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Every "Shire" County in England (Quiz) 12:35 - Mar 20 with 2577 viewsMiaow

This is another little English geography quiz if anybody wants to have a quick go...

Of the 48 modern ceremonial counties in England, 25 end in the suffix "-shire". There are six minutes to try and name them all. Abbreviations are accepted for most of the answers.

https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/1696326/every-shire-county-in-england

And this is another recent county quiz which allows for just a couple of minutes to complete as there are only six answers to get:

https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/1696326/metropolitan-counties-of-england

Cheers.


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Every "Shire" County in England (Quiz) on 12:42 - Mar 20 with 2522 viewsRyorry

5/6 on the second one. Will have a go at first one later.

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Every "Shire" County in England (Quiz) on 12:50 - Mar 20 with 2483 viewsHARRY10

You can also test yourself by trying to name all the counties in the blue pic
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Every "Shire" County in England (Quiz) on 13:01 - Mar 20 with 2465 viewsBasingstokeBlue

24

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Every "Shire" County in England (Quiz) on 13:02 - Mar 20 with 2461 viewshomer_123

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Every "Shire" County in England (Quiz) on 13:28 - Mar 20 with 2418 viewsPlums

21/ 24 and a pitiful 2/6 (absolute brain fart there!)

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Every "Shire" County in England (Quiz) on 13:44 - Mar 20 with 2384 viewsPendejo

24/25

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Every "Shire" County in England (Quiz) on 13:58 - Mar 20 with 2368 viewsEastTownBlue

25. Got the final one with a couple of seconds to spare.

Bit of guess work with the second quiz but got 5/6.
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Every "Shire" County in England (Quiz) on 15:52 - Mar 20 with 2266 viewsTractorCam

22/25 and 3/6, was so close to the 4th answer on the list on the metro one, typed everything but that!

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Every "Shire" County in England (Quiz) on 20:38 - Mar 20 with 2129 viewsblueprint

3 wrong on the first quiz and all correct on the second
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Every "Shire" County in England (Quiz) on 21:39 - Mar 20 with 2090 viewsLord_Lucan

Every "Shire" County in England (Quiz) on 13:28 - Mar 20 by Plums

21/ 24 and a pitiful 2/6 (absolute brain fart there!)


Same here. I got 25 and 2.

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Every "Shire" County in England (Quiz) on 23:22 - Mar 20 with 1983 viewsSuperblue95

Got all of them on the first quiz with 2 mins to spare,which considering I’ve not lived in England since the age of 7 is not bad. Only 3 on the second though.

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Every "Shire" County in England (Quiz) on 12:17 - Mar 21 with 1787 viewsMiaow

Every "Shire" County in England (Quiz) on 12:50 - Mar 20 by HARRY10

You can also test yourself by trying to name all the counties in the blue pic


I can do all those and the “regular” historic counties although there are then also some other former counties that I need to brush up on. I know that Suffolk was divided into East and West (between the Victorian era and the ‘70s, I believe) and that Ely was in some way partly or wholly its own county (?) and I believe Newcastle was as well at one time. Then you have the short-lived Avon and Humberside counties, and I recently learnt that Hexhamshire was a county centuries ago before becoming part of Northumberland. Some of this knowledge might come in handy one day but I doubt it...

Compared to the 48 modern ceremonial counties, there are/were nine fewer historic counties (39):

https://www.jetpunk.com/user-quizzes/1696326/flags-of-the-historic-counties-of-e

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Every "Shire" County in England (Quiz) on 12:48 - Mar 21 with 1750 viewsbournemouthblue

20 out of 25 but what threw me was it didn't accept East Riding of Yorkshire which then totally threw me only to see it at the end, not sure what has gone on there but then put me off trying the other Yorkshire counties

I assumed maybe the 'Ridings' weren't going to be counted as 'Shires'

The second one is trisky too with no Avon, Cleveland, Teeside or Humberside in there, I assume they were all dissolved at some point?
[Post edited 21 Mar 2023 12:53]

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Every "Shire" County in England (Quiz) on 19:28 - Mar 21 with 1616 viewsMiaow

Every "Shire" County in England (Quiz) on 12:48 - Mar 21 by bournemouthblue

20 out of 25 but what threw me was it didn't accept East Riding of Yorkshire which then totally threw me only to see it at the end, not sure what has gone on there but then put me off trying the other Yorkshire counties

I assumed maybe the 'Ridings' weren't going to be counted as 'Shires'

The second one is trisky too with no Avon, Cleveland, Teeside or Humberside in there, I assume they were all dissolved at some point?
[Post edited 21 Mar 2023 12:53]


That’s a bit odd. I’ve just checked what I set as acceptable answers and “East Riding of Yorkshire”, “East Riding of York”, “East Riding”, “East Yorkshire” and “East Yorks” should all work, so I’m not quite sure what happened there. It could be that you accidentally had a letter already in the answer box when you were typing. I’ve done a few quizzes on there where I’ve been sure I’ve typed something properly and it doesn’t seem to have taken it. I tested a couple of those accepted answers and they seemed to go through so hopefully it should work.

As for Avon, Cleveland and Humberside, those were all ceremonial, non-metropolitan counties which didn’t last particularly long in the grand scheme of things - each one was formed in 1974 and abolished in 1996. I believe that Cleveland encompassed pretty much all of Teesside. The whole county situation in Britain is confusing, with ceremonial, metropolitan and historic counties and so on in England and then the differing historic counties and modern-day council areas in Wales and Scotland. I think the names “Avon”, “Cleveland” and “Humberside” may all still be used in their respective areas for the police/fire services.

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