| Hint | Answer | % Correct | |
|---|---|---|---|
| E | City home to the county's only cathedral | Ely | 100%
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| T | Mathematician and WWII codebreaker who studied at Cambridge | Alan Turing | 75%
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| U | Publishing house; the oldest of its kind in the world | Cambridge {University} {Press} | 75%
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| F | University of Cambridge sketch-comedy troupe | Footlights | 75%
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| K | Influential economist from Cambridge | John Maynard Keynes | 75%
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| O | Social reformer and National Trust founder from W | {Octavia} Hill | 75%
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| Q | University of Cambridge college | Queens' College | 75%
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| A | Country house; shares its name with an island | Anglesey Abbey | 50%
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| Z | Pharmaceutical company famous for its Covid vaccine | Astra{Zeneca} | 50%
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| B | Famous covered bridge named after a similar bridge in Venice | {Bridge} {of} {Sighs} | 50%
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| D | Seven-mile-long Anglo-Saxon earthen barrier | Devil's Dyke | 50%
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| R | Kiwi scientist who oversaw the first splitting of an atom in 1932 | Ernest Rutherford | 50%
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| G | Former / alternative name for the River Cam | Granta | 50%
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| H | Nobleman who led fenland resistance to the Norman Conquest | {Hereward} the Wake | 50%
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| I | Artificial form of fertilisation pioneered by Robert Edwards | IVF | 50%
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| J | University of Cambridge college | Jesus College | 50%
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| C | Market town near Huntingdonshire | Cambourne | Chatteris | 25%
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| X | Brat singer born in Cambridge | Charli {XCX} | 25%
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| Y | Modern art gallery in Cambridge | Kettle's {Yard} | 25%
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| L | Town northeast of E said to have been founded by Cnut | Littleport | 25%
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| M | Market town on the River Nene | March | 25%
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| N | Uncompleted new town projected to have 20,000 residents | Northstowe | 25%
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| P | Park in central Cambridge; the birthplace of modern football | Parker's Piece | 25%
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| S | Festival held on Midsummer Common | Strawberry Fair | 25%
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| V | Railway line that once connected Oxford and Cambridge | Varsity Line | 25%
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| W | Inland port town known for its handsome Georgian architecture | Wisbech | 25%
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