Statistics for England County Quiz - Devon

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
County town	Exeter	90%
Port city known for its maritime heritage and historic Barbican district	Plymouth	89%
National Park in southern Devon which includes the largest area of granite in Britain	Dartmoor	85%
Name given to the area comprising the resort towns of Torquay, Paignton and Brixham	English {Riviera}	77%
Best-selling author novelist from Devon, well known for her detective novels	Agatha Christie	76%
Devon born world champion and Olympic diver	Tom Daley	75%
Sea captain, privateer, naval officer, and explorer from Tavistock, best known for his circumnavigation of the world in a single expedition	Sir Francis Drake	71%
Devon village, and the only place in Britain with an exclamation mark in its name	Westward Ho!	68%
England's longest waymarked long-distance footpath which passes through Devon	South West {Coast} Path	66%
Island off the north coast of Devon which is known for its rich bird life,	Lundy	53%
Town which is home to the Britannia Royal Naval College for training the Navy's officers	Dartmouth	46%
A water-powered funicular cliff railway joins Lynmouth with this twin town	Lynton	43%
'Romantic' poet born in Ottery St. Mary, who wrote 'The Rime of the Ancient Mariner'	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	33%
Royal Navy dockyard near the above city, one of three such bases in the UK	Devonport	30%
Brunel's iconic railway bridge which spans the River Tamar	Royal {Albert} Bridge	14%