Statistics for Smaller U.K. Towns That You May Know

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Population	Hint	Answer	% Correct
31,022	English port town famed for its white cliffs	Dover	94%
34,003	Overseas territory bordering Spain, home to a famous Rock	Gibraltar	90%
55,240	Geoffrey Chaucer : "________ Tales"	Canterbury	85%
27,445	Where Shakespeare was born	Stratford-upon- Avon	80%
61,749	"Are you going to ___________ Fair / parsley, sage rosemary, and thyme"	Scarborough	64%
12,043	Northernmost town in England, whose football club plays in the Scottish league system	{Berwick}-upon- Tweed	48%
300	As a challenge, many travel between Land's End in Cornwall and this Scottish village	John o' Groats	47%
48,069	A person from this city in northern England is a "Dunelmian"	Durham	46%
790	Kentish village with a picturesque castle which shares its name with a major city in northern England	Leeds	45%
8,250	Market town which shares its name with famous Welsh "Beacons"	Brecon	42%
27,938	In Manx, this town is known as "Doolish"	Douglas	41%
10,459	Town in Scottish Highlands, owing much of its tourism to nearby Ben Nevis	Fort {William}	41%
2,460	Capital of the Falkland Islands	Port Stanley	41%
18,958	Capital of Guernsey	Saint {Peter} Port	36%
1,600	Welsh city, and the smallest in the UK to attain official city status	St Davids	35%
45,184	Hampshire city which may have served as the capital of Alfred the Great	Winchester	34%
18,093	Most populous town on the Cardigan Bay of the Welsh coast	Aberystwyth	29%
14,777	Northern Irish city whose two cathedrals are both named after St. Patrick	Armagh	20%