FAMOUS TWINS
UNUSUAL STORIES
GUESS THE CITY
HISTORY OF TWINNING
100

This city twinned with Walt Disney World in Florida.

Swindon

100

These three cities have funny names and celebrate a special day together every August 9.

Dull, Boring and Bland

100

This city beat 24 other UK towns to twin with the Magic Kingdom.

Swindon

100

The German word coined to describe the level of destruction of Coventry in 1940.

"covertried"

200

This German city twinned with Nottingham to help with tram systems.

Karlsruhe

200

This town twinned with a fictional city from Terry Pratchett's Discworld series.

Wincanton

200

This city is famous for its university and has twinned with Perm (Russia) and Ramallah (Palestine).

Oxford

200

The year when Coventry and Stalingrad signed an official "bond of friendship".

1944

300

This Scottish city twinned with Dunedin (New Zealand) over 18,800 km apart.

 Edinburgh

300

This city's twinning with New Orleans is based on jazz, funk and drum and bass.

Bristol

300

This English city is considered the birthplace of the modern twin city movement.

Coventry

300

Who embroidered the names of 830 women on a tablecloth sent to Stalingrad?

 May Adams

400

This English city has the most university partners, including Leiden, Bonn and Padua.

Oxford

400

This partnership started when a woman cycled through Boring (USA) and phoned home with an idea.

 Dull and Boring

400

This city was renamed from Stalingrad in 1961 but kept its twinning bond with Coventry.

Volgograd

400

What was the name of the project dedicated to the 80th anniversary of the Coventry-Stalingrad contact?

 "Digital tablecloth"

M
e
n
u