Statistics for Welsh towns: fun facts

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HintAnswer% Correct
The setting for the Prisoner TV series, this bizarre-looking village is also a pottery centre.Portmeirion
100%
To reach Anglesey, some squirrels have swum across the strait which this town takes its name from.Menai Bridge
89%
The Royal Welsh Fusiliers have a goat as part of their troops. The animals are raised near this northern seaside town.Llandudno
78%
Paintings by artists including Michelangelo were stored in a quarry in this slate-mining town during WW2 to avert their destruction.Blaenau Ffestiniog
67%
An international rugby star from this Beacons town in Powys was once arrested for drunk-driving a golf buggy down the M4.Brecon
67%
This place on the south coast takes its name from King Sweyn Forkbeard.Swansea
67%
The football team from here won the 1927 FA Cup, the only non-English team ever to win it.Cardiff
56%
Football team The New Saints represent both the English town of Oswestry and this adjacent Welsh village (which was the club's original name).Llansantffraid-ym-Mechain
56%
1964 Olympic long jump gold medallist Lynn 'The Leap' Davies came from this southern county borough.Bridgend
44%
The administrative HQ of Blaenau Gwent, this was the home town of marathon world record holder Steve Jones.Ebbw Vale
44%
This southern town has hosted Rugby World Cup matches and used to have a team called Moonlight Rovers.Llanelli
44%
This town in Powys hosts an annual bog-snorkelling contest.Llanwrtyd Wells
44%
The last armed uprising against the state in Britain took place in this city in 1838.Newport
44%
A man from this Denbighshire village paints in his sleep, but has no artistic skill in his waking life.Henllan
33%
In 2021 in this Flintshire town, a berserk squirrel injured 18 people in a random Christmas frenzy.Buckley
22%

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