The Eurosla Newcastle Quiz

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Vivian Cook

These questions are about places within a few minutes of the Newcastle Civic Centre. Some are easy and you just need to look out for the answers; others are difficult.

1. What is the Toon Army? The supporters of Newcastle United Football Club

2. What and where is the Sage? A concert theatre complex in Gateshead Quayside
3. Where can Magpies be found in Newcastle? Another name for Newcastle United, who play at St James'

4. Where is this? (if you know what it is, tell us the secret as nobody else knows)?
The Vampire Rabbit beside St Nicholas Cathedral

5. And what is No 4’s relationship to this?

 
The workshop of Thomas Bewick, the famous 18th woodcut artist, was a few yards from the Vampire Rabbit beside the cathedral

6. What has this to do with a cup of tea?

Monument to the nineteenth century politician Earl Grey, after whom the tea is named

7. Which Metro station in Newcastle has bilingual signs and in what language?
Wallsend (the end of Hadrian's wall) has signs in Latin

8. How far is this from the Civic Centre and what is it?
 
This tunnel's two miles, an' it's strange for to tell
 That twenty full waggons will travel on't well;
 With men for to brake them, they run doon se clivvor,
 An' in less than six minutes they're doon to the river.

The Victoria Tunnel which took coal down from Spital Tongues to Ouseburn is a few feet from the Civic centre more or less vertically

9. Which Newcastle street has bilingual street name-signs? In which language? also known as Chinatown; Chinese characters

10. Where do the electric yellow buses go?   No 1 Central Station Newcastle to Gateshead via Baltic/Sage. No 2 Haymarket to Ouseburn via Quayside.