Question: Which places were added to the new county of Cheshire?
Answer: Warrington and Widnes

Question: Where were the boroughs of Liverpool, Knowsley, St Helens and Sefton included?
Answer: Merseyside

Question: Which parish was transferred from Knowsley to the district of West Lancashire?
Answer: Simonswood

Question: When did the administrative boundaries for the Duchy of Lancaster change?
Answer: 1970s

Question: What is the Duchy of Lancaster?
Answer: one of two royal duchies in England

Question: What does the Duchy of Lancaster operate as?
Answer: a property company

Question: Who are appointed within the Duchy and County Palatine of Lancater?
Answer: High Sheriffs

Question: Who exercises the right of the Crown in the County Palatine of Lancaster?
Answer: The Duchy of Lancaster

Question: How many state grammar schools are in Lancashire?
Answer: four

Question: How many state schools are in Lancashire?
Answer: 77

Question: How many independant schools are in Lancashire?
Answer: 24

Question: Who has the largest school population?
Answer: South Ribble

Question: Who has the smallest school population?
Answer: Fylde

Question: What years did the Lancashire League competition run from?
Answer: 1895 to 1970

Question: Which county was once the focal point for many professional competitions?
Answer: Lancashire

Question: Which year was the Lancashire County Cup abandoned?
Answer: 1993

Question: What year did Rugby League start?
Answer: 1895

Question: Where was the first open competition for brass bands held?
Answer: Manchester

Question: What year was the first open competition for brass bands held?
Answer: 1853

Question: Where was David Atherton born?
Answer: Blackpool

Question: What did David Atherton co-found?
Answer: the London Sinfonietta

Question: Who began their musical career as organist of Salford Cathedral?
Answer: Leslie Stuart

Question: What are the biggest cities in Lancashire?
Answer: Manchester and Liverpool

Question: By the 1830's, how much of all cotton was processed in Lancashire?
Answer: 85%

Question: Where was a center for tourist for the people of Lancashire's mill towns?
Answer: Blackpool

Question: What week was most popular to visit Lancashire's mill towns?
Answer: wakes week

Question: When did Lancashire emerge as a major commercialand industrial region?
Answer: during the Industrial Revolution

Question: When was Liverpool and Manchester removed from Lancashire boundaries?
Answer: 1974

Question: How many miles of land did Lancashire lose to other countries?
Answer: 709

Question: What is to the north of Lancashire today?
Answer: Cumbria

Question: What is to the east of Lancashire today?
Answer: West Yorkshire

Question: Who exercises sovereignty rights for Lancashire?
Answer: Duke of Lancaster

Question: When was the administrative county of Lancashire created?
Answer: 1889

Question: What is the area served by the Lord-Lieutenant called now?
Answer: ceremonial county

Question: Where is the ancient border between Lancashire and Yorkshire located?
Answer: the western part of Todmorden

Question: Why is Lancashire smaller than its historical extent?
Answer: reform of local government

Question: What area is covered by the Lord-Lieutenant?
Answer: the administrative county and the county boroughs

Question: When did the county become more urbanised?
Answer: 20th century

Question: Which part in particular became urbanised in the 20th century?
Answer: the southern part

Question: When was Warrington added to Lancashire?
Answer: 1900

Question: When was Southport added?
Answer: 1905

Question: When was Blackpool added to the county?
Answer: 1904

Question: What is most of the lowland in the county devoted to?
Answer: dairy farming and cheesemaking

Question: What is the higer ground in the county devoted to?
Answer: sheep

Question: What is in the highest ground?
Answer: uncultivated moorland

Question: Where is the Lancashire Coalfield located?
Answer: modern-day Greater Manchester

Question: where is Beacon Fell County Park located?
Answer: North of the Ribble

Question: What does the Duchy administer within the County Palatine?
Answer: bona vacantia

Question: What serves as the county town of the county palatine?
Answer: Lancaster

Question: When did the title of Duke of Lancaster merge into the Crown?
Answer: many centuries ago

Question: Who is the Duchy administered by?
Answer: the Queen

Question: What does the Lancashire economy rely on?
Answer: the M6 motorway

Question: Which direction does the M6 motorway run?
Answer: north to south

Question: What road connects Preston to Blackpool?
Answer: The M55

Question: Which road crosses the part of the county furthest south?
Answer: M58

Question: Where are the major settlements in the ceremonial county located?
Answer: Fylde coast

Question: Where is the Fylde coast?
Answer: Blackpool Urban Area

Question: Which part of the county is rural and sparsely populated?
Answer: north

Question: How many people live in Lancaster and Morecambe?
Answer: 100,000

Question: What percentage of Lancashire is Asian?
Answer: 6%

Question: Where was pop star Frankie Vaughan from?
Answer: Liverpool

Question: How many bands were active in the Liverpool area in the 1960s?
Answer: 350

Question: What was the first act to break through in the UK, not from Liverpool or managed by Brian Epstein?
Answer: Freddie and the Dreamers

Question: Where were Freddie and the Dreamers based?
Answer: Manchester

Question: Where were Herman's Hermints and the Hollies from?
Answer: Manchester

Question: Who was "The Ballad of Chevy Chase" composed by?
Answer: Richard Sheale

Question: Where was Richard Sheale from?
Answer: Lancashire

Question: What did the county share with it's national traditions?
Answer: balladry

Question: What is Lancashire's long and productive tradition?
Answer: music making

Question: What is the finest border ballad?
Answer: The Ballad of Chevy Chase

Question: When was Lancashire established?
Answer: 1182

Question: When was the area part of Brigantes tribal area?
Answer: Roman times

Question: In what year did the northern parts of the country form the Brythonic kingdom of Rheged?
Answer: 410AD

Question: What is the Brythonic kingdom of Rheged?
Answer: a successor entity to the Brigantes tribe

Question: When was the area incorporated into Northumbria?
Answer: mid-8th century

Question: How many people lived in Lancashire in 1971?
Answer: 5,129,416

Question: What is the most populous geographic county in the UK?
Answer: Lancashire

Question: When was the administrative county abolished?
Answer: 1 April 1974

Question: What incorporated the Furness exclave?
Answer: Cumbria

Question: What did the southern part of Lancashire turn into?
Answer: Merseyside and Greater Manchester

Question: Who was a local pioneer of folk song collection?
Answer: James Orchard Halliwell

Question: Who did the most to popularize folk songs of the county?
Answer: Harry Boardman

Question: Who were the most influential fold artists from the region in the 20th century?
Answer: The Spinners

Question: Who do the many folk clubs today cater to?
Answer: Irish and Scottish folk music

Question: What is one of the regular folk festivals called?
Answer: Fylde Folk Festival

Question: What is the county flower of Lancaster?
Answer: The Red Rose of Lancaster

Question: Where can the red rose of lancaster be found?
Answer: on the county's heraldic badge and flag

Question: What is on the traditional Lancashire flag?
Answer: a red rose on a white field

Question: What is on the official Lancashire flag?
Answer: red rose on a gold field

Question: Whos flag officially is a red rose on a white field?
Answer: Montrose in Scotland

Question: In what year was Hugh Wood born?
Answer: 1932

Question: Where was Sir Peter Maxwell Davies born?
Answer: Salford

Question: When was the Royal Manchester College of Music founded?
Answer: 1893