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1. In the 1980s, Crawley High Street contained a restaurant called Minter's Restaurant. In which sport did resident of Crawley, Alan Minter, become famous?
2. Crawley New Town was formed by merging three existing communities. Which of the following was not one of these three?
3. With which town is Crawley officially twinned?
4. Crawley is divided into residential neighbourhoods. On the street signs a visual clue as to which neighbourhood is given along with the neighbourhoods' name. What form does this clue take?
5. In November 2005 a new leisure centre was opened in the south of Crawley. What was it called?
6. When the Crawley New Town was built, a significant number of new schools were also built. A number of them were named after local or regional worthies. From the following list, who did not have a school named after them?
7. In 1983 Crawley became a parliamentary constituency in its own right. Which constituency was it formerly part of?
8. To the south of Crawley is Tilgate Park, which contains several lakes. One of the lakes was used by Sir Malcolm Campbell for flotation trials before his attempt at the World Water Speed Record. Locals know it as Campbell's Lake but what is it officially called?
9. When Crawley was designed, part of the plan called for each neighbourhood to have a row of shops with a pub. In Broadfield, the pub was named after the first editor of the magazine Punch, who lived in Crawley. The pub has since been renamed The Imperial, but who was the gentleman it was first named after?
10. Crawley is connected to the motorway network. A motorway runs around the east and south east edges of town allowing access to Crawley at junctions 10, 10A and 11. A bit of an unusual motorway in that it starts at junction seven and ends at junction eleven, immediately to the south of Crawley. Which motorway is it?
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