Izzie Quizzie

Izzie · Post by **Izzie** » 16 Feb 2007, 20:14

1) Whose feet no longer walked "along England's greenest hills"?

2) What was officially scrapped then went to Mars?

3) Which company was banned from using the Matterhorn?

4) What Strathspey placename adorned the new limited edition Land-Rover Discovery (heated door mirrors, dished alloy wheels, V8i automatic, #25495 on the road):
(a) Braeriach
(b) Glenfeshie
(c) Abernethy
(d) Aviemore?

1e Was Brandon Rock:
(a) a martial arts movie based on a Graham Greene novel and starring Sean Connery;
(b) a US 1/4-finalist in the World Championship 800 metres;
(c) a pinnacle which fell off Brandon Mountain due to frost damage;
(d) the Dean of Lincoln Cathedral who resigned although cleared of alleged sex with an assistant verger?

1f What two words connect an option in each of 1d and 1e with the person currently attempting a continuous round of Munros, Corbetts, and Grahams?

1g What 2000ft/610ft structure was completed at a cost of Â£18 billion?

1h What linked Suilven with Foinaven and Schiehallion?

1i Which Graham moved up the chart from Moray to the Outer Hebrides?

1j Who were to be seen in a passionate clinch in A Life Less Ordinary:
(a) Cameron Diaz and Ewan McGregor;
(b) Cameron McNeish and Jimmie Macgregor?

1k Who dined on gravad lax with dill and mustard sauce, cream of Jerusalem soup, roast rack of lamb, raspberry crÃ¨me brulÃ©e, and petit fours, and then staggered up Ben Nevis?

2 Election Selection

2a Which two 1997 General Election constituencies were named after specific hills (ie not High Peak or Ochil)?

2b In the most hill-filled General Election constituency, which loser shared a name with two categories of hill?

2c Which political party was founded by John Muir?

2d What connects the Labour victory with Ynys Mon?

2e What useless item of hillwalking equipment displeased the new government?

2f) Which Edinburgh singer/songwriter has a song about a cyclist

2g) Who baked the cake for the cover of a Stones album

2h) Which album

3 Notable new table

3a How many attempts were needed to successfully clone Dolly the Sheep:
(a) 277
(b) 279
(c) 284?

3b To how many days in jail was Louise Woodward sentenced:
(a) 277
(b) 279
(c) 284?

3c On which hill might Jacob have climbed a ladder but failed to fill his bag?

3d What connects Beinn a'Ghlo with W H Smith?

3e What connects Hamish M Brown and Barbara M Tulloch?

3f Which hill was Hamish M Brown describing in 1988: " - under snow has the curvaceous purity of a Marilyn"?

3g Which Munro recently became 130 tonnes lighter?

3h What do A'Chralaig and Sgor Gaoith (and no other Munros) now have in common?

4 Art Fell

4a The name of which film character derives from a map reference in a movie director's home town?

4b "I crept forward and peered over. Having had my face close to lumps of rock for the past two hours I at first found it hard to focus. This was not surprising, for there was nothing between me and the valley a thousand feet below. Small objects at the bottom, the size and colour of golf balls, were, I assumed, sheep."
Where was Ludovic Kennedy:
(a) Forcan Ridge;
(b) Fiacaill Ridge;
(c) Pinnacle Ridge;
(d) Myra Breckinridge?

4c Ernest Hemingway, 1932: "There are only three true sports: bull-fighting, mountain climbing, and - ; the rest are merely games." Is the third â€¦.
(a) boxing;
(b) motor racing;
(c) marlin fishing;
(d) Marilyn bagging?

4d Which poetry compilation published in 1982 (with a follow-up in 1997) made Cameron McNeish seriously unhappy with its opening line: "This anthology amassed itself like a cairn"?

4e " - could go on like this for years ... their habit of standing motionless means they'll never have to worry about old age slowing them down. They'll still be the most fun you can have with your cagoule on." Who, in September 1997?

5 The Irish Question

Which Irish Marilyn:

5a was hit by a landslide in May?

5b is where angels fear to tread?

5c should be visited by the boss of the Rambler's Association?

5d is 8736 times as high as its name?

6 Everest the quite hard way

6a Which Scottish band released the album track Mount Everest?

6b Which Scottish band released (on the same label) the album Mount Everest?

6c Which Beatles album had Mount Everest as its working title?

6d Which eighties iconoclast and regular Thursday night cultural commentator said that his favourite item of clothing was "a sharkskin suit made by Timothy Everest, the greatest bespoke tailor on the planet"?

6e Which Irish Marilyn could be renamed Everest?

6f Which other 8000m mountain recently formed a plant-hire company to build a pyramid?

6g This pyramid will contain 87,250,000 bricks (roughly), with a base width of approx 300 feet. How high will it be?

7 Abroad cairns

7a What peak plummeted on Plymouth?

7b What single theme links these four pairings of hills and nations/dependencies?
Ben More â€¦ Assynt New Caledonia
Snowdon â€¦. Saint Helena
Snaefell â€¦.. Seychelles
The Sneug â€¦. Haiti

8 Rag bag

8a The quiz wouldn't be the quiz without a placename in which no letters are repeated. If Edinburgh is 9:9 and Glen Quharity 12:12, what two-word 13:13 appears on a tree-covered spur on a Scottish Outdoor Leisure map?

8b Which horse won the one-fifteen at Cheltenham on 14/11:
(a) Hillwalk;
(b) Mountain Ridge;
(c) Bonington's Bottom?

8c What connects Streap, Ben Creggan, and Nicky Campbell?

8d Which western body of water announces that a king might have to move?

8e Which Munro was pictured in the advert also featuring this terrible poem entitled "Welcome to my home"?
I have a Guest House that sits on a hill,
Into July you can see snow still,
With bar and excellent food,
Do call in if you're in the mood,
(Advert from Holiday and Short Break Guide 1997, Argyll, the Isles, Loch Lomond, Stirling and Trossachs Tourist Board.)

8f What connects Cruach nam Fearna with Mr Ting Ming Siong of Sibu, Sarawak?

8g Low-level practical question: four hill-names are chiselled into a tree-bucket thing outside the Thistle Centre in Stirling. Three are Ben Vorlich, Stuc a'Chroin, and Dumyat. What's the fourth?

8h Trainspotting practical question: ScotRail coach 52458 contains an OS map of north Scotland. What island is named on the edge of the map halfway along Loch Ness?
(a) Isle of Skye;
(b) Isle of Mull;
(c) Isle of Man;
(d) Mallorca?

9 The Final Solutions
Explain these six equations. 9c and 9d are trigonometry.

9a Salt + Brick = Sugar + Loaf = Mange tout

9b Creise + Conival = Little Conval + Meikle Conval = Shin + Shiel = Lomond

9c Little Conval + East Lomond + Ward's Stone east - Ward's Stone west = Spidean Coire nan Clach

9d Spidean Coire nan Clach + Little Conval - 2(Slioch) = East Lomond

9e McNeish - Burn = Snowdon

9f Cricket - Chess + Maps= Hillwalking

Good luck and have fun

rapunzell · Post by **rapunzell** » 16 Feb 2007, 20:57

1) Jesus

rapunzell · Post by **rapunzell** » 16 Feb 2007, 21:01

2)Lockheed Martin astronautics probe?

Izzie · Post by **Izzie** » 16 Feb 2007, 21:07

I am sure all the clever people here will tell us if we are right or wrong.

Me I haven't got a clue

rapunzell · Post by **rapunzell** » 16 Feb 2007, 21:07

4) c - Aviemore

1e d- Brandon Rock was Dean of Lincoln Cathedral

rapunzell · Post by **rapunzell** » 16 Feb 2007, 21:08

I had to sing the lyrics to Jerusalem to get the first one!

Izzie · Post by **Izzie** » 16 Feb 2007, 21:18

How about we all just Google it

Izzie · Post by **Izzie** » 16 Feb 2007, 21:33

A poem from my son

About this Quiz ......

Who's got the answer?
Don't be a booby
And don't ask me
Cos I haven't got a scoobie

Don't just sit there
Making your mind shoogle
Just paste the Questions
Into Google

Ask.com is also not bad
I know this quiz is a wee bit hard
I don't know the answers, really .... that's true
So to get them right it's up to you!!!

arachnid · Post by **arachnid** » 16 Feb 2007, 21:34

4a R2D2---- from star wars

teddygirl · Post by **teddygirl** » 16 Feb 2007, 21:36

I was a bit confused by this quiz, Izzie, but have just read the other thread and guess what ? I'm still confused

Izzie · Post by **Izzie** » 16 Feb 2007, 21:42

Thats ok, it makes two of us

rapunzell · Post by **rapunzell** » 16 Feb 2007, 21:43

1j a - Diaz and McGragor

Poppy · Post by **Poppy** » 16 Feb 2007, 21:59

teddygirl wrote:I was a bit confused by this quiz, Izzie, but have just read the other thread and guess what ? I'm still confused

Too much gossiping earlier today!!

Black Mamba · Post by **Black Mamba** » 16 Feb 2007, 23:22

1j is answer a Diaz and McGragor

Black Mamba · Post by **Black Mamba** » 16 Feb 2007, 23:27

3g Ben Nevis?

Black Mamba · Post by **Black Mamba** » 16 Feb 2007, 23:33

4a C3 P0

rapunzell · Post by **rapunzell** » 16 Feb 2007, 23:42

4c (b) motor racing

Black Mamba · Post by **Black Mamba** » 16 Feb 2007, 23:42

Izzie wrote:A poem from my son

About this Quiz ......

Who's got the answer?
Don't be a booby
And don't ask me
Cos I haven't got a scoobie

Don't just sit there
Making your mind shoogle
Just paste the Questions
Into Google

Well done to the Izzie kitten. Great poem

Ask.com is also not bad
I know this quiz is a wee bit hard
I don't know the answers, really .... that's true
So to get them right it's up to you!!!

SoupDragon · Post by **SoupDragon** » 17 Feb 2007, 00:34

1 the holy lamb of god?

2 don't know but will it help me work , rest and play?

3 does it matter/

4 is posing b*stard a place in Strathspey?

1e Brandon rock a less well known song of George Formby? ( b)

SoupDragon · Post by **SoupDragon** » 17 Feb 2007, 00:41

1g aw nice. someone built me a room for the books?

1h either they're hills I've never climbed or oilfields I'll never visit

1j (b) well not really but it would have been more fun

1k Donald Dewar before the heart attack?

2a Pentlands out then?
2b not a scooby
2c ditto
2d ny clues?
2e hoods
2f Mr Boom?
2g a baker
2h the one with the cake on it

SoupDragon · Post by **SoupDragon** » 17 Feb 2007, 00:50

3a one, the other times they didn't clone her. so there.
3b (b)
3c

aaaargh all these hills. Im getting dizzy, Izzie

I'm going to form my own flat eart society where all mountains are given asbos

Izzie · Post by **Izzie** » 17 Feb 2007, 07:54

Sorry I had to go last night K ended up in sick kids but is fine now.

I have passed a link to BM so maybe she will take over,sorry

Black Mamba · Post by **Black Mamba** » 17 Feb 2007, 12:56

part of my last message seems not to have appeared. I had said how clever the poem was.

Black Mamba · Post by **Black Mamba** » 17 Feb 2007, 13:10

BM here I'm helping Izzy and have bowed out of the quiz.

rapunzell wrote:1) Jesus

(Try a different song)

Sorry Rapunzel that's the wrong answer.

2)Lockheed Martin astronautics probe?

I'm afraid that's also wrong!!!

SoupDragon · Post by **SoupDragon** » 17 Feb 2007, 15:38

Hope all well now, Izzie.

SoupDragon · Post by **SoupDragon** » 17 Feb 2007, 16:30

Ah got one.

Like Rapunzel thought the lines were misqoutes from Blakes Jerusalem but it's Elton Johns candle in the wind, the 1997 version after the death of Diana , Princess of Wales
Smug mode

SoupDragon · Post by **SoupDragon** » 17 Feb 2007, 17:06

2 Pathfinder maps no longer exist and was one not a spaceship?

6a must be Teenage Fan Club
6b the Diggers

Did Donny Munro from Runrig not stand as a MP?

Black Mamba · Post by **Black Mamba** » 17 Feb 2007, 17:31

rapunzell wrote:1j a - Diaz and McGragor

Correct Rapunzell 1 point.

Black Mamba · Post by **Black Mamba** » 17 Feb 2007, 17:35

SoupDragon wrote:1 the holy lamb of god?

2 don't know but will it help me work , rest and play?

3 does it matter/

4 is posing b*stard a place in Strathspey?

1e Brandon rock a less well known song of George Formby? ( b)

1 no
2 no

3
4 which part of four are you answering?

no

Black Mamba · Post by **Black Mamba** » 17 Feb 2007, 17:38

rapunzell wrote:4) c - Aviemore

1e d- Brandon Rock was Dean of Lincoln Cathedral

4c wrong
1e wrong

Black Mamba · Post by **Black Mamba** » 17 Feb 2007, 17:43

rapunzell wrote:4c (b) motor racing

correct 1 point

Black Mamba · Post by **Black Mamba** » 17 Feb 2007, 17:53

SoupDragon wrote:1g aw nice. someone built me a room for the books?

1h either they're hills I've never climbed or oilfields I'll never visit

1j (b) well not really but it would have been more fun

1k Donald Dewar before the heart attack?

2a Pentlands out then?
2b not a scooby
2c ditto
2d ny clues?
2e hoods
2f Mr Boom?
2g a baker
2h the one with the cake on it

1h I'll give you that one they're oilfields west of Shetland (1 point)

1k not quite almost there

2d (it's numerical!)
2e no

Black Mamba · Post by **Black Mamba** » 17 Feb 2007, 17:59

SoupDragon wrote:3a one, the other times they didn't clone her. so there.
3b (b)
3c

aaaargh all these hills. Im getting dizzy, Izzie

I'm going to form my own flat eart society where all mountains are given asbos

3a sorry wrong
3b correct 1 point
3c? it's not multiple choice you have to guess (or know) the answer)

Black Mamba · Post by **Black Mamba** » 17 Feb 2007, 18:01

SoupDragon wrote:Ah got one.

Like Rapunzel thought the lines were misqoutes from Blakes Jerusalem but it's Elton Johns candle in the wind, the 1997 version after the death of Diana , Princess of Wales
Smug mode

Well done soupy ine 1 point

Black Mamba · Post by **Black Mamba** » 17 Feb 2007, 18:09

SoupDragon wrote:2 Pathfinder maps no longer exist and was one not a spaceship?

6a must be Teenage Fan Club
6b the Diggers

Did Donny Munro from Runrig not stand as a MP?

2 Pathfinder: the green 1:25k OS map series, phased out in favour of irregularly-numbered yellow and orange Outdoor Leisure and Explorer sheets. And space hardware named Pathfinder fell on Mars,

2b Donny Munro correct
6a & 6b correct

4 points to Soupdragon