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Can you name the the most populous towns in England based on the poll tax returns in 1377?
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Taxpayers
Town (cities in capitals)
23,314
7,248
6,345
4,817
3,952
3,569
3,226
3,217
2,955
2,871
2,663
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2,101
2,083
1,941
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1,902
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Populous Towns in the 14th Century (England) Quiz
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Pierce123
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Jan 3rd, 2011 at 22:08 GMT
3 points
Really clever quiz, had to think hard and I still did awful, but really clever and inventive I reckon!
shaymatt
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Mar 18th, 2011 at 00:17 GMT
3 points
Yeah, great quiz, really interesting set of answers!
bazmerelda
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Mar 18th, 2011 at 21:04 GMT
6 points
Really nice idea. A good mix of obvious and obscure which leaves you straining your brain to think up all the old cathedral cities like Gloucester, Salisbury & Lincoln, only to realise at the end that you've missed huge cities like Bristol. Any chance of a link to the source to have a look at it or did you get it from somewhere not on the internet?
Flick
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Mar 19th, 2011 at 18:09 GMT
8 points
Lynn (originally known as `Lin') became Bishop's Lynn (Lenne Episcopi) in 1204, following a charter from the Bishop of Norwich. After the dissolution of the monasteries (1536- 1541), Lynn changed it name to Lynn Regis - subsequently King's Lynn. Bishop's Lynn therefore should be accepted (and possibly even replace Lynn as the legitimate answer. King's Lynn one could argue could also be accepted as a valid answer as it is Lynn's modern day name. Sorry to sound so nerdy, I've got family connection in 'Lynn' (as they call it)
exackerly
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Mar 19th, 2011 at 19:20 GMT
4 points
Wasn't Westminster a city then?
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llswright
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Mar 20th, 2011 at 03:13 GMT
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AdamBishop
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Mar 23rd, 2011 at 16:54 GMT
4 points
Awesome. It helps to remember the cathedral towns.
rockhopperlad
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Mar 25th, 2011 at 16:01 GMT
8 points
Remembering towns in Massachusetts helps here also.
TJL
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Mar 29th, 2011 at 22:19 GMT
6 points
Wow, rockhopperlad is right: 19 MA towns, 1 MA county, 1 former MA town, and 3 towns in Maine (which used to be part of MA). In New England, all of these except Hereford and Bury St. Edmunds exist (if you count New London, CT)
jacana
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Mar 30th, 2011 at 14:07 GMT
8 points
great quiz, but you should accept Hull for Kingston-upon-Hull, no-one really calls it that.
Williams27
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Mar 31st, 2011 at 16:53 GMT
5 points
As Flick says, in the area we still just call it "Lynn" (not caring too much about bishops or kings) so the answer should be left that way. Seeing Norwich, Lynn, Bury St Edmunds, Yarmouth, Cambridge, Ely & Ipswich up in the top 30 really brings home how much East Anglia missed out on the industrial revolution! Maybe we were lucky after all...
as5680
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Apr 12th, 2011 at 16:24 GMT
2 points
Brilliant quiz - missed the second largest and knew it would be obvious when it came up, really should have got York! I agree that Hull should be accepted, I tried that but would never have thought to try the full name. The same for King's Lynn - people outside the area probably won't know the history of the name, I certainly didn't, so perhaps keep Lynn as the answer but accept King's Lynn too.
samcash13593
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Apr 28th, 2011 at 20:36 GMT
3 points
i always liked the name winchester, i always imagined a rivalry between them and regular chester.
angevin
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Jul 16th, 2011 at 22:46 GMT
5 points
It took me most of the running time of this quiz to realize I could probably find the answers on the giant Medieval England map hanging over my desk. I am not clever, but this is a great quiz.
Game published: Aug 13th, 2011 at 16:03 GMT
MasterPenguin
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Aug 13th, 2011 at 16:12 GMT
48 points
I see how Massachusetts names its cities...
catastrophejon
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Aug 13th, 2011 at 16:22 GMT
9 points
Never been so pleased with getting 60% on a quiz...
catastrophejon
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Aug 13th, 2011 at 16:27 GMT
71 points
Oh and another thing, on the Sporcle homepage it says "most populous cities (UK)" which is wrong on at least 2 levels. All the answers are (as the quiz itself says) in England which is not the same, and the UK didn't exist in the 14th century. Sorry to be such a pedant... only kidding, I'm not sorry.
WeaselKing1000
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Aug 13th, 2011 at 17:07 GMT
26 points
@catastrophejon And nor should you be.
Winty16
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Aug 13th, 2011 at 17:35 GMT
10 points
I never thought that living in Massachusetts would help me so much on a Sporcle quiz. :)
dancastro
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Aug 13th, 2011 at 17:49 GMT
7 points
I supposed that more people, thinking of medieval England, would remember Robin Hood and Lady Godiva (although they lived -if they did- some centuries earlier). But Nottingham had only about 40% of correct guesses and Coventry only about 20%.
eab21
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Aug 13th, 2011 at 18:10 GMT
3 points
This is one of the hardest quizzes I have ever taken in my life.
Beatlezfann
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Aug 13th, 2011 at 18:12 GMT
50 points
Im suprised newcastle back then wasnt called brandnewcastle
NotThere
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Aug 13th, 2011 at 18:19 GMT
16 points
@Beatlesfann Well actually it was originally called Oldcastle, but after a few centuries the place just got so old the inhabitants decided to rename it Newcastle as an ironic joke.
Insolitus
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Aug 13th, 2011 at 18:20 GMT
15 points
Beatlezfann, I'm more surprised it's still called Newcastle.
Getoka
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Aug 13th, 2011 at 18:28 GMT
6 points
Really interesting quiz. Glad to see my town, Worcester there, but Lynn, who'd have thought it?
spartacat
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Aug 13th, 2011 at 18:49 GMT
19 points
Ely hasn't grown much in the last 750 yrs
wistfulabacus
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Aug 13th, 2011 at 19:20 GMT
4 points
Good, demanding quiz. Thinking of port towns and remembering a couple of ancient nursery rhymes helped but how I wish I'd thought of going for cathedral towns. . .
Lauro
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Aug 13th, 2011 at 19:23 GMT
5 points
Playing the board game 'Pillars of the Earth' helped. (Yes, I also read it and watched the movies^^)
askf
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Aug 13th, 2011 at 20:22 GMT
6 points
I got a number of them by thinking of places with Gothic cathedrals.
Zossima
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Aug 13th, 2011 at 21:02 GMT
2 points
Fascinating stuff, lots of (southern) cathedral towns there.
ZeZapatiste
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Aug 13th, 2011 at 21:03 GMT
4 points
Well that was a hard one
Stran
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Aug 13th, 2011 at 21:46 GMT
3 points
As a Brit, I'd have hoped to get more than 9 out of 30! I've learned a lot today :-)
NathanW197
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Aug 13th, 2011 at 22:08 GMT
4 points
Oddly, I've heard of almost all of these cities in one way or another. Only thought of half of them at the time, though.
foolishchild
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Aug 13th, 2011 at 22:43 GMT
6 points
Never thought I'd see my hometown of Bury St Edmunds on a Sporcle quiz, never would have got Beverly.
Teary_Ennui
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Aug 13th, 2011 at 23:19 GMT
5 points
Presumably the King who gave his name to Lynn came along later... (it's called King's Lynn now for anyone not familiar with Eastern England). Great quiz - and very tough!
AKin1
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Aug 13th, 2011 at 23:28 GMT
3 points
I got 21/30 by basically naming all of the medieval cathedrals I could think of, so I was surprised not to see Peterborough. Good quiz.
Scuba_Steve
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Aug 14th, 2011 at 00:35 GMT
7 points
My year stationed in East Anglia drinking Green King and getting lost on the motorways finally paid off! 12/30
popestcyril
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Aug 14th, 2011 at 01:01 GMT
6 points
So Anglocentric! Loved it. I've been blessed to have been able to visit our Mother Country once in my life when a dear friend of mine was getting his D.Phil at Oxford. I thought of Capital, two University Cities, seat of Church, Robin Hood, and managed to come up with about a half dozen more Cathedral towns/American cities with names I thought might have been from England. Great Quiz!
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tface23
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Aug 14th, 2011 at 01:12 GMT
-6 points
someone has to say it... too UK centric. =P
QuintFan
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Aug 14th, 2011 at 02:02 GMT
6 points
I'm happy I got 5 as an American.
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