Statistics for England County Quiz - Warwickshire

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Warwickshire playwright known as the 'Bard of Avon'	William Shakespeare	97%
Spa town known for its Regency architecture and broad boulevards	Royal {Leamington} Spa	95%
County town	Warwick	93%
The town in which 'The Bard' was born	Stratford-upon-Avon	92%
Independent school and name given to a team sport 'invented' by pupil William Webb Ellis	Rugby	86%
Nickname for the flight of 21 locks on the Grand Union Canal at Hatton	Stairway to {Heaven}	84%
Farmhouse, and popular tourist attraction, named after the wife of the above playwright	{Anne Hathaway's} Cottage	71%
Ancient Roman road which passes through the county from south-west to north-east	{Fosse} Way	58%
Town in northern Warwickshire, the largest in the county	Nuneaton	54%
Riverside town in the rural south of the county, located in the 'Vale of the Red Horse'	Shipston-on-{Stour}	54%
Castle which was the subject of a long siege in 1266 and which later became a base for Lancastrian forces during the Wars of the Roses	Kenilworth	51%
Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, part of which extends into south Warwickshire	Cotswolds	50%
Novelist born in Nuneaton, whose works include 'Middlemarch' and 'Silas Marner'	George Eliot	47%
Epithet given to Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, who was instrumental in the deposition of two kings during the Wars of the Roses	Kingmaker	37%
Bedworth born showjumper who won a Gold Medal at the London 2012 Olympics	Nick Skelton	13%