What's in a Name? The Four Track, Now! Daft Quiz

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[TonyK]

Would 9 be Iver?  Evreham in the Domesday Book.

Spot on! I'm glad you got it, because I didn't write the answer down, and had forgotten it.

[grahame]

Is 6 St John's Wood?

It is indeed - it still astonishes me that someone should spot that or make it up.

So which is the underground station with none of the letters of "Great Western" in it then 

[TonyK]

So which is the underground station with none of the letters of "Great Western" in it then 

Pimlico?

[grahame]

So which is the underground station with none of the letters of "Great Western" in it then 

Pimlico?

Indeed - and which two stations aren't in England (and I'll stop at that point and leave your quiz alone!)

[froome]

Indeed - and which two stations aren't in England (and I'll stop at that point and leave your quiz alone!)

Possibly West India Quay and Holland Park? If you include the DLR^▸ (Docklands Light Railway) there is also Cyprus.

[grahame]

Indeed - and which two stations aren't in England (and I'll stop at that point and leave your quiz alone!)

Possibly West India Quay and Holland Park? If you include the DLR^▸ (Docklands Light Railway) there is also Cyprus.

I was including the DLR and Cyprus was one of them .. which struck me as really ironic as not in England!

[TonyK]

So which two tube stations use all of the vowels in their names?

[stuving]

Indeed - and which two stations aren't in England (and I'll stop at that point and leave your quiz alone!)

Possibly West India Quay and Holland Park? If you include the DLR^▸ (Docklands Light Railway) there is also Cyprus.

I was including the DLR and Cyprus was one of them .. which struck me as really ironic as not in England!

Without that you have to go for Hainault, and ignore the archaic spelling.
Not far from Waterloo, which is the other obvious one.

[TonyK]

Visiting Copenhagen, I was surprised to find something similar to Elephant and Castle as the emblem of the highest order of Denmark. See here.

[JayMac]

So which two tube stations use all of the vowels in their names?

Mansion House and South Ealing.

South Ealing being unique in using each vowel only once.

And, unusually for me, I got them the old fashioned way. Looking at a paper tube map, rather than Google.

[PhilWakely]

Returning to the original quiz........... as more than 24 hours have elapsed since the original post and with the permission of FT,N, a couple of further suggestions......

Q7 Danny Boyle - producer of both the London 2012 opening ceremony and Trainspotting the movie;
Q8 Redland.

I have a feeling that the 70's international cricketer/footballer is not exactly straightforward.

[TonyK]

Mansion House and South Ealing.

South Ealing being unique in using each vowel only once.

And, unusually for me, I got them the old fashioned way. Looking at a paper tube map, rather than Google.

Very retro, BNM - well done!

Returning to the original quiz........... as more than 24 hours have elapsed since the original post and with the permission of FT,N, a couple of further suggestions......

Q7 Danny Boyle - producer of both the London 2012 opening ceremony and Trainspotting the movie;
Q8 Redland.

I have a feeling that the 70's international cricketer/footballer is not exactly straightforward.

Danny Boyle is the very Lancashire born film director I had in mind! And Lal Jomi is a literal translation of Red land into Hindi - well done Phil!

And you are right about the answer to who played football for Scotland and cricket for England in the 1970s, but not in the same year. The correct answer is (drum roll): Denis Law and Ian Botham.

[PhilWakely]

I have a feeling that the 70's international cricketer/footballer is not exactly straightforward.

... you are right about the answer to who played football for Scotland and cricket for England in the 1970s, but not in the same year. The correct answer is (drum roll): Denis Law and Ian Botham.

Nice one!  And in a similar vein, which Pakistani father/son combination played international cricket in the 80s (ish) ?

[Red Squirrel]

Q8 Redland.

Tsk, beat me to it.

Redland (the Bristol one) is, I believe, unique in that whereas other places called Redland are 'ridded land' (i.e. land which has had all those pesky trees removed), the Bristol one's name derives from the fact that the land there is, er, red. Iron deposits or something.

Simple folk, us Bristolians.

[froome]

Q8 Redland.

Tsk, beat me to it.

Redland (the Bristol one) is, I believe, unique in that whereas other places called Redland are 'ridded land' (i.e. land which has had all those pesky trees removed), the Bristol one's name derives from the fact that the land there is, er, red. Iron deposits or something.

Simple folk, us Bristolians.

Actually no, I don't think that is correct. There are various theories as to why Redland is so called, but AFAIK^▸ (as far as I know) a derivation from 'red land' isn't one of them.

The two main possibilities are 'cleared land' (as in 'ridded land') or land that has been divided into three, based on some of its earlier spellings, which suggest the Roman practice of dividing up a man's land into three on their death.

As an aside, there is much potential confusion between derivations from 'red' and 'reed'. Most derivations from 'red' would now be found in names with Reed (or similar) as the Old English form of red was 'read'. Meanwhile, most names deriving from 'reed' are now found in names with Red, as the Old English form of reed was 'hreod', which would have been pronounced more like red. However, one of the only Reds that does certainly derive from red is Redcliffe in Bristol, which does indeed derive from the red-coloured stone.