Do You Have a Guidebook or Something? Quiz

Answer: West Midlands

West Midlands county is the location of the Birmingham Hippodrome, the UK's busiest theatre, which is home to the Birmingham Royal Ballet and a variety of opera, pantomime, drama shows and more.

The West Midlands region is home to the first arch bridge built from cast iron in the world, the Iron Bridge. It crosses the River Severn in the county of Shropshire. Vehicles have not been allowed to cross the bridge since 1934, when it became a monument.

Answer: Isle of Wight

The Isle of Wight is mere miles off the coast of the county Hampshire on mainland England. The Solent is the strait which separates them.

The Island has been home to three prisons. One of these, Parkhurst, has housed notorious criminals such as Peter Sutcliffe (the Yorkshire Ripper) and Terry Clark, a New Zealand drug lord who was given one of the most heavily guarded trials in British history.

On the Island, you can also find Dinosaur Isle, a dinosaur museum designed in the shape of a giant pterosaur.

Answer: Liverpool

Liverpool, of the county Merseyside, sits along the Mersey Estuary, which drains the River Mersey into Liverpool Bay. The river is worshipped by British Hindus in ways akin to the River Ganges, as they consider it sacred. They annually submerge clay figures of the Hindu Lord Ganesh, along with flowers, coins, and pictures, in the river.

Europe's oldest Chinese community is found in Liverpool, which has historically attracted a wide range of people by way of its port.

Answer: Truro

The key word in the claim to being the southernmost in Great Britain is "city", as Truro is the only city in Cornwall. The county of Cornwall is also the location of the westernmost and the southernmost points of mainland England. The latter is found on the peninsula called The Lizard, while the former is on the one called Penwith, at Land's End.

Answer: Solway Firth

Solway Firth represents the western reach of the Roman Hadrian's Wall, while the Firth of Forth in eastern Scotland represents the eastern reach of the Antonine Wall, completed 32 years later.

The English Channel is to the south of England, separating it from France and mainland Europe. The Minch is a body of water between mainland Scotland and the Hebrides.

Answer: Herefordshire

The county town of Herefordshire is Hereford, which would, of course, have given it away. The county is significantly rural and has one of the lowest populations of those in England, just more than that of the Isle of Wight. It is also the origin of Hereford cattle.

Answer: Ipswich

The town of Aldeburgh, on Suffolk's coast, was the first in Britain to elect a female mayor. She was Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, and was also the first female to earn a medical qualification in the country.

The River Orwell, which has its estuary at Ipswich, was the inspiration for Eric Blair's pen name "George Orwell".

Answer: Rutland

Rutland is the least populous of unitary authorities, which excludes the City of London and its even smaller population. Its county town, Oakham, is one of only two towns, the other being Uppingham.

In the centre of the county is a large reservoir, Rutland Water, which had been the largest man-made lake in Europe at the time it was built (starting in 1971) and took four years to fill. Rutland also has a tiny border with Peterborough.

Answer: East Yorkshire

The Humber estuary, sometimes incorrectly labeled the River Humber, empties a number of rivers in East Yorkshire, including the River Hull. Spurn Point (or Spurn Head) is a thin but long spit of land jutting out into the North Sea at the eastern end of the Humber estuary.

Answer: Wiltshire

Salisbury Plain is the location of Stonehenge and the hill carving of the Westbury White Horse, among other archaeological sites. Wiltshire is home to the country's tallest church spire (at Salisbury Cathedral) and partially to the UK's largest water park, the Cotswold Water Park. That is, it is a park with water (namely, 147 lakes) rather than a water-themed amusement park.