Statistics for England County Quiz - Shropshire

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Born in Shropshire, this naturalist is best known for his theory of evolution	Charles Darwin	96%
County town	Shrewsbury	93%
Village which takes its name from a cast iron river crossing which first opened in 1781	Ironbridge	82%
River which flows through the above city	Severn	81%
1960s new town which has since grown to be the largest in the county	Telford	81%
Old name for the county of Shropshire	Salop	72%
Collection of poems by A.E. Housman which portrays the life of youth in the countryside	A Shropshire {Lad}	57%
Shropshire was once a key part of this group of English counties which border Wales	{Welsh} Marches	54%
Prominent and well-known landmark hill in East Shropshire, that has an iron age fort and offers good views of the county	The Wrekin	53%
Shropshire town described by Sir John Betjeman as "probably the loveliest town in England"	Ludlow	48%
Market town and northern terminus of a heritage railway	Bridgnorth	45%
Large 'Victorian Town' open-air museum in Madeley	Blists Hill	34%
Born in Dawley in 1848 this was the first person to swim the English Channel unaided	Matthew Webb	32%
Computer pioneer who lived for a time at Dudmaston Hall in Shropshire	Charles Babbage	26%
Coming from a Quaker family, this person played a big role in the Industrial Revolution with his method of producing pig iron in a blast furnace fuelled by coke	Abraham Darby	22%