Quiz Results
Monday, January 28th 2013
We are pleased to announce that the winner of the Foxglove Covert LNR Bird and Flower Quiz was Mrs. V. Darwin who got every one of the 50 questions correct! Second place went to Lillian and Tony Cooper with 49/50, and third place to Viv Winter with 48/50.
Thank you to Glennis and Pat who have spent much time putting the quiz together and to Pat for donating the £10 prize. In total this has raised £90 which will directly benefit the conservation work here.
The answers to the questions are:
Birds
1. A cockney's abrasive - Sandpiper
2. Bread flour - Wheatear
3. Bad French fat - Mallard
4. It always goes into holes - Pigeon
5. One of many in a pie - Blackbird
6. Effect on the nerves of a noise in the dark - Nightjar
7. Bandage, skate, or just a canary? - Roller
8. Is this another name for a bee? - Buzzard
9. Short measure after chopped straw - Chaffinch
10. It spoils the fun; it does not rust - Martin
11. Horses and humans can suffer from it - Thrush
12. Spanish river in a dance cry - Oriole
13. Not a big assignment - Little Stint
14. Surely well equipped to read his music - Spectacled Warbler
15. Fool about - Lark
16. Put that in your pipe - Shag
17. Fiery circle - Flamingo
18. I've a doctor inside - Diver
19. Does the wall confine the pig? Quite the reverse - Swallow
20. Sorry! I've lost my head - Egret
21. Drunken wine god - Widgeon
22. Sounds as if you have to go round the corner - Tern
23. Tram in gap (anag.) - Ptarmigan
24. Cockneys deny its musical ability - Sparrow
25. Should be found near Whitstable - Oystercatcher
Flowers
26. This prudish lady comes out at night - Evening Primrose
27. A jumper is the cause of trouble - Fleabane
28. Needed to sweep the floor - Broom
29. Scottish emblem for a pig - Sow-thistle
30. I need this to make gravy, right? - Bistort
31. She lives on the moors - Heather
32. About paramour - Clover
33. Not a tidy bird - Ragged Robin
34. Does Bob sprinkle this on his stew? - Herb Robert
35. She'd make a good dinner - Fat Hen
36. King's stamp of office - Solomon's Seal
37. Sounds reveille - Bugle
38. Be snug round about - Comfrey
39. Orczy says he's elusive - Scarlet Pimpernel
40. This girl's too young to walk - Creeping Jenny
41. Candle in E (anag.) - Celandine
42. If this happens, get out of the field quickly - Bullrush
43. She doesn't live on the hillside - Lilly of the Valley
44. What you feel if your train is on time - Traveller's Joy
45. Do they sit in the Upper House? - Lords and Ladies
46. A brightly coloured one for the baby - Yellow Rattle
47. Bovine Oops? - Cowslip
48. Marries with dandelion in a bottle - Burdock
49. You'd cross the Channel to put this in your stew - Herb Paris
50. Don't go to the doctors - Self Heal
Thank you to everyone who has taken part in the quiz, watch this space as there is another in the pipeline already.
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pat thistlethwaite responded on 29th Jan 2013 with...
Thanks for the ‘thanks’ - I really enjoyed setting the wild flower part of the quiz and have
already done another one (this time on butterflies and moths) for Easter. I do hope everyone
will support such a good cause. This winter has shown just how important places like Foxglove
are in helping our wildlife through bad times. It’s super that our first effort has raised the
magnificent sum of £90 - let’s hope we can double that with the Easter one!