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yorkshirehornet
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By 'surviving' do you mean still in operation ? If not then it's Puffing Billy (used in a colliery in 1815) which is in the science museum in London.
If you mean still in operation as a steam train then it't the 'Fairy Queen', built in 1855, which is still in use as a tourist trip in a tiger reserve in India.
Cheers Bodbo. A fun one - guessing is allowed. Here are twelve cities, the only way we have of identifying them is by the 3 most common family names found there. In order of popularity.
A) Brown, Smith, Patel
B) Williams, Johnson, Rodriguez
C) Garcia, Smith, Lopez
D) Smith, Brown, Tremblay
E) Tremblay, Gagnon, Roy
F) Diallo, Bah, Barry
G) Smith, Campbell, Brown
H) Yilmaz, Kaya, Demir
I) Jones, Smith, Williams
J) Smith, Jones, Kaur
K) Lee, Wang, Chen
L) Müller, Schmitz, Schneider
and for a bonus M) Nagy, Kovacs, Toth
A couple of these are quite easy some are more difficult, and two of them I didn't believe at first. The closest to twelve wins. They are all large cities.
A) Brown, Smith, Patel
B) Williams, Johnson, Rodriguez
C) Garcia, Smith, Lopez
D) Smith, Brown, Tremblay
E) Tremblay, Gagnon, Roy
F) Diallo, Bah, Barry
G) Smith, Campbell, Brown
H) Yilmaz, Kaya, Demir
I) Jones, Smith, Williams
J) Smith, Jones, Kaur
K) Lee, Wang, Chen
L) Müller, Schmitz, Schneider
and for a bonus M) Nagy, Kovacs, Toth
A couple of these are quite easy some are more difficult, and two of them I didn't believe at first. The closest to twelve wins. They are all large cities.
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yorkshirehornet
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a) Leicester
e) Paris
g) London
H) Istanbul
I) Cardiff
K) Hong Kong
L) Berlin
M) Budapest??
sheer guesses
e) Paris
g) London
H) Istanbul
I) Cardiff
K) Hong Kong
L) Berlin
M) Budapest??
sheer guesses
To be more helpfull Budapest and Istanbul are spot on, London is in the wrong place, Schmitz is the local variant of Schmidt (but not in Berlin) and Martin is the most common family name in France. There is a clue by comparing D and E.2 of these are correct Yorkie
Other clues - C and K are geographically close to each other, as are D and E. City F is totally at variance with its host nation.
yorkshirehornet
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A) London
B) somewhere in the US
c) somewhere in california or is it syndey
D) Toronto
E)Quebec
f) Brussels
g) Renfrew? Somewhere in Scotland Glasgow?
h) Istanbul
i) Chester
j) Birmingham
k)Melbourne
l) Koln .... Scmitz seems to originate from a broadish area??
M) budapest
all guesses after a lot of comparing etc
B) somewhere in the US
c) somewhere in california or is it syndey
D) Toronto
E)Quebec
f) Brussels
g) Renfrew? Somewhere in Scotland Glasgow?
h) Istanbul
i) Chester
j) Birmingham
k)Melbourne
l) Koln .... Scmitz seems to originate from a broadish area??
M) budapest
all guesses after a lot of comparing etc
I'll give you that Yorkie - only two are wrong. K) is San Francisco (hence the clue - close to C which is Los Angeles) B) suggested a less strong Spanish connection and is more likely to be in the north of the USA - in this case New York (Where was Boris Johnson born
). Schmitz is the variation of Schmidt found in the Rhineland area - hence Cologne or Düsseldorf. So all you need is a big city (Chester is too small) with a Welsh family name at the top - in this case it's Liverpool. Lee, Wong and Chen are anglicized versions of Chinese names (in China they would be LI and Zheng) and San Francisco has the highest Chinese popoulation out side of Asia. The most surprising one for me was Brussels. So the full list was: A) London
B) New York
C) Los Angeles
D) Toronto
E) Quebec
F) Brussels
G) Glasgow
H) Istanbul
I) Liverpool
J) Birmingham (Kaur is the female version of Singh)
K) San Francisco
L) Cologne
M) Budapest
Over to you
yorkshirehornet
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Very interesting.. .I also am surprised there is such a big sikh population in Birmingham.I'll give you that Yorkie - only two are wrong. K) is San Francisco (hence the clue - close to C which is Los Angeles) B) suggested a less strong Spanish connection and is more likely to be in the north of the USA - in this case New York (Where was Boris Johnson born
A) London
B) New York
C) Los Angeles
D) Toronto
E) Quebec
F) Brussels
G) Glasgow
H) Istanbul
I) Liverpool
J) Birmingham (Kaur is the female version of Singh)
K) San Francisco
L) Cologne
M) Budapest
Over to you
OK easy one.... who feels bad about what he did to a sea creature in the 70s