England County Quiz - Wiltshire - Statistics

General Stats

Answer Stats

Hint	Answer	% Correct
Famous prehistoric monument with a ring of standing stones set within earthworks	Stonehenge	94%
Motorway which passes through the north of the county	M4	86%
Ancient city, and the location of a 13th-century cathedral with Britain's tallest spire	Salisbury	85%
Largest town in the county which grew hugely with the coming of the railways	Swindon	76%
Elizabethan country house and estate which is home to a popular safari park	Longleat	62%
Wiltshire born architect, who is most famous for designing St. Paul's Cathedral	Sir Christopher Wren	58%
County town	Trowbridge	54%
Neolithic henge monument containing the largest megalithic stone circle in the world	Avebury	52%
Iron Age hill fort which is the site of the earliest settlement of the above city	Old {Sarum}	48%
Caen Hill is a flight of 29 locks located on this canal near the town of Devizes	{Kennet} and Avon Canal	45%
Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty occupying part of the south of the county	Cranborne {Chase}	43%
Born at Wolfhall in Burbage, this woman was queen of England from 1536 to 1537	Jane Seymour	41%
During his time living in Calne, this chemist and natural philosopher discovered oxygen	Joseph Priestley	25%
Photography pioneer from Lacock Abbey, responsible for some of the world's oldest photos	William Henry Fox Talbot	22%
Large country estate,and Palladian Mansion in the southwest of the county	Stourhead	16%