Statistics for The UK in Numbers

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Hint	Margin of Error	Answer	% Correct
Lions in Trafalgar Square	0	4	100%
Age at which it is legal to buy alcohol in a pub	0	18	61%
Teams in the English Premier League	0	20	52%
Counties in England (current, not historical)	+/−2	48	52%
Telephone area dialling code for Birmingham	0	0121	48%
Number of the motorway which links Cambridge and London	0	11	48%
Year in which the RMS Titanic was launched	0	1911	48%
Bells in the Elizabeth Tower (sometimes referred to as "Big Ben")	0	5	48%
Official cities in the UK	+/−4	76	48%
Royal Parks in London	0	8	43%
National Parks in the UK	0	15	39%
Underground (Tube) lines in London	0	11	35%
Age of Winston Churchill at the time of his death	0	90	26%
Length of the River Severn (in miles)	+/-10	220	22%
Distance from Lands End to John O'Groats as the crow flies (in miles)	+/-20	603	22%
Length of the M25, London's Orbital Motorway (in miles)	+/-5	117	17%
Munros (mountains over 3000 ft) in Scotland	+/−12	282	17%
Height of Mount Snowdon (in feet)	+/-100	3560	17%
Length of Hadrian's Wall	+/−4	73	17%
Weight of an Olympic curling stone, made from Scottish granite (in pounds)	+/−3	38-44	9%