Warwickshire A-Z

Name these places, people, and things from A-Z that are associated with the English county of Warwickshire.

When the answer is a person, the letter refers to their surname (except for G and Z).

This quiz is about the historic county, which encompasses territory now part of the ceremonial county of West Midlands.

* In 1944, this city began with the letter S

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	Hint	Answer
A	Ancient forest that once covered the west of the county	Forest of Arden
B	England's second city	Birmingham
C	City heavily bombed during WWII	Coventry
D	Reclusive musician from Tanworth; Northern Sky	Nick Drake
E	Middlemarch author from N	George Eliot
F	Roman road connecting Exeter and Lincoln that crosses the county	Fosse Way
G	Noblewoman who rode naked through C	Lady Godiva
H	Theatre opened in B in 1899	Hippodrome
I	Cotswolds village in the southwest	Ilmington
J	Car company headquartered in C	Jaguar
K	Partially ruined castle in the centre of the county	Kenilworth Castle
L	"Royal" Victorian resort town	Leamington Spa
M	Rural area separating B and C	Meriden Gap
N	Town near the Leicestershire border	Nuneaton
O	Murdered Elizabethan poet from I	Thomas Overbury
P	Northern village where leading cultural figures mixed in Elizabethan times	Polesworth
Q	Village known for a witchcraft-linked murder in 1945	Quinton
R	Town where a sport of the same name was invented	Rugby
S	Bard from Stratford-upon-Avon	William Shakespeare
T	Play by S featuring Prospero	The Tempest
U	Word similar to canine that describes the animal featured on the county's flag	Ursine
V	C began the concept of "twinned cities", twinning with this war-torn city in 1944*	Volgograd
W	Jet engine inventor from C	Frank Whittle
X	John Hall-Edwards was the first to put this technology into practice in 1896	X-ray
Y	The Specials, from C, recorded this Number 1 single	Too Much Too Young
Z	Labour MP for C South	Zarah Sultana

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