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UK Counties General Knowledge: Devon - Statistics
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- This quiz has been taken 579 times
- The average score is 12 of 20
Answer Stats
| Clue | Answer | % Correct |
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| National Park, unhospitable moor and home to eponymous ponies. | Dartmoor | 96%
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| Devon’s most populated city and historic naval port. | Plymouth | 94%
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| The Motorway that brings you into the county. | M5 | 88%
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| Exmoor National Park lies within Devon and which other county? | Somerset | 85%
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| This seaside town in the south of the county earned the nickname ‘The English Riviera’. | Torquay | 78%
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| The name of the main railway station in Exeter. | Exeter St. Davids | 77%
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| A famous dish of the county consisting of scones, jam and clotted cream. Its origins are disputed among other nearby counties! | Cream Tea | 74%
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| Professional football team, who play at St. James Park. | Exeter City | 66%
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| Elizabethan naval man, born in the town of Tavistock. | Sir Francis Drake | 64%
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| This river is the longest in the county and forms the border between Devon and Cornwall. | River Tamar | 57%
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| The only place name in the British Isles to have an exclamation mark as part of its name. | Westward Ho! | 57%
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| Fortified wine, first produced by Benedictine monks and named after this Abbey | Buckfast | 55%
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| Seat 2, Row 2 of the circle in the Torbay Picture House was the favourite seat of this famous crime novelist. | Agatha Christie | 47%
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| Market town in the eastern corner of Devon, gave its name to a type of carpet. | Axminster | 47%
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| Born in Devon, this explorer died aged 43 in Antarctica. | Robert Falcon Scott | 45%
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| Another famous naval man, born in East Budleigh, sailed to the Americas but was later arrested and executed to appease the Spanish. | Sir Walter Raleigh | 41%
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| Thoroughbred horse racing venue located on the north bank of the River Teign. | Newton Abbot | 38%
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| Town known for its Black Swans, which were introduced from Western Australia. | Dawlish | 34%
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| A D-Day live fire rehearsal, ‘Exercise Tiger’ turned in to a disaster on this beach in 1944. | Slapton Sands | 28%
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| In 1919 this woman was elected the first ever female member of parliament to take office in the British Houses of Parliament. (In a constituency in South Devon). | Nancy Astor | 13%
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