Which river famously flows through Abingdon-on-Thames?

Abingdon-on-Thames River
I see the Abbey Shopping Centre website are running a competition with the chance to win a £200 shopping token. Simply answer “Which river famously flows through Abingdon-on-Thames?” Options are …
A) Thames
B) Nile
C) Trent
Abingdon-on-Thames River
The competition closes on Fri, 31st May 2013 at 00:00 BST. So the winner will be able to spend the token in one of the new stores that are taking shape at the Abbey Shopping Centre.

12 thoughts on “Which river famously flows through Abingdon-on-Thames?

  1. Local Lass

    Is this question just co-incidence? I had heard that River Island were approached to take one of the units. But it was several months ago I heard this and there might not be any truth in it at all. But it does tie in with the competition question quite nicely, don’t you think?

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  2. Millihelen

    I think the Stert and the Ock both flow through the town, and the river in the question flows along side the town…
    can I have 3 prizes please?

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  3. Mark Thornton

    On a completely different subject – guess the book quote:

    “If you don’t want a man unhappy politically, don’t give him two sides to a question to worry him; give him one. Better yet give him none. Let him forget there is such a thing as war. If the government is inefficient, topheavy, and tax-mad, better it be all those than that people worry over it. Peace, Montag. Give the people contests they win by remembering the words to more popular songs or the names of state capitals or how much corn Iowa grew last year. Cram them full of noncombustible data, chock them so damned full of ‘facts’ they feel stuffed, but absolutely ‘brilliant’ with information. Then they’ll feel they’re thinking, they’ll get a sense of motion without moving. And they’ll be happy, because facts of that sort don’t change.”

    Fahrenheit 451 – Ray Bradbury.

    Published in 1953.

    I think it’s the Nile runs through Abingdon…

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  4. Peter on the edge of town

    I watch QI and half of what I thought I knew, I’m told is wrong. I read Mark’s comment and question what I’m told. I thought the answer to the website question was simple.

    I’m sure it is, therefore it is not a competition, but a lottery. So the new shop is either selling replacement windows or is an amusement arcade.

    Confused? You will be after the next thrilling installment of the Abingdon Blog….

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  5. Tom hutt

    i work in poundland and apparently there going to knock down the current one and move into the new one but this is only a rumour.

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  6. jb

    I’m glad to see that the Abbey shopping centre do not think we’re all dumbheads then????
    Why not just ask what our hometown is called, it couldn’t be much easier could it….

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