JUST how well do you know your home town? Are you a brainbox or a big zero when it comes to local knowledge?

Try our fun festive quiz, compiled by Angela Kelly, to test whether you know what has been happening in Bolton over the years.

You can check your score rating on how well you know Bolton.

1. What is the correct name of this area of Little Lever?

a. Nab End

b. Nib End

c. Nob End

2. What is the name of the current Mayor of Bolton?

a. Cllr Frank Wright

b. Cllr Frank White

c. Cllr Frank Wild

3. In 2005, Boltons traffic wardens changed their uniform to which colour?

a. Green

b. Royal blue

c. Grey

4. During his playing career, Bolton Wanderers manager Sam Allardyce played briefly in America for which club?

a. San Jose Earthquakes

b. FC Dallas

c. Tampa Bay Rowdies

5. Which anniversary is Bolton

Market Hall currently celebrating?

a. 100 years b. 150 years c. 200 years

6. Name the last TV series made by steeplejack star Fred Dibnah before his death last year?

7. Which singer teamed up with Bolton comic Peter Kay this year to score a pop hit with the song "Amarillo"?

8. Name the captain of the Wartime Wanderers team which signed up together in 1939 to fight in the Second World War?

9. Which Hollywood actor who starred in "The Sting" and "Jaws" among many films was born in Westhoughton?

10. What nationality is Bolton Wanderers player El Hadji Diouf?

11. Which Bolton School-educated writer was nominated for a Booker Prize with first novel "Brick Road"?

12. The Deane School in Bolton has changed its name to what?

a. Deane Brook

b. Leverhulme High

c. Ladybridge High

13. Which former Bolton School pupil went on to become a famous politician and a member of the "Gang of Four" who started the Social Democratic Party?

14. Which Bolton TV personality is married to "Strictly Come Dancing" presenter Tess Daly?

15. How tall is the Spirit of Sport monument at Middlebrook?

a. 75 ft

b. 85 ft

c. 95 ft

16. Which pop star was killed in a road accident just outside Bolton in 1966?

17. What is the name of the millionaire majority stockholder of Bolton Wanderers?

18. What is the worrying official number of St Peter's Way?

19. What is the name of the workers' village on the Wirral created by philanthropic Bolton businessman Lord Leverhulme?

20. What name is shared by a famous chef and the leader of Bolton Mountain Rescue Team?

Answers on Boxing Day