Statistics for UK Counties General Knowledge: Yorkshire

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Clue	Answer	% Correct
Yorkshire’s largest city.	Leeds	98%
Commonly served with roast beef and vegetables to form part of the traditional Sunday roast.	Yorkshire Pudding	96%
Def Leppard, Arctic Monkeys and Pulp all formed in this city.	Sheffield	85%
The 2017 UK City of Culture.	Hull	81%
This famous bike race had it’s ‘Grand Depart’ in the county in 2014.	Tour De France	80%
Victorian resort town on the North Sea coast, home to the Peasholm Park Japanese gardens.	Scarborough	75%
The ruined Gothic Whitby Abbey was, in part, the inspiration for which famous novel?	Dracula	70%
York’s river	River Ouse	66%
Olympic heptathlete and gold medallist, born in the county.	Jessica Ennis-Hill	63%
Yorkshire’s county cricket ground.	Headingley	56%
United play at Bramall Lane, where do Wednesday play?	Hillsborough	52%
Infamous English criminal executed in York in 1739 for horse theft.	Richard “Dick” Turpin	50%
Market town in East Yorkshire that is also a woman’s name.	Beverley	45%
Real name of the serial killer ‘The Yorkshire Ripper’.	Peter Sutcliffe	45%
Small, roughly circular black sweet, made of liquorice, named after this Yorkshire town.	Pontefract cake	41%
Huddersfield FC’s nickname.	The Terriers	36%
Born in Kingston-Upon-Hull in 1759, this politician and social campaigner helped to bring about the abolition of slavery.	William Wilberforce	31%
A village known for it’s mining heritage, it’s brass band and the location for the film ‘Brassed Off’.	Grimethorpe	15%
This former Labour party spin doctor was born in Keighley.	Alistair Campbell	13%
Led by Halfdan and Ivar the Boneless, the Viking army attacked York on November 1 of which year?	866	3%