northumbria University

Answer: Northumbria University

Answer: Northumbria University


Question: How many cathedrals does Newcastle have?

Answer: three

Answer: three

Answer: three


Question: What year was St. Nicholas' lantern tower made?

Answer: 1474

Answer: 1474

Answer: 1474


Question: Which cathedral is located in Fenham?

Answer: Coptic

Answer: Coptic

Answer: Coptic Cathedral


Question: Which church's saint is nicknamed The Martyr?

Answer: Thomas

Answer: the Church of St Thomas

Answer: the Church of St Thomas the Martyr


Question: What did all three cathedrals in Newcastle begin their existence as?

Answer: parish churches

Answer: parish churches

Answer: as parish churches


Question: Which parish church in Newcastle is typically agreed to be the oldest one in town?

Answer: The Parish Church of St Andrew

Answer: The Parish Church of St Andrew

Answer: The Parish Church of St Andrew is


Question: What year was the latest addition to the Church of St. Andrew?

Answer: 1726

Answer: 1726

Answer: 1726


Question: What was added to the the church of St. Andrew in 1726?

Answer: the main porch

Answer: the main porch

Answer: the main porch


Question: What surrounds the church of St. Andrew?

Answer: ancient churchyards

Answer: ancient churchyards

Answer: ancient churchyards


Question: What received a battering during the Siege of Newcastle?

Answer: The church tower

Answer: The church tower

Answer: The church tower


Question: Where was ITV Tyne Tees based for over 40 years?

Answer: City Road

Answer: City Road

Answer: City Road


Question: Where did ITV Tyne Tees move in 2005?

Answer: a new facility

Answer: The Watermark business park

Answer: The Watermark business park


Question: What gave its name to the 1980s music television program "The Tube"?

Answer: The entrance to studio 5

Answer: The entrance to studio 5

Answer: Road complex


Question: Why is the building on Spital Tongues known as the Pink Palace?

Answer: result of its colouring

Answer: its colouring

Answer: its colouring,


Question: What local radio station is broadcast by the Corporation from the Pink Palace?

Answer: BBC Radio Newcastle

Answer: BBC Radio Newcastle

Answer: BBC Radio Newcastle


Question: What is the name of Newcastle's first full-time community radio station?

Answer: NE1fm

Answer: NE1fm

Answer: NE1fm


Question: What radio station do the students of Newcastle's two universities run?

Answer: Newcastle Student Radio

Answer: Newcastle Student Radio

Answer: Newcastle Student Radio


Question: How long has Radio Tyneside been the voluntary hospital radio service?

Answer: since 1951

Answer: 1951

Answer: since 1951


Question: What Newcastle radio station is based at the Great North Children's Hospital?

Answer: Radio Lollipop

Answer: Radio Lollipop

Answer: Radio Lollipop


Question: Where does the Newcastle Student Radio station broadcast from during terms?

Answer: Newcastle University's student's union building

Answer: Newcastle University

Answer: Newcastle University's student's union building


Question: What year did Charles Avison die in Newcastle?

Answer: 1770

Answer: 1770

Answer: 1770


Question: What title did Newcastle native Basil Hume achieve?

Answer: Archbishop of Westminster

Answer: Archbishop of Westminster

Answer: Archbishop of Westminster


Question: Who is known as the father of the modern steam railways?

Answer: George Stephenson

Answer: George Stephenson

Answer: George Stephenson,


Question: What did Sir Charles Parsons invent?

Answer: the incandescent light bulb

Answer: the steam turbine

Answer: the steam turbine


Question: What country was Abhisit Vejjajiva prime minister of, despite having been born in Newcastle?

Answer: Thailand

Answer: Thailand

Answer: Thailand


Question: What school did both Hank Marvin and Bruce Welch attend?

Answer: Rutherford Grammar School

Answer: Rutherford Grammar School

Answer: Rutherford Grammar School,


Question: What is Michael Carrick and Alan Shearer's profession?

Answer: international footballers

Answer: international footballers

Answer: international footballers


Question: What prize did Peter Higgs win?

Answer: Nobel Prize

Answer: Nobel Prize

Answer: Nobel Prize


Question: What did John Dunn invent?

Answer: keyed Northumbrian smallpipes

Answer: keyed Northumbrian smallpipes

Answer: inventor of keyed Northumbrian smallpipes


Question: What city was former WWE NXT champion Neville born in?

Answer: Newcastle

Answer: Newcastle

Answer: Newcastle.


Question: where is the Victoria and Albert Museum located?

Answer: The V&A is located in the Brompton district of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

Answer: London

Answer: London

Answer: in the Brompton district of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea


Question: how many permanent objects are located there?

Answer: a permanent collection of over 4.5 million objects.

Answer: over 4.5 million objects

Answer: over 4.5 million

Answer: 4.5 million


Question: when was the Victoria and Albert museum founded?

Answer: It was founded in 1852

Answer: 1852

Answer: 1852

Answer: 1852


Question: Who is the museum named for?

Answer: named after Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

Answer: Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

Answer: Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

Answer: Queen Victoria and Prince Albert


Question: In which London borough is the Victoria and Albert Museum located?

Answer: Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

Answer: Brompton district of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea

Answer: Brompton district of the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea,

Answer: Royal


Question: In what year was the Victoria and Albert Museum founded?

Answer: 1852

Answer: 1852

Answer: 1852

Answer: 1852


Question: Which monarchs was the Victoria and Albert Museum named after?

Answer: Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

Answer: Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

Answer: Queen Victoria and Prince Albert

Answer: Queen Victoria and Prince Albert


Question: Which department sponsors the Victoria and Albert Museum?

Answer: Department for Culture, Media and Sport

Answer: Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

Answer: the Department for Culture, Media and Sport.

Answer: the Department for Culture, Media and Sport


Question: In which year did the museum started charging free admission fees?

Answer: 2001

Answer: 2001

Answer: 2001

Answer: 2001


Question: How many acres does the V&A cover?

Answer: 12.5

Answer: 12.5 acres

Answer: 12.5 acres

Answer: 12.5


Question: How many galleries does the V&A have?

Answer: 145

Answer: 145

Answer: 145 galleries

Answer: 145


Question: How many years does the V&A's collections span?

Answer: 5,000

Answer: 5,000

Answer: 5,000 years

Answer: 5,000


Question: Which cultures are represented in the V&A's collections?

Answer: Europe, North America, Asia and North Africa

Answer: Europe, North America, Asia and North Africa

Answer: Europe, North America, Asia and North Africa

Answer: Europe, North America, Asia and North Africa


Question: The V&A owns the largest collection of which period in sculptural art history?

Answer: post-classical sculpture

Answer: post-classical sculpture

Answer: post-classical sculpture

Answer: post-classical


Question: The V&A has its origins in which world exposition?

Answer: Great Exhibition of 1851

Answer: Great Exhibition of 1851

Answer: Great Exhibition


Question: Who was the V&A's first director?

Answer: Henry Cole

Answer: Henry Cole,

Answer: Henry Cole


Question: What was the museum originally called?

Answer: Museum of Manufactures

Answer: Museum of Manufactures

Answer: Museum of Manufactures


Question: Where was the V&A transferred to from its original location at Marlborough House?

Answer: Somerset House

Answer: Somerset House

Answer: Somerset House


Question: Which German architect was asked to produce a design for the museum?

Answer: Gottfried Semper

Answer: Gottfried Semper

Answer: Gottfried Semper


Question: Who officially opened the V&A?

Answer: Queen Victoria

Answer: Queen Victoria

Answer: Queen Victoria


Question: What is the exact date of the V&A's official opening?

Answer: 22 June 1857

Answer: 22 June 1857

Answer: 22 June 1857


Question: Who is known as the first Keeper of Fine Art Collection at the V&A?

Answer: George Wallis

Answer: George Wallis

Answer: George Wallis


Question: The use of gas lighting made what possible the year after the museum officially opened?

Answer: late night openings

Answer: late night openings

Answer: late night openings


Question: In which year did the Royal College of Art gained full independence from the V&A?

Answer: 1949

Answer: 1949

Answer: 1949


Question: When was the Britain Can Make It exhibition held?

Answer: between September and November 1946

Answer: between September and November 1946,

Answer: between September and November 1946


Question: How many visitors did the Britain Can Make It exhibition attract?

Answer: nearly a million and a half

Answer: nearly a million and a half visitors

Answer: nearly a million and a half


Question: Who organized the Britain Can Make It exhibition?

Answer: Festival of Britain (1951)

Answer: Council of Industrial Design

Answer: the Council of Industrial Design


Question: The success of the Britain Can Make It exhibition led to the planning of what exhibition in 1951?

Answer: Festival of Britain

Answer: Festival of Britain

Answer: the Festival of Britain


Question: Most of the museum's collection had been returned by which year?

Answer: 1948

Answer: 1948

Answer: 1948


Question: What did the V&A present in July 1973 as part of its youth outreach programme?

Answer: a rock concert

Answer: present a rock concert

Answer: a rock concert


Question: Which musical group did the V&A present in July 1973 as part of its youth outreach programme?

Answer: Gryphon

Answer: Gryphon

Answer: Gryphon


Question: The V&A's youth outreach programme was a hallmark of whose directorship?

Answer: Roy Strong

Answer: Roy Strong

Answer: Roy Strong


Question: Which musical genre did the progressive folk-rock band Gryphon presented at a concert/lecture at the V&A?

Answer: mediaeval music

Answer: explored the lineage of mediaeval music and instrumentation and related how those contributed to contemporary music 500 years later

Answer: mediaeval


Question: The V&A is looking to open a branded gallery in which city in Scotland?

Answer: Dundee

Answer: Dundee

Answer: Dundee


Question: What is the estimated cost of the V&A branded gallery?

Answer: £76 million

Answer: £76 million

Answer: £76 million


Question: Where in Dundee will the gallery be located?

Answer: on the city's waterfront

Answer: on the city's waterfront

Answer: on the city's waterfront


Question: What will V&A Dundee focus on?

Answer: fashion, architecture, product design, graphic arts and photography

Answer: fashion, architecture, product design, graphic arts and photography

Answer: fashion, architecture, product design, graphic arts and photography


Question: When could V&A Dundee?

Answer: within five years

Answer: within five years


Question: What was the building that formerly occupied the V&A's present site called?

Answer: Brompton Park House

Answer: Brompton Park House

Answer: Brompton Park House


Question: What was the first building erected that still forms part of the museum?

Answer: Sheepshanks Gallery

Answer: Sheepshanks Gallery

Answer: 1857


Question: Who designed the Turner and Vernon galleries that were built in 1858-9?

Answer: Captain Francis Fowke

Answer: Captain Francis Fowke

Answer: Captain Francis Fowke


Question: In which year were the North and South Courts opened?

Answer: Secretariat Wing

Answer: June 1862

Answer: June 1862


Question: What does the Secretariat Wing house?

Answer: offices and board room

Answer: houses the offices and board room etc. and is not open to the public

Answer: the offices and board room etc.


Question: Who was the designer of the Oriental Courts?

Answer: Oriental Courts

Answer: Owen Jones

Answer: Owen Jones


Question: What art historical style was used in the decoration for the northern part of the museum?

Answer: Italian Renaissance

Answer: Italian Renaissance

Answer: Italian Renaissance


Question: Who designed the bronze doors used as the main entrance to the museum?

Answer: James Gamble & Reuben Townroe

Answer: James Gamble & Reuben Townroe

Answer: James Gamble & Reuben Townroe


Question: What famous English physicist and mathematician was depicted in the main bronze door entrance of the museum?

Answer: Isaac Newton

Answer: Isaac Newton (astronomy

Answer: Isaac Newton


Question: What Italian painter was depicted in the main bronze door entrance of the museum?

Answer: Titian

Answer: Michelangelo (sculpture)

Answer: Michelangelo


Question: Who were responsible for the interior decorations of the Green Dining Room?

Answer: Philip Webb and William Morris

Answer: Philip Webb and William Morris

Answer: Philip Webb and William Morris


Question: Who designed the ceiling and stained-glass windows of the Green Dining Room?

Answer: Edward Burne-Jones

Answer: Edward Burne-Jones

Answer: Edward Burne-Jones


Question: Who was responsible for the decorations of the Centre Refreshment Room?

Answer: James Gamble

Answer: James Gamble,

Answer: James Gamble


Question: Who designed and sculpted the marble fireplace in the Centre Refreshment Room?

Answer: Alfred Stevens

Answer: Alfred Stevens

Answer: Alfred Stevens


Question: Who was responsible for the decorations of the Grill Room?

Answer: Sir Edward Poynter

Answer: Sir Edward Poynter

Answer: Sir Edward Poynter


Question: Who was brought it to work on the museum after the death of Captain Francis Fowke?

Answer: Henry Young Darracott Scott

Answer: Colonel (later Major General) Henry Young Darracott Scott,

Answer: Colonel (later Major General) Henry Young Darracott Scott


Question: What was the Henry Cole Wing previously called?

Answer: School for Naval Architects

Answer: the science schools

Answer: School for Naval Architects


Question: What stone was used for the staircase designed by J.W. Wild?

Answer: Cadeby stone

Answer: Cadeby stone

Answer: Cadeby


Question: What part of the V&A collection does the Henry Cole Wing houses?

Answer: prints and architectural drawings

Answer: (prints, drawings, paintings and photographs)

Answer: prints and architectural drawings


Question: In which year did the Sackler Center open?

Answer: 2008

Answer: 2008

Answer: 2008


Question: What technique was used to decorate the east side of the building?

Answer: sgraffito

Answer: sgraffito

Answer: sgraffito


Question: Who designed the wrought iron gates that was used to embellish the east side of the building?

Answer: Starkie Gardner

Answer: Starkie Gardner

Answer: Starkie Gardner


Question: Where on the side are the two Cast Courts located?

Answer: southeast of the garden

Answer: the southeast of the garden (the site of the "Brompton Boilers"),

Answer: southeast of the garden


Question: Where is the sculpture gallery now located?

Answer: Art Library

Answer: the south side of the garden

Answer: south side of the garden


Question: Who designed the plaster work in the Art Library?

Answer: Reuben Townroe

Answer: Reuben Townroe

Answer: Reuben Townroe


Question: Who designed the main façade that stretches along Cromwell Gardens?

Answer: Aston Webb

Answer: Aston Webb

Answer: Aston Webb


Question: What building materials were used to build the main façade?

Answer: red brick and Portland stone

Answer: red brick and Portland stone

Answer: red brick and Portland stone


Question: How long does the main façade stretch along Cromwell Gardens?

Answer: 720 feet

Answer: 720 feet

Answer: 720 feet


Question: What late Gothic architectural sculptural feature is found on the tower above the main entrance?

Answer: a statue of fame

Answer: statue of fame

Answer: an open work crown surmounted by a statue of fame


Question: Statues of British artists adorn which part of the tower above the main entrance?

Answer: top row of windows

Answer: top row of windows

Answer: the top row of windows


Question: Who sculpted the representations of Prince Albert and Queen Victoria found in the main entrance?

Answer: Alfred Drury

Answer: Alfred Drury.

Answer: Alfred Drury


Question: How many levels of galleries do the façades surround?

Answer: four

Answer: four levels

Answer: four


Question: Who designed the Entrance Hall and Rotunda?

Answer: Alfred Drury

Answer: Webb

Answer: Webb


Question: What building material does the entrance hall and flanking staircases use predominantly?

Answer: marble

Answer: marble

Answer: marble


Question: Which British monarch appears above the frame around the arches and entrance?

Answer: Queen Victoria

Answer: Prince Albert

Answer: Queen Victoria


Question: Which part of the museum received the first major post-war work?

Answer: Art Library

Answer: new storage space for books in the Art Library

Answer: new storage space for books in the Art Library


Question: What did the museum acquire from the Royal College of Science?

Answer: Henry Cole wing

Answer: Henry Cole wing

Answer: Henry Cole wing


Question: What was constructed between 1978 and 1982 to link the Henry Cole wing to the rest of the museum?

Answer: a new entrance building

Answer: new entrance building

Answer: a new entrance building


Question: Who designed the iron gates that decorate the new entrance building?

Answer: Christopher Hay and Douglas Coyne

Answer: Christopher Hay and Douglas Coyne

Answer: Christopher Hay and Douglas Coyne


Question: What was intended for the site of the former boiler house?

Answer: the Spiral

Answer: the Spiral,

Answer: the Spiral


Question: Which gallery was redesigned in the 1990s and later improved in 2002?

Answer: main silverware gallery

Answer: the main glass galleries and the main silverware gallery

Answer: silverware


Question: What was restored in the sculpture gallery during its renovated in 2006?

Answer: mosaic floors

Answer: the mosaic floors in the sculpture gallery

Answer: mosaic floors


Question: What was the title given to the major project to redesign all the galleries in the museum?

Answer: FuturePlan

Answer: FuturePlan

Answer: FuturePlan


Question: A subway tunnel from the museum leads to which tube station?

Answer: South Kensington

Answer: South Kensington

Answer: South Kensington


Question: Who designed the new Medieval and Renaissance galleries which opened in 2009?

Answer: McInnes Usher McKnight Architects

Answer: Gareth Hoskins was responsible for contemporary and architecture, Softroom, Islamic Middle East and the Members' Room, McInnes Usher McKnight Architects

Answer: McInnes Usher McKnight Architects


Question: Who redesigned the central garden?

Answer: Kim Wilkie

Answer: Kim Wilkie

Answer: Kim Wilkie


Question: The redesigned central garden opened in 2005 with what new moniker?

Answer: John Madejski Garden

Answer: the John Madejski Garden

Answer: John Madejski Garden


Question: What shape is the water feature in the John Madejski Garden?

Answer: elliptical

Answer: elliptical

Answer: elliptical


Question: The steps around the water feature can be drained for what uses?

Answer: receptions, gatherings or exhibition purposes

Answer: receptions, gatherings or exhibition purposes

Answer: receptions, gatherings or exhibition purposes


Question: Which tree species is planted in the two corners by the north facade?

Answer: American Sweetgum

Answer: orange and lemon trees

Answer: American Sweetgum


Question: In which year did the V&A opened the first permanent architectural history gallery in the UK?

Answer: 2004

Answer: 2004

Answer: 2004


Question: Which institution did the V&A partnered with to open the first permanent architectural history gallery in the UK?

Answer: Royal Institute of British Architects

Answer: Royal Institute of British Architects

Answer: Royal Institute of British Architects


Question: Approximately how many architectural drawings does the V&A hold in its collection?

Answer: over 600,000

Answer: over 600,000

Answer: 600,000


Question: What collection was transferred to the museum when the new architectural history gallery opened?

Answer: RIBA Drawings and Archives Collection

Answer: RIBA Drawings and Archives Collection

Answer: RIBA Drawings and Archives Collection


Question: Approximately how many architectural photographs does the V&A hold in its collection?

Answer: over 700,000

Answer: over 700,000

Answer: 700,000


Question: The RIBA's drawing collection of what Italian architect is considered the largest in the world?

Answer: Andrea Palladio

Answer: Andrea Palladio

Answer: Andrea Palladio


Question: Which lone female architect listed above is represented in the collection?

Answer: Zaha Hadid

Answer: Andrea Palladio

Answer: Zaha Hadid


Question: Approximately how many drawings of the Italian architect Andrea Palladio is in the RIBA collection?

Answer: over 330

Answer: over 330

Answer: over 330


Question: Which architect, famous for designing London's St. Paul Cathedral, is represented in the RIBA collection?

Answer: Sir Christopher Wren

Answer: Sir Christopher Wren

Answer: Sir Christopher Wren


Question: Which architect, famous for the India Gate in New Delhi, is represented in the RIBA collection?

Answer: Sir Edwin Lutyens

Answer: Zaha Hadid

Answer: Sir Edwin Lutyens


Question: Which part of London was Sir Paul Pindar's house, whose façade now resides in the V&A collection, located?

Answer: Bishopsgate

Answer: Bishopsgate

Answer: Bishopsgate


Question: Sir Paul Pindar's house survived which 17th century disaster?

Answer: Great Fire of London

Answer: Great Fire of London

Answer: Great Fire of London


Question: When is Sir Pindar's house dated?

Answer: c1600

Answer: c1600

Answer: c1600


Question: Included in the V&A collection is dormer window dated 1523-35 from which European chateau?

Answer: Montal

Answer: chateau of Montal

Answer: Montal


Question: A column from which Moorish palace and fortress complex in Granada, Spain, is included in the V&A collection?

Answer: Alhambra

Answer: Alhambra

Answer: Alhambra


Question: Approximately how many items from the Islamic world are held in the V&A collection?

Answer: over 19,000

Answer: over 19,000

Answer: over 19,000


Question: In which year did the Jameel Gallery of Islamic Art opened?

Answer: 2006

Answer: 2006

Answer: 2006


Question: What is considered the centerpiece of the Jameel Gallery of Islamic Art?

Answer: Ardabil Carpet

Answer: the Ardabil Carpet

Answer: Ardabil Carpet


Question: Some of the objects held in the Jameel Gallery of Islamic Art come from which European country?

Answer: Spain

Answer: Spain, North Africa, the Middle East, Central Asia and Afghanistan

Answer: Spain


Question: In which year was the Salting Bequest?

Answer: 1909

Answer: 1909

Answer: 1909


Question: Approximately how many objects comprise the museum's collections of South and South-East Asian art?

Answer: nearly 60,000

Answer: nearly 60,000

Answer: nearly 60,000


Question: Approximately how many textiles comprise the museum's collections of South and South-East Asian art?

Answer: about 10,000

Answer: 10,000

Answer: 10,000


Question: Approximately how many paintings comprise the museum's collections of South and South-East Asian art?

Answer: 6000

Answer: 6000

Answer: 6000


Question: In which year did the gallery of Indian art open?

Answer: 1991

Answer: 1991

Answer: 1991


Question: Who is the gallery of Indian art named after?

Answer: Jawaharlal Nehru

Answer: Jawaharlal Nehru

Answer: Jawaharlal Nehru


Question: Approximately how many works of art are included in the Far Eastern collections?

Answer: more than 70,000

Answer: more than 70,000

Answer: 70,000


Question: Which countries are represented in the Far Eastern collections?

Answer: China, Japan and Korea

Answer: China, Japan and Korea

Answer: East Asia: China, Japan and Korea


Question: What is the name of the gallery devoted to Chinese art?

Answer: The T. T. Tsui Gallery

Answer: T. T. Tsui Gallery of Chinese art

Answer: The T. T. Tsui Gallery of Chinese art


Question: In which year did the gallery devoted to Chinese art open?

Answer: 1991

Answer: 1991

Answer: 1991


Question: Most of the Chinese works of art in the Far Eastern collections date from which two dynasties?

Answer: Ming and Qing

Answer: Ming and Qing

Answer: Ming and Qing


Question: Which company is the gallery of Japanese art named after?

Answer: Toshiba

Answer: Toshiba

Answer: Toshiba


Question: In which year did the gallery of Japanese art open?

Answer: 1986

Answer: 1986

Answer: 1986


Question: The sculpture of Amida Nyorai that is included in the V&A's Japanese art collection is dated to which century?

Answer: 13th

Answer: 13th-century

Answer: 13th


Question: Most of the objects in the Japanese art collection is dated to which time period?

Answer: from 1550 to 1900

Answer: 1550 to 1900

Answer: 1550 to 1900


Question: Suzuki Chokichi's incense burner dated 1875 is made of what from material?

Answer: bronze

Answer: bronze

Answer: bronze


Question: Tibetan art from which period is represented in the V&A collection?

Answer: from the 14th to the 19th century

Answer: 14th to the 19th century

Answer: 14th to the 19th century


Question: Which South Asian island nation is represented in the V&A collection?

Answer: Sri Lanka

Answer: Thailand

Answer: Thailand


Question: The influence of India can be seen in which religious art objects from Thailand, Burma and Cambodia?

Answer: Hindu and Buddhist sculptures

Answer: Refined Hindu and Buddhist sculptures

Answer: betel-nut cutters, ivory combs and bronze palanquin hooks


Question: Some of the museum's collection of Korean boxes are inlaid with what objects?

Answer: mother-of-pearl

Answer: mother-of-pearl

Answer: mother-of-pearl


Question: Some of the combs in the V&A collection of South East Asian art is made of what material?

Answer: ivory

Answer: ivory

Answer: ivory


Question: The Codex Forster is a collection of notebooks by which famous Italian Renaissance polymath?

Answer: Leonardo da Vinci

Answer: Leonardo da Vinci

Answer: Leonardo da Vinci


Question: What are the three parchment-bound manuscripts of the Codex Forster called?

Answer: Forster I, Forster II, and Forster III

Answer: Forster I, Forster II, and Forster III,

Answer: Forster I, Forster II, and Forster III


Question: Approximately how books did Alexander Dyce bequeathed to the museum?

Answer: over 14,000

Answer: over 14,000

Answer: over 14,000


Question: In which year did Alexander Dyce bequeathed his books to the museum?

Answer: 1869

Answer: 1869

Answer: 1869


Question: In which year did John Forster bequeathed his large collection of books to the museum?

Answer: 1876

Answer: 1876

Answer: 1876


Question: The papers of which famous English Victorian author are collected in the library?

Answer: Charles Dickens

Answer: Charles Dickens

Answer: Charles Dickens


Question: The papers of which famous English writer of children's books such as The Tale of Peter Rabbit are collected in the museum?

Answer: Beatrix Potter

Answer: Beatrix Potter

Answer: Beatrix Potter


Question: The V&A library's collection of illuminated manuscripts are dated to which centuries?

Answer: from the 12th to 16th

Answer: 12th to 16th

Answer: 12th to 16th


Question: What does the Armagnac manuscript in the V&A library archive depict?

Answer: the trial and rehabilitation of Joan of Arc

Answer: trial and rehabilitation of Joan of Arc

Answer: the trial and rehabilitation of Joan of Arc


Question: Who produced the illumination for the 1524 Charter that is in the V&A library archive?

Answer: Lucas Horenbout

Answer: Lucas Horenbout

Answer: Lucas Horenbout


Question: The National Art Library at the V&A is known by what other name?

Answer: Word and Image Department

Answer: Word and Image Department

Answer: Word and Image Department


Question: What cataloging system was used by the National Art Library from the 1980s to the 1990s?

Answer: MODES

Answer: MODES

Answer: MODES


Question: What archival system is used for all material at the National Art Library?

Answer: Encoded Archival Description

Answer: Encoded Archival Description (EAD

Answer: Encoded Archival Description (EAD)


Question: What type of item is the mostly likely to show in the V&A computer system?

Answer: newly accessioned into the collection

Answer: newly accessioned

Answer: newly accessioned into the collection


Question: What is the search feature on the V&A website called?

Answer: Search the Collections

Answer: Search the Collections,

Answer: Search the Collections


Question: In which year did the V&A's Word and Image Department began a large scale digitization project?

Answer: 2007

Answer: 2007

Answer: 2007


Question: What was the digitization project called?

Answer: Factory Project

Answer: Factory Project

Answer: the Factory Project


Question: The title of the digitization project was a reference to which artist?

Answer: Andy Warhol

Answer: Andy Warhol

Answer: Andy Warhol


Question: Approximately how many images were digitized during the first year of the digitization project?

Answer: 15,000

Answer: 15,000

Answer: 15,000


Question: What is the second phase of the digitization project?

Answer: to catalog everything

Answer: catalog everything

Answer: to catalog everything


Question: Who purchased or commissioned the works of European artists included the British galleries of the V&A?

Answer: British patrons

Answer: British patrons

Answer: British patrons


Question: Some non-British works in the British galleries were imported from which continent?

Answer: Asia

Answer: Asia

Answer: Asia


Question: Which Italian that is credited with the creating the Baroque style of sculpture is represented in the V&A's British galleries?

Answer: Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Answer: Gian Lorenzo Bernini

Answer: Gian Lorenzo Bernini


Question: Which artist who had a major influence on the Gothic Revival is represented in the V&A's British galleries?

Answer: Horace Walpole

Answer: Horace Walpole

Answer: Horace Walpole


Question: What type of works from Asia are included in the V&A's British galleries?

Answer: porcelain, cloth and wallpaper

Answer: porcelain, cloth and wallpaper

Answer: porcelain, cloth and wallpaper


Question: What led to the production of tea paraphernalia such as china and caddies during the Georgian period?

Answer: increase in tea drinking

Answer: increase in tea drinking

Answer: increase in tea drinking


Question: What British cultural trend during the Georgian is linked to design during the same period?

Answer: increasing emphasis on entertainment and leisure

Answer: printed books and the work of European artists and craftsmen employed in Britain

Answer: entertainment and leisure


Question: Who is considered the leading figure in the Arts and Crafts movement?

Answer: John Ruskin

Answer: John Ruskin

Answer: John Ruskin


Question: The entrepreneurs Josiah Wedgwood, Matthew Boulton and Eleanor Coade were influenced by what manufacturing process developed during the Industrial Revolution?

Answer: the growth of mass production

Answer: the growth of mass production

Answer: mass production


Question: A reaction against industrialiazation contributed to the development of what artistic movement in the late 19th centurY

Answer: Arts and Crafts

Answer: Gothic Revival

Answer: Arts and Crafts


Question: Which Ancient Roman monument is replicated in full-scale in the Cast Courts?

Answer: Trajan's Column

Answer: sculpture wing

Answer: Trajan's Column


Question: What was done to the Trajan's Column replica to fit it under the ceiling?

Answer: cut in half

Answer: cut in half

Answer: cut in half


Question: Which sculpture by Michelangelo has a full-size replica in the Cast Courts?

Answer: David

Answer: David.

Answer: David


Question: The Cast Courts display plaster casts of what objects?

Answer: sculptures, friezes and tombs

Answer: sculptures, friezes and tombs

Answer: sculptures, friezes and tombs


Question: How is the plaster replica of Verrocchio's David displayed in the Cast Courts?

Answer: in a glass case

Answer: glass case

Answer: in a glass case


Question: In which year are the Meissen Vulture in the V&A collection dated?

Answer: 1731

Answer: 1731


Question: Who designed the  Möllendorff Dinner Service?

Answer: Frederick II the Great

Answer: Frederick II the Great

Answer: Frederick II the Great


Question: In which year was Möllendorff Dinner Service designed?

Answer: 1762

Answer: 1762

Answer: 1762


Question: In which year was the Salting Bequest made?

Answer: 1909

Answer: 1909

Answer: 1909


Question: Which part of the V&A collection did the Salting Bequest enhanced?

Answer: Chinese and Japanese ceramics

Answer: Chinese and Japanese ceramics.

Answer: Chinese and Japanese ceramics


Question: Which three famous British potters are represented the the V&A ceramics collection?

Answer: Josiah Wedgwood, William De Morgan and Bernard Leach

Answer: Josiah Wedgwood, William De Morgan and Bernard Leach

Answer: Josiah Wedgwood, William De Morgan and Bernard Leach


Question: From which countries were the V&A's collection of Delftware produced?

Answer: Britain and Holland

Answer: Britain and Holland

Answer: Britain and Holland


Question: What are the largest objects in the V&A ceramics and glass collection?

Answer: ceramic stoves

Answer: a series of elaborately ornamented ceramic stoves

Answer: a series of elaborately ornamented ceramic stoves


Question: The largest objects in the V&A ceramics and glass collection were produced during which time period?

Answer: from the 16th and 17th centuries

Answer: 16th and 17th centuries,

Answer: 16th and 17th centuries


Question: The largest objects in the V&A ceramics and glass collection were produced in which countries?

Answer: Germany and Switzerland

Answer: Germany and Switzerland

Answer: Germany and Switzerland


Question: How many years does the V&A glass collection cover?

Answer: 4000

Answer: 4000 years

Answer: 4000


Question: Approximately how many items are in the glass collection of the V&A?

Answer: over 6000

Answer: over 6000

Answer: over 6000


Question: Where did the earliest item in the V&A glass collection come from?

Answer: Ancient Egypt

Answer: Ancient Egypt

Answer: Ancient Egypt


Question: The Art Deco style of glassware is represented by which artist?

Answer: René Lalique

Answer: René Lalique

Answer: René Lalique


Question: The Art Noveau style of glassware is represented by which two artists?

Answer: Louis Comfort Tiffany and Émile Gallé

Answer: Louis Comfort Tiffany and Émile Gallé

Answer: Louis Comfort Tiffany and Émile Gallé


Question: When was the main gallery of the V&A's ceramics and glass collection redesigned?

Answer: 1994

Answer: 1994

Answer: 1994


Question: Who was responsible for the glass balustrade on the staircase and mezzanine in the main gallery?

Answer: Danny Lane

Answer: Danny Lane,

Answer: Danny Lane


Question: When was the main gallery for the V&A's contemporary glass collection opened?

Answer: 2004

Answer: 2004

Answer: 2004


Question: Whose chandelier grace the rotunda at the V&A's main entrance?

Answer: Dale Chihuly

Answer: Dale Chihuly

Answer: Dale Chihuly


Question: To which century is the glass beaker called Luck of Edenhall dated?

Answer: 13th

Answer: 13th-century

Answer: 13th


Question: Approximately how many British drawings are included in the V&A collection?

Answer: over 10,000

Answer: over 10,000

Answer: 10,000


Question: Approximately how many old masters works are included in the V&A collection?

Answer: 2,000

Answer: 2,000

Answer: 2,000


Question: Which famous Germain Renaissance painter and printmaker is represented in the drawings collection of the V&A?

Answer: Dürer

Answer: Dürer

Answer: Dürer


Question: Which famous Dutch artist who painted The Night Watch is represented in the drawings collection of the V&A?

Answer: Rembrandt

Answer: Rembrandt

Answer: Rembrandt


Question: Which famous French artist who painted the Grande Odalisque of 1814 is represented in the drawings collection of the V&A?

Answer: Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres

Answer: Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres,

Answer: Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres


Question: Approximately how many items are in the costume collection of the V&A?

Answer: over 14,000

Answer: over 14,000 outfits

Answer: over 14,000

Answer: over 14,000


Question: Which department houses the works on paper of the costume collection?

Answer: Word and Image department

Answer: Word and Image department.

Answer: Word and Image

Answer: Word and Image


Question: Why is the collection dominated by fashionable clothes made for special occasions?

Answer: Because everyday clothing from previous eras has not generally survived

Answer: Because everyday clothing from previous eras has not generally survived

Answer: everyday clothing from previous eras has not generally survived

Answer: everyday clothing from previous eras has not generally survived


Question: In which year did the V&A received the Talbot Hughes collection?

Answer: 1913

Answer: 1913

Answer: 1913

Answer: 1913


Question: The Talbot Hughes collection was a gift from which company?

Answer: Harrods

Answer: Harrods

Answer: Harrods

Answer: Harrods


Question: When did the V&A acquired the Costiff collection?

Answer: 2002

Answer: 2002

Answer: 2002


Question: The Costiff collection comprised costumes designed by which British fashion icon?

Answer: Vivienne Westwood

Answer: Coco Chanel

Answer: Vivienne Westwood


Question: How many costumes were in the Costiff collection?

Answer: 178

Answer: 178

Answer: 178


Question: What costumes collection did the V&A acquired in 2002?

Answer: Costiff

Answer: Vivienne Westwood

Answer: Costiff


Question: Which examples of fashion does the museum continue to acquire for its collection?

Answer: modern

Answer: modern fashion

Answer: modern


Question: From which period did the objects in the Soulages collection come from?

Answer: Italian and French Renaissance

Answer: Italian and French Renaissance objects

Answer: Renaissance


Question: When was the Soulages collection acquired?

Answer: between 1859 and 1865

Answer: 1859 and 1865

Answer: between 1859 and 1865


Question: What items comprise the John Jones Collection?

Answer: French 18th-century art and furnishings

Answer: art and furnishings

Answer: art and furnishings


Question: In which year was the John Jones Collection left to the museum?

Answer: 1882

Answer: 1882

Answer: 1882


Question: What was the value of the John Jones Collection when it was left to the museum?

Answer: £250,000

Answer: £250,000

Answer: £250,000


Question: To which year has the Antwerp City Hall doors in the V&A collection been dated?

Answer: 1580

Answer: 1580

Answer: 1580


Question: To whom has the Antwerp City Hall doors in the V&A collection been attributed?

Answer: Hans Vredeman de Vries

Answer: Hans Vredeman de Vries

Answer: Hans Vredeman de Vries


Question: To which year has the Rococo Augustus Rex Bureau Cabinet been dated?

Answer: c1750

Answer: c1750

Answer: c1750


Question: From which country did the Rococo Augustus Rex Bureau Cabinet come from?

Answer: Germany

Answer: Germany

Answer: Germany


Question: Which husband and wife modern furniture design team are represented in the V&A furniture collection?

Answer: Charles and Ray Eames

Answer: Charles and Ray Eames

Answer: Charles and Ray Eames


Question: Approximately how many items comprise the jewelry collection of the V&A?

Answer: over 6000

Answer: over 6000

Answer: over 6000


Question: The earliest items in the jewelry collection come from which ancient civilization?

Answer: Ancient Egypt

Answer: Ancient Egypt

Answer: Ancient Egypt


Question: In which year was Reverend Chauncy Hare Townshend's collection of gems was bequeathed to the museum?

Answer: 1869

Answer: 1869


Question: Approximately how many gems in Reverend Chauncy Hare Townshend's collection was given to the museum?

Answer: 154

Answer: 1869,

Answer: 154


Question: Who funded the new jewelry gallery that opened in 2008?

Answer: William and Judith Bollinger

Answer: William and Judith Bollinger

Answer: William and Judith Bollinger


Question: The silver and gold collection of the V&A is divided into which categories?

Answer: secular and sacred

Answer: secular and sacred covering both Christian (Roman Catholic, Anglican and Greek Orthodox) and Jewish liturgical vessels and items

Answer: secular and sacred


Question: To which year is the earliest known piece of English silver with a dated hallmark is dated?

Answer: 1496–97

Answer: 1496–97

Answer: 1496–97


Question: How many tons does the Hereford Screen weigh?

Answer: 8

Answer: 8 tonnes

Answer: nearly 8


Question: Who designed the Hereford Screen?

Answer: Sir George Gilbert Scott

Answer: Sir George Gilbert Scott

Answer: Sir George Gilbert Scott


Question: Approximately how many silver and gold objects does the V&A have it its collection?

Answer: over 10,000

Answer: over 10,000

Answer: over 10,000


Question: To which year is the Gloucester Candlestick dated?

Answer: c1110

Answer: c1110

Answer: c1110