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Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2020 6:04 pm
by tiger76
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
Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2020 6:07 pm
by tim_noone
Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2020 6:16 pm
by Spiral
We have 69 cities. Niiice.
Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2020 6:19 pm
by Bosscat
Spiral wrote: ↑Mon Oct 12, 2020 6:16 pm
We have 69 cities. Niiice.
Nice is in France ffs duhhhhhhh
Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2020 6:20 pm
by tim_noone
I believe St Davids in Wales is the smallest.
Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2020 6:22 pm
by Pstotto
You've a fool, Tim.
Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2020 6:24 pm
by evensteadiereddie
I believe Blackburn is the most hideous.
Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2020 6:27 pm
by BurnleyFC
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.
Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2020 6:29 pm
by Wile E Coyote
i got 32, good quiz though. cheers tiger.
Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2020 6:31 pm
by Bosscat
Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2020 6:57 pm
by boatshed bill
I got 37 before I got a complete mental block
Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2020 7:17 pm
by tiger76
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.
Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2020 7:30 pm
by BurnleyFC
45, and I like to think I’m really good with geography. Tough quiz, that.
Missed obvious one’s like Coventry, Lincoln, Londonderry...
Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2020 7:36 pm
by durhamclaret
39 for me and I didn’t get Durham!!!
Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2020 7:43 pm
by Whitgord
43 and missed some obvious ones.
Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2020 7:47 pm
by rdp2eps
58 ! and I forgot London
Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2020 7:50 pm
by ChrisG
61, although I'm not too upset about missing Litchfield and Winchester
Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2020 7:52 pm
by ClaretTony
The most obvious one I missed was York. Got all of Northern Ireland and Scotland but missed one in Wales. Managed 53.
Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2020 8:15 pm
by huw.Y.WattfromWare
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.
Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2020 8:30 pm
by KateR
it was rigged, spent most of my time correcting my spelling mistakes
Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2020 8:57 pm
by Dark Cloud
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!
Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2020 9:30 pm
by Down_Rover
No. Got 61 but missed Oxford where I was born.
Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2020 9:44 pm
by TheFamilyCat
58. Bit disappointed to be honest, my British knowledge is pretty good usually.
Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2020 9:52 pm
by BobSykes
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...
Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2020 9:52 pm
by dougcollins
I would have never got Lichfield and Ely. Otherwise, not too bad.
Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2020 9:56 pm
by tiger76
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
Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2020 10:09 pm
by tim_noone
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...
Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2020 10:13 pm
by dougcollins
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..
Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2020 10:15 pm
by Goobs
40 missing both Stoke and Oxford. There were at least 10 I would never have got so all in all reasonably happy.
Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2020 10:22 pm
by huw.Y.WattfromWare
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?
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2020 10:34 pm
by KateR
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.
Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2020 10:37 pm
by timshorts
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.......
Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2020 10:47 pm
by KateR
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.............
Plus you said ages, how can it be ages we all got the same few minutes
Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2020 10:57 pm
by mdd2
only 44
Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?
Posted: Mon Oct 12, 2020 11:01 pm
by EarbyClaret
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
Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2020 12:35 am
by dsr
61. Watching Pointless regularly is a great help.
Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2020 6:58 am
by Quicknick
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.
Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2020 7:19 am
by timshorts
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.............
Plus you said ages, how can it be ages we all got the same few minutes
Did it on the phone. The box where you type in the letters covers up everything except Scotland.......
Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2020 7:20 am
by tarkys_ears
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
Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2020 8:23 am
by Dark Cloud
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.
Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2020 8:32 am
by Masham Ale
43
missed quite a few easy ones, good quiz!
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Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2020 8:37 am
by mkmel
Do you have to have a cathedral to be classified as a City?
Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2020 8:39 am
by Dark Cloud
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.
Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2020 8:53 am
by jollyjack
69/69. But I am a girly swat with this sort of thing. St Asaph is about 2 buildings.
Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2020 10:02 am
by LeadBelly
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.
Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2020 10:16 am
by dsr
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.
Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2020 11:53 am
by jollyjack
Cambridge City status granted 1951, Brighton only a few years ago
Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2020 12:03 pm
by nil_desperandum
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!
Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2020 2:35 pm
by mkmel
Oh the old the "t" on my computer is playing up excuse
Re: Can you name the 69 official cities of the UK?
Posted: Tue Oct 13, 2020 3:31 pm
by huw.Y.WattfromWare
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.
