Question of the day

[zagatoes30]

OK seems to have you stumped, there are 3 full-time stations on the River thames at Chiswick, Tower & Gravesend - The other one is of course Humber out on Spurn Point.

So as Spkenneyuk, MarkMas and JonW all got one each one of you three best set the next question

 

[JonW]

Gravesend, Tilbury, or somewhere around there?

OK seems to have you stumped, there are 3 full-time stations on the River thames at Chiswick, Tower & Gravesend - The other one is of course Humber out on Spurn Point.

So as Spkenneyuk, MarkMas and JonW all got one each one of you three best set the next question

MarkMas got two...

 

[spkennyuk]

Your question then Markmas.

 

[MarkMas]

OK, I'm going to return to my specialist subject.....

More English monarchs have been buried in London than anywhere else. Which English county has the next highest number of monarchs' burial-places after London? And for bonus cred, which are the other nine English counties (apart from London) with a monarch's burial-place?

 

[spkennyuk]

Im torn between Winchester and Berkshire.

 

[zagatoes30]

MarkMas got two...

SO he did, missed that one

 

[zagatoes30]

Im torn between Winchester and Berkshire.

Both would be my first guesses, Winchester is Hampshire, alternatively Dorset as both Wimbourne & Sherbourne Abbeys have royal tombs I think.

Other counties, Somerset (Glastonbury), Kent (Canterbury), Leicestershire (Richard III), Essex (Waltham Abbey, William the Conqueror), Wiltshire (Malmesbury) after that I'm struggling I think one of the Edwards is buried in Gloucestershire but don't know which one.

 

[MarkMas]

Yes good progress so far (in alphabetical order):
1. Berkshire (Windsor, and Reading Abbey) - [spkennyuk]
2. Dorset (Wimborne & Sherborne) - [zagatoes30]
3. Essex (Waltham Abbey, but Harold Godwinson not William the Conqueror who went back to Normandy) - [zagatoes30]
4. Gloucestershire (one of the Edwards) - [zagatoes30]
5. Hampshire (Winchester) - [spkennyuk]
6. Kent (Canterbury, and Faversham) - [zagatoes30]
7. Leicestershire (Richard III) - [zagatoes30]
8. Somerset (Glastonbury) - [zagatoes30]
9. Wiltshire (Malmesbury) - [zagatoes30]

So which is the top county and which is the missing county?

(I'm going to have to ask harder questions!)

 

[spkennyuk]

I will go with Winchester / Hampshire being the top place/county.

York / Yorkshire possibly as the missing one.

 

[MarkMas]

I will go with Winchester / Hampshire being the top place/county.

York / Yorkshire possibly as the missing one.

Wrong and Wrong!

 

[allandwf]

Is this a regional question?

 

[MarkMas]

Is this a regional question?

It's an English question!!

 

[zagatoes30]

Berkshire being top from me, Windsor Castle is in Berks is it not?

How about Surrey as the missing one, it is the one missing Southern county between Dorset and London

 

[allandwf]

It's an English question!!

A hhhhhhhh. It is then. I'm out

 

[midlifecrisis]

Are we talking post-conquest or can it include Mercian Kings, and therefore Staffordshire as a few were buried in Tamworth...

 

[Navcorr]

It's an English question!!

A hhhhhhhh. It is then. I'm out

We mustn't allow these upstart Sassenachs away with this - what say you we scour the archives for the most obscure Haggis facts. That'll teach them.

If it doesn't we could try force feeding them some Haggis - that would definitely teach them

 

[midlifecrisis]

We mustn't allow these upstart Sassenachs away with this - what say you we scour the archives for the most obscure Haggis facts. That'll teach them.

If it doesn't we could try force feeding them some Haggis - that would definitely teach them

We've had worse - Troyes 2014!

 

[Navcorr]

We've had worse - Troyes 2014!

Do tell

Worse than a Burns Night supper disaster? A young (English) chef didn't realise the correct preparations didn't involve removing the haggis casing and boiling it. FFS! Haggis soup was not well received - we claimed sabotage

 

[allandwf]

We've had worse - Troyes 2014!

 

[MarkMas]

Berkshire being top from me, Windsor Castle is in Berks is it not?

I think I'm going to have to give it to zag, for committing to Berkshire and providing so many other great answers.

My count is:
19 London
12 Berkshire (Windsor (Castle & Frogmore), and Reading Abbey) - [spkennyuk]
9 Hampshire (Winchester) - [spkennyuk]
4 Dorset (Wimborne & Sherborne) - [zagatoes30]
3 Somerset (Glastonbury) - [zagatoes30]
2 Kent (Canterbury, and Faversham) - [zagatoes30]
1 Essex (Waltham Abbey) - [zagatoes30]
1 Gloucestershire (one of the Edwards) - [zagatoes30]
1 Leicestershire (Richard III) - [zagatoes30]
1 Wiltshire (Malmesbury) - [zagatoes30]

and finally...

1 Worcestershire (John)

Zag over to you - probably something about Scottish kings, then...