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This week’s Sunday quickfire quiz will start at Sunday 4th September at 8:00pm

Please be aware of the rules:
- Scores will be worked out using the equation:

Score = (100-minites after start time) x Percentage of correct answers

Therefore giving a maximum score of 100 points. in the case of a tied score the faster will win.

- London Underground means the Bakerloo, Central, Circle, District, Hammersmith and City, Jubilee, Metropolitan, Northern, Piccadilly, Victoria and Waterloo and City lines and stations currently on the tube map.

- tfl relates to all stations and lines on the standard oyster map

The Raven wrote:... and open and current stations

Any existing station, open or closed is covered by this, as you have used the word "and" to join the two. After all, a closed station is still in existence, and is therefore "current".

Any station currently on the tube map would suffice I guess....

Live from the little chef on the A14!

Right, ready, go!
Please PM me your answers!
 
1. What tfl stations can you get a direct trains to Epping and Heathrow Airport.
2. Unscramble this London Underground station name. nkeeamnmtb.
3. Which two London underground stations names are made up of 5 letters ONLY?
4. Between which two tfl stations is the oldest tunnel that runs under the Thames?
5. What station is next in this sequence? Whitechapel, Marble Arch, Poplar, Highbury and Islington, Bank ...
6. Which London Underground lines run in the Eastern Hemisphere?
7. Which London Underground station has the literal translation into French as "Route cheval noir".
8. Using the code A=1, B=2, C=3 etc, what station is 3/15/3/11/6/15/19/20/5/18/19
9. How many stations did the DLR open with on August 31st 1987?
10. Which railway line; served by tube trains, runs for 8 1/2 miles, has all of its stations above ground and has five of its eight stations with only one platform?

Bugger just got out the bath!

Question 1 makes no sense.

tubeguru wrote:Question 1 makes no sense.

I have made a stab at the interpretation

Prob haven't won but me and my mrs have easily got almost all of them

Sorry for the delay in result this is due to my computer freezing!

1. What tfl stations can you get a direct train to BOTH Heathrow Airport and Epping?
Ealing Broadway and Holborn

2. Unscramble this London Underground station name. nkeeamnmtb.
Embankment

3. Which two London underground stations names are made up of 5 letters ONLY?
Angel, Upney
(Ongar as a closed station doesn‘t count)

4. Between which two tfl stations is the oldest tunnel to run under the Thames?
Wapping and Rotherhithe (The Thames Tunnel)

5. What station is next in this sequence? Whitechapel, Marble Arch, Poplar, Highbury and Islington, Bank ...
Holland Park as the sequence of starting stations for the random 15 championship 2010/11. No one got this correct!

6. What London Underground lines run in the Eastern Hemisphere?
Jubilee, Hammersmith and City, District, Central (The Victoria very nearly does)

7. Which London Underground station has a literal translation into French as "Route cheval noir". Blackhorse Road

8. Using the code A=1, B=2, c=3 etc, what station is 3/15/3/11/6/15/19/20/5/18/19
Cockfosters

9. How many stations did the DLR open with on August 31st 1987?
15

10. Which railway line; served by tube trains, runs for 8 1/2 miles, has all of its stations above ground and has five of its eight stations with only one platform?
Island Line on the Isle of Wight - Probably the only tube trains to run over the sea as well!
(I think they are 1938 Bakerloo trains? Apparently some of the ‘67 Victoria stock may be going there?)

Right the results:

6th Going Underground
4/10 in 25mins = 30 points

5th jamesthegill
5/10 in 34mins = 34 points

4th krollo
9/10 in 60mins = 36 points

3rd greatkingrat
7/10 in 33mins = 47 points

2nd jbom
8/10 in 36mins = 51 pionts

and the winner is...

1st uefacup81
8/10 in 9mins = 73 points

garion24wales wrote:Prob haven't won but me and my mrs have easily got almost all of them

How well did you do?

All of them except 5 and 9. She worked out embankment and the hemisphere ones.

And I'm not sure about the line (as they were on both the Piccadilly and bakerloo if I remember correctly but definitely 1938 stock which replaced the older standard stock trains due to corrosion from the salt air.

garion24wales wrote:And I'm not sure about the line (as they were on both the Piccadilly and bakerloo if I remember correctly but definitely 1938 stock which replaced the older standard stock trains due to corrosion from the salt air.

Never buy a car from the Isle of wight for the same reason!

Yep :p when I used to go to porthcawl every summer, you'd always see rusty poles and satellite dishes and railings etc.