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Question
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Hint
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Answer
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Which city is the capital of both England and the United Kingdom as a whole, located on the banks of the River Thames?
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L, 6
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London
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Which city is the capital of Scotland and hosts the second-highest number of overseas tourists each year?
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E, 8
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Edinburgh
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Which city is the capital of Wales and was the location of the signing of the first-ever £1,000,000 cheque?
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C, 7
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Cardiff
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Which city is the capital of Northern Ireland and saw the building of HMS Titanic?
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B, 7
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Belfast
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In which English city might you find the Houses of Parliament?
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W, 11
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Westminster
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Which is the largest Scottish city, home to the Rangers and Celtics football clubs?
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G, 7
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Glasgow
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Which Welsh city, historically nicknamed "Copperopolis" for its role in the global copper trade, is considered the nation's "second city?"
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S, 7
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Swansea
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Which city in Northern Ireland serves as the ecclesiastical capital for the whole island of Ireland in both the Roman Catholic faith and the Anglican faith?
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6, A
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Armagh
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Which English city is home to Northernhay Gardens, the oldest designated public open space in England?
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6 E
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Exeter
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Which Scottish city is regarded as the "capital of the Highlands?"
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I, 9
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Inverness
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Which Welsh city, with a population of approximately 2000, is the smallest in the whole United Kingdom?
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S, 8
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St David's
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Which city in Northern Ireland forms part of the border between County Antrim and County Down?
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L, 7
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Lisburn
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Which English city is nicknamed "the Steel City?"
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S, 9
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Sheffield
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Which Scottish city is nicknamed "the Granite City?"
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A, 8
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Aberdeen
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Which Welsh city is the oldest in Wales?
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B, 6
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Bangor
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Which city in Northern Ireland is home to the oldest canal in Great Britain and Ireland?
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N, 5
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Newry
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Which English city, famous for its cathedral, college, and university, was England's capital throughout the period of Anglo-Saxon rule?
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W, 10
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Winchester
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Which Scottish city gave its name to other cities in Western Australia, Tasmania, and Ontario?
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P, 5
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Perth
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Which Welsh city is promoted as the "City of Music" and hosts the North Wales International Music Festival?
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S, 7
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St Asaph
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Which city in Northern Ireland, known by two names, is famously the location where a self-declared autonomous community for Irish Nationalists was set up between 1969 and 1972?
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D, 5 or L, 11
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Derry
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Which is the highest peak in England, forming part of an inactive volcano?
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S, 11
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Scafell Pike
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Which is the highest peak in Scotland and the whole United Kingdom, which was home to a famous summit observatory between 1883 and 1904?
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B, 8
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Ben Nevis
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Known in Welsh as "Yr Wyddfa" meaning "the Cairn," which is the highest peak in Wales, serving as a popular tourist attraction with a café near the top?
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S, 7
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Snowdon
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Associated with the Irish mythological figures of Boirche and Slángha, which mountain is the highest in Northern Ireland?
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S, 12
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Slieve Donard
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Which English mountain, found in the Malvern Hills, is famous for the iron-age hillfort of British Camp which is found near the top?
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H, 19
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Herefordshire Beacon
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Which Scottish mountain, found in the Range of the Awful Hand, offers between itself and the highest mountain in Wales the longest line of sight in the whole of Great Britain and Ireland?
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M, 7
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Merrick
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Which Welsh mountain is legendarily the seat of an ancient giant, said to bring either inspiration or madness to anyone who might sleep on its slopes?
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C, 11
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Cadair Idris
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Which peak in the Mourne Mountains of Northern Ireland was tunneled beneath in a project that began in 1947 and overlooks the disused quarry of Douglas Crag?
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S, 12
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Slieve Binnian
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Which English mountain lies within a British Army firing range and features of the cover of the Yes album, "Tomato?"
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Y, 6
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Yes Tor
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The name of which Scottish mountain in the Black Mount group has a name derived from a Scottish Gaelic phrase meaning "Goats' Peak?"
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S, 11
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Stob Ghabhar
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Which Welsh mountain in the Brecon Beacons is the highest in South Wales and features a Bronze-Age cairn at its summit?
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P, 7
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Pen-y-Fan
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Which mountain in Northern Ireland is the tallest outside of the Mourne Mountains and is the source of the River Faughan?
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S, 13
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Sawel Mountain
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Which is the longest river in the United Kingdom, located in both England and Wales and forming part of the border between the two?
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R, 11
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River Severn
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Which English river gives its name to a style of 1960s music performed by bands such as the Beatles?
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R, 11
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River Mersey
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Which Scottish river was the main subject of the 1961 Academy Award-winning film documentary "Seawards the Great Ships" and is the longest in Scotland?
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R, 10
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River Clyde
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Which Welsh river home to European grayling formed the historic boundary between Glamorgan and Monmouthshire?
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R, 12
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River Rhymney
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Which river in Northern Ireland is divided into an upper section and a lower section by Lough Neagh?
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R, 9
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River Bann
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Originally built in 1859. which English clock tower houses the Great Bell known as "Big Ben" and is a popular tourist attraction?
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E, 14
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Elizabeth Tower
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Which fountain in the Scottish capital serves as the smallest listed building in Scotland, and depicts a famous Skye Terrier sculpted out of bronze?
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G, 23
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Greyfriars Bobby Fountain
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Which is the largest of Wales' 600 or more castles, with a tower out-leaning the one at Pisa?
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C, 16
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Caerphilly Castle
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Which popular tourist attraction in Northern Ireland was written about in the 1978 Seamus Heaney poem, "A Postcard from North Antrim," and connects mainland Northern Ireland to a nearby island?
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C, 22
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Carrick-a-Reed Rope Bridge
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