Can anyone help with a type B question please?

[pof4]

Dear All,
Absolutely fantastic website with many extremely helpful people - I'm going through the whole process of home tutoring for the first time with my daughter - and would appreciate any replies to this question

odd two out -

Wales, Yorkshire, Cornwall, Nottingham, Devon




The answers are Wales and Nottingham - but I can't see the reasoning behind it - I have defeated my embarassment (took 3 days!) and decided to post.

[Reading Mum]

Wales is a country, Nottingham is a town/city, the other 3 are counties

[patricia]

Dear All,


Wales, Yorkshire, Cornwall, Nottingham, Devon
The answers are Wales and Nottingham -

Welcome to the forum.

Always look for the 3 that are related first.

Yorkshire, Cornwall and Devon are Counties.

Wales is a country and Nottingham is a city. The 2 that are odd do not need to be related thay could be as obscure as table and mother.

Good Luck with your preparation.

Patricia

[pof4]

Oh my gosh! - why didn't I see that - thank you for your prompt replies Reading Mum and Patricia - I was going down the road of counting up vowels etc!

[heartmum]

Wow that was a tough one, bearing in mind probably most adults would not work this out .... let alone a 10 year old!!!

[daveg]

Wales is a country, Nottingham is a town/city, the other 3 are counties

The Cornish nationalists might disagree.

This can't be a real 11+ question from a real paper, surely?

[hermanmunster]

They might not agree in the Kingdom of Yorkshire either!!

[stevew61]

The Olympic flame has landed in the UK on board a flight from Athens, ready for the London 2012 torch relay.

The plane touched down at a Cornish air base just before 19:30BST carrying Princess Anne, Locog chairman Lord Coe and footballer David Beckham.

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That'll be the Greeks sending the Olympic flame to the senior UK country.