Well, I did worse than I expected, only managing 39/60. Maybe not too bad for a millenial? A few notes: - I probably should have gotten 9/10 in round 2, but I chickened out and paid the price, only getting 7. - Provost Ross was my guess for oldest building FWIW - I just so happened to be near the old top note a few weeks back, so I knew that one for sure. Keep up the good work. I have to enjoy aberdeen from wales for the next few years. btw, if you get time, apparently Aberdeen is the site of the first Farmfoods in the UK, but do you happen to know it's original premises?
Also, re: tie breaker. My friend's student film for their honours project at aberdeen uni was about the aberdeen strangler...and I'm to blame for that, so I'll never forget that answer
@shift_reset that's a great score! Now you've got me interested in Farmfoods - I didn't know that! According to this article Farmfoods started in Aberdeen in the 1970s and didn't expand to other towns until the 1990s. www.theguardian.com/business/2014/feb/17/farmfoods-scotland-fastest-growing-grocer That means I should be able to figure it out using phone books from the 1970s-1980s. Ancestry has the phone books online and they do mention Farmfoods but I'm not signing up to them as there's a charge. Aberdeen City Library on Rosemount Viaduct or Aberdeenshire library HQ in Oldmeldrum will have the old phone books. Aberdeen Live had an article about it but looks like they didn't look very deeply into it: www.aberdeenlive.news/news/aberdeen-news/farmfoods-aberdeen-origin-iconic-scottish-8112730 The British Newspaper Archive might have a lead if they advertised in the P&J - I'll look there next!
@shift_reset - 783 Great Northern Road according to this advert from 1970: www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000445/19700529/536/0006 But it's unclear as to whether that was their first Farmfoods Freezer store or just their depot as a meat supplier, which Farmfoods was until the 70s. 783 GNR was their base of operations as a meat supplier from 1954 when they first opened www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000540/19540710/053/0003 I think that this entry from 1973 is the first mention of the first Farmfoods store as we would know it - unfortunately it just says "Lang Stracht", no number. There is a picture - it doesn't give many clues but it looks like it could be the one that's still there in the Lang Stracht shopping centre behind the hotel. Subsequent adverts also give the same address with no street number. But it also mentions that they were running the frozen foods business out of their 783 GNR address previously so that could also arguably be considered the first. www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000445/19730320/225/0010 Next address I found was 162 GNR - looks like they were looking for a "Manageress" for their new store in 1974 www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000445/19740806/435/0011 Finally, this advert from 1975 lists the 3 Farmfoods branches of the time. "Lang Stracht Shop Centre" 160 Great Northern Road and 1 North Street, Inverurie
Actually, if I had just read this advert in full I would have realised it says "Frozen Food Supply Centre, Lang Stracht, Aberdeen (Just behind the hotel). So it must be the one behind Best Western on Lang Stracht www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000445/19730320/225/0010
Excellent fun. Chuffed I got a reasonable amount right - 7 5 8 6.5 8 8 = 42.5, plus decider, but also kicking myself at some of the ones I got wrong / didn't know. Tolbooth for oldest building, Shoreies instead of harbour board (which I knew!) etc. Answering under pressure and time makes it tougher! I'm claiming 0.5 points for round 4 q 2, as I said 'old footballer' which isn't incorrect.... (I'm also not a fan of the football, so I think it is remarkable I even got that. :) ) Feel free to deduct that half point if you really wish. :D As said, good fun. Thanks.
Ha ha - those questions are as close to a Sports round as you'll ever get from me so I'd be happy giving you half a point for that - football fans might disagree :) Glad you had fun - great score!
@@duthies My father was a friend of the late James Fenton Wyness Aberdeen architect and famous local historian, it looks like some of that stuff I heard as a child must have stuck in my memory 😱
Hi @madmark1957 - I think the less well you did on the quiz the more you might have learned from the video so hopefully it was at least educational if not fun :)
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Well, I did worse than I expected, only managing 39/60. Maybe not too bad for a millenial?
A few notes:
- I probably should have gotten 9/10 in round 2, but I chickened out and paid the price, only getting 7.
- Provost Ross was my guess for oldest building FWIW
- I just so happened to be near the old top note a few weeks back, so I knew that one for sure.
Keep up the good work. I have to enjoy aberdeen from wales for the next few years.
btw, if you get time, apparently Aberdeen is the site of the first Farmfoods in the UK, but do you happen to know it's original premises?
Also, re: tie breaker. My friend's student film for their honours project at aberdeen uni was about the aberdeen strangler...and I'm to blame for that, so I'll never forget that answer
@shift_reset that's a great score!
Now you've got me interested in Farmfoods - I didn't know that!
According to this article Farmfoods started in Aberdeen in the 1970s and didn't expand to other towns until the 1990s.
www.theguardian.com/business/2014/feb/17/farmfoods-scotland-fastest-growing-grocer
That means I should be able to figure it out using phone books from the 1970s-1980s.
Ancestry has the phone books online and they do mention Farmfoods but I'm not signing up to them as there's a charge.
Aberdeen City Library on Rosemount Viaduct or Aberdeenshire library HQ in Oldmeldrum will have the old phone books.
Aberdeen Live had an article about it but looks like they didn't look very deeply into it:
www.aberdeenlive.news/news/aberdeen-news/farmfoods-aberdeen-origin-iconic-scottish-8112730
The British Newspaper Archive might have a lead if they advertised in the P&J - I'll look there next!
@shift_reset - 783 Great Northern Road according to this advert from 1970: www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000445/19700529/536/0006
But it's unclear as to whether that was their first Farmfoods Freezer store or just their depot as a meat supplier, which Farmfoods was until the 70s.
783 GNR was their base of operations as a meat supplier from 1954 when they first opened
www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000540/19540710/053/0003
I think that this entry from 1973 is the first mention of the first Farmfoods store as we would know it - unfortunately it just says "Lang Stracht", no number. There is a picture - it doesn't give many clues but it looks like it could be the one that's still there in the Lang Stracht shopping centre behind the hotel. Subsequent adverts also give the same address with no street number. But it also mentions that they were running the frozen foods business out of their 783 GNR address previously so that could also arguably be considered the first.
www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000445/19730320/225/0010
Next address I found was 162 GNR - looks like they were looking for a "Manageress" for their new store in 1974
www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000445/19740806/435/0011
Finally, this advert from 1975 lists the 3 Farmfoods branches of the time.
"Lang Stracht Shop Centre"
160 Great Northern Road
and
1 North Street, Inverurie
Actually, if I had just read this advert in full I would have realised it says
"Frozen Food Supply Centre, Lang Stracht, Aberdeen (Just behind the hotel).
So it must be the one behind Best Western on Lang Stracht
www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/viewer/bl/0000445/19730320/225/0010
Superb 👌
Thanks @Carolemitchell3491
Excellent fun.
Chuffed I got a reasonable amount right - 7 5 8 6.5 8 8 = 42.5, plus decider, but also kicking myself at some of the ones I got wrong / didn't know. Tolbooth for oldest building, Shoreies instead of harbour board (which I knew!) etc.
Answering under pressure and time makes it tougher!
I'm claiming 0.5 points for round 4 q 2, as I said 'old footballer' which isn't incorrect.... (I'm also not a fan of the football, so I think it is remarkable I even got that. :) ) Feel free to deduct that half point if you really wish. :D
As said, good fun. Thanks.
Ha ha - those questions are as close to a Sports round as you'll ever get from me so I'd be happy giving you half a point for that - football fans might disagree :)
Glad you had fun - great score!
Another UA-camr fae the Deen! ... We should start a club
Are you the voice of the 727 airport bus announcements, not just the accent but the voice is remarkably similar.
I actually know them personally and I can confirm they are not the voiceover on the 727😂
@beeftec5862 Gosh I wish I could speak like professional voiceover actors! These videos would take half the time. No, not me :)
@@HAZBINLOVER87 correct :) Hope you enjoyed the video!
@duthies, yes, I did I quizzed the whole family
I always thought Robert was holding up a council tax bill.
Nae big enough to be a council tax bill! lol
Awesome I got the majority right, guess that I am showing my age lol, and will share with my Facebook group.
Well done! Cheers!
Sources
R1
Q1:
www.nrscotland.gov.uk/files//geography/products/2012-setts-locals-back-info.pdf
Q2:
aboutaberdeen.com/Towns-Cities-Called-Aberdeen-In-World
Q3:
aboutaberdeen.com/Northern-Lights-Of-Old-Aberdeen
Q4:
www.stravaiging.com/culture/placenames/pictish/
Q5:
aboutaberdeen.com/Robert-the-Bruce-Statue
Q6:
www.geograph.org.uk/photo/116641
Q7:
Q8:
answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/where-is-the-castle/203c9430-dec0-471b-befc-5c05495346ed
Q9:
www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2018-01/2011%20Census%20Neighbourhood%20Statistics%20Aberdeen%20City.pdf
Q10:
committees.aberdeencity.gov.uk/documents/s67600/UTG%20-%20Appendix%20C.pdf
www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/aberdeen-aberdeenshire/1841665/concerns-as-utg-regeneration-cost-may-be-as-much-as-9-million-more-than-estimated/
www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/news/union-terrace-gardens-re-opens-after-multi-million-pound-refurbishment
www.johannabasford.com/peacock-visual-arts-union-terrace-gardens/
www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/aberdeen-aberdeenshire/6117955/aberdeen-art-gallery-union-terrace-gardens-final-costs/
R2
Q1:
www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usbiography/g/robertgordon.html
Q2:
studyinaberdeen.wordpress.com/category/history-and-tradition/page/2/
Q3:
www.mastersavenue.com/articles-guides/good-to-know/10-oldest-universities-in-the-uk
Q4:
Morgan, D(2004) Lost Aberdeen. Edinburgh:Birlinn - p.155
Q5:
web.archive.org/web/20090126032540/www.oldaberdeen.org.uk/heritage-and-conservation/
www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/sites/default/files/2020-09/Torry%20Urban%20Trail.pdf
Q6:
www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/aberdeen-aberdeenshire/718950/aberdeen-professors-book-exposing-hitler-lies-set-tv-show/
Q7:
online.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/smrpub/master/detail.aspx?tab=main&refno=NJ90NW0245
Q8:
web.archive.org/web/20130602113810/www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/web/files/LocalHistory/burgess_brochure.pdf
Q9:
Gammie, A(1909)The Churches of Aberdeen Historical and Descriptive. Aberdeen:Aberdeen Daily Journal - p. 283
Q10:
www.lloydsbankinggroup.com/who-we-are/our-heritage/bank-of-scotland-heritage.html
www.shoreporters.com/history
www.portofaberdeen.co.uk/about-us/history/
R4
Q1:
twitter.com/StephenFlynnSNP/status/1521751996205780997/photo/2
www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/aberdeen-aberdeenshire/4248941/barney-crockett-painting/
Q2:
www.scotsman.com/sport/football/international/law-hailed-scotlands-greatest-of-all-time-as-statue-unveiled-in-aberdeen-3462996
Q3:
www.aberdeenlive.news/sport/football/football-news/one-year-ago-today-sir-8188763
Q4:
artuk.org/discover/artworks/archibald-simpson-17901847-104884
Q5:
www.rockhall.com/inductees/eurythmics
www.aberdeenlive.news/news/aberdeen-news/how-annie-lennox-rose-aberdeen-7486865
Q6:
www.beatlesbible.com/1963/01/06/live-beach-ballroom-aberdeen-scotland
Q7:
www.scotsman.com/arts-and-culture/in-pictures-game-of-thrones-stars-tie-the-knot-in-aberdeenshire-280486
Q8:
www.japanistry.com/glover-garden-the-former-residence-of-thomas-glover/
www.visitabdn.com/assets/Uploads/The-Scottish-Samurai-Trail.pdf
Q9:
news.sky.com/story/michael-gove-hits-the-dancefloor-in-aberdeen-telling-nightclub-boss-i-love-to-dance-12394956
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/michael-gove-stuns-partygoers-hitting-29270149
Q10:
aboutaberdeen.com/James-Doohan-Scotty-Chief-Engineer-Star-Trek-Enterprise-Born-In-Aberdeen-Scotland
R5
Q1:
ua-cam.com/video/2n6ctT6Zj8M/v-deo.html
Q2:
ua-cam.com/video/k2hV8xuzqUw/v-deo.html
Q3:
bonaccordbaths.org.uk
Q4:
www.stmachar.com/buildinghistory.htm
www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/AAGM/plan-your-visit/provost-skenes-house
www.scottish-places.info/features/featurefirst1498.html
Q5:
ailishsinclair.com/2023/01/the-mysterious-lang-stane-of-aberdeen/
Q6:
online.aberdeenshire.gov.uk/smrpub/master/detail.aspx?refno=NJ90NW0021
www.aberdeencity.gov.uk/news/community-trust-step-closer-taking-over-wallace-tower
ua-cam.com/video/8sJPCNXfTpo/v-deo.html
Q7:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Co-operative_Society
Q8:
www.silvercityvault.org.uk/index.php?a=ZoomItem&i=598&WINID=1686223176564
www.aberdeenlive.news/news/history/remembering-stunning-palace-hotel-became-6848541
Q9:
www.silvercityvault.org.uk/index.php?a=ZoomItem&i=35&WINID=1686223069388
facebook.com/DivinityLibrary/posts/pfbid0Q56dNhm84N5ar7JGGiAg8tEQNGdp2J68zFUvzzTBkQT9PeTSPDC3Dinmt21NZA2hl
Gammie, A(1909)The Churches of Aberdeen Historical and Descriptive. Aberdeen:Aberdeen Daily Journal - p. P231
Q10:
www.imcdb.org/vehicle_1776511-Wartburg.html
R6:
Q6:
www.silvercityvault.org.uk/index.php?a=ViewItem&key=SHsiRCI6IlN1YmplY3QgbWF0Y2hlcyBcIkFiZXJkZWVuIENpdHkgQ2VudHJlXCIgb3IgaXRzIGNoaWxkcmVuIiwiTiI6MTQ5NCwiUCI6eyJzdWJqZWN0X2lkIjoiNTUiLCJqb2luX29wIjoyfX0&pg=37&WINID=1690066105505#dLF9q3Ax1dkAAAGJf8oz4w/54
Q7:
www.silvercityvault.org.uk/index.php?a=ViewItem&key=SHsiRCI6IlN1YmplY3QgbWF0Y2hlcyBcIkFiZXJkZWVuIENpdHkgQ2VudHJlXCIgb3IgaXRzIGNoaWxkcmVuIiwiTiI6MTQ5NCwiUCI6eyJzdWJqZWN0X2lkIjoiNTUiLCJqb2luX29wIjoyfX0&pg=186&WINID=1690066105505#dLF9q3Ax1dkAAAGJf8oz4w/433
Bonus Question:
ua-cam.com/video/r5wy65wzH2A/v-deo.html
Robert Gordon went to work in Poland (the Free City of Gdansk was autonomous) and earned a lot of money there xD ... xD
First class 57 out of 60 . Don’t leave it so long for next upload .
Thanks @jackadoddle - that's a fantastic score!
@@duthies My father was a friend of the late James Fenton Wyness Aberdeen architect and famous local historian, it looks like some of that stuff I heard as a child must have stuck in my memory 😱
38/60
Well done!
Haven't lived anywhere near Aberdeen since 76 so I did NOT do well.
Hi @madmark1957 - I think the less well you did on the quiz the more you might have learned from the video so hopefully it was at least educational if not fun :)
Oh I enjoyed it well enough.@@duthies