Shopping Centres? I've Seen A Mall!

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1. One of the UK's largest out-of-town shopping centres is located near Greenhithe in Kent. It is known as Bluewater, but what is unusual about its location? It is built at the bottom of an old chalk quarry It has no road access It floats on the River Thames It charges an entrance fee

2. The MetroCentre in Gateshead, north-east England, has its own chapel and resident chaplain. True or false? True False

3. The Lakeside Shopping Centre, Thurrock, is located in which English county, one of the Home Counties adjacent to London? Leicestershire Cornwall Essex Northumberland

4. The Trafford Centre, whose spectacular interior is seen here, can be found on the outskirts of which UK city? Liverpool Truro Derby Manchester

5. Westfield Stratford City opened in 2011 in east London. It is situated next to a big new sporting complex, built for which international sporting event hosted by London in 2012? Football World Cup Rugby World Cup World Snooker Championships Olympic and Paralympic Games

6. A major redevelopment of the Bullring shopping centre in Birmingham between 2000 and 2003 included the distinctive structure shown in this picture. Which major UK department store, whose flagship store is on London's Oxford Street, occupied this building when it opened? John Lewis Harrods Selfridges Starbucks

7. The Westfield London shopping centre opened in Shepherd's Bush in 2008. To which part of London would you have to travel to visit it? South East West North

8. The Victoria Centre in Nottingham opened in 1972, making it one of the UK's earliest purpose-built shopping centres. The clock tower shown here was originally part of what building, on whose site the Centre was built? Nottingham Town Hall Shipstone's Brewery Nottingham Castle Nottingham Victoria Railway Station

9. The Meadowhall Centre in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, is built on land once occupied by what type of industry, for which Sheffield was once famous? Glassworks Steelworks Brickworks Coalmine

10. The Cribb's Causeway Shopping Centre in Bristol is named in honour of Tom Cribb, a famous nineteenth-century bare-knuckle boxer who was born in the Bristol area. True or false? True False

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