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1. As you travel across the Pennines on the M62 motorway between Leeds and Manchester, the westbound and eastbound carriageways split in order to bypass what obstacle?
2. One of Britain's most popular TV series for many years is set in a fictitious North Yorkshire moors village called Aidensfield. But what is the real name of the village at the centre of "Heartbeat Country?"
3. You have had three hours enjoying the delights of London's Covent Garden so you set off walking, passing Leicester Square before stopping at a busy junction with a Statue of Anteros at its centre. Where have you arrived?
4. You are in the Viking capital of Scotland. It is now the county town of Ross and Cromarty and sits on the Cromarty Firth. What town are you visiting?
5. If, during the course of a week, you visit the towns of Uttoxeter, Newbury and Market Rasen, what is the most likely reason?
6. The U.K. has many dangerous wild animals. Which of these might you be in most danger from?
7. During the Napoleonic Wars, a French ship was wrecked off the N.E. coast of England. Much of the wreckage was washed up on the beach in Hartlepool and amongst it was the ship's mascot, a little monkey dressed in a colourful suit. What did the good people of Hartlepool do next?
8. Where did the 11th Duke of Marlborough reside?
9. What is the abbreviation "Salop" a shortened version of?
10. If yaz aal sperk like this, then whereaboots is yaz from? A mean, howay, bet ya canna tell?
11. William Wilberforce is perhaps the best known of the slavery abolitionists. Born in Hull 1759, he attended St John's college Cambridge. Which Prime Minister-to-be did he befriend there?
12. Can you name the Hull-born aviator who was the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia?
13. Which of the following is the name of a large fence at Aintree Racecourse, where the world's greatest steeplechase is held every year?
14. What is the pub called in Britain's longest-running TV soap, "Coronation Street"?
15. Which of these was the name of a prison in Manchester?
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