UK Town and City Trivia - Oxford

Can you guess these facts about the UK city of Oxford?

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Main research library of the University of Oxford, one of the oldest in Europe	Bodleian
12th century tower at the ancient heart of Oxford	Carfax
Oxford's principal hospital and cardiothoracic centre of excellence	John Radcliffe
Fellow at Magdalen College who wrote 'The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe'	C.S. Lewis
Oxford's other university, with a campus at Headington	Oxford Brookes
Art and Archaeology museum on Beaumont Street	Ashmolean
Two rivers that flow through and around Oxford (one is known by two names!)	Thames (or Isis)
	Cherwell
Professor of Anglo-Saxon who wrote 'The Hobbit' while at Pembroke College	J.R.R. Tolkien
Motor vehicle manufacturing company that was formed in Cowley in 1919	Morris Motors
Names used by the University of Oxford for the three, eight-week long, academic periods used for teaching undergraduates	Michaelmas
	Hilary
	Trinity
Author of 'The Hunting of the Snark', who achieved First Class Honours in Mathematics while studying at Christchurch College.	Lewis Carroll
Major trunk road between London and Fishguard that lies on Oxford's northern boundary	A40

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