Hint | Answer | % Correct |
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County town | Oxford | 96%
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Merton Professor of English Language and Literature who created the fantasy world and tales of Middle Earth | J.R.R. Tolkien | 80%
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Town in north east Oxfordshire, home to a very popular designer outlet shopping 'Village' | Bicester | 74%
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Prestigious rowing event which has been held annually on the River Thames since 1839 | {Henley} Royal Regatta | 73%
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Hertford Bridge is known by this name due to its similarity to another one in Venice | Bridge of {Sighs} | 71%
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First person to run a mile in less than four minutes, achieved at the Iffley Road track | Roger Bannister | 70%
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Located at Carterton, near Witney, this is the largest RAF Station in the UK | {Brize} Norton | 69%
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Bronze age hill carving, formed from deep trenches filled with white chalk | Uffington {White} {Horse} | 68%
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English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, and author, born in the county. He achieved his first degree at this 'Oxbridge' university and went on to achieve greatness at the other one | Stephen Hawking | 63%
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The market town of Wallingford was home to this famous crime writer | Agatha Christie | 61%
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The place you need to go 'to see a fine lady ride on a white horse, with rings on her fingers and bells on her toes, she shall have music wherever she goes' | {Banbury} Cross | 61%
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This monumental country house in Woodstock, was the birthplace and ancestral home of this wartime leader | Winston Churchill | 59%
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A poem by Matthew Arnold gave the above place this nickname due to the stunning architecture of its university buildings | City of {Dreaming} Spires | 58%
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The Culham Science Centre is the location of the UK's national laboratory for research into this futuristic means of energy generation | Nuclear {Fusion} | 58%
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Alternative name for the River Thames, used for its course through Oxfordshire | Isis | 55%
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