Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?
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Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?
As I haven't put a quiz on for a while here's a new one to test your grey cells, I got 40/69 it's harder than you think, and you've only got 10 minutes.
https://www.sporcle.com/games/bazmereld ... uk-cities
https://www.sporcle.com/games/bazmereld ... uk-cities
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Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?
Is googling Allowed?tiger76 wrote: ↑Mon Oct 12, 2020 6:04 pmAs I haven't put a quiz on for a while here's a new one to test your grey cells, I got 40/69 it's harder than you think, and you've only got 10 minutes.
https://www.sporcle.com/games/bazmereld ... uk-cities
Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?
We have 69 cities. Niiice.
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I believe St Davids in Wales is the smallest.
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You've a fool, Tim.
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I believe Blackburn is the most hideous.
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I believe Blackburn would love to be a city but does not make the grade.
Preston or London must be the worst.
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i got 32, good quiz though. cheers tiger.
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I feel sorry for Blackburn, they have a Cathedral, They have a Bishop and a huge Diocese .... BUT THEY ARE NOT A CITY ...
https://blackburnlife.com/blackburn-has ... y-read-on/
I lied I don't feel sorry
https://blackburnlife.com/blackburn-has ... y-read-on/
I lied I don't feel sorry
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I got 37 before I got a complete mental block
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45, and I like to think I’m really good with geography. Tough quiz, that.
Missed obvious one’s like Coventry, Lincoln, Londonderry...
Missed obvious one’s like Coventry, Lincoln, Londonderry...
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39 for me and I didn’t get Durham!!!
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Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?
43 and missed some obvious ones.
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58 ! and I forgot London
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61, although I'm not too upset about missing Litchfield and Winchester
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Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?
The most obvious one I missed was York. Got all of Northern Ireland and Scotland but missed one in Wales. Managed 53.
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60. I took a screen shot but don’t want to put it up whilst folk are still playing.
Annoyed at 3 that I missed. Another 5 minutes I might have had them all bar the one I missed in NI.
Annoyed at 3 that I missed. Another 5 minutes I might have had them all bar the one I missed in NI.
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it was rigged, spent most of my time correcting my spelling mistakes
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Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?
Same!! Got 47, but the time is a bit stingy tbh. Kicking myself over one or two obvious ones!
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No. Got 61 but missed Oxford where I was born.
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58. Bit disappointed to be honest, my British knowledge is pretty good usually.
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Good quiz, enjoyed that. Ran out of time on 63. Having to keep closing the phone keyboard screen down to view the map wasted a lot of time, might have managed it otherwise although 2 in the south, beginning with Ch...., were foxing me as the timer went to 0...
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I would have never got Lichfield and Ely. Otherwise, not too bad.
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If you belong to the Charles Ingram appreciation society then yes (cough, cough) sadly just like him you won't win a penny
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Eddie's gonna get ya...
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American English, you know..
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40 missing both Stoke and Oxford. There were at least 10 I would never have got so all in all reasonably happy.
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Far enough down the page to add my screenshot now. I was disappointed to miss Oxford, Salford and Sheffield.
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I wish I could use that for an excuse Doug, I really do, it's just my fingers and brain are not wired properly, even some of the easy spellings I had to do twice lol, I would never have got all of them but it was fun, if somewhat frustrating a couple of times, stupid thing should have had spell check,, would have been much easier for me lol.
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63. It took me ages to work out how to view the whole map on the phone. Missed 2 in northern Ireland, which I wouldn't have got, the one my son lives in and one I lived in for 5 years.......
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sorry this has to be null and void since the map is up with 60 cities, therefore you got zero or we could give you the 9 missing ones but.............
Plus you said ages, how can it be ages we all got the same few minutes
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60 - somehow missed Stoke (where I used to live) and Lincoln - Westminster was a bit of a curve ball - other than that hadn't heard of some of the places never mind knowing they were cities
Good quiz - thank you for sharing
Good quiz - thank you for sharing
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61. Watching Pointless regularly is a great help.
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Did it on the phone. The box where you type in the letters covers up everything except Scotland.......
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43.though I'm certain I put Chichester in and it didn't come up.
Don't forget there are 2 cities in Manchester and london.
And I got Lisburn thanks to Jimmy Mac
Don't forget there are 2 cities in Manchester and london.
And I got Lisburn thanks to Jimmy Mac
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Yes, got the "second" city alongside Manchester straight away as my ex wife was from there and I had it drummed into me form very early on that it was NOT Manchester!! But the "other" city in London was definitely a curve ball as previously stated.tarkys_ears wrote: ↑Tue Oct 13, 2020 7:20 am43.though I'm certain I put Chichester in and it didn't come up.
Don't forget there are 2 cities in Manchester and london.
And I got Lisburn thanks to Jimmy Mac
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43
missed quite a few easy ones, good quiz!
missed quite a few easy ones, good quiz!
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Do you have to have a cathedral to be classified as a City?
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69/69. But I am a girly swat with this sort of thing. St Asaph is about 2 buildings.
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Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?
That's a nice "exercise the brain in the morning" quiz. I managed 59, I got c 40 without much thought then it got increasingly difficult and I ran out of time to remember more. The ones I was most embarrassed at missing were Oxford and Cambridge.
I dont believe you must have a cathedral to be a city. You can certainly have a cathedral and not be a city- eg Guildford.
I dont believe you must have a cathedral to be a city. You can certainly have a cathedral and not be a city- eg Guildford.
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Blackburn has a cathedral and isn't a city, Preston doesn't have a cathedral but is a city. Hope that sorts that one out!
I was once told that a city has to have a wall. That was inaccurate too.
I was once told that a city has to have a wall. That was inaccurate too.
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Cambridge City status granted 1951, Brighton only a few years ago
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Got 60, but the "t" on my computer is playing up at present, so it slowed me down with spellings.
I think I would have got 66 or 67, but I would have missed Westminster, Carlisle and Newport, and bizarrely I think I might have missed Lancaster!
I think I would have got 66 or 67, but I would have missed Westminster, Carlisle and Newport, and bizarrely I think I might have missed Lancaster!
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Oh the old the "t" on my computer is playing up excuse
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I was brought up believing you had to have a Cathedral or University to be a city. A myth or the Uni of the Turf would make Burnley one.