Sunday 8th January 2023
Difficulty: Medium
Dundee (Quiz #51)
Dundee. Photo: Alastair Cassels (Creative Commons)
Dundee is Scotland's fourth-largest city and the 51st-most-populous built-up area in the United Kingdom.
1. Dundee has two football clubs: Dundee and Dundee United. It has been said that “The two Dundee grounds are so close that, if one of them farted, the other wouldn’t be afraid to squeeze one out in solidarity.” How far apart are they, in yards?
2. The first rail bridge over the Tay at Dundee was blown down in the Tay Bridge Disaster, of which William McGonnagall wrote:
Beautiful Railway Bridge of the Silv’ry Tay!
Alas! I am very sorry to say
That ninety lives have been taken away
…in which decade?
3. The most destructive fire in Dundee’s history came in 1906, reportedly sending rivers of burning WHAT through the streets?
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