Q 01/05

Sheffield residents were arrested in the 2010s for trying to stop the council removing what from their streets?

A) Cobbles

B) Trees

C) Tram tracks

D) Gas lamps

Answer · why

B) Trees

Trees were being felled in their thousands under a street-maintenance contract, and a government minister accused the council of 'environmental vandal...

Q 02/05

Sheffield's Harry Brearley hit on stainless steel in 1913 while trying to make longer-lasting what?

A) Gun barrels

B) Ship hulls

C) Surgical tools

D) Railway tracks

Answer · why

A) Gun barrels

Gun barrels were eroding too quickly for an arms maker, so Brearley tried adding chromium to steel at the Brown Firth laboratories and found an alloy ...

Q 03/05

Which 1997 comedy about six jobless Sheffield men forming a striptease act was nominated for the Best Picture Oscar?

A) Brassed Off

B) Billy Elliot

C) The Full Monty

D) Kinky Boots

Answer · why

C) The Full Monty

The Full Monty won an Oscar for its score. Its actors agreed to strip for real in the final scene on condition that the director filmed it in a single...

Q 04/05

Which sweets from Sheffield's Bassett's were reportedly invented in 1899 when a salesman dropped a tray of samples?

A) Jelly Babies

B) Pontefract Cakes

C) Dolly Mixtures

D) Liquorice Allsorts

Answer · why

D) Liquorice Allsorts

Liquorice Allsorts were a happy accident, the story goes: the jumbled samples so impressed a Leicester shopkeeper that he ordered the mix as it lay, a...

Q 05/05

Sheffield band Pulp's frontman was detained after invading the stage during whose performance at the 1996 Brit Awards?

A) Michael Jackson

B) George Michael

C) Mariah Carey

D) Celine Dion

Answer · why

A) Michael Jackson

Michael Jackson was singing 'Earth Song' surrounded by children when the Pulp singer ran on in protest; police questioned him over an alleged assault ...