| Hint | Answer | % Correct | |
|---|---|---|---|
| B | England's second city | Birmingham | 100%
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| C | City heavily bombed during WWII | Coventry | 100%
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| S | Bard from Stratford-upon-Avon | William Shakespeare | 98%
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| L | "Royal" Victorian resort town | Leamington Spa | 95%
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| R | Town where a sport of the same name was invented | Rugby | 95%
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| J | Car company headquartered in C | Jaguar | 88%
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| N | Town near the Leicestershire border | Nuneaton | 83%
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| K | Partially ruined castle in the centre of the county | Kenilworth Castle | 79%
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| G | Noblewoman who rode naked through C | Lady Godiva | 79%
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| X | John Hall-Edwards was the first to put this technology into practice in 1896 | X-ray | 71%
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| T | Play by S featuring Prospero | The Tempest | 67%
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| Y | The Specials, from C, recorded this Number 1 single | Too Much Too {Young} | 62%
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| F | Roman road connecting Exeter and Lincoln that crosses the county | Fosse Way | 57%
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| E | Middlemarch author from N | George Eliot | 52%
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| A | Ancient forest that once covered the west of the county | Forest of Arden | 48%
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| U | Word similar to canine that describes the animal featured on the county's flag | Ursine | 48%
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| Z | Labour MP for C South | {Zarah} Sultana | 43%
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| W | Jet engine inventor from C | Frank Whittle | 36%
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| M | Rural area separating B and C | Meriden Gap | 24%
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| V | C began the concept of "twinned cities", twinning with this war-torn city in 1944* | Volgograd | 24%
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| P | Northern village where leading cultural figures mixed in Elizabethan times | Polesworth | 21%
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| H | Theatre opened in B in 1899 | Hippodrome | 19%
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| Q | Village known for a witchcraft-linked murder in 1945 | Quinton | 17%
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| D | Reclusive musician from Tanworth; Northern Sky | Nick Drake | 14%
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| I | Cotswolds village in the southwest | Ilmington | 10%
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| O | Murdered Elizabethan poet from I | Thomas Overbury | 5%
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