2009/2010

15th Annual Christmas Quiz 

Theme:- ‘The Human Body’

First Prize: £100

 

All proceeds in aid of Charity

 

Pit your wits against the rest with this ‘Brain Teaser’.

 

This year the answer to each clue relate to the Human Body

The answer’s clue may be an anagram, cryptic, phonetic or a combination.

 

Examples

Pull or haul?

3

toe

Pull to pieces

4

tear

Foot digit around mixed up gun

6

tongue

Push a goose

10

oesophagus

Remember The only deduction from your entry fee was the prize fund!  

If you want to buy this year's quiz contact one of the rotarians 

or Allders Opticians, Market Square, Sandy

A big thank you if you supported our Charity last year by buying a quiz. By your support we raised over £3,000.

Winners Answers

Answers

 

1 Do I hear an h being dropped? 3 ear
2 Fruit of rose 3 hip
3 furnish with weapons 3 arm
4 part of a course or competition 3 leg
5 yes 3 eye
6 1968 show 4 hair
7 23 for Adam? 4 ribs
8 30.48 centimetres 4 foot
9 4 inches 4 hand
10 6.022 x 10 to the power 23 atoms 4 mole
11 about…, …down, …off, …up to, but try not to lose 4 face
12 Common chinese name 4 chin
13 Con..rvative 4 nose
14 cure? 4 Heel
15 Don’t forget them Mum even if not fruit 4 gums
16 Dover or Lemon 4 sole
17 Flay 4 skin
18 keen 4 knee
19 ore stratum 4 vein 
20 origin of date  4 palm
21 quickly if (Hand) is over 4 fist
22 rear 4 back
23 slip 4 lips
24 stick out if brave 4 neck
25 telephone without (canine) 4 bone
26 the source of a river 4 head
27 with or without (beard) when in bloom 4 iris
28 Young cow 4 calf
29 a suit 5 Heart
30 boils when angry 5 blood
31 Carla Lane’s birds 5 liver 
32 Cheek, problem when hit raw 5 nerve
33 exhale audibly a long deep breath with a lisp 5 thigh
34 Fakir’s bed 5 nails 
35 impertinence but may go red 5 cheek
36 listeners to Jonathan Ross may think this a card game 5 wrist
37 locker 5 chest
38 not a perky pig 5 pinky
39 one of the fairies? 5 tooth
40 pertaining to warships 5 navel
41 Picked when need to know 5 brain
42 rubbish 5 waist
43 scandalous to show in victorian womens dress 5 ankle
44 silently form a word 5 mouth
45 Singed at Cadiz  5 beard
46 slung 5 lungs
47 small jetty to prevent erosion 5 Groin 
48 sometimes semi 5 colon
49 student 5 pupil
50 the arco (spanglish) 5 elbow
51 Tom 5 thumb
52 bivalve mollusc 6 muscle
53 Dovetail or mortice & tenon 6 Joints
54 Mr Cute 6 rectum
55 not really the lowest part 6 bottom
56 place where art is done? 6 artery 
57 rearranged din in locks counterpart 6 Kidney
58 sometimes vented 6 Spleen
59 Son of Apollo and Creusa preceded by small cake 6 bunion
60 surname of source in Watergate scandal  6 throat
61 Two pies into circumference 6 radius
62 under shoe laces 6 tongue
63 Who’s pet 6 canine
64 X fellow 6 tendon
65 …, you bind, he/she ties together 7 eyelash  
66 Cadbury make chocolate ones  7 fingers
67 homes of the Inns of Court 7 temples
68 In slots 7 tonsils, 
69 Mad bone 7 abdomen 
70 May be rapped 7 knuckle
71 morris fool’s weapon 7 Bladder
72 not funny if you bang its lower end 7 humerus
73 Patricia Eleanor familiarly  7 patella 
74 Creme rub 8 Cerebrum
75 Doesn’t ticks …. 8 buttocks
76 Hurt limp 8 philtrum
77 in favour of condition 8 Prostate 
78 resembling several former South Yemens? 8 adenoids 
79 Soft wound dressing around Wild animals, birds, or fish hunted for food 8 ligament
80 Spare can 8 pancreas
81 supplementary material 8 Appendix
82 A hard gimp 9 diaphragm. 
83 Scan a clue 9 calcaneus 
84 10/04/2002 break for Beckham 10 metatarsal
85 Reformed Eel crumble 10 Cerebellum
86 averages before mixed US mint 11 mediastinum 
87 A murder 3,4 ear drum
88 Elation but not if pulled out 3,4 toe nail
89 Leo bear 3,4 ear lobe
90 hairless scrap 4,5 bald patch
91 First mans downfall  5,5 adam's apple, 
92 Sloped hymn 5,5 lymph nodes 
93 alphabetical listing digit 5,6 index finger
94 Interesting ale 5,9 large intestine 
95 Silent ailments 5,9 small intestine 
96 Marvel at rubber 6,8 lumbar vertebra
97 Second phobia 8,4 scaphoid bone 
98 A grisly vandal 8,5 salivary gland 
99 Double heralds 8,5 shoulder blade 
100 Re-elect brave vicar 8,9 cervical vertebrae 

 

Winners:-

Mrs J Harley                           ~ Great Barford

Mrs P Westhorpe                    ~ Gamlingay

Mrs A Davies                          ~ Eaton Socon

Mr H Crowe                           ~ Lt Paxton

Mr M Webb                            ~ Sandy

Miss B Scott                           ~ Gamlingay

Mr & Mrs D Jaeger                ~ Sandy

Mr R Pool                               ~ Biggleswade

Mrs M Spinner                        ~ Biggleswade

Mr N Blacow                           ~ Eaton Ford

Miss V Phillips                       ~ Langford

Miss L Charlton                      ~ Newark

Mrs M Hughes                        ~ Orrell

Mrs E Royle                           ~ Derby

We hope you enjoyed the quiz. As in previous years there were many of you who were very close with what may have been simply a transcription error when copying the answers onto the entry sheet. Watch out for next years quiz in November.

 

Reminder of the Competition Rules:

1.        In event of a tie, a) if there are up to 10 winners the prize will be divided, b) if there are more than 10 winners then 10 names will be drawn by lot.

2.        Closing date for entries is midday 16th January 2009.

3.        The winner will be notified by letter.

4.        There is only one correct answer to each question; the judge’s decision is final.

5.        All facts on which this quiz is based are believed to be correct. Any inaccuracies however caused will in no way invalidate the result. No correspondence will be entered into.

6.        Return of entry indicates acceptance of rules.

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