RAMS, ROLLS & PEAKS
The very first national park of the UK, founded in 1951.
What is the Peak District?
James Dyson revolutionised home cleaning in 1993 with this bag-free household appliance.
What is the bagless vacuum cleaner?
Prehistoric stone circle in Wiltshire visited by over a million tourists a year.
What is Stonehenge?
Long-running BBC sci-fi series featuring a time-travelling alien in a blue police box.
What is Doctor Who?
A Friday-night staple: battered cod served with these deep-fried potatoes.
What are chips?
The main river that runs through the city of Derby and past many historic mills.
What is the Derwent?
Alexander Graham Bell’s 1876 device for transmitting the human voice over wires.
What is the telephone?
River that flows past the Houses of Parliament and under Tower Bridge.
What is the River Thames?
1994 rom-com with Hugh Grant that counts the number of ceremonies in its title.
What is Four Weddings and a Funeral?
Yeast-extract spread that Brits either “love or hate,” launched in 1902.
What is Marmite?
This nickname reminds visitors of the spooky nature of Derby.
What is the ghost capital of the UK?
The World Wide Web was invented in 1989 by this British scientist while working at CERN.
Who is Tim Berners-Lee?
Tallest mountain in the UK, standing 1 345 m above sea level in the Scottish Highlands.
What is Ben Nevis?
Yorkshire-set period drama about the Crawley family and their servants, aired 2010-2015.
What is Downton Abbey?
Yorkshire dessert made from batter and beef drippings, traditionally served with roast beef.
What is Yorkshire pudding?
The football league that the Rams currently find themselves in.
What is the championship?
This Scottish inventor is credited with inventing the telephone in 1876.
Who is Alexander Graham Bell?
73-mile Roman wall stretching from Wallsend to Bowness-on-Solway, begun in AD 122. What is Hadrian’s Wall?
What is Hadrian’s Wall?
Spy film series based on novels by John le Carré; Gary Oldman played Smiley in the 2011 adaptation of this title.
What is Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy?
Gin-based cocktail named for a London artillery barracks; mix it with lemon juice and soda.
What is a Tom Collins?
The luxury-car and aero-engine company with a major plant in Derby, founded by friends Charles and Henry in 1904
What is Rolls Royce?
Discovered accidentally by Alexander Fleming in 1928, this mould-derived antibiotic changed modern medicine.
What is penicillin?
Remote archipelago 600 km west of Scotland whose main islands are Lewis and Harris.
What are the Outer Hebrides?
Sketch-comedy troupe behind The Ministry of Silly Walks and the 1975 film Holy Grail.
Who are Monty Python?
Scottish delicacy of sheep offal, oatmeal and spices, boiled in a stomach casing.
What is haggis?