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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?
City of Dreaming Spires
The Toon
The Big Smoke
Granite City
2. Which river flows through Oxford?
Cam
Thames (or Isis)
Mersey
Avon
3. Which famous author was a professor at Oxford University?
J.K. Rowling
J.R.R. Tolkien
A.A. Milne
P. D. James
4. What world-renowned Oxford museum houses a large collection of artefacts?
Fitzwilliam Museum
British Museum
Victoria & Albert Museum
Ashmolean Museum
5. Which building can be found in Oxford?
Chatsworth House
St. Paul's Cathedral
Bodleian Library
Hampton Court
6. In 1954, at Oxford, who first achieved a sub-four-minute mile?
Christopher Chataway
Sebastian Coe
Roger Bannister
John Landy
7. What is the straight line distance between central Oxford and central Cambridge?
66 miles (107 km)
154 miles (248 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
Kings College
Peterhouse College
9. What name is given to a sometimes contentious grammatical construction?
Oxford heading
Oxford exclamation
Oxford comma
Oxford tab
10. What item is named after its links with Oxford?
Single-seat, three-wheeled sports car
Medical Encyclopedia
High-backed armchair
English Dictionary
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