Q 01/05

Whose letters patent of 1207 founded the borough of Liverpool?

A) King John

B) Henry II

C) Richard I

D) Edward I

Answer · why

A) King John

The 1207 document spelt the place 'Liuerpul', and the settlement stayed a minor port for centuries before the Atlantic trade transformed it.

Q 02/05

Liverpool sits on the eastern side of which river's estuary?

A) Tyne

B) Mersey

C) Humber

D) Severn

Answer · why

B) Mersey

The estuary separates the city from the Wirral Peninsula, and the Kingsway and Queensway tunnels run beneath it to Birkenhead and Wallasey.

Q 03/05

The nickname 'Scouser' for a Liverpool native comes from what?

A) A dockside tavern

B) A type of wool jacket

C) A stew eaten by sailors

D) A local fishing boat

Answer · why

C) A stew eaten by sailors

Scouse is short for lobscouse, a Scandinavian-rooted stew that sailors brought through the port; the word became the dominant demonym only in the mid-...

Q 04/05

Who designed the two copper Liver Birds that top the Royal Liver Building?

A) Jacob Epstein

B) Alfred Gilbert

C) George Frampton

D) Carl Bernard Bartels

Answer · why

D) Carl Bernard Bartels

Each bird is 18 feet tall and stands on one of the building's clock towers; they were built by the Bromsgrove Guild of Applied Arts.

Q 05/05

The Liver Bird on Liverpool's coat of arms is normally depicted as which real bird?

A) A cormorant

B) A heron

C) A gannet

D) A kittiwake

Answer · why

A) A cormorant

It carries a sprig of laver seaweed in its beak, a visual pun on the city's name; by the 17th century nobody remembered what the original bird was mea...