Britain's Industrial Revolution - Statistics

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Mining and burning of this fossil fuel helped to drive the industrial revolution	Coal	71%
Scottish engineer who significantly improved the efficiency of the steam engine	James Watt	71%
	Manchester	64%
Two places connected in 1830 by the world's first inter-city railway	Liverpool	60%
Engineer of the Great Western Railway and the SS Great Britain	Isambard Kingdom Brunel	47%
Cornish chemist and inventor of a miner's safety lamp	Humphry Davy	33%
Nickname given to Manchester dues to its importance in the textile industry	Cottonopolis	30%
Widely considered as the 'Father of Railways'	George Stephenson	30%
County in which the world's first iron bridge was constructed in 1781	Shropshire	30%
Textile for which the town of Macclesfield became well known	Silk	23%
Inventor and namesake of a steel making process	Henry Bessemer	22%
Winner of the 1829 Rainhill trials, held to choose a locomotive for the above railway	Rocket	16%
Britain's first major canal, opened to transport the above mineral to Manchester	{Bridgewater} Canal	15%
Legal bodies established to improve and maintain roads though toll collection	{Turnpike} Trusts	11%
Pioneering canal engineer, who worked on more than 300 canals	James Brindley	8%

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