Statistics for England County Quiz - Isle of Wight

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Osborne House was the island home of this long-reigning monarch	Victoria	89%
Home town of an annual, international sailing regatta	Cowes	80%
Seaside town where a railway line runs to the ferry terminal at the end of the long pier	Ryde	79%
Iconic row of chalk stacks off the western extremity of the Isle of Wight	The Needles	79%
County town	Newport	78%
The Isle of Wight is one of the few places in the UK where this attractive animal can still be seen, separated from its grey cousin by the water	Red Squirrel	78%
Straight which separates the Isle of Wight from the mainland	Solent	77%
Large naval port city on the mainland to which the above ferry service runs	Portsmouth	76%
Town on the north-west coast, which has a ferry service to Lymington on the mainland	Yarmouth	62%
Bay near the westernmost point of the island which is known for its multi-coloured sand cliffs	{Alum} Bay	56%
This island prison, along with Albany, once enjoyed notoriety as one of the toughest jails in the British Isles	Parkhurst	50%
The island was where this pioneering person carried out his experiments with wireless transmission at the end of the 19th Century	Guglielmo Marconi	42%
Roman name for the Isle of Wight	Vectis	42%
Born on the island, this actor's first major film role was in 'The French Lieutenant's Woman'	Jeremy Irons	26%
Born in Freshwater, this scientist, architect and polymath was the first to visualize a microorganism when using a microscope	Robert Hooke	16%