Statistics for England County Quiz - Northamptonshire

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
County town	Northampton	97%
Motor racing circuit which is the usual home of the British Grand Prix	Silverstone	92%
Major river which flows through the above place	Nene	76%
Nickname of Northampton Town Football Club which references the town's shoe-making industry	The Cobblers	74%
Althorp is the ancestral family home of the Spencer family and burial place of this princess	Diana	71%
Town in the north of the county which was once home to a thriving steelworks	Corby	65%
Large industrial town on the above road, situated to the northeast of the county town	Kettering	63%
Sulgrave Manor was the ancestral home of this other 'Founding Father'	George Washington	57%
US 'Founding Father' whose father was born in Ecton in Northamptonshire	Benjamin Franklin	39%
Village which gave its name to a decisive battle in the First English Civil War	Naseby	39%
DNA double-helix pioneer, born in the county	Francis Crick	38%
Major Roman highway which passes through Towcester	Watling Street	37%
Major east-west trunk road which passes through the county, linking Felixstowe to the M1	A14	36%
Born in Rothwell, this regular of the 'Carry On' films went on to star on Broadway and narrated all seven Harry Potter audiobooks for the American market	Jim Dale	17%
Born in Grafton Regis in 1437, this woman married Edward IV and became queen of England	Elizabeth Woodville	12%