| Hint | Answer | % Correct |
|---|---|---|
| Warwickshire playwright known as the 'Bard of Avon' | William Shakespeare | 97%
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| Spa town known for its Regency architecture and broad boulevards | Royal {Leamington} Spa | 94%
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| County town | Warwick | 94%
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| The town in which 'The Bard' was born | Stratford-upon-Avon | 93%
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| Nickname for the flight of 21 locks on the Grand Union Canal at Hatton | Stairway to {Heaven} | 86%
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| Independent school and name given to a team sport 'invented' by pupil William Webb Ellis | Rugby | 85%
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| Farmhouse, and popular tourist attraction, named after the wife of the above playwright | {Anne Hathaway's} Cottage | 72%
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| Town in northern Warwickshire, the largest in the county | Nuneaton | 57%
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| Ancient Roman road which passes through the county from south-west to north-east | {Fosse} Way | 55%
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| Riverside town in the rural south of the county, located in the 'Vale of the Red Horse' | Shipston-on-{Stour} | 54%
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| Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty, part of which extends into south Warwickshire | Cotswolds | 53%
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| Novelist born in Nuneaton, whose works include 'Middlemarch' and 'Silas Marner' | George Eliot | 53%
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| Castle which was the subject of a long siege in 1266 and which later became a base for Lancastrian forces during the Wars of the Roses | Kenilworth | 53%
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| Epithet given to Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, who was instrumental in the deposition of two kings during the Wars of the Roses | Kingmaker | 41%
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| Bedworth born showjumper who won a Gold Medal at the London 2012 Olympics | Nick Skelton | 11%
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