Manchester, So Much To Answer To

Found via the SPGB discussion list, Manchester Branch's mini-quiz for the end of 2007:

1. ‘Rise like Lions after slumber/ In unvanquishable number —/ Shake your chains to earth like dew/ Which in sleep had fallen on you —/ Ye are many —they are few.’ Which poet, which poem?

2. When was Bolton Branch founded?

3. Who wrote 'And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda'?

4. In which city was Jim Finnie for many years the Party contact?

5. What was Shengwulian?

6. Where is Edgeley Lane?

7. What does OBU stand for?

8. When did Jack Fitzgerald die?

9. Who was Samuel Bamford?

I'll post the answers in the comment box when I get the answers myself.