Pub quiz about Amsterdam

The glass Palace of Industry burned down in April 1929 and was never rebuilt.

Renzo Piano put NEMO on top of the IJ tunnel and designed it as the tunnel rising out of the water.

In the 17th century a Catholic merchant built a complete church in the attic of his canal house. Today it is a museum in the Red Light District.

Herengracht 502 has been the official residence of Amsterdam's mayor since 1927.

Developer Maup Caransa's much-hated office block stood on Jodenbreestraat for 23 years and was demolished in 1994.

It is a contraction of Stadhuis and Opera, but the name was coined by protesters who wanted to stop the construction.

The first bridge from 1670 was so narrow that pedestrians could barely pass each other. The current bridge is less than 90 years old.

The stadium opened in 1996 and, remarkably, stayed within budget.

A plot here cost 800 guilders in the 17th century, roughly half a million euros today.

Architect Maaskant's lift shaft therefore still sticks out above the roof.

The slot was made in 1934 and actually used in 1939, when war broke out.

The 4,000-kilo vault doors remain: behind them is now the swimming pool.

After the 1992 Bijlmer air disaster, the rules for building under Schiphol's flight path became stricter.

Architect Jacot had to change his design to avoid an accusation of plagiarism.

After the 1881 Ringtheater disaster, the city no longer wanted a wooden circus tent in the centre.

The house is 2.2 metres wide. Singel 7 only has the narrowest facade; behind it, the building widens.

The Rembrandt Tower at the Omval is 150 metres high.

The two villas from 1979 replaced two demolished villas and became the cradle of Booking.com.

The Paradiso plot on Weteringschans had been empty for 140 years.

Importer Pon displayed Volkswagens there; the traffic on that same Overtoom eventually drove the company away.

It is the only Amsterdam bridge named after a fictional character, from the novel by Theo Thijssen.

Twelve years later ING had to leave the building on steel legs again.

The park was laid out on compacted peat and paid for by private citizens.

The gnomes on the House with the Gnomes are 2.5 metres tall.

It was 2 December; the eviction of the old dairy factory became a strange Sinterklaas party.

The 'cloud factory' in Westpoort had been the city's tallest structure since 1994.

A warmoezerij was a market garden. Number 90, from 1485, is also the oldest house in the city.

The square was not allowed to be named after the beer brand. Painter Marie Heineken (1844-1930), a cousin of the founder, offered a way out.

Sports official Karel Lotsy was discredited for his wartime role; just before the Zuidas boomed, the street was renamed after the composer.

Whether the nickname De Pijp (the pipe) comes from a gas pipe or from the shape of the long straight streets, nobody knows for sure.

Two weeks after the Soviet invasion of Hungary the name was changed. It was already the street's third name.

The canal stank so badly that filling it in seemed the only solution.

A convent stood here in 1397. The name is also a saying for something that never ends.

A rak is a straight stretch of water. Today 43,000 people walk along it every day.

The street is now called Gerrit van der Veenstraat, after the resistance fighter.

The street already had that name in 1403 and has nothing to do with the country.

That is why even André Hazes does not have a street yet.

The Muntsluis is also bridge number 1 of the city.

After nine months of wrangling, nothing changed; Cruijff did get the boulevard at the ArenA.

As a tribute to Chinatown, the Chinese versions hang under the regular signs.

An entire row of facades was demolished for the widening.

The statue of the socialist alderman was pulled off its plinth and placed in front of the squat De Blaaskop.

The opening ceremony took place on 28 April 1928. The Olympic flame and women's athletics were both firsts at these Games.

At the inauguration of her daughter Juliana, Wilhelmina cheered so hard that her dentures came loose.

Under the slogan 'No housing, no coronation' the heaviest riots in peacetime broke out.

Thirty-three people died in the Hotel Polen fire. A bookshop now stands on the site.

He took 18 people hostage at Philips, angry about widescreen TV. He was also in the wrong building.

After the death of Swedish cyclist Margit Widlund, the blind-spot mirror became compulsory across Europe in 2003.

After 45 days riot police cleared the University of Amsterdam's administrative building.

The water used to fight the fire froze instantly in the bitter winter of 1963; the ruin was covered in icicles for days.

The bricked-up holes for the scaffold beams can still be seen in the wall of the Palace.

The panic during the two-minute silence caused a stampede; 63 people were injured.

Tanks from Crailoo broke through the squatters' burning barricades during the Battle of Vondelstraat.

Twice as much as on an ordinary Queen's Day.

The raid had been betrayed. Fifteen resistance fighters, including Post, were shot in the dunes.

Since 1903 every line has had its own colour combination, so you could recognise your tram without reading the number.

The western section of the ring road carried the name Einsteinweg for sixty years; old sat-navs sometimes still show it.

About 500 stops on 200 kilometres of track. Leidseplein is the busiest junction with over 1,250 trams a day.

Until 1997 a four-lane road ran straight across Museumplein and under the Rijksmuseum.

The crossing became free in May 1912. The council first feared that youngsters would use the ferry as a hangout.

It was the number of taxi monopolist TCA.

The line ended up costing 3.1 billion euros.

Until 1999 Dam Square was covered in asphalt.

The 1605 house on Sint Antoniesbreestraat stood right on the route.

Leidseplein only followed 46 years later, in 2017.

The ring is 32.3 kilometres long and took 28 years to build.

The railing is too low to stop a pedestrian, but just high enough for a car wheel.

The airport was then completely rebuilt.

The city now has 500 kilometres of cycle path.

After two years it was all over in 2000.

Sixhaven station in Noord exists as a shell, but no passenger has ever got off there.

Together the three stations could shelter 11,000 people in the event of a nuclear attack.

The foundations from around 1280 were long thought to be the castle of the Lords of Aemstel, but that turns out to be a legend.

It is the only tunnel under the canal ring. It connected two buildings of the bank.

The playground used the tunnels of the former traffic junction.

Under Nieuwmarkt, a lock is still in operation.

The escalator is 47 metres long.

The city has 150,000 manhole covers; artist Alex Fischer designed the anniversary version.

The name does come from Ferdinand Bolstraat, where founder Johan de Borst used to work, but the first shop was a bakery on Amstelveenseweg.

They are flat butter biscuits with bits of caramelised sugar, named after the kogge, the medieval ship in the city's coat of arms.

During filming in 1987 the speedboat carrying Huub Stapel hit a quay wall at 70 kilometres an hour.

Koningsplein still recalls that name.

Old Amsterdam cheese used the song in a commercial, and suddenly everyone knew it.

He came up with the name during a hailstorm.

Until 1988, 65 million litres a year were brewed; now it is an estimated 5 litres, in the Heineken Experience.

It is a translation of the English round London's Burning.

She Believes in Me by Kenny Rogers. Geef mij je angst is by Udo Jürgens.

Ralf Arnie wrote it as Tulpen aus Amsterdam; it only became a worldwide hit in 1958.

The resident was fed up with the film crew. The scenes appear in Diamonds Are Forever.

On 22 June 1999 the RoXY went up in flames after fireworks at the farewell party for founder Peter Giele. The club was never rebuilt.

It was the Japanese chain's first hotel in Europe.

Around 2014 the last telephone box disappeared from the city.

The forgotten IKEA was at Stadhouderskade 110.

Queen Wilhelmina gave the motto to the city in 1947, in honour of Amsterdam's conduct during the war.

The square was repaved in 2000 with about 2.5 million cobblestones.

It came about by chance from the old number 02900.

Amsterdam has about 6,500 bridges; number 1 is less than a hundred years old.

Today's tree slots into a secret tube under the cobblestones.

Napoleon introduced the tax in 1812; fewer windows meant paying less.

A Turkish hazel of about 200 years old.

Prinsengracht, Keizersgracht, Herengracht, Singel.

On 27 October 1275 Count Floris V granted toll exemption to the people living by the dam in the Amstel.