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1. Liverpool was just a small, impoverished trading port until 1715 when engineer Thomas Steers founded the city's fortunes by designing the world's first what?
2. Matthew Dobson was a Yorkshireman who practised as a physician in the Liverpool Infirmary during the late 18th century. He became very interested in one particular disease and tested many sufferers' urine - always coming to the same conclusion. He was the first to discover what?
3. Kitty Wilkinson has a stained glass window dedicated to her memory in Liverpool Cathedral. During the great cholera epidemic in 1832, she opened up her kitchen so the poor could wash their bed linen and clothes. As a result, Liverpool Corporation made her the superintendent of Britain's first what?
4. This next event was a first for the then Mayor of Liverpool and a last for the CSS Shenandoah when she sailed into Liverpool Harbour on November 6, 1865. Why was she so special?
5. All right then, here's the football question! John Brodie was the designer of the first Mersey Tunnel (Queensway), but he also made a unique contribution to world football (after watching a game at Everton football ground in 1889). What did he do?
6. This Liverpool singer became the first British female artist to have a number one single in Britain with her song, "How much is that doggy in the window?" in 1953. Who was she?
7. Beatles time! Where did Paul first meet John (who was playing there with the Quarrymen) on July 6, 1957?
8. This Liverpool inventor designed the first toy based on engineering principles which would delight boys (and some of us girls when we could prise it off them). It was called Meccano, and toy bridges, engines and lots of other mechanical models could be built using pre-formed metal strips. Who was this inventor?
9. Another football question (so the Reds don't feel left out)! What unbeaten feat did Liverpool player Jack Balmer achieve in November 1946?
10. Finally, most people used to arrange to meet first dates and friends under Lewis's Department Store's famously bare statue. Among the first examples of 'modern' urban sculpture and called "Liverpool Resurgent", it's known locally as "Dickie Lewis". Who sculpted it?
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