Statistics for Britain's Industrial Revolution

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Scottish engineer who significantly improved the efficiency of the steam engine	James Watt	68%
Mining and burning of this fossil fuel helped to drive the industrial revolution	Coal	65%
Two places connected in 1830 by the world's first inter-city railway	Liverpool	60%
	Manchester	60%
Engineer of the Great Western Railway and the SS Great Britain	Isambard Kingdom Brunel	37%
Widely considered as the 'Father of Railways'	George Stephenson	32%
County in which the world's first iron bridge was constructed in 1781	Shropshire	29%
Cornish chemist and inventor of a miner's safety lamp	Humphry Davy	25%
Nickname given to Manchester dues to its importance in the textile industry	Cottonopolis	21%
Textile for which the town of Macclesfield became well known	Silk	19%
Inventor and namesake of a steel making process	Henry Bessemer	17%
Winner of the 1829 Rainhill trials, held to choose a locomotive for the above railway	Rocket	17%
Britain's first major canal, opened to transport the above mineral to Manchester	{Bridgewater} Canal	14%
Legal bodies established to improve and maintain roads though toll collection	{Turnpike} Trusts	11%
Pioneering canal engineer, who worked on more than 300 canals	James Brindley	6%