{"id":584,"date":"2019-05-30T14:03:57","date_gmt":"2019-05-30T14:03:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/DailyQuizzes\/?p=584"},"modified":"2020-05-29T06:37:12","modified_gmt":"2020-05-29T06:37:12","slug":"so-you-think-you-know-south-shields","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/DailyQuizzes\/so-you-think-you-know-south-shields\/travel\/england\/town-city\/","title":{"rendered":"So you think you know South Shields?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"riddle_target\" data-rid-id=\"196728\" data-fg=\"#1486cd\" data-bg=\"#ffffff\" style=\"margin:0 auto;max-width:100%;width:640px;\" data-auto-scroll=\"true\" data-auto-scroll-offset=\"5\">\n<script src=\"https:\/\/www.riddle.com\/files\/js\/embed.js\"><\/script>\n<link href=\"https:\/\/www.riddle.com\/files\/css\/embed.css\" rel=\"stylesheet\">\n<iframe style=\"width:100%;height:300px;border:1px solid #cfcfcf;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.riddle.com\/a\/196728?\" title=\"Pop Quiz - So you think you know South Shields?\"><\/p>\n<section>\n<h2>\n<p>So you think you know South Shields?<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<h2>\n<p>&nbsp;At the 2011 UK Census, what was the population of South Shields?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<h3>\n<p>The name \u2018Shields\u2019 forming part of the town\u2019s name is derived from the Anglo-Saxon word for what?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<h3>\n<p>Which King placed a royal trading embargo on the port of North Shields in 1290?&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<h3>\n<p>The last shipbuilder in South Shields, John Readhead &amp; Sons, closed its gates in which year?<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<h3>\n<p>Robert Olley\u2019s sculpture \u2018Man with Donkey\u2019 is a tribute to which locally born hero of the infamous WWI Gallipoli campaign?&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<p><p>Salt production around South Shields is thought to have started in which century? <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<h3>\n<p>Closing in 1993, what was the name of the last working pit in South Shields?<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<h3>\n<p>On 2nd October 1941, South Shields experienced its worst bombing raid by German aircraft. How many local people were killed during the raid?<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<h3>\n<p>The name of the Roman Fort at South Shields, Arbeia, translates from Latin to English as what?<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<h3>\n<p>In the late 18th century South Shields became particularly synonymous with which type of gangs? <\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<h2>\n<p>Average!<\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<p><p>No worries that&#8217;s pretty average for this quiz!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<h3>\n<p>Well done!<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<p><p>Good score for a difficult quiz!<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<section>\n<h3>\n<p>Excellent!<\/p>\n<\/h3>\n<p><p>Obviously, a great knowledge of history and South Shields! <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<p><\/iframe>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"link-riddle\" style=\"width: 640px; margin: 0px auto; padding-top: 10px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.riddle.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"blank\">Quiz Maker<\/a> &#8211; powered by Riddle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So you think you know South Shields? &nbsp;At the 2011 UK Census, what was the population of South Shields?&nbsp; The name \u2018Shields\u2019 forming part of the town\u2019s name is derived from the Anglo-Saxon word for what?&nbsp; Which King placed a royal trading embargo on the port of North Shields in 1290?&nbsp; The last shipbuilder in&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":65,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[60],"tags":[248],"class_list":["post-584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-town-city","tag-town-quiz"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/DailyQuizzes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/DailyQuizzes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/DailyQuizzes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/DailyQuizzes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/65"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/DailyQuizzes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=584"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/DailyQuizzes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":587,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/DailyQuizzes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/584\/revisions\/587"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/DailyQuizzes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/DailyQuizzes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fiveminutesspare.com\/DailyQuizzes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}