England County Quiz - Nottinghamshire

Can you guess these facts about the English ceremonial county of Nottinghamshire?

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County town	Nottingham
Major river which flows through the county	Trent
Legendary outlaw associated with the county	Robin Hood
The area in which the legendary outlaw lived	Sherwood Forest
Earlier name for the A1 trunk road which passes through Nottinghamshire	Great North Road
Born in Sneinton in 1829, preacher William Booth went on to form this charity	Salvation Army
Market town in the east of the county, once linked with the wool and cloth trade	Newark
Newstead Abbey in Nottinghamshire is the ancestral home of this 'Romantic' poet	Lord Byron
Daughter of the above poet and a pioneer in the field of computer programming	Ada Lovelace
Major Nottingham based health and pharmacy company, founded in 1849	Boots
Painkiller drug discovered by the above company and marketed as Nurofen and Advil	Ibuprofen
Mansfield born swimmer who won two gold medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics	Rebecca Adlington
Nottingham was once the heart of an industry making this delicate fabric	Lace
Nottingham pub which claims to be the oldest in Britain, possibly dating from 1189	Ye Olde Trip to Jerusalem
In 1216 this king and Magna Carta signatory died of dysentery in Nottinghamshire	John

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