Multiple choice general knowledge history

City of dreaming spires

  1. Manchester

  2. Yorkshire

  3. Oxford

  4. Rome
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C Correct answer
Explanation

Oxford is called the 'City of Dreaming Spires' by poet Matthew Arnold, referring to its beautiful skyline of university college towers and domes. Manchester and Yorkshire are major cities/counties but not associated with this epithet, and Rome has different literary nicknames (the Eternal City).

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