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A QUIZ for your spare time over the Christmas holiday - All the answers are the names of Suffolk Villages or Towns

1)       A serious fowl                                                         

2)      The road over a stream which has no water                

3)      A weight of dough                                                    

4)      A famous poet or piece of pottery                            

5)      The trees are doing O.K. here                                   

6)      Is this a luxury car?                                                

7)      Sounds like you’re wondering about a person             

8)      This surely must be the smallest place in England       

9)      Is this a home for ovines on a kind of weasel             

10)     Can I catch a train here?                                         

11)      Get your thread here                                               

12)     Is this place really in Suffolk, or in Middlesex 

13)     Perhaps Reynard greets his “guests” here, before taking them to his dining room                                                                              

14)     If you’ve got a hole in your trousers sounds like you better repair them  

15)     Don’t delay the shooter’s target                                

16)     Only a small Pitt                                                      

17)     A neonatal ward                                                      

18)     Is it a watery place with gorse and heather               

19)     A place for the cleaning ladies to gather                   

20)    Pack away in a high place

 

Answers

1) Hengrave (this answer would have been easier to fathom if I had originally spelt fowl correctly rather than put foul!); 2 - Lackford; 3 - Weybread; 4 - Shelley; 5 - Elmswell; 6 - Bentley; 7 - Hoo; 8 - Onehouse; 9 - Ramsholt; 10 - Euston; 11 - Cotton; 12 - Acton; 13 - Foxhall; 14 - Mendham; 15 - Hinderclay; 16 - Little Bradley; 17 - Newbourn; 18 - Lakenheath; 19 - Charsfield; 20 - Stowupland 

         

 

 

 

 

 

 

Norfolk Quiz 
  1. Which store claims to be “The World’s Largest Village Store”?
  2. The tallest windmill in the country is in Norfolk. Where?
  3. Allen Smethurst sang “Ha yew got a loight boy”. What was he better known as?
  4. Where was Horatio Nelson born?
  5. How many gates were there originally into the old city of Norwich?
  6. What was the name of the singer known as the Swedish Nightingale who raised money to found a children’s hospital in Norwich.
  7. What is a Bishy Barney Bee?
  8. What was farmed at Caley Mill?
  9. Only one town in Norolk faces West. Which one?
  10. Who was hanged at Norwich Castle as a traitor in 1549?
  11. Where was his brother hanged?
  12. Norwich once had 3 stations. Name them.
  13. What Roman Goddess stands on top of the Butter Cross in Swaffham?
  14. Which Village has a signpost in the middle of a pond?
  15. Which Norwich street used to be known as Blood and Guts Street? (and it was nothing to do with Saturday nights after closing time)
  16. Name Norfolk’s first county town
  17. Name the oldest pub in Norwich
  18. In which village is the oldest Wall Post Box?
  19. What is a dwile?
  20. Which Royal lady is a WI member?

  Answers 1. Roys of Wroxham   2. Sutton  3. The singing postman  4.Burnham Thorpe 5.Twelve 6.Jenny Lind 7.Ladybird  8 Lavender  9. Hunstanton 10. Robet Kett 11.Wymondham Abbey 12.Thorpe, City,Victoria 13.Ceres  14. Upton  15.Ber Street  16.Caistor St Edmunds  17.Adam and Eve  18. Brampton  19.Floorcloth  20. Queen Elizabeth  

 

 

GENERAL KNOWLEDGE HEAD-SCRATCHER -THE ANSWERS! 

 

What better quiz can there be on a website than one which may well require a bit of research on the Net? See what you make of this mixed bag.

 

1. In which year did Charles Darwin set out his Theory of Evolution? - 1859

2. In what year was the first Tour de France run? - 1903

3. What was the name of the computer which controlled the spaceship in the film "2001, A Space Odyssey"? - HAL

4. In what year was Monty Python's Flying Circus first shown on British TV? - 1969

5. What did John Walker invent in 1827? - The first practical lucifer match.

6. Who succeeded William Wordsworth as Poet Laureate? - Alfred, Lord Tennyson

7. In what year did the first issue of "Punch" appear? - 1841

8. Who is the murder victim in T S Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral"? - Thomas a'Becket

9. In which county is Dunlop cheese traditionally made? - Ayrshire.

10. In what year did Thomas Sutton patent the first single lens reflex camera? - 1861

11. When was the Black Death in Britain? - 1348-1349

12. Where is the Sea of Tranquility? - On the Moon.

13. What is the most westerly place in mainland Scotland? - Ardnamurchan Point.

14. When was Wymondham's Market cross erected? - 1617-1618

15. Who fought his last battle at Camlann on Bodmin Moor and who was his princely opponent? - Arthur/Mordred