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English cities quiz

David Whitley, 10/03/202510/03/2025

This English cities quiz should test your knowledge not just of England’s urban centres, but of literature, music, sport and history as well.

There are ten trivia questions, with the answer to each one being the name of an English city. But do you know your Leicester from your Leeds, your Norwich from your Nottingham and your Sheffield from your Southampton?

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English cities quiz

This English cities quiz should test your knowledge not just of England’s urban centres, but of literature, music, sport and history as well. There are ten trivia questions, with the answer to each one being the name of an English city. But do you know your Leicester from your Leeds, your Norwich from your Nottingham and your Sheffield from your Southampton?

1 / 10

In which English city would you find the Royal Armouries, Roundhay Park and the Elland Road football stadium?

2 / 10

In which English city can you buy rings in the Jewellery Quarter, keep the kids on a sugar rush at Cadbury World and discover Tolkien’s inspirations at the Sarehole Mill Museum?

3 / 10

Which English city has a statue of Robin Hood outside its castle, deer roaming around Wollaton Park, and grisly displays about imprisonment and transportation at the National Justice Museum?

4 / 10

In which traditional British seaside resort town can visitors see the Illuminations in Autumn, watch dance shows at the Tower Ballroom and ride rollercoasters at the Pleasure Beach?

5 / 10

Which English city – also home to the Etihad Stadium – does newly-reformed indie band Oasis come from?

6 / 10

In which British city can you admire the Clifton Suspension Bridge over the River Avon, see a retired Concorde and nosy around the enormous steamship, SS Great Britain?

7 / 10

On the banks of the River Don, which northern English steelmaking city gave us the Human League, Arctic Monkeys, Michael Palin and the world’s first football club?

8 / 10

In which English city – home of the UK’s biggest cruise port – were the title characters standing, “trying to get to Holland or France” in the Ballad of John and Yoko by the Beatles?

9 / 10

Which English university city was the home of Lewis Carroll in real life and, fictionally, Inspector Morse?

10 / 10

The Via Francigena is a traditional pilgrimage route to Apulia in Italy from which English cathedral city?

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