Statistics for Devon A-Z

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General Stats

This quiz has been taken 35 times
(9 since last reset)
The average score is 16 of 25

Answer Stats

	Hint	Answer	% Correct
E	Second-largest city; county town	Exeter	100%
L	Island in the Bristol Channel; once controlled by North African pirates	Lundy	100%
P	Largest city	Plymouth	100%
F	Explorer born in Tavistock	Sir {Francis} Drake	100%
D	National park	Dartmoor	86%
N	Seventh-largest settlement; once a railway boom town	Newton Abbot	86%
S	Seaside town on the Jurassic Coast	Sidmouth	86%
T	River that constitutes the border with Cornwall	Tamar	86%
R	Torquay, Paignton, Brixham	The English {Riviera}	86%
C	Writer of detective fiction who grew up in Torquay	Agatha Christie	71%
A	Custard company based in Lifton	Ambrosia	71%
M	Ship that left P for the New World in 1620	Mayflower	71%
W	Village named after a novel with an exclamation mark in its name	Westward Ho!	71%
G	A replica of this ship, which F circumnavigated the world with, can be found in Brixham	Golden Hind	57%
I	North coast resort town	Ilfracombe	57%
O	Town named (indirectly) after an aquatic mammal	Ottery St Mary	57%
Q	Tiny parish near South Molton with around thirty inhabitants	{Queen's} Nympton	57%
V	Meaning of the "combe" suffix found in many Devon place-names	Valley	57%
H	Highest point	High Willhays	43%
J	Dog breed named after a Devon vicar	Jack Russell Terrier	43%
K	Cave system where 40,000 year old human remains have been discovered	Kents Cavern	29%
Y	Village located on the road between Barnstaple and Bideford; home to Bronze Age "stone rows"	Yelland	29%
B	The county's patron saint, born in Crediton; "Apostle to the Germans"	Boniface	14%
U	Stately home at Chudleigh	Ugbrooke House	0%
Z	Village with a Latin name meaning "Cell of the Monks"	Zeal Monachorum	0%