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1. What is the approximate distance by road from Land's End to John O'Groats?
 
681 miles
781 miles
881 miles
981 miles

It is only 605 miles as the crow flies
 

 
2. What name is given to the bay that lies to the West of Wales?
 
Anglesey Bay
Cardigan Bay
Carmarthen Bay
Irish Bay
 

 
3. What is the name of the highest mountain in England?
 
Great Gable
Helvellyn
Scafell
Scafell Pike

Scafell Pike is 3,209 feet compared with Scafell at 3,163 feet
 

 
4. Approximately what percentage of people in the U.K. live in towns and cities?
 
60
70
80
90
 

 
5. The Pennine Way connects which two places?
 
Ashbourne and Penrith
Edale and Kirk Yetholm
Macclesfield and Otterburn
Stafford and Durham

The path is approximately 270 miles long
 

 
6. Which island is the most southerly of the Channel Islands?
 
Alderney
Guernsey
Jersey
Sark
 

 
7. Which town on Bideford Bay has a name the same as the title of a book by Charles Kingsley?
 
Westward Ho
Westward ho
Westward Ho!
Westward-Ho
 

 
8. Which three counties adjoin Devon?
 
Cornwall, Dorset and Wiltshire
Cornwall, Somerset and Dorset
Cornwall, Somerset and Wiltshire
Somerset, Dorset and Wiltshire
 

 
9. What is the largest town or city on the Isle of Man?
 
Castletown
Douglas
Peel
Ramsey

Douglas is the capital of the Isle of Man
 

 
10. Which forest can be found near the Southern border of Norfolk?
 
Dereham Forest
Downham Forest
Swaffham Forest
Thetford Forest
 

 
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