Bonus
In geographer Doreen Massey’s “A Global Sense of Place,” she uses a road in this city 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 the flight path to its 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 Brick Lane, part of this London neighbourhood. In 1991, this neighbourhood’s namesake covered market relocated north to a purpose-built site in Leyton.
ANSWER: Spitalfields [accept Spitalfields Market]
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| Editions | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 13 | 15.38 | 100% | 31% | 23% |
Conversion
| Team | Opponent | Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Total | Parts |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Birmingham | Oxford | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Cambridge D | Cambridge B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Cambridge E | Cambridge C | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Cardiff | LSE | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Durham A | Durham D | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EH |
| Durham C | Durham B | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EH |
| Edinburgh D | Edinburgh B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Imperial A | Imperial C | 10 | 0 | 10 | 20 | EH |
| Imperial D | Cambridge A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
| Sheffield A | York | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Sheffield B | Edinburgh A | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Southampton | Imperial B | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | E |
| Warwick | Bristol | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 | EM |
Summary
| Tournament | Edition | Exact Match? | Heard | PPB | Easy % | Medium % | Hard % |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UK (North) | UK | Y | 5 | 14.00 | 100% | 0% | 40% |
| UK (South) | UK | Y | 8 | 16.25 | 100% | 50% | 13% |
| Northern California | US | N | 4 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
| Southern California | US | N | 7 | 15.71 | 100% | 57% | 0% |
| Eastern Canada (1) | US | N | 4 | 17.50 | 75% | 75% | 25% |
| Eastern Canada (2) | US | N | 9 | 15.56 | 100% | 56% | 0% |
| Florida | US | N | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 75% | 0% |
| Great Lakes | US | N | 11 | 12.73 | 91% | 36% | 0% |
| Lower Mid-Atlantic | US | N | 9 | 14.44 | 100% | 44% | 0% |
| Upper Mid-Atlantic | US | N | 9 | 13.33 | 100% | 33% | 0% |
| Midwest | US | N | 9 | 15.56 | 100% | 56% | 0% |
| North | US | N | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 75% | 0% |
| Pacific | US | N | 8 | 20.00 | 100% | 88% | 13% |
| Southeast | US | N | 12 | 14.17 | 83% | 58% | 0% |
| Upstate NY | US | N | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |