<p>Team Name:</p><p>Burlington Society Pub Rally VII 2008</p><p>A few things before we begin. There are 9 pubs and two mystery pubs, so the entire day could easily run to more than ten drinks. We test-ran the rally last week drinking halves in each pub, and were pretty hammered by the end of it. It’s no fun if you end up sick, so don’t say we never warned you to pace yourself! The entire route took us until about 10p.m. to complete, and we’re careful to point out places you can stop for food as you go. </p><p>Other than that, try your best to answer the questions along the way, there’ll be a prize for first and second teams, and it’s half the fun of the event! We’ve stuck a map on as well for if you get lost, and the route’s (roughly!) marked on. All Questions are in Italics!! Most importantly of all, it’s not a race! You win the prize by getting the most answers correct, so take your time and have fun! As a rough guide, you’re safe to spend 30-40 minutes in each pub, which gives you enough time to wander between them and have something to eat along the way too. See you at the end…</p><p>-1 1 -1 Team Name:</p><p>Also, before we get you going, let's explain the idea behind the mystery pubs – these are pubs along the way which we will not name or tell you explicitly to enter! The only way you'll know which they are is from the clues given on the page! Keep an eye open as you follow the rally for any pubs on the route which fit the clues, and when you go in you should see something that will confirm for you that you are in the right place...</p><p>Finally, around the route you might spot little mosaic video-game characters like this:</p><p>These are part of an international art project – there are 46 in total in Manchester although you won’t see all of them today, but you do get a bonus point for each one that you spot! Write their locations next to the photo above!</p><p>OK, ready for the main rally? Off we go! Head out of the Burlington Rooms and across the courtyard, walking around the edge of the John Rylands Library. What year was the John Rylands Library Erected?</p><p>If you take a right turn and go between the Library and the Mansfield cooper building, you should come to a car park on the left. Cut diagonally left through the car park and you’ll reach our first pub, the Ducie Arms. Along the way, see if you can get a photo clue:</p><p>What is this?</p><p>Whilst you’re in the Ducie:</p><p>Whose place of residence lies between East and West?</p><p>Where is time frozen at 1:22p.m.?</p><p>Which locally famous publication, still in print today, was once to be found on cross street?</p><p>What effect will Roast Beef Mutton have on your day?</p><p>When you’re done in the Ducie, take a right turn as you come out of the main door and then turn right again when you reach Lloyd St.</p><p>-2 2 -2 Team Name:</p><p>In Manchester, all manner of religious groups may try and convert you, but here we’re looking for the reverse of salvation – what is it?</p><p>Along Lloyd St., try these clues: How much will it cost you to drink beer along this stretch of the pub rally?</p><p>What is this?</p><p>Beware the EN124’s – what are they?</p><p>Let’s say you wanted to get into the city centre from here – you know a bus is about to leave Whalley Range which travels at an average speed of 20 mph and goes along this road. Alternatively, you have a friend who lives in Chorlton, who has a car with average speed 30mph and could set out now to pick you up. Which mode of transport should you take to arrive most quickly, and when will you arrive in the city centre?</p><p>You’ll pass Burlington street on the left, which used to be a major thoroughfare past our building and make us the ‘place to be’ in Manchester of an evening, until the Library decided it needed to expand and built itself across the road. Which street would make a good shortcut if you're behind schedule?</p><p>A short distance past Burlington Street, you will come to a gate in the railings to your right. Go through it, and you’ll be on Coupland Street, which is within the University’s grounds. Head along Coupland Street, back towards Oxford Road. As you walk along Coupland Street:</p><p>What was the Thesaurus Man’s day job?</p><p>If you were a woman, what was a Physics degree good for in 1906</p><p>As you get towards the top of Coupland Street, note Rutherford’s original laboratory on the left, where he discovered the nucleus of the atom, and also the Manchester Museum (free entry) just after it, which currently houses Lindow man. </p><p>At Oxford Road, turn left, and head towards the city centre. See if you can tell us If you’d had your half hour in Waterloo, what would your job be now?</p><p>You’ll pass the University Shopping Precinct centre – carry straight on and pass the Royal Northern College of Music. How many strings does the harp have?</p><p>Note the Aquatic Centre to your right, which was built for the Commonwealth games, and is now available for use by students as a swimming pool and gym. An interesting piece of trivia: The strange angle of the roof has been modelled on the typical angle a swimmer’s arm makes on a stroke.</p><p>-3 3 -3 Team Name:</p><p>Cross the road at the traffic lights, and turn right along Grosvenor street. It’s enough to make you scream, but what has become of the Grosvenor Picture Palace?</p><p>A short distance along Grosvenor Street, on the right, is our next pub, Trof: The Deaf Institute. If you show your Burlington flyers here, they have promised a free shot with every drink bought! Trof will be serving great snacks if you’re peckish (it’s kind of their trademark) and we have some clues for you whilst you’re here:</p><p>What time is it in London?</p><p>Accommodation for how many birds in total is provided on the ground floor?</p><p>Pick up a flyer for a bonus point</p><p>On leaving Trof, cross over to Barclays, which is your last cash stop for a while! Turn right and head for the crossroads at the other end of Grosvenor Street. On the way you'll pass the sand bar on your left, a brilliant bar which we'd have sent you in, but it seems to be closed on Sundays. After the sand bar and the Sugden sports centre, you'll reach the crossroads, where you should turn left onto Brook street. If you're a bit of a strange chap, what language might you be learning?</p><p>See if you can spot a garage where someone keeps a club. What do they admit they should be doing in there with their car instead?</p><p>On Upper Brook Street, head past the trees towards the flyover motorway known as the Mancunian Way. For a bonus point, what kind of trees are they?</p><p>The path takes you back from the road slightly so that you can get under the Mancunian way and have a good look as you walk through. The Mancunian way may have won the concrete society award in 1968, but for years if you weren't careful it quite literally featured the road to, well, nowhere! Quite what was intended here we don't know, but in recent years they stopped people vanishing into thin air using just a single letter of the alphabet. Which letter did they pick?</p><p>Keep following Brook Street, crossing over the turning circle and staying on the left of the road. You're now near the old UMIST campus and should cross the river Medlock, which occasionally stinks (look over the bridge and you'll see why). How long have people been able to come this way without getting their feet wet, and who do we have to thank for that?</p><p>Another couple of photo clues along the way:</p><p>-4 4 -4 Team Name:</p><p>Now you should be nearing the Ibis hotel, and we want you to turn left down Charles St. at the cross-roads, which has the nightclub, `Paradise Factory' on the corner. Just a short way along, you should be able to see the Lass `O Gowrie, which is our next pub. You're near the site of Manchester's oldest Pissotiere - what is it now and when was it last used?</p><p>Which cheesy 1990's singer does the Lass have something in common with?</p><p>Inside the Lass `O Gowrie, feel free to make use of the video game machines, but don’t get addicted like we did last week – there are still seven pubs to go!:</p><p>What time is it in Manchester?</p><p>How much would it cost to stable your horse for the night?</p><p>See if you can find a Ladies' Leg and a Bouquet of flowers. What are they?</p><p>Which animal in the bar is using one of these?</p><p>Leaving the Lass, turn left and head back to the crossroads, then turn left again following the road you were on before (which was Brook Street but here becomes Princess Street). Pass Joshua Brooks pub on the corner, pass the Old Garratt pub on the other side of the road, and think very hard as students about what type of financial assistance Morreau and Spiegelberg might have given you?</p><p>You will reach a crossroads with O’ Shea's Irish pub on the corner. O Shea's is unique in Manchester in that it pretty much features live Irish music every night - Well worth coming to for a bit of a jig! We won’t be going in today though - diagonally cross the road, get the phone numbers of the twin telephone boxes</p><p>You’ll get a bonus point here for a photo on someone’s mobile of your entire team fitted into a single phone box!</p><p>Now head along Whitworth Street, past Shang Hi on the right and towards Samsi on the left, which is a good restaurant. What are the ‘Origin’al three R’s?</p><p>At the traffic lights, turn left, and our next bar, Tribeca, is immediately on the left. Tribeca serve good food, if a bit on the pricey side, and if you get here after 4pm there is a wine deal – bottles of house wine are £6. Some easy clues for you here - for a bonus point, pick up a postcard.</p><p>What's the phone number of the payphone?</p><p>-5 5 -5 Team Name:</p><p>When you mix me up a bit, I form in trench. How much am I?</p><p>How many different lounges can you spot, and what are their associated colours?</p><p>What item of furniture are you most likely to find downstairs?</p><p>On leaving Tribeca, turn left and see if you can spot old Alan. What's he doing? Why's he important?</p><p>See if you can spot the beacon of hope. What's it for? </p><p>As you cross the canal, we want you to turn left onto Canal Street. This is Manchester’s infamous Gay Village, a liberated and easy night out! No clues here, just take it all in. When you reach the main road (Princess Street again) cross the canal using the pedestrian walkway to the left, which is slightly set back from the pavement. This walkway leads down towards the canal – follow it down and then go under the bridge, following the canal onwards. This is the part of the day where we send you on a scenic tour of Manchester's underside! As you can probably tell, we're quite fond of the canal - they cleaned it up quite nicely for the Commonwealth games in 2002, and it's one of the more romantic features of the city centre. We want you to enjoy the walk now, so the only clue we’ll ask for is What type of organisation are poetic humans proud to be part of?</p><p>Follow the canal path down under Oxford Road when you reach lock 88, and carry on along the canal until it opens out into a basin at lock 89. At this point, you will see Rain Bar, opposite - cross the canal by the footbridge and then cross again at the swing bridge and climb the stairs by the side of it in order to reach the road. Rain bar used to be an umbrella factory! We’d like to send you in, but unfortunately they recently started closing on Sundays. When you reach the main road at the top of the stairs, you’re near the first mystery pub, which, despite all the near-by equipment for climbing up buildings, is actually a bit of an underground location. When you get in there, tell us the name of the mystery pub.</p><p>What numbers could a Buddhist use in the mystery pub to summon a lake of fire?</p><p>Don’t worry too much if you didn’t find the mystery pub, there are plenty more to come! From outside the Rain bar, turn left and head along Great Bridgewater Street towards the traffic lights, noting the Bridgewater Hall (a famous performance music venue and home of the Hallé Orchestra) opposite.</p><p>Which crown court personnel might you find on (or more likely off!) duty here?</p><p>At the traffic lights, note the Britons’ protection on the corner – We are boycotting them because they closed their pub on us on a previous pub rally! Turn left, and immediately cross the road at the crossing before carrying on left along Albion Street, which will take you past Saloni on the left, and a ramp up to the G-Mex car park on the right. What kind of instrument- less musician might the star of 24 be?</p><p>Which musical instrument in this vicinity might play watery music?</p><p>-6 6 -6 Team Name:</p><p>At the traffic lights, with City Road Inn on the opposite corner, turn right – we’re following the canal again, this time at road level. Which canal are you walking along?</p><p>You’ll pass Deansgate Locks on the right, which is a set of bars we rarely bother with – carry on towards the traffic lights. Which three large animals are represented at the gaythorn tunnel?</p><p>At the traffic lights, cross Whitworth Street towards Deansgate train station, then cross Deansgate (the main road) in order to follow the path of the canal. A matchstick-man has left his transportation in this area – what is it?</p><p>Our next pub, the Knott, is on the left under the railway arches, where you’ll probably find the committee drooling over all the fantastic fruit beers and good food. </p><p>What’s a duck’s favourite beer?</p><p>Which beer is good for boobies to drink?</p><p>Which lager is the only one sold at the Murderer's Arms pub?</p><p>Which part of an animal might you find dangerously drinkable if you lingered in here too long?</p><p>Pick up a postcard for a bonus point.</p><p>On leaving the Knott, head back to Deansgate, and then turn left. Follow Deansgate along for a while, paying attention to the following: Which competition was broadcast on BBC Radio Manchester on April 21, 1987?</p><p>On the right, note the Beetham tower, which is Manchester’s tallest structure and sports a 23 rd storey bar with impressive views, and one end of the AMC cinema, which is the more student- friendly of the two major cinemas in the city. If you’re an industrious type, apart from a good free day out, to port you may spot the road for a well known port. If you detour along it, our second mystery pub is a barrel just past a fish. What is the name of the second mystery pub?</p><p>Pick up a flyer in the second mystery pub for a bonus point</p><p>What numbers should you dial in the second mystery pub in order to get a ticket with a Greek airline to Roland Garros? </p><p>Don’t worry too much if you didn’t find the second mystery pub! Back on Deansgate, carry on towards the city centre, and tell us where the best place to buy a king-size bed is?</p><p>In what year did strange forces shoot along deansgate?</p><p>Look out for an elephant, giraffe and pig along Deansgate and tell us where each is</p><p>-7 7 -7 Team Name:</p><p>Which letters correspond to 1.72727272727272727272727272727272?</p><p>You’ll reach traffic lights where Deansgate crosses Peter St – carry on across and keep going up Deansgate. Which buildings exhort you not to give up just yet?</p><p>Which Project is good to find?</p><p>Note the original John Rylands Library on the left, which some of you may need to use during your studies. At the next set of traffic lights, you’ll come upon Bridge street on the left – turn and go down it. Where might you get your television cleaned?</p><p>Turn right into the square when Bridge St. opens out at Saint Mary’s Parsonage. Our next bar, Mojo, is above Starbucks – the entrance is down the alley to the left of Starbucks. Mojo is a relatively new addition to the Manchester scene, and is a great place to have a cocktail or maybe a shot if you’re getting bloated! How many definitions of Mojo are there?</p><p>What line do the police patrol on the tube, and which station might hold you up on your train journey from Manchester to London?</p><p>On leaving Mojo, turn right and squeeze down the alley. Rob wants to point out Mulligans bar on the right at the end of the Alley, but we’ll be turning take a left, followed by a right at the junction with San Carlos on the corner, leading you back to Deansgate. Carry on straight across Deansgate onto the pedestrianised King St, which is Manchester’s upmarket selection of shops. What natural disaster have the authorities set up next to?</p><p>Carrying on a short way along King St, you will come across St. Ann’s passage on the left, which leads under the shops. Go through it, come out at St. Ann’s Church, and then follow the church around to the right. Which fruit has had its colour drained by spending too much time on the phone?</p><p>You will come out onto St. Ann’s Square facing RBS bank. Turn right, then immediately left down the back alleyway before Alliance & Leicester, in which you’ll find the entrance and steps down to our next bar, Corbières.</p><p>Start with a photo clue:</p><p>Then a Hangman-style clue – see if you can complete the missing letters:</p><p>T _ _ _ _ n _ _ t _ n _ _ _ _ _ k _ _ _ _ w _ _ _ w _ _ t _ t ______n _ _ _</p><p>How many lizards are there throughout the pub?</p><p>-8 8 -8 Team Name:</p><p>On leaving Corbières, retrace your steps to RBS bank and St. Ann’s Square, then turn right and head straight through the square itself, towards the mini-roundabout on the other side. On your way through the square: Who seems to find the trees in the centre worth pointing out?</p><p>You might not expect customer service from the counter in this shop. Which is it?</p><p>In 1901, it mattered how heavy I was, but it doesn’t matter today. What am I?</p><p>Carry on straight across the mini-roundabout and head down the side of Marks and Spencer, taking the pedestrianized road towards Harvey Nichols and Louis Vuitton. There’s another photo clue here – </p><p>What is this?</p><p>The pedestrianised road opens out into Exchange square, opposite our next pub, the Old Wellington, which shares a courtyard with Sinclair’s Oyster bar. We’d rather go in Sinclair’s, to be honest, but their winter opening hours on Sundays mean that they close at 7pm… Both these pubs were physically moved and preserved when the IRA bomb destroyed this area of Manchester some years ago!</p><p>Which king was in power when the Old Wellington was originally built?</p><p>Which book was written by the inventor of Phonetic Shorthand?</p><p>Which famous Prime Minister has visited the Old Wellington?</p><p>On leaving the Old Wellington, Note the Manchester Eye (the big wheel) – for the same price as a ride on it, we recommend going for a cocktail in the beetham tower instead, the view is much better and there’s no rush! Follow the square left around Sinclair’s Oyster bar, which will lead you to the Triangle, another upmarket shopping centre. What was the Triangle prior to its current incarnation? </p><p>What was this area before the building which is now the Triangle was built?</p><p>Which two types of electrical appliance are actually not sold in their respective stores nearby?</p><p>As you follow the square around, keeping the Triangle on your left, you will come to a set of traffic lights with the Printworks complex (notable for overpriced trendy bars and Manchester’s other major cinema) on the opposite corner. Note Urbis to your left, which is Manchester’s museum of urban life. Cross diagonally at the lights, to get to the Printworks, then head up Shudehill past Tiger Tiger. Note the legal gun shop a little further down on the left! Who else sells things in this area which could make people feel less scared of danger?</p><p>-9 9 -9 Team Name:</p><p>Carrying on, you should note the Paramount Bookshop on the left, which is one of Manchester’s best second-hand bookstores, and cross the tram tracks. </p><p>Where is this?</p><p>Now you shoud come upon the newly built Shudehill interchange, also on the left, which serves public transport to North Manchester. Opposite Shudehill interchange, you’ll see Thomas Street to the right next to a cafe, head down it. See if you can tell us What Sylvester might do to your skin nearby?</p><p>Along Thomas Street, you’ll pass another Trof and TV21 on the right, which are two more good bars, but carry on past them for today. Also note the Chinese arts centre on the left, which can occupy an interesting afternoon. Where might you have to hang on for dear life?</p><p>Time for another photo clue - where is the following landmark?:</p><p>Finally, cross the road and you’ll come to our last bar, Odd, on the right. Inside Odd it may well be time for a hot chocolate break! Whilst you’re here:</p><p>Where should you keep Abo Alabed?</p><p>What nationality are his six next-door-but-one neighbours?</p><p>Well done if you made it this far, and thanks for coming along! Hopefully you’ve all had a grand day out! Hand in your completed sheets to the committee, and come along for free drinks (if you’ve recovered enough!) at the Burlington rooms on Thursday night to see if you won!</p><p>Notes on getting home:</p><p>Take a right out of odd, then after a couple of blocks and a car park turn right again onto Tib St, which will lead you back to Piccadilly gardens!</p><p>10- 10</p>