Quiz Answers and Results

Monday, April 28th 2014

Congratulations to Sue and Jo Poynton who are the winners of the English Towns South of the Humber Quiz. Congratulations to Mike Fenwick who also scored full marks, and to Garth Thomas and The Darwins who scored 39/40.

Below are the questions and answers.

1. Brightly coloured waterway - Redditch
2. An odd number of trees - Sevenoaks
3. A chap owns this piece of grassland - Mansfield
4. A mix up of what you wear - Ware
5. Looks as though there are plenty of books here - Reading
6. Is it twinned with Creepy? - Crawley
7. The past tense of heave - Hove
8. Robert, Earl of Leicester - Dudley
9. Wear it with pride on S. David's Day - Leek
10. Dave goes north to attempt this town - Daventry
11. You need soap and a towel here - Bath
12. A poet and an Economist meet - Milton Keynes
13. How old are you? - Wantage
14. Prime Minister from 1899-1902 - Salisbury
15. Doctor Fostor took his brolly! - Gloucester
16. Oddly enough it is nowhere near Epsom - Derby
17. The answer comes from east of the town - Frome
18. Looks like a large church for a Lion - Leominster
19. A good place to cross the river? Looks like it! - Hereford
20. Looks like Adam could use a slice of this for tea! - Evesham
21. Is roast duck on the menu here? - Aylesbury
22. He implored Ruth to look inside - Redruth
23. You could find otters here! - Holt
24. Two men met to form a town - Basildon
25. Is this where Bernard Leech went to drink his beer? Potters Bar
26. Newspapers no longer produced in this street - Fleet
27. A necessary farm implement - Harrow
28. Go here to find a pork pie - Melton Mowbray
29. The Radetsky for example! - March
30. Lord Patrick took photographs - Lichfield
31. Either plenty of dogs or you're mad! - Barking
32. Look in the splendid cottage - Didcot
33. Did Noah build one on the river? - Newark on Trent
34. A Learner would mix well - Ludlow
35. Sounds like a holy woman has had her lunch! - Nuneaton
36. The Kingmaker! - Warwick
37. A Holy man mixed stone - St. Neots
38. Is this sids town? - Diss
39. Where cattle may cross the river - Oxford
40. You have no right to rely on this city - Ely

Thank you again to Pat and Glennis who have once again compiled and marked this quiz for us.  It has been very successful raising almost £70 for the reserve! There is another quiz already in the pipeline which will be released on the 26th May.

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