Bonus
In geographer Doreen Massey’s “A Global Sense of Place,” she uses this city’s Kilburn High Road as an example of how one physical space has ties to spaces outside itself like Ireland and India. For 10 points each:
[10e] Name this city, where Massey speculates Kilburn High Road is on a flight path to this city’s Heathrow Airport.
ANSWER: London
[10m] On London’s Blackstock Road, the BBC described the interactions of immigrants from Algeria, Ethiopia, and from this autonomous region led from Ürümqi (“uh-rum-CHEE”). This autonomous region contains the Taklamakan Desert.
ANSWER: Xīnjiāng [or Sinkiang or Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region or Xīnjiāng Wéiwú'ěr Zìzhìqū or Shinjang Uyghur Aptonom Rayoni; prompt on East Turkestan] (Those immigrants are Uyghurs.)
[10h] A former Huguenot church turned synagogue is now a mosque on this street, which names a London neighborhood in Tower Hamlets home to many Bangladeshis. This street also names a 2003 Monica Ali novel.
ANSWER: Brick Lane
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| Editions | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 91 | 15.60 | 96% | 58% | 2% |
Conversion
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK (North) | UK | N | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 0% | 40% |
| UK (South) | UK | N | 8 | 16.25 | 100% | 50% | 13% |
| Northern California | US | Y | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| Southern California | US | Y | 7 | 15.71 | 100% | 57% | 0% |
| Eastern Canada (1) | US | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 75% | 75% | 25% |
| Eastern Canada (2) | US | Y | 9 | 15.56 | 100% | 56% | 0% |
| Florida | US | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 75% | 0% |
| Great Lakes | US | Y | 11 | 12.73 | 91% | 36% | 0% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | US | Y | 9 | 14.44 | 100% | 44% | 0% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | US | Y | 9 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| Midwest | US | Y | 9 | 15.56 | 100% | 56% | 0% |
| North | US | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 75% | 0% |
| Pacific | US | Y | 8 | 20.00 | 100% | 88% | 13% |
| Southeast | US | Y | 12 | 14.17 | 83% | 58% | 0% |
| Upstate NY | US | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |