Statistics for England County Quiz - Nottinghamshire

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
County town	Nottingham	98%
Legendary outlaw associated with the county	Robin Hood	96%
The area in which the legendary outlaw lived	{Sherwood} Forest	96%
Major river which flows through the county	Trent	94%
Major Nottingham based health and pharmacy company, founded in 1849	Boots	76%
Nottingham was once the heart of an industry making this delicate fabric	Lace	66%
In 1216 this king and Magna Carta signatory died of dysentery in Nottinghamshire	John	65%
Earlier name for the A1 trunk road which passes through Nottinghamshire	{Great} North Road	60%
Nottingham pub which claims to be the oldest in Britain, possibly dating from 1189	Ye Olde Trip to {Jerusalem}	59%
Newstead Abbey in Nottinghamshire is the ancestral home of this 'Romantic' poet	Lord Byron	51%
Mansfield born swimmer who won two gold medals at the 2008 Summer Olympics	Rebecca Adlington	51%
Market town in the east of the county, once linked with the wool and cloth trade	Newark	49%
Painkiller drug discovered by the above company and marketed as Nurofen and Advil	Ibuprofen	46%
Born in Sneinton in 1829, preacher William Booth went on to form this charity	Salvation Army	46%
Daughter of the above poet and a pioneer in the field of computer programming	Ada Lovelace	35%