wiki-illiam #109: q5

[dubdobdee]

5.

i: Which one is 140 not out?
ii: Which was formerly noteworthy as Northworthy?
iii: Which, initially, recognises George Henry's contribution?
iv: Which is the Glaswegian intruder amongst the Mancunians?
v: Where, alphabetically, is there a hiatus between the 15th and the third?
vi: Which, according to Tacitus, should be more appropriately located 50 miles south?
vii: Which intended Scandinavian sounds to have Mercian ancestry instead?
viii: Which is arrived at by adding the eight to the 24?
xi: Which three took 30 years to become 14?
x: which might have been named Zarah?

This question is hard and we HAVEN'T CRACKED IT YET!!

ii: Northworthy was a Saxon name for what is now a part of Derby, looked up by dubdobdee

Comments

[alextiefling.livejournal.com]

This has to be the round that foxed us the most. Given the reference to Tacitus, are these things some or all of which existed in Roman times?

[dubdobdee.livejournal.com]

pretty sure glasgow is not such a thing :D

[ruudboy.livejournal.com]

Hmm, Manchester was a Roman fort though, so perhaps someone from whatever tribe lived in what is now Glasgow turned up there?

Also, your pre-edit post now has me singing "Pretty Glasgow, pretty, pretty Glasgow" to the Chitty Chitty Bang Bang music. :)