Derby citizenship test

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Q1. Which of these city centre streets has a hidden brook running underneath it?

Q2. There are street art posters all over the city featuring characters with fruits instead of heads - but which artist put them there?

Q3. There's a Second World War bunker hidden underground in the city centre, which later featured in ghost walks with Richard Felix before being blocked off to the public. But where is it?

Q4. Which animal was lit up in neon on Derby's skyline for decades? It is still there, but no one seems to know how to switch it back on

Q5. What is the name of the narrow and cobbled shortcut, in the city centre, between the White Horse pub and Tesco?

Q6. What is the name of the Eagle Market stall where women have been getting their stilettos fixed for decades?

Q7. Where will you find the city centre's only gay pub?

Q8. Which of these pubs was NOT on the original Derby Mile pub crawl?

Q9. What was the name of the much-loved man who often sat for hours a day outside the Market Hall near Uncle Tom's Cabin? Legend has it that the man, who died in 2008, could complete a Times crossword in nine minutes.

Q10. He was a "gentleman tramp", known to many and often seen begging in the city centre between the 1960s and the 1980s. But what was his name?

Q11. Where did most of the world-class rollerskaters that Derby has produced learn their skills?

Q12. There is a sloping brick wall in the city centre upon which generations of kids have run along, pretending to be gravity-defying heroes. But where is it?

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