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Bristol quiz of the year 2016
This quiz is just for fun, but get even a few correct answers to be the envy of your family and friends so you can sit in the MetroBus roadworks with a new sense of pride.
1. Former Clifton College pupil Lily Owsley won a gold medal at the Rio Olympics as the youngest player in the victorious women’s hockey team. Who were their opponents in the final?
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2. Marvin Rees was elected as Bristol mayor in May. How many of the other 12 mayoral candidates can you name?
3. What anniversary did the Severn Bridge celebrate in September?
4. How many Premiership games have Bristol Rugby won this season?
5. How many consecutive marathons did Ben Smith run?
6. Which new festival was launched at South Bristol Swimming Baths with a synchronised swimming performance?
7. How many miniature figures were placed on College Green for Shrouds of the Somme? What did each figure represent?
8. Hundreds of people queued to secure tickets for Massive Attack’s all-dayer on the Downs. How long did they take to sell out?
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9. Miles Chambers was named as Bristol’s first what this year?
10. Casamia moved from Westbury-on-Trym to Redcliffe and opened not one but two sister restaurants. What are they called?
11. Bristol businessman Arron Banks (below, second from left) bankrolled the Leave.EU campaign and later joined his mate Nigel Farage in greeting Donald Trump next to a gold-plated lift. How did he make his millions?
12. An online budget simulator was launched this year so we could all have a go at balancing the books. What is the budget gap Bristol City Council has to close between April 2017 and March 2022?
13. What US technology company announced it was moving its European operations to Bristol?
14. What does this year’s worst artist’s impression represent?
15. “The old Bristol of radical politics, Rastafarian culture, 60s concrete beside Tudor beams still lurks beneath the fresh paint”. Which area of Bristol was The Guardian describing?
16. Fill in the missing word from a headline this year: ‘Bristol voted the UK’s most __________ city?’
17. Which restaurant opened inside the former NatWest bank in Clifton?
18. What was this protest in April about?
19. What linked Beth Orton, Jarvis Cocker, Jehnny Beth from Savages, Jimi Goodwin from Doves and Blaine Harrison from Mystery Jets?
20. The Everyman cinema opened on Whiteladies Road in May. How much is a standard admission ticket?
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