God's Own County
This white flower, seen on the county flag, is the official symbol of Yorkshire.
What is the White Rose?
The name that the Viking invaders gave to the city of York.
What is Jorvik?
This Sheffield-born actor is famous for playing Ned Stark in Game of Thrones and Boromir in The Lord of the Rings.
Who is Sean Bean?
This narrow, medieval street in York, with its overhanging timber-framed houses, is a famous tourist hotspot.
What is The Shambles?
This crumbly white cheese, often served with fruitcake, is named for a town in the Yorkshire Dales.
What is Wensleydale?
Celebrated annually on August 1st
What is Yorkshire Day?
The House of York fought the House of Lancaster for the English throne in this 15th-century series of civil wars.
What are the Wars of the Roses?
This Bradford-born artist is a major figure in the pop art movement, famous for his paintings of swimming pools.
Who is David Hockney?
This national collection of militaria is housed at the dockside in Leeds
What is Royal Armouries museum ?
The Yorkshire Three Peaks Challenge involves climbing Whernside, Pen-y-ghent, and this third mountain.
What is Ingleborough?
Before 1974, Yorkshire was divided into these three historic administrative sections.
What are the Ridings (North, West, and East)?
This Roman emperor , died in York (then Eboracum) in 306 AD, leading to his son being proclaimed emperor there.
Who is Constantine the Great?
These three sisters, wrote classics like Jane Eyre and Wuthering Heights ?
Who are Charlotte, Emily, and Anne Brontë ?
Once the longest of its kind in the world, this suspension bridge crosses the estuary near Kingston upon Hull.
What is the Humber Bridge?
The dramatic ruins of Whitby Abbey, helped inspire a famous vampire novel ?
what is dracula ?
This popular walking route stretches 268 miles along the entire Pennine mountain range, starting in the Peak District and ending near the Scottish border.
What is the Pennine Way?
Fought near York in 1644, this was the largest battle of the English Civil War and a major defeat for the Royalists.
What is the Battle of Marston Moor?
This pioneering aviator from Hull became a global celebrity in 1930 as the first woman to fly solo from England to Australia.
Who is Amy Johnson?
Founded in 1919, this famous café tea room with branches in York and Harrogate is a Yorkshire institution.
What is Bettys?
This spectacular curved limestone cliff was formed by a giant waterfall at the end of the last Ice Age.
What is Malham Cove?
This is the name given to the specific dialect spoken in the remote area of the Yorkshire Dales, considered by some linguists to be the last remnant of Old Norse spoken in England.
What is the Craven dialect?
This massive popular revolt, which began in Yorkshire in 1536, was a protest against Henry VIII's break with the Roman Catholic Church and the Dissolution of the Monasteries.
What is the Pilgrimage of Grace?
Born in Birstall, this 18th-century theologian and natural philosopher is credited with the discovery of oxygen.
Who is Joseph Priestley?
This Grade I listed building in Halifax is the only remaining Georgian cloth hall in the world, a monumental reminder of the pre-industrial wool trade.
What is The Piece Hall?
This natural cave system near Clapham in the Yorkshire Dales features one of Britain's largest known underground chambers, said to be large enough to contain York Minster.
What is Gaping Gill?