OT - The Pub Quiz Thread
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The names do indeed tell us something about their age as settlements. So you are the closest. The town list beginning with Watford were all Saxon settlements and bear names indicating this such as ending in ton or ford, bourne etc. Doncaster, Chester and Portsmouth were Roman settlements as shown in their names and Grimsby was a Danish settlement. Town names ending in by are always of Danish origins as in Denmark Sonderby or Brondby - the original pronunciation of Grimsby being the Danish grimsbu. Over to you !
Albany, but Sheff I think you are meant to answer a question correctly before setting one.
I didn't Google, cross my heart etc.
The British Empire was the largest the world has ever seen by land mass covered. But what was the largest by % of the world's population included within its boundaries?
(I did look this up and the answer may be contentious, but I was truly gobsmacked by the %)
(I did look this up and the answer may be contentious, but I was truly gobsmacked by the %)
That would be really very high indeed, it was 44%, which I still find staggering. The British Empire at its largest contained 20% of the worlds population. But which empire was it?
Ah, you mean I have to actually read the question! I think they tried to teach me that at school too!
Ottoman?
Not quite, though that was enormous in both size and population, about 25% of everybody at the time. But that was relatively recent, when the world's population was much more widely dispersed....