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?

The Big Smoke

City of Dreaming Spires

Granite City

The Toon

2. Which river flows through Oxford?

Cam

Mersey

Avon

Thames (or Isis)

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

J.R.R. Tolkien

A.A. Milne

P. D. James

J.K. Rowling

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

British Museum

Ashmolean Museum

Victoria & Albert Museum

Fitzwilliam Museum

5. Which building can be found in Oxford?

Hampton Court

Chatsworth House

Bodleian Library

St. Paul's Cathedral

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

Sebastian Coe

Christopher Chataway

John Landy

Roger Bannister

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

103 miles (166 km)

31 miles (50 km)

154 miles (248 km)

66 miles (107 km)

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

Balliol College

Peterhouse College

Kings College

Emmanuel College

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

Oxford tab

Oxford exclamation

Oxford comma

Oxford heading

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

High-backed armchair

English Dictionary

Medical Encyclopedia

Single-seat, three-wheeled sports car

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