Question: Near which settlement were Palmerston forts built in the 1860s?
Answer: Devonport

Question: What animal byproduct was imported to Plymouth in the 19th century?
Answer: guano

Question: In what settlement were the dockyards located?
Answer: Devonport

Question: What was the primary base of the Royal navy during World War I?
Answer: Scapa Flow

Question: What sorts of ships were based in Davenport?
Answer: escort vessels

Question: What location provided a base for flying boats?
Answer: Mount Batten

Question: What force used Sunderland flying boats out of Devonport?
Answer: Royal Australian Air Force

Question: What military organization was based in Devonport until 1941?
Answer: Western Approaches Command

Question: How many attacks comprised the Plymouth Blitz?
Answer: 59

Question: How many civilian deaths occurred as a result of the Plymouth Blitz?
Answer: more than 1,000

Question: How many homes were totally destroyed in the Plymouth Blitz?
Answer: over 3,700

Question: Who was the author of the 1943 Plan for Plymouth?
Answer: Sir Patrick Abercrombie

Question: In the period 1951-1957, how many new houses were constructed yearly in Plymouth?
Answer: over 1000

Question: In the postwar period to 1964, how many houses were built in Plymouth?
Answer: over 20,000

Question: When was the Civic Centre built?
Answer: 1962

Question: What English Heritage status does the Civic Centre possess?
Answer: grade II

Question: What aircraft carrier received maintenance at Devonport Dockyard?
Answer: Ark Royal

Question: By what year was the greater part of the army presence in Plymouth gone?
Answer: 1971

Question: What military unit is based in Plymouth?
Answer: 42 Commando of the Royal Marines

Question: In what text was the presence of a settlement in the Plymouth area first recorded?
Answer: Domesday Book

Question: In what year was the Domesday Book compiled?
Answer: 1086

Question: What was the name of the Plymouth-area settlement recorded in the Domesday Book?
Answer: Sudtone

Question: In what year was Plymouth recognized as a town?
Answer: 1254

Question: In what year did Parliament bestow a Charter on Plymouth?
Answer: 1439

Question: Who was the first woman MP to take her seat in the British Parliament?
Answer: Nancy Astor

Question: For what constituency was Nancy Astor elected?
Answer: Plymouth Sutton

Question: On what date did Plymouth become a city?
Answer: 18 October 1928

Question: In what year did Plymouth receive its first Lord Mayor?
Answer: 1935

Question: What parish was incorporated into Plymouth in 1967?
Answer: Plymstock

Question: What constituency did MP Michael Foot represent?
Answer: Plymouth Devonport

Question: What position was Michael Foot noted to occupy in government?
Answer: Secretary of State for Education

Question: What notable piece of legislation did Michael Foot contribute to?
Answer: 1974 Health and Safety at Work Act

Question: What party did Michael Foot become a leader of?
Answer: Labour

Question: In what town was Michael Foot born?
Answer: Plymouth

Question: What was the population of Plymouth in 1971?
Answer: 250,000

Question: What document suggested that county boroughs be eliminated?
Answer: 1971 Local Government White Paper

Question: What county did Plymouth unsuccessfully attempt to see created?
Answer: Tamarside

Question: On what date did Plymouth's county status end?
Answer: 1 April 1974

Question: What body proposed that Plymouth become a unitary council?
Answer: the Banham Commission

Question: What European Parliamentary constitutency is Plymouth a part of?
Answer: South West England

Question: Who was elected for the Sutton and Devonport constitutency in 2015?
Answer: Gary Streeter

Question: As of 2015, what political party did all of Plymouth's MPs belong to?
Answer: Conservative

Question: What parliamentary constitutency was represented by Johnny Mercer?
Answer: Moor View

Question: How many wards in Plymouth elect two councillors?
Answer: three

Question: How many members are on the Plymouth council?
Answer: 57

Question: What fraction of the Plymouth council is elected each year?
Answer: a third

Question: With what French city is Plymouth twinned?
Answer: Brest

Question: In what year did Plymouth twin with Plymouth in the United States?
Answer: 2001

Question: What monarch bestowed the first Lord Mayor on Plymouth?
Answer: King George V

Question: How many councillors choose the Lord Mayor?
Answer: six

Question: What officeholder selects the Deputy Lord Mayor?
Answer: the Lord Mayor

Question: Who is the current Lord Mayor of Plymouth?
Answer: Dr John Mahony

Question: At what street address is the Lord Mayor's residence located?
Answer: 3 Elliot Terrace

Question: Who gave the Lord Mayor's official residence to Plymouth?
Answer: Lady Astor

Question: On what street is the Civic Centre office building located?
Answer: Armada Way

Question: In what month and year did the Civic Centre municipal office building become a listed building?
Answer: June 2007

Question: What did Plymouth council estimate the cost to refurbish the Civic Centre municipal office building to be?
Answer: £40m

Question: What river is to the west of Plymouth?
Answer: River Tamar

Question: To the east of Plymouth lies which river?
Answer: River Plym

Question: The River Tamar is the boundary between Devon and what other county?
Answer: Cornwall

Question: In what body of water do the rivers Plym and Tamar meet?
Answer: Plymouth Sound

Question: When did Plymstock join the unitary authority of Plymouth?
Answer: 1967

Question: What estuary east of Plymouth is part of the River Plym?
Answer: Cattewater

Question: When did the Plymouth Breakwater open?
Answer: 1814

Question: What island is present in Plymouth Sound?
Answer: Drake's Island

Question: How large is the Unitary Authority of Plymouth in square miles?
Answer: 30.83

Question: In meters, what is the highest point in the Plymouth Unitary Authority?
Answer: 155

Question: What special designation does Plymouth Sound, Shores and Cliffs possess?
Answer: Site of Special Scientific Interest

Question: What stones form the headlands near Plymouth Sound?
Answer: Lower Devonian slates

Question: Along with Devonian slate, Middle Devonian limestone and limestone, what stone provides the geologic base of Plymouth?
Answer: granite

Question: Along with shales, what is most of the city built on?
Answer: Upper Devonian slates

Question: For what reason is Plymouth Sound a Site of Special Scientific Interest?
Answer: its geology

Question: Middle Devonian limestone exists between Plymstock and what location?
Answer: Cremyll

Question: What location north of the city possesses granite?
Answer: Dartmoor

Question: What river was used to ferry granite from Dartmoor to Plymouth?
Answer: Tamar

Question: Along with West Hoe and Radford, where was Middle Devonian limestone quarried in the region?
Answer: Cattedown

Question: What local stone was used in the construction of many Plymouth buildings?
Answer: limestone

Question: On what date was the publication of the Plan for Plymouth?
Answer: 27 April 1944

Question: Who wrote the Plan for Plymouth?
Answer: Sir Patrick Abercrombie

Question: What street was intended to connect Plymouth Hoe to the railroad station?
Answer: Armada Way

Question: Who headed the team that created the 'Vision for Plymouth'?
Answer: David MacKay

Question: How many parks exist in Plymouth?
Answer: 28

Question: What Köppen climate classification does Plymouth possess?
Answer: temperate oceanic

Question: In degrees Fahrenheit, what is Plymouth's annual mean temperature?
Answer: 52

Question: What month in Plymouth has the lowest temperatures?
Answer: February

Question: Up to how many centimeters of snow fell on Plymouth between 17 and 19 December 2010?
Answer: 20

Question: Along with August, what is typically the hottest month in Plymouth?
Answer: July