potteries quiz
The Potteries Museum & Art Gallery Fiendishly
difficult quiz 2009
• Win a Webberley’s voucher worth £20 for the entry with the most correct
answers. Maybe no-one will get them all.
• Entries may be on question sheets downloaded from our website or
collected from the Museum’s reception desk.
• Although the questions are fiendishly difficult the answers can all be found
in the Museum’s displays.
• All entries must be paper copies delivered to the Museum’s reception desk
by Sunday 8 February.
• In the event of a tie the prize will go to the first entry picked at random.
• Entries will not be accepted from employees of the museums service.
• The first floor of the Museum may be closed for a few days during the week
beginning 12 January.
Creatures
1. What was the name of Hewitt’s whippet?
2. Which marsupial might you meet on the Roaches?
3. Who collected cow creamers?
4. How much did Warburton’s chub weigh?
5. Name the equid puppet who was a television star.
6. What was Paul Comolera’s 1873 masterpiece?
People
1. His parents kept him from children who were rough – who painted him?
2. Who owned the Staffordshire pan?
3. Who was Currie’s Witch?
4. By what name is William Brian better known?
5. Who is killing crocodiles?
6. Who’s next: Homer, Venus, Mercury, Horace, Sir Isaac Newton…?
Places
1. What type of vehicle carries the coat of arms of Blackpool?
2. Who owned the Shoulder of Mutton alehouse in Burslem in 1821?
3. Which popular cigarettes do they smoke on Vine Street?
4. Which American county gave Stanley Matthews an official commendation?
5. Which film is on at the Gaumont in Hanley for seven days?
6. In which castle was a dead bishop found in 1643?
Numbers
1. How many Spitfires were built between 1936 and 1947?
2. How many false noses at Epsom Downs?
3. How much for enlargements?
4. How many hands has Glenys Barton?
5. In which year did John Wright portray Queen Anne?
6. How many customers waiting for a short back and sides?
Things
1. What essential household product bore the name “Capensis”?
2. Which pottery made a “Bluebird” coffee pot?
3. Where was the fryer made?
4. Why can’t you eat Denise O’Sullivan’s cake?
5. What musical instrument is being carried along a tiled beach?
6. Which explosive item of clothing proclaims “I’m dynamite”?
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