Christmas Quiz 2011 Answers

Find the answers for the great Scouting Christmas Quiz of 2011

Here are your winners:

1st place

Dorit Engl and Martin Kiff

2nd place

Christina Gane

3rd place

Jo Swallow and Eric Rawcliffe

1. Dates on which the first and second batches of Olympic Tickets went on sale. The first date is 500 days before the opening of the 2012 London Olympics

2.
a) Morland’s Old Specklen Hen – named after the Old Speckled Un – a runabout for the MG Motor Manufacturer
b) Adnam’s Broadside
c) Badger’s Fursty Ferret
d) Well’s Waggle Dance

3. An outer ring of 56 holes or pits discovered at Stonehenge. Dating from the earliest phase of Stonehenge their function is unknown. These are known as the Aubrey Holes

4.
a)The first commercial flight out of Heathrow was a British South American Airways Lancastrian named Starlight. The Amarillo Starlight is the largest diamond found at the Crater of Diamonds State Park, Murfreesboro
b) The Rocester Cheese factory was the home of JCB, the tractor and backhoe manufacturer. Old Abe is the trade mark of CASE, the US manufacturer of tractors and backhoes.
c) All had the unlucky distinction of striking Southend Pier!
d) All were ‘prophets’ who foretold forthcoming events. Ursula Southell was better known as Mother Shipton
e) Moulton possesses the UKs tallest windmill, Gulliver is the largest wind turbine in the Uk, at Ness point near Lowestoft

5. All are geothermal springs in the UK:
Kent town – Tunbridge Wells – listed as ‘ a uniform temperature’
Midletune – Stony Middleton, Derbyshire 17.2 degrees C
Ffynon Taff of Taffs Well near Cardiff 18.9 degrees C
Little Switzerland – Matlock Bath 20 degrees C
Brigstowe- Bristol Hotwells 25 degrees C
Buchstaynes-Buxton 28 degrees C
Saltwic – Droitwich Spa 36 degrees C
Aquae Sulis – Bath, several springs average 45 degrees C

6.
a) Short Crust Pastry
b) Puff Pastry
c) Flaky Pasttry
d) Milk Puff Pastry
e) Choux Pastry

7.
a) Panorama- first broadcast in 1953
b) The Sky at Night presented by Patrick Walker
c) Felix the Cat
d) Blue Peter
e) Radioavisen- started on Danish Radio in 1926

8.
a) To be a cockney you should be born in earshot of Bow Bells. These were destroyed in an air-raid in 1941. They were not heard again til Dec 1961 after 20 years restoration work.
b) These are residents of Leicester – Roman name Ratea
c) Warrington residents because of local industry
d) These are moonrakers – residents of Wiltshire. In the story the cheese was the reflection of the full moon.

9.
a) Jet, a flat-coated retriever. Best in show at Crufts
b) French trained horse Pour Moi won the Epsom Derby
c) Zoomer won the world-snail racing championship in London in July
d) Cadel Evans won the Tour de France. Cadel being welsh for battle.

10.
a) Terms used in sheepdog trials
b) Terms used in curling
c) Terms used in dog-sled racing
d) Grinners are knots, gentles are maggots. Both are terns used in angling

11. These are names from the cabs of Eddie Stobard trucks. There are hundreds of other you could supply.

12. These are in order Twiggy, Bono, Sting and Lulu. The term for being known by a single name is mononymous

13. My calculations show that after 552 months (46 years) there would only be £923 left so the fortune would run out sometime during the following month. However if expenditure was reduced to £3363.27 per month the original fortune would remain intact. Any reasonable working out coming close to the above will be looked on favourably.

14. The King of Hearts has no moustache. Likewise the Jack of both Clubs and Diamonds are usually (but not always) drawn with clean upper lips. The Jack is not in fact originally a Prince but a knave or male servant.

15. Surprisingly all were once technically stations on the London Underground system

16. This is a ‘one-time’ code, much beloved by spies. To crack it you need a text or series of random letters to both code and decode it. In this case I used a mercurial rhapsody…ie the first 45 letters of Queen’s Bohemian Rhapsody. Translated we get ‘Tread lightly take only photos leave only footprints

17. This was the 1st World Jamboree at Olympia in 1920. The soil was to allow tents to be pitched. Among the attendees were young elephant, a camel, an alligator and a crocodile, several monkeys and a lion cub.

18.
a) Brussel Sprouts
b) Plums
c) Cheese
d) Sweetcorn

19. Lenormand was a pioneer in parachuting, Sikorsky in helicopters, Gatling in machine-guns, Drebbel in submarines, de Saussure in solar energy. The link is Leonardo da Vinci who ‘invented’ the concept of all of these.

20. Huron Crater is on Mars, Hull Crater is on Venus. Hence the distance between the two varies according to the plants orbits.