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Around the UK 140204 is a selection of 10 questions. Around the UK 140204 is the filename to differentiate it from other Around the UK quizzes.
1 Brown Willy at 420m above sea level, is the highest point of which English county?
A Cornwall (means ‘hill of swallows’ and is on Bodmin Moor)
2 In which National Park can you climb the hills of Great Cockup and Little Cockup?
A The Lake District
3 Voted as Britain’s worst place name, which county would you be in if visiting the hamlet of Shitterton?
A Dorset (means “farmstead on the stream used as an open sewer”)
4 The Butt of Lewis Lighthouse on the Butt of Lewis headland, is part of which chain of islands?
A The Outer Hebrides
5 The hamlet of Six Mile Bottom, lies in a valley six miles southwest of which famous racecourse?
A Newmarket
6 The market town of Penistone has held sheep sales since before 1699: in what county is Penistone?
A South Yorkshire (8 miles west of Barnsley, within the West Riding)
7 Through which English county does The River Piddle flow?
A Dorset (many of the villages it passes through get their names from it: i.e. Puddletown, Tolpuddle of Tolpuddle Martyrs fame, and Piddlehinton)
8 In which sea would you paddle if holidaying in Prestatyn?
A Irish Sea (in Denbighshire, Wales)
9 On the edge of which famous moorland lies the village of Crapstone?
A Dartmoor (Devon)
10 On which island has there been a settlement named Twatt since mediæval times?
A Shetland Island (from an Old Norse word, meaning ‘small parcel of land)