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(dont peek until you've had a guess)
(still further down) Answers as follows: 1) Barbican 2) Monument 3) Oakwood 4) Becontree 5) Arsenal 6) Tower Hill 7) Acton Town 8) West Kensington 9) St Paul's 10) Moor Park 11) Fulham Broadway 12) Lambeth North (how did you do?) |
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8. I am ashamed of myself. |
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6. Not awful for a Yank. Thanks for giving me two in Fulham, DG! |
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11. Thrown by Eastcheap. |
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Only 3 but it was all puely guess work. |
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Oooh, 11/12. Had a horrible feeling Mill Hill was a red herring! Couple of guesses came through though! |
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10/12 - missed connection at Sandy Lodge and Mill Hill Park ! |
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6. Ho hum. |
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You were unlucky Barry. A random guess would have on average given four correct answers. In a quiz like this it is actually quite difficult to score zero and requires concious effort. |
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9 and that was all based on guesses. |
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I thought #9 must *obviously* be St Paul's, given that the cathedral predates the station by literally hundreds of years, but no! Apparently the original builders didn't notice where it was when they named it?!
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11/12. Who knew Becontree was Gale Street in a former life? Not me, clearly.
THC |
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11/12 and that with the aid of the A-Z. What happened to the park at Acton Town? Was it a housing estate, never a park? Anyone know? |
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4 - oh dear!! |
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THC, I knew, but then again I used to live there, and know the street the station is on well.... IIRC it was only called Gale Street (Halt) for the first six years of its life (1926-32), when (also IIRC) the underground didn't serve it in any case (other than excursion trains to Southend) |
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I got 11. I never knew Acton Town used to be called Mill Hill Park. |
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6. Odd numbers all wrong, even numbers all right. I jest not. |
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7/12. Not bad as all but 4 were guesses! And despite living in Mill Hill the majority my life, of course I got that one wrong! |
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Hmm, think I'm missing a "not" in my earlier comment. Anyway, wikipedia clears things up for me: In 1900, when (what is now) St Paul's *central line* was opened, (what is now) Blackfriars was called St Paul's! So the new underground station couldn't really be called that, despite being much closer. Renamings happened in 1937.
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10/12 from the top of my head - totally thrown by the Mill Hill Park one, and I took North End to be F/Bdwy. |
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St Pauls tube station is not actually very convenient for St pauls cathedral, as it is near the east end of the cathedral, whose entrance is at the west end (and it is a very big building). City Thameslink (which was to hjave been named St Pauls at one stage) is nearer.
It is quite a frequent occurence for me to have to help lost tourists, having emerged from the station and wandered about a bit, to find the cathedral - it is actually quite well hidden! |
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100% - but in two cases helped by being multiple-choice. |
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7/12 all the way from New Zealand |
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9 out of 12. I'm not sure whether to feel proud or embarrassed. |
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Actually 10 out of 12. Clearly my knowledge of tube station renamings is greater than my numeracy. Even more embarrassment. |
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