Multiple Choice City Quiz - Oxford

Can you answer these questions about the city of Oxford?

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1. What is Oxford's nickname?

Granite City

The Toon

The Big Smoke

City of Dreaming Spires

2. Which river flows through Oxford?

Thames (or Isis)

Mersey

Cam

Avon

3. Which famous author was a professor at Oxford University?

J.R.R. Tolkien

J.K. Rowling

P. D. James

A.A. Milne

4. What world-renowned Oxford museum houses a large collection of artefacts?

Fitzwilliam Museum

Ashmolean Museum

British Museum

Victoria & Albert Museum

5. Which building can be found in Oxford?

Chatsworth House

Hampton Court

Bodleian Library

St. Paul's Cathedral

6. In 1954, at Oxford, who first achieved a sub-four-minute mile?

John Landy

Sebastian Coe

Roger Bannister

Christopher Chataway

7. What is the straight line distance between central Oxford and central Cambridge?

154 miles (248 km)

66 miles (107 km)

31 miles (50 km)

103 miles (166 km)

8. What is the name of a college at the university of Oxford?

Balliol College

Emmanuel College

Peterhouse College

Kings College

9. What name is given to a sometimes contentious grammatical construction?

Oxford heading

Oxford comma

Oxford tab

Oxford exclamation

10. What item is named after its links with Oxford?

English Dictionary

High-backed armchair

Medical Encyclopedia

Single-seat, three-wheeled sports car

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