Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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The home stadium of Manchester United Football Club | Old Trafford | 91%
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The only other official city in the county, aside from Manchester | Salford | 87%
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Full name of Bolton's professional football club, which was founded in 1874 | Bolton {Wanderers} | 86%
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Very long running soap opera set in 'Weatherfield', a fictional town in the county | Coronation Street | 83%
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The first inter-city railway in the world opened in 1830 between Manchester and this other place | Liverpool | 82%
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The longest serving and most decorated manager of the above club | Alex Ferguson | 77%
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Flaky, buttery puff pastry delicacy filled with currants and dried fruits, and named after a town in Greater Manchester | {Eccles} cake | 76%
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Large town in the west of the county, supposedly with a 'pier' | Wigan | 75%
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Man-made inland waterway which connects Manchester to the Irish Sea | Manchester {Ship} Canal | 70%
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Artist, born in Stretford in 1887, who became very well known for his paintings of industrial scenes and 'matchstick men' | L.S. Lowry | 69%
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Number of the 36 mile long Manchester orbital motorway | M60 | 62%
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This town, 10 miles to the north east of central Manchester, is considered to be the birthplace of the worldwide Cooperative Movement | Rochdale | 61%
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Born in Bury in 1788, this person went on to be Prime Minister of the United Kingdom and founded the Metropolitan Police | Sir Robert Peel | 61%
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19th century nickname for Manchester, due to its large and productive textile industry | Cottonopolis | 51%
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This person was the world’s first test tube baby, born in Oldham General Hospital in 1978 | Louise Brown | 25%
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