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UK Cities by Wikipedia Descriptions #2 - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 34 times
- The average score is 15 of 24
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| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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| After the fire of 1666, a number of plans were drawn up to remodel the City and its street pattern into a renaissance-style city with planned urban blocks, squares and boulevards | London | 100%
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| The Old Firm rivalry between Celtic and Rangers | Glasgow | 93%
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| The University of ______ was founded in 1209. The buildings of the university include King's College Chapel | Cambridge | 89%
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| Appearing in the town's Roman name, Aquae Sulis (literally, "the waters of Sulis") | Bath | 86%
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| This pilgrimage provided the framework for Geoffrey Chaucer's 14th-century collection of stories, The ______ Tales | Canterbury | 79%
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| Was dubbed "Cottonopolis" and "Warehouse City" during the Victorian era | Manchester | 79%
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| The Mackem accent and dialect is often mistaken for Geordie by people not from the region | Sunderland | 79%
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| 36 miles (58 km) northeast of Plymouth and 65 miles (105 km) southwest of Bristol | Exeter | 75%
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| Nicknames: "Granite City" | Aberdeen | 71%
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| The character of Alan Partridge in the sitcom I'm Alan Partridge (1997–2002) and the comedy film Alan Partridge: Alpha Papa (2013) is a ______ broadcaster played by Steve Coogan. | Norwich | 71%
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| The Gower Peninsula to the west was the first area in the United Kingdom to be designated as an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB) | Swansea | 71%
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| The first and former capital city of England | Winchester | 71%
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| The city has more miles of canal than Venice | Birmingham | 68%
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| from Cumbric: Caer Luel; Scots: Cairel, Cairl, Caeril; Scottish Gaelic: Cathair Luail | Carlisle | 64%
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| MediaCityUK became the headquarters of CBBC and BBC Sport in 2011 | Salford | 64%
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| Proverbially it is the strategically important "Gateway to the Highlands" | Stirling | 57%
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| Founded as Eboracum c. 71 AD | York | 57%
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| The club won just one out of 38 league games and finished with just 11 points, the lowest in the history of the Premier League | Derby | 54%
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| MP Caroline Lucas is the only Green MP in the UK Parliament | Brighton | 50%
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| One of the founder members of the Football League and the first team to be crowned English football champions | Preston | 50%
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| Becoming a major centre for the production and trading of wool in the 17th and 18th centuries | Leeds | 32%
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| Since the inception of the global financial crisis of 2008–2009, residents of the Republic of Ireland have increasingly been cross-border shopping to ______ to buy cheaper goods due to the difference in currency | Newry | 29%
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| It was originally an outlying part of the hamlet of Myton, named Wyke | Hull | 21%
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| John Frost and 3,000 other Chartists marched on the Westgate Hotel at the centre of the town | Newport | 11%
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