Obscure UK Towns & Cities you Might Have Heard Of - Statistics

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Hint Answer % Correct
Town whose nearby 1066 battleground saw William the Conqueror defeat Harold Godwinson Hastings
100%
Welsh city whose football team was purchased by Rob McElhenney and Ryan Reynolds Wrexham
95%
English seaside resort town whose famous tower resembles the Eiffel Tower in Paris Blackpool
75%
English border town that has changed from English and Scottish control many times throughout its history Berwick-upon-Tweed
65%
Third largest city in Wales, it's US counterpart is an affluent part of Rhode Island Newport
65%
Cornish town named in a Gilbert and Sullivan opera about pirates Penzance
65%
Seaside town whose fair is the subject of a traditional folk song, most famously performed by Simon & Garfunkel Scarborough
60%
Town in Tyne & Wear that is the ancestral home of the first U.S President Washington
60%
Lancashire town whose football team was the butt of a milk advert joke: "Who are they?" Accrington
50%
Northern Irish city that sounds like a Portuguese city Lisburn
50%
Scottish city, location of the Wallace Monument dedicated one of the heroes of Scottish independence Stirling
50%
Yorkshire town that was the destination of Dracula on his voyage to the UK Whitby
50%
The only UK city to end in the Norse suffix -by (meaning village) Derby
45%
Town in Kent that accidentally lost its city status, namesake of a city in New York Rochester
40%
Capital of England prior to that battle Winchester
40%
City that was the site of the UK's first Motorway (it isn't the M1) Preston
35%
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