COUNTRYSIDE QUIZ
1. The source of the River Thames is in which county?
a) Oxfordshire b) Gloucestershire c) Berkshire d) West Sussex
2. How many Wainwright fells are there in the Lake District?
a) 160 b) 88 c) 214 d) 54
3. What is the name of the first National Trail in England?
a) Cotswold Way b) Pennine Way c) Offa’s Dyke Path d) Hadrian’s Wall Path
4. Who was the last native Welshman to hold the title
Prince of Wales?
a) William Talbot b) Owain Glyndŵr c) Griffith Williams d) Owain Brogyntyn
5. What is squill?
a) A species of octopus b) A coastal flower c) Hairs in a squirrel’s tail d) Long tail feathers
6. What is Northern Ireland’s longest river?
a) River Bann b) River Erne c) River Lagan d) River Foyle
7. Which migrating bird is pictured?
a) Cuckoo b) Swallow c) Redstart d) Wheatear
8. How many species of bird did Charles Waterton (1782–1865) identify on his estate, Walton Hall?
a) 98 b) 49 c) 110 d) 123
9. Which of these species is not a summer migrant to the UK?
a) Hobby b) Wood warbler c) Stonechat d) Ring ouzel
10. How long is the South West Coast Path – England’s longest coastal path?
a) 1,014km b) 1,917km
c) 2,312km d) 3,102km
11. The Macclesfield Erratic is a Cheshire landmark. What is it?
a) A statue of a famous local drunk b) A 30-ton boulder c) A legendary bottomless mere
d) A canal-boat lift on the Macclesfield canal
12. Which of these counties does not contain some part of the Cotswolds?
a) Oxfordshire b) Warwickshire c) Somerset d) Worcestershire
13. Which English poet was the first to link St Valentine with romantic love?
a) William Wordsworth b) Geoffrey Chaucer c) Elizabeth Barret Browning
d) Percy Bysshe Shelley
14. Who donated Scafell Pike to the National Trust in 1919?
a) Lord Leconfield b) Duke of Norfolk c) Prince of Wales d) Beatrix Potter
15. In the 16th century, where was the world’s first deposit of graphite found?
a) Merthyr Tydfil, Wales b) North York Moors c) Sharneyford, Lancashire d) Seathwaite Fell, Borrowdale, Cumbria