| Hint | Answer | % Correct | |
|---|---|---|---|
| A | Town home to an impressive castle | Alnwick | 100%
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| D | TV presenters from Newcastle: Ant and ___ | Dec | 100%
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| E | Railway line that crosses the county | East Coast Main Line | 100%
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| G | Someone from Newcastle is a ______ | Geordie | 100%
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| H | Northern limit of the Roman world | Hadrian's Wall | 100%
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| L | Holy Island | Lindisfarne | 100%
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| M | County town | Morpeth | 100%
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| U | Football club | Newcastle {United} | 100%
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| Y | Village named in 1777 | New {York} | 100%
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| P | 'Barbarians' who lived north of H | Picts | 100%
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| Q | Riverside area in Newcastle shared with Gateshead | Quayside | 100%
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| S | Iconic tree on H; cut down by vandals | Sycamore Gap tree | 100%
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| T | River on the border with County Durham | Tyne | 100%
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| V | People who raided L in 793 | Vikings | 100%
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| W | Seaside resort town; home to the Spanish City | Whitley Bay | 100%
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| B | Town near the Scottish border | Berwick-upon-Tweed | 67%
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| I | Joseph Swan first demonstrated this kind of lightbulb in 1879 | Incandescent | 67%
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| J | Affluent suburb of Newcastle | Jesmond | 67%
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| K | Largest reservoir in the UK | Kielder Water | 67%
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| N | Anglo-Saxon kingdom that stretched from the Humber to the Forth | Northumbria | 67%
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| R | Bordering Scottish county | Roxburghshire | 67%
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| C | Highest point | The {Cheviot} | 67%
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| X | Roman legion that helped build H | {XX} Valeria Victrix | 67%
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| Z | Style of decoration found in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts produced on L | {Zoo}morphic | 67%
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| O | Saint; king of N | Oswald | 33%
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| F | Seventeen Going Under singer-songwriter from North Shields | Sam Fender | 0%
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