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Title: Station Name Quiz
Post by: TerminalJunkie on May 16, 2011, 08:32:42
http://www.sporcle.com/games/thecheshirecat/networkrailwords (http://www.sporcle.com/games/thecheshirecat/networkrailwords)


Title: Re: Station Name Quiz
Post by: JayMac on May 16, 2011, 09:16:17
30/52.  :D

Good find TJ.


Title: Re: Station Name Quiz
Post by: Brucey on May 16, 2011, 11:16:34
29/52

Kept me amused for 10 minutes :D


Title: Re: Station Name Quiz
Post by: bobm on May 16, 2011, 11:59:13
I was feeling quite pleased til I came back here with my score of 23!   ;D


Title: Re: Station Name Quiz
Post by: 6 OF 2 redundant adjunct of unimatrix 01 on May 16, 2011, 12:59:28
27 which consisted of 2 and a half mins of easy ones 6 min memory blank and 1 and a half mins of oh yeh...


Title: Re: Station Name Quiz
Post by: IndustryInsider on May 16, 2011, 13:50:00
26 - blind panic at the end and utter disgust that I didn't get 'xxxx'!  Thanks for the link, TJ.


Title: Re: Station Name Quiz
Post by: Tim on May 16, 2011, 15:48:20
27.  I found it harder then IO thought I would.  Kicking myself at missing the compass points


Title: Re: Station Name Quiz
Post by: Chris2 on May 16, 2011, 15:53:37
28. I can't believe I missed xxxxxx.

modified to remove answer.



Title: Re: Station Name Quiz
Post by: 6 OF 2 redundant adjunct of unimatrix 01 on May 16, 2011, 17:28:18
i know i have already done this myself but perhaps it may be curtious to the people that have not played yet if you refrained from blurting the answers out.....  ::)


Title: Re: Station Name Quiz
Post by: IndustryInsider on May 16, 2011, 17:41:44
Very good point!  I've modified my post...


Title: Re: Station Name Quiz
Post by: readytostart on May 16, 2011, 18:07:40
A surprising 30 for me, one of the answers I didn't get could have been achieved without any guesswork, so sot a grrrr from me!


Title: Re: Station Name Quiz
Post by: Chris from Nailsea on May 16, 2011, 20:07:54
27 which consisted of 2 and a half mins of easy ones 6 min memory blank and 1 and a half mins of oh yeh...

I achieved (?) a rather pitiful 21 - which included about three minutes of memory blank on my part, too ...  ::) :o ;D


Title: Re: Station Name Quiz
Post by: bobm on May 16, 2011, 20:17:06
Thanks Chris. I don't feel so inadequate now!  ;)


Title: Re: Station Name Quiz
Post by: plymothian on May 16, 2011, 21:02:27
31/52 would have been 32 if it accepted one without and 's'


Title: Re: Station Name Quiz
Post by: inspector_blakey on May 18, 2011, 23:08:36
33

Annoying, isn't it, how obvious some of them seem as soon as the answers are revealed at the end...


Title: Re: Station Name Quiz
Post by: JayMac on May 19, 2011, 01:35:33
...particularly that 'A' at the top of the list. I guess I'm not alone in thinking, "Oh yeah, bloody obvious."  :-[ ;) ;D


Title: Re: Station Name Quiz
Post by: Ollie on May 19, 2011, 02:41:11
I got 30 out of 52 :)


Title: Re: Station Name Quiz
Post by: JayMac on May 19, 2011, 03:23:32
On a similar theme:

http://www.sporcle.com/games/londontubecentral.php

I scored 44/63

Tip: Not just the white 'interchanges'


Title: Re: Station Name Quiz
Post by: Mookiemoo on May 19, 2011, 09:08:43
I got 22 but then I never thought that &, for, the


Title: Re: Station Name Quiz
Post by: Mookiemoo on May 19, 2011, 09:19:35
I got 44 on the tube one!


Title: Re: Station Name Quiz
Post by: grahame on May 19, 2011, 21:45:18
30. Think I'm in some good company.  Does having questions fired at me from across the room while I was doing it allow me to claim a handicap?


Title: Re: Station Name Quiz
Post by: grahame on May 19, 2011, 21:58:50
30. Think I'm in some good company.  Does having questions fired at me from across the room while I was doing it allow me to claim a handicap?

And 60/63 on the tube


Title: Re: Station Name Quiz
Post by: plymothian on May 20, 2011, 06:17:51
Full marks on the tube!


Title: Re: Station Name Quiz
Post by: 6 OF 2 redundant adjunct of unimatrix 01 on May 20, 2011, 18:28:42
i have no chance on the tube one, but has anyone tried testing there memory a few days later on the first one?



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