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Why do birds suddenly appear, every time you are near?

No one knows, so this is one question Ed Glinert won’t be asking in the Grand Prize-Winning Portico Library summer quiz.

There will however be questions on an entire A-Z of exciting topics – architecture, art, food, football, literature, Manchester, music, politics, science...

Teams in pairs or threes.

Ed Glinert runs Manchester Walks. Glinert is an experienced journalist, founder of City Life, former staff writer for Private Eye and launch production editor of the rock ‘n’ roll magazine Mojo.

Ed’s books have been published by Penguin (The London Compendium, The Manchester Compendium), HarperCollins (London’s Dead) and Bloomsbury. He has also edited the Sherlock Holmes stories, the complete Gilbert & Sullivan libretti and George and Weedon Grossmith’s The Diary of A Nobody for Penguin Classics. His life ambition is to complete The Manchester Encyclopaedia so that the city has an accurate, interesting and beautifully-written history.