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Welcome to Title Builder Beta.

This small piece of kit is designed to make building your Quiz, Crossword or Puzzle question more effective. It should make finding your question easier for others and, the easier it is to find, the more likely someone is to answer it!

To build an easy to find question title simply select the paper and quiz, enter the quiz number if relevant and fill in the Publication Date. Once you’re happy click “Build Title” and the information should populate the Title field. Fill in the final required details of your question as you normally would, and click submit.

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Pelican Crossing

georgit79 | 18:27 Fri 27th Aug 2004 | Quizzes & Puzzles

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Why is a Pelican Crossing so named? It obviously has nothing to do with pelicans.

Mensa

Birds

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ChrisHolland

Originally PE-LI-CON, Pedestrian Light Controlled... but now known as pelican crossings.

ali_alic

And a Toucan Crossing is called so because two types can cross (pedestrian and cycles)...

jenstar

I think this may have been the first question I ever answered on this site, way back in the mists of time. Anyway, yes, it's PEdestrian LIght CONtrolled, though it was mainly a contrived animal name to go along with zebra crossings, which were already in existence.

Dazzler

Because Penguin would be silly

psym

Also, Puffin crossings are named from "Pedestrian User Friendly INtelligent" which is an even more contrived way to try and keep to the animal theme.

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