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Which City In the United Kingdom?

Name these British cities based on their starting letter and a description.
Answer must correspond to the highlighted box.
Quiz by nichster
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First submittedDecember 7, 2017
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Description
Letter
City
Capital of the U.K.
L
London
Among British cities, this one gets the second-most overseas visitors
E
Edinburgh
The Beatles come from this city on the River Mersey
L
Liverpool
City where you might see a don punting down the River Cherwell
O
Oxford
Known as "Steel City"
S
Sheffield
Its team won the 2016 Premier League despite 5000-1 odds
L
Leicester
Last port of call for the Mayflower on its voyage to America
P
Plymouth
City once called "Cottonopolis" due to its many textile mills
M
Manchester
Some people blame deep-fried Mars bars for this city's low life expectancy
G
Glasgow
Robin Hood lived near here
N
Nottingham
The Archbishop of this city is the senior bishop of the Church of England
C
Canterbury
Isaac Newton was a faculty member of this city's university
C
Cambridge
Where the RMS Titanic was built
B
Belfast
Often called the "Granite City"
A
Aberdeen
James Watt invented his steam engine in this city also known for the
"Peaky Blinders" gang
B
Birmingham
The Angel of the North sits just a couple miles south of this city
where Lucozade was invented
N
Newcastle
City whose name is also spelled Caerdydd
C
Cardiff
Known as the birthplace of Marks and Spencer, this city is also home
to the Royal Armouries Museum
L
Leeds
The county town of Norfolk, it was England's second largest city in 1500
N
Norwich
Where the HMS Victory can be seen
P
Portsmouth
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50 Comments
mrnafe
+10
Level 84
Dec 11, 2019
Enjoyed that, could do a nice series on that premise
nichster
+5
Level 56
Feb 25, 2020
Look here
Quizzer4life
+2
Level 31
Nov 28, 2020
missed Glasgow, Birmingham and Plymouth
HinesBrothers
+2
Level 76
Dec 11, 2019
Congrats on the feature!
nichster
+1
Level 56
Dec 12, 2019
Thanks! It's the first one for a while so I'm pretty happy with it!
KoljiVriVoda
+4
Level 78
Dec 12, 2019
Nice and easy :)
DonTheLamplighter
+4
Level 86
Feb 24, 2020
Following the Premier League was very useful here.
Tymi
+1
Level 68
May 31, 2021
agreed
FlickerP
+2
Level 75
Jul 15, 2021
Unfortunately it wouldn't have helped with my team Plymouth as they have never played in the top flight
richiesyxx
+2
Level 73
Nov 18, 2023
Nor have Oxford Utd, Cambridge Utd, Canterbury, any of the Scottish ones or Belfast. There’s no team with London in the name either, but I suspect most people could get that one without any football knowledge! Lol
ozzoforest
+1
Level 55
Feb 29, 2020
Nice quiz!
Rozzi
+10
Level 61
Feb 29, 2020
Easy 5 points for a Brit - but fun. Thanks.
joez
+2
Level 75
Feb 29, 2020
Never heard of Lucozade.
TwoWheels
+3
Level 63
Mar 1, 2020
No...
TwoWheels
+5
Level 63
Mar 1, 2020
It is the staple of any working class Brit
PrettyTiedUp
+1
Level 70
Mar 3, 2020
It cures colds. Fact.
Pharley
+2
Level 74
Mar 3, 2020
Cures anything....
AlexThirkell
+3
Level 74
Apr 11, 2020
God it's amazing, both the original and orange varieties are just delish.
JonOfKent
+2
Level 58
Feb 3, 2021
You are totally missing out. Nothing else tastes quite like it
Pares321
+3
Level 83
Feb 29, 2020
A bit harsh on Glasgow!
Pharley
+2
Level 74
Mar 3, 2020
But fair ;-)
Tyacke
+2
Level 60
Sep 14, 2020
No. Unfair. Never once saw a deep fried Mars bars in a Weegie chipper.
Tw0905
+1
Level 23
Sep 28, 2021
We do have the "pizza crunch" though. Deep fried pizza.
DaveIES
+4
Level 47
Sep 29, 2021
Pretty sure the deep fried mars bar was invented in Stonehaven (near Aberdeen) - The Haven (now the Carron Fish Bar). It's not a "Scottish" thing... it's a drunk idiot that asked the staff to try something thing.
RossH
+1
Level 55
Nov 19, 2023
Apparently someone asked for a deep fried Mars Bar as a joke. The staff at the the chip shop called the guy's bluff and made one. The media then picked up on this and it spread to other chip shops. It's not a Glasgow-specific menu item.
TomatosRaafatos
+1
Level 75
Feb 29, 2020
Great quiz. Just a request to enable scroll mode for us mobile user heathens! Thanks :)
britinaus
+2
Level 87
Feb 29, 2020
I’m from Newcastle. I had no idea Lucozade was invented there! Thanks for teaching me something about my home town!
kalbahamut
+2
Level 81
Feb 29, 2020
I missed 3 but felt dumb for missing all of them after the answers were revealed.
RSGenius25
+1
Level 37
Jul 24, 2021
I know right! - I missed 4, and I'm really annoyed
DeeB
+1
Level 60
Mar 2, 2020
There's a Royal Armouries museum in Portsmouth too.
bmjs
+11
Level 58
Mar 7, 2020
Portsmouth doesn't begin with an L.
andyjohn
+1
Level 34
Mar 2, 2020
enjoyed that quiz could not get the peakyblinders city
Blaidd
+1
Level 51
Mar 15, 2020
Robin hood is fictional
Neil
+2
Level 63
Sep 27, 2021
And wasn't from near Nottingham. That is a falsehood derived from the people of Nottingham. Fictional or not, Robin Hood was from Locksley on the Derbyshire Yorkshire border. Little John was from Hathersage in Derbyshire, and much of the evidence (ie ballads made up long after Robin supposedly existed) relates to Barnsdale Forest in Yorkshire.
Stevo
+1
Level 71
Mar 31, 2020
why no Bristol?
JonOfKent
+3
Level 58
Feb 3, 2021
Well, there's also no Hull, Southampton, Inverness, etc. etc. If he included every city it would be a pretty long quiz (although actually perhaps quite an interesting one... that gives me an idea...)
WelshWizard
+4
Level 86
Sep 27, 2021
There are 69 cities (nice) in the UK. That's a very long quiz.
malachite
+2
Level 77
Oct 5, 2023
"Why not every single city in the UK".
RSGenius25
+1
Level 37
Jul 24, 2021
16 - above average!!!
stylus
+1
Level 78
Sep 27, 2021
the text is weirdly big on a mobile device, could this be fixed please?
GrammarBeane1
+1
Level 83
Sep 27, 2021
I'll admit it, I did cheat and try to look up the county town of Norfolk. Little did I know that Norfolk is apparently a crazy popular town and county name in the US and Canada so I didn't even get the answer :-|
TheQuizzler
+1
Level 64
Sep 28, 2021
American who got 19/20. Managed to forget Norwich.

The sheer number of place names in the UK that are pronounced non-intuitively is really kind of staggering. In a way it makes it frustrating but I actually think it makes learning more interesting more than anything.

HyddenRizz
+4
Level 67
Jan 12, 2023
I think this is just because they're so old that they got broken down over time. It's so much easier to pronounce them in conversation as they are now, compared to equivalent cities in the USA such as Birmingham or Pittsburgh which just sound awkwardly overdone.
ThatOneDude
+1
Level 47
Sep 28, 2021
Forgot the two university cities: Cambridge and Oxford lol
AbiA
+1
Level 86
Sep 29, 2021
Does not display properly on a mobile phone.
MrBoysterous
+1
Level 27
Sep 7, 2022
Deep fried mars bars are not from Glasgow.
salvadoran
+1
Level 62
Nov 4, 2023
Great quiz! Only thought of Oxford after correctly guessing Cambridge... :D
Fianchetto
+1
Level 77
Jan 10, 2024
Huh. This one has a yellow box.

Anyone else try Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch for the L one?

leonora
+1
Level 44
Apr 19, 2024
I didn't get Leeds.....which was stupid, considering I was at Leeds University!
Dewot4544
+1
Level 39
May 7, 2025
The description for the quiz says name these "British" cities. Belfast is definitely not a British city.
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