Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?

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Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?

Post by tiger76 » Mon Oct 12, 2020 6:04 pm

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

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Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?

Post by tim_noone » Mon Oct 12, 2020 6:07 pm

tiger76 wrote:
Mon Oct 12, 2020 6:04 pm
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
Is googling Allowed?

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Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?

Post by Spiral » Mon Oct 12, 2020 6:16 pm

We have 69 cities. Niiice.

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Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?

Post by Bosscat » Mon Oct 12, 2020 6:19 pm

Spiral wrote:
Mon Oct 12, 2020 6:16 pm
We have 69 cities. Niiice.
Nice is in France ffs duhhhhhhh


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Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?

Post by tim_noone » Mon Oct 12, 2020 6:20 pm

I believe St Davids in Wales is the smallest.

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Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?

Post by Pstotto » Mon Oct 12, 2020 6:22 pm

You've a fool, Tim.

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Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?

Post by evensteadiereddie » Mon Oct 12, 2020 6:24 pm

I believe Blackburn is the most hideous.

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Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?

Post by BurnleyFC » Mon Oct 12, 2020 6:27 pm

evensteadiereddie wrote:
Mon Oct 12, 2020 6:24 pm
I believe Blackburn is the most hideous.
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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Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?

Post by Wile E Coyote » Mon Oct 12, 2020 6:29 pm

i got 32, good quiz though. cheers tiger.

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Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?

Post by Bosscat » Mon Oct 12, 2020 6:31 pm

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 😁
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Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?

Post by boatshed bill » Mon Oct 12, 2020 6:57 pm

I got 37 before I got a complete mental block :shock:

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Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?

Post by tiger76 » Mon Oct 12, 2020 7:17 pm

tim_noone wrote:
Mon Oct 12, 2020 6:20 pm
I believe St Davids in Wales is the smallest.
You believe correct in population terms.

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Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?

Post by BurnleyFC » Mon Oct 12, 2020 7:30 pm

45, and I like to think I’m really good with geography. Tough quiz, that.

Missed obvious one’s like Coventry, Lincoln, Londonderry...

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Post by durhamclaret » Mon Oct 12, 2020 7:36 pm

39 for me and I didn’t get Durham!!!
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Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?

Post by Whitgord » Mon Oct 12, 2020 7:43 pm

43 and missed some obvious ones.

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Post by rdp2eps » Mon Oct 12, 2020 7:47 pm

58 ! and I forgot London :lol:

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Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?

Post by ChrisG » Mon Oct 12, 2020 7:50 pm

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?

Post by ClaretTony » Mon Oct 12, 2020 7:52 pm

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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Post by huw.Y.WattfromWare » Mon Oct 12, 2020 8:15 pm

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.

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Post by KateR » Mon Oct 12, 2020 8:30 pm

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?

Post by Dark Cloud » Mon Oct 12, 2020 8:57 pm

KateR wrote:
Mon Oct 12, 2020 8:30 pm
it was rigged, spent most of my time correcting my spelling mistakes :(
Same!! Got 47, but the time is a bit stingy tbh. Kicking myself over one or two obvious ones!
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Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?

Post by Down_Rover » Mon Oct 12, 2020 9:30 pm

No. Got 61 but missed Oxford where I was born.
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Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?

Post by TheFamilyCat » Mon Oct 12, 2020 9:44 pm

58. Bit disappointed to be honest, my British knowledge is pretty good usually.

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Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?

Post by BobSykes » Mon Oct 12, 2020 9:52 pm

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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Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?

Post by dougcollins » Mon Oct 12, 2020 9:52 pm

I would have never got Lichfield and Ely. Otherwise, not too bad.

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Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?

Post by tiger76 » Mon Oct 12, 2020 9:56 pm

tim_noone wrote:
Mon Oct 12, 2020 6:07 pm
Is googling Allowed?
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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Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?

Post by tim_noone » Mon Oct 12, 2020 10:09 pm

KateR wrote:
Mon Oct 12, 2020 8:30 pm
it was rigged, spent most of my time correcting my spelling mistakes :(
Eddie's gonna get ya...
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Post by dougcollins » Mon Oct 12, 2020 10:13 pm

KateR wrote:
Mon Oct 12, 2020 8:30 pm
it was rigged, spent most of my time correcting my spelling mistakes :(
American English, you know..
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Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?

Post by Goobs » Mon Oct 12, 2020 10:15 pm

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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Post by huw.Y.WattfromWare » Mon Oct 12, 2020 10:22 pm

Far enough down the page to add my screenshot now. I was disappointed to miss Oxford, Salford and Sheffield.
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Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?

Post by KateR » Mon Oct 12, 2020 10:34 pm

dougcollins wrote:
Mon Oct 12, 2020 10:13 pm
American English, you know..
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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Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?

Post by timshorts » Mon Oct 12, 2020 10:37 pm

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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Post by KateR » Mon Oct 12, 2020 10:47 pm

timshorts wrote:
Mon Oct 12, 2020 10:37 pm
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.......
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............. :lol:

Plus you said ages, how can it be ages we all got the same few minutes :o ;)

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Post by mdd2 » Mon Oct 12, 2020 10:57 pm

only 44

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Post by EarbyClaret » Mon Oct 12, 2020 11:01 pm

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

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Post by dsr » Tue Oct 13, 2020 12:35 am

61. Watching Pointless regularly is a great help.

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Post by Quicknick » Tue Oct 13, 2020 6:58 am

BurnleyFC wrote:
Mon Oct 12, 2020 6:27 pm
I believe Blackburn would love to be a city but does not make the grade.

Preston or London must be the worst.
London is the best.

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Post by timshorts » Tue Oct 13, 2020 7:19 am

KateR wrote:
Mon Oct 12, 2020 10:47 pm
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............. :lol:

Plus you said ages, how can it be ages we all got the same few minutes :o ;)
Did it on the phone. The box where you type in the letters covers up everything except Scotland.......

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Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?

Post by tarkys_ears » Tue Oct 13, 2020 7:20 am

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

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Post by Dark Cloud » Tue Oct 13, 2020 8:23 am

tarkys_ears wrote:
Tue Oct 13, 2020 7:20 am
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
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.

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Post by Masham Ale » Tue Oct 13, 2020 8:32 am

43
missed quite a few easy ones, good quiz!
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Post by mkmel » Tue Oct 13, 2020 8:37 am

Do you have to have a cathedral to be classified as a City?

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Post by Dark Cloud » Tue Oct 13, 2020 8:39 am

mkmel wrote:
Tue Oct 13, 2020 8:37 am
Do you have to have a cathedral to be classified as a City?
I don't believe so and I THINK that was always a myth. You do need a royal charter proclaiming you're a city though.

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Post by jollyjack » Tue Oct 13, 2020 8:53 am

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?

Post by LeadBelly » Tue Oct 13, 2020 10:02 am

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. :oops:

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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Post by dsr » Tue Oct 13, 2020 10:16 am

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.

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Post by jollyjack » Tue Oct 13, 2020 11:53 am

Cambridge City status granted 1951, Brighton only a few years ago

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Post by nil_desperandum » Tue Oct 13, 2020 12:03 pm

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!

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Post by mkmel » Tue Oct 13, 2020 2:35 pm

Oh the old the "t" on my computer is playing up excuse :lol:

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Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?

Post by huw.Y.WattfromWare » Tue Oct 13, 2020 3:31 pm

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.

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