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Answers are below...
...make your guesses before you peek...
In 1, 5 and 7 the first place in the pair is further north.
In all the other pairs the second place is further north.
1) Oxford Circus is further north than Piccadilly Circus (thanks to Regent Street)
2) King's Cross is about a mile further north than Paddington (don't believe the tube map)
3) Waterloo is about half a mile further north than Victoria (ditto)
4) Walthamstow is a couple of miles further north than Wembley
5) Brentford is over a mile further north than Brixton
6) Upminster is a couple of miles further north than Uxbridge
7) Twickenham is about a mile further north than Tooting
8) Enfield is three miles further north than Edgware
9) Crystal Palace is over a mile further north than Hampton Court
10) Woolwich is almost a mile further north than Chelsea (despite being on the opposite bank of the Thames)
How well did you do?
diamond geezer | Homepage | 15.12.16 - 9:00 a.m. | #
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astoundingly badly. I should be replaced with a monkey.
wolf | 15.12.16 - 9:06 a.m. | #
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7 :-/
Oliver | Homepage | 15.12.16 - 9:14 a.m. | #
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7 :(
Dave | 15.12.16 - 9:19 a.m. | #
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9. Quietly pleased.
Jordan D | 15.12.16 - 9:24 a.m. | #
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8. I got Uxbridge and Hampton Court wrong
timbo | 15.12.16 - 9:27 a.m. | #
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7, which should have been an 8.
Curious how irritated I am!
Chris | 15.12.16 - 9:31 a.m. | #
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7, and I knew I was guessing the 3 I got wrong. But 2 of my correct answers were also guesses...
Great idea - might steal this for a Christmas quiz!
Ollyver | 15.12.16 - 9:33 a.m. | #
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Seven. Happy with that. Things are not necessarily where you think they are or were, and the British Isles lean to the left.
Andrew | 15.12.16 - 9:34 a.m. | #
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8 - Q3 and Q5 wrong. both guesses really
Mike Roberts | 15.12.16 - 9:39 a.m. | #
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100%. Yay. Mind you I am both a geographer and a former London Transport PR person.,,,
David | 15.12.16 - 9:43 a.m. | #
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9, more than I expected. Wrong about Hampton Court
Dominic H | 15.12.16 - 9:46 a.m. | #
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I spotted a pattern where, after the first obvious one, the second one seemed to be correct so common sense and knowledge went out of the window and I plumped for the second option for question 2 onward. Still got me 8 of out 10 though.
Then again, I don't trust the devious minds of people who set quizzes so I shouldn't have allowed myself to be lulled into speculating this way.
Pedantic of Purley | 15.12.16 - 9:47 a.m. | #
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I scored five. Anybody who was displeased with their score, please feel less bad about yourself.
Chris | 15.12.16 - 10:04 a.m. | #
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In each pair, the place that's further west is listed first.
diamond geezer | Homepage | 15.12.16 - 10:07 a.m. | #
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Grrr, only 6. I knew DG would exploit the topological curiosities of the Underground map, but he still fooled me...
Gerry | 15.12.16 - 10:27 a.m. | #
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I scored five, which isn't bad considering there were only four questions where I even knew both places (1,2,3,9). For example, I know where Wembley is, of course, but Walthamstow? Not even if my life depended on it.
I'm not from around here, as you can guess. But I just can't resist a quiz. :-)
Steffen | 15.12.16 - 10:28 a.m. | #
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8. Messed up Upminster and Enfield - embarrasingly, I live in one of those...
Steve | 15.12.16 - 10:29 a.m. | #
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5 and pretty much all guesses!
Brixton is further north than Brentford?
Tooting and Twickenham?
Woolwich and Chelsea?
Aargh! My head has seriously been messed with here!
Cornish Cockney | 15.12.16 - 10:49 a.m. | #
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7
John | 15.12.16 - 10:52 a.m. | #
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7 for me
Benji | 15.12.16 - 10:55 a.m. | #
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7 (seems to be the modal score)
Bob L-S | 15.12.16 - 11:04 a.m. | #
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8. Uxbridge and Chelsea let me down.
Jonathan | 15.12.16 - 11:06 a.m. | #
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1. is easy. Only got 6 of the others I'm ashamed to admit, and then largely by guesswork.
Geoff Bernard | 15.12.16 - 11:09 a.m. | #
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I wish Brentford and Brentwood would stop having such similar names
Madison | 15.12.16 - 11:26 a.m. | #
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6/10
Should have gone with my gut on 2 and 4.
I also frequently muddle Brentwood and Brentford.
Moogal | 15.12.16 - 11:29 a.m. | #
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8 out of 10. Go 3 and 9 wrong.
Mike | 15.12.16 - 11:36 a.m. | #
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7. Seems about average (median).
shirokazan | 15.12.16 - 11:43 a.m. | #
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Ashamed with 3...
NLw | 15.12.16 - 12:31 p.m. | #
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I'm not sure Upminster is a couple of miles north of Uxbridge. I used Google maps to measure from station to staion (fairest way I thought) and I'd said Upminster is fractionally north of Uxbridge.
Mark | 15.12.16 - 1:08 p.m. | #
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Had to think a little about some, but no mistakes.
Mark, use OS on Bing (or paper) and you can quickly find the difference between the two stations is around 2.6km or 1.6 miles.
Peter Marshall | Homepage | 15.12.16 - 1:28 p.m. | #
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7/10
Uncle Audrey | 15.12.16 - 1:31 p.m. | #
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If you keep heading due south from Detroit, what's the first country you reach?
Hint: It starts with C and ends with A. But you're wrong.
Gerry | 15.12.16 - 2:55 p.m. | #
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6 and 8 wrong, rest correct. Not bad!
stevekeiretsu | 15.12.16 - 3:29 p.m. | #
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9/10....
Pretty good for me..... Damn you Waterloo!
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@Gerry
I wasn't wrong. But I also discovered that there seem to be only three countries due south of Detroit, and they all start with C and end with A !
Which body of water is at the more easterly end of the Panama Canal?
Timbo | 15.12.16 - 5:45 p.m. | #
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I only got Uxbridge and Hampton court wrong, just like Timbo. On both of these I was misled by supposing the Thames to be running due east. Obviously with the odd wiggle, but I underestimated the effect the big southern dip through Staines.
To quibble a bit, DG didn't specify whether he meant grid north or True north, but I think it would need two quite carefully chosen places to get a different result from these two kinds of north. (Which differed from each other by 3 degrees in Lowestoft in 2014, for what it's worth).
Malcolm | 15.12.16 - 5:53 p.m. | #
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Ah Timbo, a quiz favourite that one!
Natch the Pacific as the canal flows like this '\' where the Atlantic is to the north.
I can see this turning red....
dg writes: I went with grey :)
Chris | 15.12.16 - 6:00 p.m. | #
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Am pleased with my 9 out of 10, it helped to consider how to drive between the each pair.
Got Crystal Palace/Hampton Court wrong
Cliff | 15.12.16 - 6:01 p.m. | #
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Obviously the first country reached going south from Detroit is the USA.
I had supposed that Canada might figure among the answers, but sadly, if you get to the south pole (which you will eventually by going south from anywhere), you may continue in a straight line, but you will not be going southwards any more.
Malcolm | 15.12.16 - 6:04 p.m. | #
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Wow! All ten correct which if I'm honest is a bit of a fluke as I had to guess 4 of them.
Tim | 15.12.16 - 7:16 p.m. | #
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@Steffen
Don't know where Walthamstow is! Shame on you! That one was easy as I feel sure I should be able to see the Wembley arch from my window when it's lit, having worked out where it should be, looking slightly south of west. (I can't see it though.)
Tim | 15.12.16 - 7:23 p.m. | #
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Not knowing Walthamstow is a good thing really; horrible area with all the cycle works there. Horrible place.
A lot of people do know Walthamstow due to the artist William Morris.
neyagness | 15.12.16 - 7:40 p.m. | #
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6/10.
daveid76 | 15.12.16 - 7:46 p.m. | #
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I went with the principle 'if one is north of the Thames and the other south of it, the one south of the Thames is further north'. This is often a reasonable principle to go by, owing to the way the river bends, but in this case was right only three times out of five.
Andrew M | 15.12.16 - 8:18 p.m. | #
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Do we get a 'South' London quiz tomorrow?
Grumpy Anon | 15.12.16 - 8:32 p.m. | #
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8 - one of those that I got wrong was where I lived for 20 years :-/
Ewan | 15.12.16 - 9:52 p.m. | #
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I got a grand total of 1 out of 10 correct!
Dan | 15.12.16 - 9:54 p.m. | #
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5
Stephen | 15.12.16 - 10:30 p.m. | #
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@Malcolm
"Obviously the first country reached going south from Detroit is the USA."
Not necessarily, as Detroit's city limits coincide with the national border along the Detroit River.
timbo | 15.12.16 - 10:32 p.m. | #
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8
AndyV | 15.12.16 - 11:47 p.m. | #
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8/10 done without too much thought.
Rick | 16.12.16 - 1:02 a.m. | #
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9 - Woolwich north of Chelsea, who knew ?
Paul | 16.12.16 - 9:07 a.m. | #
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@Tim
@neyagness
Guys, I'm from Frankfurt, Germany, and I just visit London a few times a year for theatre, concerts etc.
But now I feel I unfairly neglected Walthamstow and I will endeavour to properly visit it on my next trip in early May.
Walthamstow, here I come!
Steffen | 16.12.16 - 9:20 a.m. | #
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4
tim | 16.12.16 - 10:29 a.m. | #
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Pleased to have scored 8.
Wrong with 6 and 8.
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So I got 8 wrong and 8 right, which will confuse some as there were only 10 questions.
:))
JG Morgan | 16.12.16 - 6:02 p.m. | #
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8, got Paddington and Victoria wrong, annoyingly. Did um and arr over those too.
SJM | 17.12.16 - 10:02 p.m. | #
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9 out of 10.
Fluffed the last one, concentration dropped. Schoolboy error.
Good quiz.
Julian B. | 20.12.16 - 1:28 p.m. | #
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8/10 - only Walthamstow and Crystal Palace fooled me. I had a hunch about Woolwich.
Julian | 23.12.16 - 3:38 p.m. | #
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