QUIZ ANSWERS Summer 2020
TOWNS and CITIES of ENGLAND
1. Sunderland’s river? WEAR
2. The bishop “Wigorn”? WORCESTER
3. Portus Dubris? DOVER
4. Gloster Gladiator? 1st WORLD WAR BI-PLANE FIGHTER
5. Plymouth Argyle? THE PILGRIMS
6. Lincoln Red? BEEF CATTLE
7. City for The Full Monty set? SHEFFIELD
8. Liver Bird resembles? CORMORANT
9. Southend’s Kursaal? ENTERTAINMENT
10. Only island English city? PORTSMOUTH
SCIENCE AND NATURE
11. Invented geological period? SUMARIAN.
12. ‘Tachocline’? WHERE MAGNETIC FIELDS ARE GENERATED IN THE SUN
13. The Cambrian Explosion? THE EARLIEST APPEARANCE OF FOSSILS
14. White calcareous hills? CHALK DOWNS
15. Three quite conspicuous bright stars? THE SUMMER TRIANGLE
16. How long is a straightened length of human DNA? c. TWO METRES
17. Which three parts of the body require the greatest number of nerve endings? LIPS, HANDS, FACE
18. The outer layer of the Sun? CORONA
19. Betelgeuse, varied how? CHANGED ITS BRIGHTNESS?
20. Moon’s disc? CORONA or HALO
WORLD GEOGRAPHY
21. Highest mountain outside Asia? ACONAGUA
22. Pedestrian bridge across the Grand Canal? RIALTO
23. Name of the prison? ALCATRAZ
24. Fragrant Harbour?, HONG KONG
25. Largest island with ice sheet in the world (NOT Australia) ? GREENLAND
26. Livingston’s Lake of Stars? LAKE MALAWI
27. Name of gift from French to USA? STATUE OF LIBERTY
28. The Atlantic Fleet of the Royal Navy mutinied where? INVERGORDON
29. Shallow lake in Kenya? LAKE NAKURU
30. Small island in the Tasman Sea: LORD HOWE ISLAND
BOOK TITLES
31. A couple of capitals? A TALE OF TWO CITIES
32. Lost in gale force tumult? GONE WITH THE WIND
33. One comes before a fall; the other against much in life? PRIDE AND PREJUDICE
34. Sweetmeat at a Sussex resort? BRIGHTON ROCK
35. Females of small proportions? LITTLE WOMEN
36. About an orange seed with big ambitions? GREAT EXPECTATIONS
37. A pilot aims for the stars. REACH FOR THE SKY
38. 36 relate as they travel to see top churchman. THE CANTERBURY TALES
39. A flour-maker looking after the teeth? THE MILL ON THE FLOSS
40. A force of nature stirs the riverside trees?. THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS
WADHURST ANAGRAMS
41. RUTH CHARTED PLANETS CUSP – ST PETER AND ST PAUL CHURCH
42, REACTIVE OLD HAG – THE OLD VICARAGE
43. TOMFOOL MOLAR MACHINE – HALL OF COMMEMORATION
44. LUSTING LOU COMMENCED PLAY – UPLANDS COMMUNITY COLLEGE
45. DOLTISH COFFEEPOT – THE OLD POST OFFICE
46. ROAST EGGSHELL – ST GEORGE’S HALL
47. LAST DUCT WASHER – WADHURST CASTLE
48. HUSH OLLIE – HILL HOUSE
49. ONE RAT IS FIT – FIRE STATION
50. COLLAGE TRACTION – CARILLON COTTAGE
HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW TUNBRIDGE WELLS?
51. First royal visitor to Tunbridge Wells? QUEEN HENRIETTA MARIA
52. Cold baths still in gardens? THE BEACON
53. Which original building still exists at hospital? THE CHAPEL
54. Brass plaque at King Charles the Martyr ? QUEEN VICTORIA
55. Who granted the town its ‘Royal’ prefix? EDWARD VII
56. Architect of designing Calverley Terrace and Grounds? DECIMUS BRUTON
57. Shoesmiths Farm’s painter? CHARLES DODD at WOODBURY PARK CEMETERY
58. 18th century Master of Ceremonies? BEAU NASH
59. In which year was the Chalybeate Spring discovered? 1606
60. Clock and name of the company? PAYNES’ IN THE HIGH STREET
GEOGRAPHY OF THE UNITED KINGDOM
61. Source of the River Medway? THE ASHDOWN FOREST
62. The Matterhorn of Scotland? SUILVEN NEAR LOCHINVER
63. Little Switzerland? DOVEDALE IN DERBYSHIRE
64. The beautiful headland East of Lyme Regis? GOLDFN CAP
65. In which city would you find the Salisbury Crags? EDINBURGH
66. Most easterly point of Britain? LOWESTOFT NESS
67. The Heights of Abraham? MATLOCK BATH IN DERBYSHIRE
68. Watersmeet? EXMOOR IN DEVON
69. Which is the largest natural lake in Wales? LAKE BALLA, GWYND
70. The Fleet River’s source ? HAMPSTEAD PONDS
GENERAL KNOWLEDGE
71. Captain Tom lives where? MARSTON MORETAINE
72. In which history book “some rats who had left a sinking ship for China”? 1066 AND ALL THAT
73. In the visitors’ book at Bateman’s f.i.p.. What do these initials stand for? FELL IN POND
74. Who commanded the German forces at the Battle of Aubers Ridge? CROWN PRINCE RUPPRECHT OF AUBERS
75. Stonegate Station between 1851 and 1947? TICEHURST ROAD
76. First city was the in the UK to adopt postcodes? NORWICH
77. Where is St George buried? LYDDA, ISRAEL
78. Who “picks up the church where a wedding has been? ELEANOR RIGBY
79. Fictional store where Rumbold and Brahms worked? GRACE BROTHERS
80. God rot Tunbridge Wells”? GEORGE FREDERICK HANDEL
HISTORY ANAGRAMS AND CLUES
81. a) ALL SAD – DALLAS
82. a) RAN TO HAM – MARATHON
83. a) ONE SAME JURY b) Edward’s arrival was too painful for this third one. JANE SEYMOUR
84. a) PENT SHOT BONE ERRS b) He created a rocket in the 19th century. ROBERT STEPHENSON
85. a) CHIDES FROM HEAT b) An ominous time for Julius Caesar. IDES OF MARCH
86. a) MEAL IN ALE b) This 20th century battle outfoxed someone in the desert. EL ALAMEIN
87. a) HE TYPE BUT AXE STRAY b) A few seamstresses began work on this. THE BAYEUX TAPESTRY
88, a) SNORT KEY LOT b) Mexico = not safe for a revolutionary c. 100 years ago. LEON TROTSKY
89. a) FIR EARS DISC RANK b) He singed Philip’s beard in the 16th century. SIR FRANCIS DRAKE
90. a) HIM BE LEN b) An 18th century palace commemorates this battle. BLENHEIM
And finally
ARITHMETICAL HISTORY
Multiply the number of the King Louis who was guillotined during the French Revolution by the number of the battalion captained by George Courthope of Whiligh in the 1st World War. (16 x 5 = 80)
Multiply that figure by the number of consuls normally in the Republic of Rome at any one time. (80 x 2 = 160 )
Multiply that by the number of funnels on the Titanic. (4 x 160 = 640)
Multiply that by the day in August on which the 1st World War was declared. (4 x 640 = 2560)
Subtract the year in which the NHS was founded. (2560 – 1948 = 612)
Divide by the number of years between the accession of Charles II and the Great Fire of London. (612 / 6 = 102)
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Previous queries lead to potential answers:-
St James’ Square? –– part of pilgrimage route from Chichester to Canterbury which apparently came via Mayfield where they stayed at the Convent, then came through Best Beech to our Church and then across the fields to Cranbrook and on to Canterbury.
“When St James’ day has come and gone, you may have hops you may have none.” St James Day is 25th July. Told to Martin Turner by a hop farmer as the possible reason for the name because of the blight from which hops suffer