Culture Quiz 2025
Enter our end-of-year Culture Quiz and be in with a chance of winning one of three goodie bags filled with tickets to see and do great things in 2026
Hello and welcome to the Cultured. North East Culture Quiz 2025 - an annual chance to test your knowledge of happenings in and around North East culture over the past 12 months… and be in with a change of winning one of a trio of goodie bags designed to make sure you start 2026 with lots to look forward to.
We invited venues and attractions all over the region to donate a prize or prizes - and they’ve done themselves proud. Christmas spirit was flowing and we’d like to thank them all for making sure the 2025 Culture Quiz prize bundles are as brimming as ever.
All the prizes are listed below and will be shared out randomly (but equally) among the three goodie bags.
If you’d like to enter, you can find the Culture Quiz here.
Answer as many of the 15 questions as you can and fill in your details to be in with a chance of winning one of the prize bundles.
Three winning entries will be selected at random, and the winners will be contacted and awarded the prizes as offered.
Deadline for entries is 5pm on January 4, 2026. Winners will be notified within 48 hours of the deadline.
Prizes are as stated and non-transferable. No cash alternatives will be offered. You must be over 18 years of age to enter.
Good luck!
But before that, why not take a look at what you could win…
There’s 3 x pairs of tickets to Les Ballet Trockadero, who are returning to Newcastle Theatre Royal on May 26 with their ‘sensational repertoire’ of hilarious and impressive pieces that pride themselves on challenging the norm.
We have 3 x Family tickets (2 x adults and 2 x children) to Beamish Museum in County Durham - the open-air living history attraction which continues to bring the North East’s past vividly to life… and is the region’s highest location for visits in the national league table. The tickets must be used in 2026.
Each goodie bag will also have 1 x pair of tickets to the world premiere of Astell & Woolf by acclaimed Shelagh Stephenson, which imagines a meeting between 17th century protofeminist, Mary Astell and novelist Virginia Woolf. The tickets are for May 14, 15 and 16, respectively at Live Theatre, Newcastle.
1 x pair of tickets for a each of the following screenings of much anticipated movies H is for Hawk; 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple; and Hamnet at Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle.
1 x pair of tickets for Scottish post-rockers Mogwai on February 26 at The Glasshouse; 1 x pair of tickets for Royal Northern Sinfonia’s performance of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony on March 26 at Middlesbrough Town Hall; and 1 x pair of tickets for Max Cooper Live - a new audio visual experience - on May 21, also at The Glasshouse.
3 x pairs of one-day passes to Ushaw, the historic house, chapels, and gardens in Ushaw Moor, County Durham which showcases centuries of arts and heritage and offers a year-round programme of events.
1 x pair of tickets to see Rory Gallagher champions, Band of Friends on January 9; 1 x pair of tickets to see transatlantic blues-rockers Paulie Boy Blues (and the Yorkshire Puddings) on January 15; 1 x pair of tickets to see American hip hop trio Lords of the Underground + Jeru the Damaja on January 23; 1 x pair of tickets to see singer songwriter, Sam Scherdel on January 29; and 1 x pair of tickets to see US rapper Talib Kweli on February 25 - all at The Cluny, Newcastle.
3 x pairs of matinee tickets for the ‘Geordie Command Performance’ - fundraiser Sunday for Sammy 2025 on February 15 at Newcastle Utilita Arena.
4 x tickets to Cinderella Ice Cream Seller - a new musical retelling of a fairytale classic - on February 21; and 1 x pair of tickets to Henry Waggons - exploring the mythology and sound of Johnny Cash’s album, The American Recordings on May 16, at Gosforth Civic Theatre
1 x pair of tickets to see classic music videos, immersive solar system visuals and archive footage combine for the Queen Heaven show in the planetarium on February 5; 1 x Family Science Centre ticket to be used in 2026; 1 x pair of tickets to Chasing the Aurora with with professional photographer, astronomer and stargazer Wil Cheung in the planetarium on February 4, all at the Life Science Centre, Newcastle
1 x pair of tickets to the fascinating ticketed exhibition Miniature Worlds: : Little Landscapes from Thomas Bewick to Beatrix Potter at The Laing Art Gallery in Newcastle (open until February 28)
1 x pair of tickets to see the return of acclaimed play Fixing on February 27; 1 x pair of tickets to see compelling true-life musical Our Little Hour on March 5; 1 x pair of tickets to see the comedy drama Hold The Line on April 29 - all at Alphabetti Theatre in Newcastle
Thanks to New Writing North, we have single hardback copies of three books by Northern writers: The Ladie Upstairs by Jessie Elland; The Silent Killer by Trevor Wood; and The Burnings by Naomi Kelsey.
