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Thread #28591   Message #356824
Posted By: NightWing
13-Dec-00 - 07:26 PM
Thread Name: BS: puzzle UK
Subject: RE: BS: puzzle UK
I know. I know, it's just whining ("whinging" should be the correct spelling given the circumstances *G*), but ...

For 1) London's Cathedral, why not St. Albans. I know it's not a cathedral in London, but it is a cathedral.

With the typo in 20) When orange trees died, four teas and a turnaround were needed, I went with the one about Heathrow Terminal 4 that someone came up with.

Not hardly possible for a non-Brit (who's never been to England *sigh*) to get the Hyde Park Corner one for 4) Good place for standing on a soap box. However, I think I came up with a reasonable guess instead: Monument. Traditionally, here in the States, one puts up one's soap box in a park ... presumably immediately before the monument of some unknown general on a horse that he never rode.

Given the season, I guessed Wood Green for 11) A reasonable trim for hedgerows or trees instead of Fairlop. Reasonable (thinking of "trimming" the XMas tree), but only just barely *G*

Finally, for 25) Main terminus for trains to Manchester and Glasgow, why not Caledonian Road? Caledonia is Scotland isn't it? I know Manchester isn't in Scotland, but did the ancient Scotii ever push the Romans far enough south that Manchester might be considered a part of "Caledonia"?

*blush*ing for missing 20% of them.

BB,
NightWing