Statistics for UK Counties General Knowledge: Devon

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Clue	Answer	% Correct
National Park, unhospitable moor and home to eponymous ponies.	Dartmoor	95%
Devon’s most populated city and historic naval port.	Plymouth	94%
The Motorway that brings you into the county.	M5	87%
Exmoor National Park lies within Devon and which other county?	Somerset	84%
This seaside town in the south of the county earned the nickname ‘The English Riviera’.	Torquay	77%
The name of the main railway station in Exeter.	Exeter St. Davids	76%
A famous dish of the county consisting of scones, jam and clotted cream. Its origins are disputed among other nearby counties!	Cream Tea	74%
Professional football team, who play at St. James Park.	Exeter City	66%
Elizabethan naval man, born in the town of Tavistock.	Sir Francis Drake	62%
Fortified wine, first produced by Benedictine monks and named after this Abbey	Buckfast	54%
This river is the longest in the county and forms the border between Devon and Cornwall.	River Tamar	54%
The only place name in the British Isles to have an exclamation mark as part of its name.	Westward Ho!	54%
Market town in the eastern corner of Devon, gave its name to a type of carpet.	Axminster	46%
Seat 2, Row 2 of the circle in the Torbay Picture House was the favourite seat of this famous crime novelist.	Agatha Christie	45%
Born in Devon, this explorer died aged 43 in Antarctica.	Robert Falcon Scott	45%
Another famous naval man, born in East Budleigh, sailed to the Americas but was later arrested and executed to appease the Spanish.	Sir Walter Raleigh	40%
Thoroughbred horse racing venue located on the north bank of the River Teign.	Newton Abbot	38%
Town known for its Black Swans, which were introduced from Western Australia.	Dawlish	33%
A D-Day live fire rehearsal, ‘Exercise Tiger’ turned in to a disaster on this beach in 1944.	Slapton Sands	28%
In 1919 this woman was elected the first ever female member of parliament to take office in the British Houses of Parliament. (In a constituency in South Devon).	Nancy Astor	13%