Here are the questions in this year’s Manchester Branch quiz. Answers in a few days’ time, after comrades have tried to tackle them.
1. From which song are the following lyrics taken?
‘I heard a siren from the docks / Saw a train set the night on fire / I smelled the spring on the smoky wind’
2. Which was the first language in which a translation of Marx’s Capital was published?
3. In Liverpool, what was known as the dockers’ umbrella?
4. Who described British people to his mistress as follows: ‘people who carry an umbrella can never … understand the moral significance of war, because they cannot love that supreme, inexorable violence which is the chief motor force of world history’?
5. In the American South, what was the underground railroad?
6. The COP28 climate summit was held recently in UAE. What does ‘COP’ stand for?
7. What happened in Spain on 26 April 1937?
8. Why is an early australopithecine skeleton known as Lucy?
9. Which city has a monument to the cholera epidemic of 1832, in which 402 people died?
10, What does Bruce Springsteen’s song ‘The Ghost of Tom Joad’ refer to?
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1. Pass
2. French (?)
3. Pass
4. Mussolini (?)
5. A network of safe havens escaped slaves could visit while making their way to the north.
6. Conference of the Parties.
7. The bombing of the city of Guernica (?)
8. Pass
9. Pass
10. Pass
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