Quiz Answers

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