Quiz: How well do you know the places around the world named after UK towns and cities?

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Quiz: How well do you know the places around the world named after UK towns and cities?

Post by tiger76 » Fri Jul 16, 2021 7:41 pm

Tough this week I mustered 4 with a couple of astute guesseshttps://www.wanderlust.co.uk/content/qu ... 741f9df7e
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Post by Whitgord » Fri Jul 16, 2021 8:12 pm

8 lots of guesses
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Post by ClaretTony » Fri Jul 16, 2021 8:14 pm

8 but I’m not sure how
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Post by cbx750 » Fri Jul 16, 2021 8:18 pm

8 All gueses.
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Post by tally » Fri Jul 16, 2021 8:33 pm

7 but nearly all guesswork
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Post by yTib » Fri Jul 16, 2021 9:16 pm

7 but i find these muliple choice quizzes rather pointless with all the guessing.
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Post by bfcjg » Fri Jul 16, 2021 9:25 pm

5.
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Post by The Enclosure » Fri Jul 16, 2021 10:10 pm

5..a tough quiz.
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Post by Elizabeth » Fri Jul 16, 2021 10:17 pm

Anyone waiting for the Boss’s score 😆
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Post by Bosscat » Fri Jul 16, 2021 10:30 pm

7 for me just got in
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Post by HandforthClaret » Fri Jul 16, 2021 11:40 pm

4
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Post by COBBLE » Sat Jul 17, 2021 6:50 pm

5 all guesses including the one showing a sign in what looks like Afrikaans.
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Post by Suratclaret » Sun Jul 18, 2021 6:01 am

7 includes two guesses though
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Post by timshorts » Sun Jul 18, 2021 7:41 am

COBBLE wrote: ↑
Sat Jul 17, 2021 6:50 pm
 5 all guesses including the one showing a sign in what looks like Afrikaans.
But St maartenand Aruba are dutch colonial areas too.
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Post by AfloatinClaret » Sun Jul 18, 2021 10:08 am

Best ever - 13 - though a few educated guesses; still peed off as I've been in the one I got wrong (Portsmouth). Then again, I bombed on that last one about the Balearics, despite having lived there for a whole summer.
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Post by bobinho » Sun Jul 18, 2021 10:29 pm

5. dismal
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Post by SalisburyClaret » Sun Jul 18, 2021 11:14 pm

7 Bit of a tough one
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Post by Putneyclaret » Mon Jul 19, 2021 9:58 am

9 Some educated guesses, others less so.
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Post by Tribesmen » Mon Jul 19, 2021 12:35 pm

6 not the best but there you go .
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