Word Chain - United Kingdom

Doesn't end with a D though, does it?

That's Enery to you, sunshine. Apples and pears.

Jerry is correct, but this always confuses me as the school does not belong to the boys

Quite! Never heard of it referred to as blood pudding, except in Germany.

No idea who Pippa and Kate are.

The Middleton sisters. Kate is now Duchess of Cambridge, married to Prince William.

Manchester was emphatically NOT the birthplace of the industrial revolution. It became one of its key centres but places like Ironbridge, Cyfarthfa and Cromford were industrialised decades before Manchester.

I was going to post something similar. I doubt any one place could be considered the birthplace of the industrial revolution.

Agreed - I live in Manchester and it certainly was the "powerhouse" of the revolution - but it certainly began elsewhere. Ironbridge is usually accepted as its birthplace - because of coal mines and iron smelters lining the gorge and where the world's first ever bridge made from iron was fabricated and erected.

Given that you live in Manchester, The Cottonopolis bar on Newton Street may have been a clue, especially if you already had M & R, even before the clue was changed,

never heard of chunnel. I've been out of Blighty too long.

It was certainly used a lot around the time it was being built and was first in operation, but to be honest, I can't remember the last time I heard or read the word (other than on Jetpunk) - it think it's fallen out of usage somewhat.

I've stayed here all my life and have never once heard it referred to as that!

As far as I remember, it was a tem used in the newspapers around the time the tunnel was built. I don't believe it ever made it into the vernacular.

Kate is now Katharine, so that should be accepted as an answer. In fact, it should be the answer!

100% it should be only Catherine. And it since it doesn't start with a K, it needs to be re~/moved.

Could have been Rabbit.

I don't do as well on these quizzes as most, but I've heard "Chunnel" many times here on the free side of the Atlantic.

Yeah, I think it may be an American thing, since we like to mangle real words as often as possible.

Pity it's not The Channel Wall.

Famous boys boarding school: why Eton not Harrow?

Not to be picky, but I think rugby is named after the school, not the town.

agreed,,, please adjust the question, QM

I put Rabbie for Burns, realised the next answer began with a "T", and changed it to "Rabbit".

13/23? Not too shabby for a colonist I suppose.

Sick of saying this , true Britons are Welsh of Wales , England and Scotland are afterthoughts . STIP CALLING THESE UK QUIZZES OK .WILLIAM WALLACE WAS WELSH TOO BY THE WAY , AS WAS ST PATRICK . just for future ref ,save looking more ignorant than normal

There were more than 8 King Edwards. The regnal numbers only go back as far as the Norman conquest. Edward the Confessor was the one they were all named after, and he reigned 1042-1066, and was certainly King of all England! Some would count Alf the Great's son Edward the Elder (899-924) and Edward the Martyr (975-978). So we could be talking 11. Certainly no less than 9.

'Alf the Great'? To the Tower with you!

Please accept Catherine for "Pippas sister"

But then the chain wouldn't work :/

Welp, I don't know if it's just my ignorance of sports trivia, but it seemed that most answers here were obvious/common knowledge except for the rival team question. That seems a particularly obscure detail to know, by comparison.

Many people know of the Glasgow football rivalry, if only because of the religious aspect.

I understand why you would usually accept Saxon without the s in the end, but it kind of defeats the purpose of this quiz, doesn't it? Saxons needs its second s to keep the chain going...

I did this quiz not even realising it was a chain😂

Chunnel? What's that then?