England County Quiz - West Yorkshire - Statistics

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The average score is 9 of 15

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Hint	Answer	% Correct
Largest city in West Yorkshire	Leeds	97%
Major battle, named after the above town, which was part of this long running campaign	Wars of the {Roses}	90%
Last name of the 19th century literary family who are linked with the village of Haworth	Brontë	78%
Motorway which links the county with Manchester	M62	69%
Historic market town with a namesake in Nova Scotia	Halifax	67%
Large market town in the borough of Kirklees in West Yorkshire, the birth place of former Labour Prime Minister, Harold Wilson	Huddersfield	67%
National Park which occupies part of the south west of the county	Peak District	61%
County born, best-selling British-American novelist, who wrote 'A Woman of Substance'	Barbara Taylor Bradford	59%
County town	Wakefield	59%
Major high street retail outlet which began on a market stall in the above city in 1884	Marks & Spencer	54%
Large river which flows through the county before combining with the Calder, on its way to the Humber estuary	Aire	47%
Pontefract's deep, sandy soil made it one of the few places in Britain where this plant could be successfully grown - it's now used to produce a well-known 'cake' named after the town	Liquorice	47%
Brass Band, formed in 1881 and regarded by many as the best in the world	{Brighouse} and Rastrick	39%
Large, 18th century, stately home and estate in the north of the county	Harewood House	28%
English chemist, born in Birstall in 1733, who is credited with the discovery of oxygen	Joseph Priestley	20%

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