Glasgow

Question 1

Population (2)

Answer 1

• 1.8 million
• 3rd largest city in UK

Question 2

Was biggest?

Answer 2

Once biggest seaport in the UK

Question 3

Hub of trade for? (4)

Answer 3

North American and the West Indies
- tobacco
- rum
- sugar

Question 4

Industrial Revolution (3)

Answer 4

• Chemicals
• Textiles
• Ship Building

Question 5

Famous for (4)

Answer 5

• Shipbuilding
• Celtic vs Rangers
• Culture - music, theatre, arts
• Nightlife

Question 6

George Square - previous use

Answer 6

• Once filled with stagnant water
• Edges used for slaughter houses

Question 7

George Square - when built and for what? (3)

Answer 7

• 1781 laid out
• most buildings from early 1800s
• centre of merchant activity

Question 8

GS - who named after?

Answer 8

King George III

Question 9

Why G3 statue never put up?

Answer 9

Loss of Americas and the impact on the city’s finances - particularly tobacco.

Question 10

GS Statues (6)

Answer 10

• Walter Scott
• Cenotaph
• Queen Victoria & Albert
• Robert Burns
• James WAtt (inventor and industrialist)
• Sir Robert Peel (creator of British police)

Question 11

GS - contemporary uses (3)

Answer 11

• Ice Skating Rink
• Christmas Market
• Rallies & protests

Question 12

City Chambers built, what influence? (4)

Answer 12

• 1888
• Opened by Queen Victoria
• Renaissance and Italianate influences
• Sculptures represent the British nations and colonies

Question 13

St Mungo’s Cathedral & Necropolis (2)

Answer 13

• 12th Century Gothic Cathedral
• Necropolos - Victorian Cemetery

Question 14

Glasgow-people called (2)

Answer 14

• Glaswegians
• Weegees

Question 15

Shipbuilding (3)

Answer 15

• 19th and 20th Century
• over 30,000 ships built on the River Clyde
• 20% of world’s shipping

Question 16

International Mark of Quality

Answer 16

“Clyde Built”

Question 17

Famous Ships (2)

Answer 17

• RRS Discovery
  (Scott’s Antarctic ship, 1901-1904)
• HMS Brittania
  (Royal Yacht for over 40 years)

Question 18

1890s Glasgow (4)

Answer 18

• One of the richest cities in the world
• Over 1 million people
• Trams and trains
• 1896 Underground

Question 19

Underground - when built and what called? (2)

Answer 19

• 1896
• Clockwork Orange

Question 20

1800s - Glasgow known as

Answer 20

“Second City of the British Empire”

Question 21

Darker side (4)

Answer 21

• Poor moved into tenements
• Overcrowded (whole families living in one room)
• Little sanitation
• Disease and crime

Question 22

Decline caused by (3)

Answer 22

• Great Depression
• Drops in ship-building after WW1 and WW2
• Container-ships

Question 23

1960s

Answer 23

• Riverside docks and wharfs derelict

Question 24

1970s & 1980s (4)

Answer 24

• Steelworks, coal mines and other heavy industries went out of business
• Mass unemployment
• Urban decay
• Lowest life-expectancy in UK and beyond

Question 25

Bad reputation compared to?

Answer 25

- Known as ugly and brutish industrial neighbour of genteel Edinburgh

Question 26

"Glasgow Effect"

Answer 26

Until recently, lowest life-expectancy in UK and beyond

Question 27

Since mid-1980s (5)

Answer 27

- Economic renaissance - IT firms, banks, legal practises and insurance companies have moved here - Lots of call centres (people trust a Scottish accent) - Victorian Buildings cleaned of soot and grime - Waterfront transformed for entertainment, leisure, retail and office blocks

Question 28

1997

Answer 28

Scottish devolution began

Question 29

1999

Answer 29

European City of Architecture & Design

Question 30

2003

Answer 30

European Capital of Sport

Question 31

2014

Answer 31

Commonwealth Games

Question 32

2014

Answer 32

Glasgow Voted 'Yes' for independence by 53%

Question 33

North of George Square (2)

Answer 33

Strathclyde University - Scotlands 3rd largest university

Question 34

Gallery of Modern Art - former life (3)

Answer 34

- Bank of Scotland - Royal Exchange - Library

Question 35

Merchant City

Answer 35

Centre of sugar and tobacco industry

Question 36

Gallery of Modern Art opened

Answer 36

1996

Question 37

Statue outside Gallery of Modern Art (3)

Answer 37

- Duke of Wellington - Represents Glasgow's light-hearted attitude to authority - Painted gold for olympics

Question 38

Buchannan Street (2)

Answer 38

- upscale shopping and rents! - built on land owned by James Buchannan, who was forced to sell the land because his tobacco holdings failed

Question 39

Argyll Square (4)

Answer 39

- Scotland's first purpose built arcade - 1827 - Built in Parisian style - Cut through old tenement buildings

Question 40

Princess Square (2)

Answer 40

- 1840s laid out - 1998 enclosed in a clear glass roof Bill Bryson: "One of the most intelligent pieces of urban renewal".