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.
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.
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...)
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 :-|
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.
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.
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.