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Post by Deleted on Dec 1, 2006 17:45:47 GMT
English Geography I Quiz
Of which Ranges are each of the following the culminating peak (highest point) ?
1. Cross Fell, Cumbria
2. Leith Hill, Surrey
3. Cleeve Hill, Gloucestershire
4. Butser Hill, Hampshire
5. Coombe Hill, Buckinghamshire
6. Walbury Hill, Berkshire
7. Scafell Pike, Cumbria
8. Dunkery Beacon, Somerset
9. Urra Moor, Bottom Head
10. Pilot Hill, Hampshire
11. Garrowby Hill, Humberside
1pt for each, must be answered precisely.
Good luck !
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Post by Chris_Sav on Dec 1, 2006 19:21:17 GMT
1) Pennines
2) North Downs
3) Cotswolds
4) South Downs
5) Chilterns
6) berkshire Downs??
7) Lake District (Walked up that one!!)
8) Exmoor
9)North Yporshire Moors??
10)??
11)Yorkshire Wolds
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Post by WolfLord on Dec 1, 2006 19:58:30 GMT
1.893m
2.294m
6.North Wesex Downs
7.3206ft
8.519m
9.Cleveland Hills
10.Salisbury Plain
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2006 13:01:05 GMT
Right, Sav has the exact answers I wanted to numbers 1,2,3,4,5,6,8,9 (if correct spelling Yorkshire) and 11. You passed on 10 and number 7 though correct regionally is not technically correct as an answer - which like the others should be a hill or mountain range. So 9.5pts which includes 0.5 for Lake District.
Wolfman is after bonuses and I can allow 0.5 for each correct altitude, of which four have been given. Can't allow anything for a Plain, or for the North Wessex downs which overlook Marlborough which is in Wilts (wrong county) which leaves the Cleveland Hills: Now I have a little pennant with a candle on it to show that I've done the Lyke Wake Walk, and that is across the North Yorks Moors, with Urra moor being the highest point on the way. But I'll allow 0.5 for Cleveland Hills as they do skirt the Moors at that point. So 2.5pts
Leaderboard:
1.Sav 9.5pts
2.Wolfman 2.5pts
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Post by Chris_Sav on Dec 2, 2006 13:23:52 GMT
As Walbury Hill (297mt) & Pilot Hill (286 mt) are next to each other I would guess that Hampshire's highest point is also part of the Berkshire Downs.
Sav
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2006 19:35:16 GMT
You've skated right round the answer without getting it - and it's so obvious !
And all you need is to name a mountain range within the Lake District and you'll have that one as well. ;)
Spot on with the two heights, by the way, so that's another 1.0 bonus point.
Leaderboard:
1.Sav 10.5pts
2.Wolfman 2.5pts
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Post by Chris_Sav on Dec 2, 2006 20:18:52 GMT
Sca Fell Range for Lake District.
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Post by Deleted on Dec 2, 2006 20:24:54 GMT
Mm, I'd like to give it, but the answer written down here is far more well known. Think of something a bit more broad-brush, your answer is too specific.
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Post by barbelman on Dec 3, 2006 6:09:16 GMT
The Lakeland Fells?
Tony
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2006 12:42:22 GMT
Doesn't sound grand enough !
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Post by barbelman on Dec 3, 2006 14:10:21 GMT
Doesn't sound grand enough ! The Grand Lakeland Fells!! ;D Tony |
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Post by Chris_Sav on Dec 3, 2006 14:22:09 GMT
He's after my point!!!
Cumbrian Mountains
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Post by Deleted on Dec 3, 2006 15:48:42 GMT
Yes, Sav secures number 7 which just leaves the ridiculously easy number 10 to get !
Leaderboard:
1.Sav 11.5pts
2.Wolfman 2.5pts
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Post by barbelman on Dec 4, 2006 13:28:31 GMT
Yes, Sav secures number 7 which just leaves the ridiculously easy number 10 to get ! 10 = North Downs? Tony |
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Post by Deleted on Dec 4, 2006 18:05:08 GMT
Nope. Too far east. Berkshire Downs are too far north, and South Downs are too far south. And Exmoor is a remote due west.
Changed my mind, point goes to Tony. My Guinness UK Data Book has it as highest point of the Hampshire Downs, but Wikipedia has it as being on a western extremity escarpment of the North Downs.
So that's it, as they say.
Final table:
1.Sav 11.5pts
2.Wolfman 2.5pts
3. Barbelman 1.5pts (includes 0.5 for doubting him !)
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