Quiz answers 2009

*BASKETS, BOOTS AND BARROWS 2009 QUIZ* This was our 9^th year and our 4^th Quiz,here are the answers for those who took part, and for those who didn’t, enjoy it anyway. Remember, right or wrong, the organiser’s answer is the one that counts!
SECTION ONE: HISTORY OF ST GILES 1. What was the date of the signing of the partnership agreement? September 7th 1969 2. Churchwardens in 1724. 1 Bartin Gutteridge 2 Robert Moore 3. Who was barrack master of Fort Royal ,Guadaloupe? William Dexter 4. Born in Desborough but died in Surrey. William Cave 5. What was the profession of Charles Lewis Heberden? Priest 6. How old was Maurice Walker when he died? 22 7. Which arts interested John Hawes? Musician and poet 8. John's wife. Mary Illiffe 9. Our Basket logo has the two symbols missing, what are they? Keys and scallop shell 10. Ann’s husband. William Illiffe 11. Why is it bad to be named with a red cross? Killed in action 12. The motto of the Royal Air Force. Per ardua ad astra 13. When was the screen dedicated? 1951 14. How old is the register? 1648 ie 361years 15. Who were the incumbents of St Giles during the reign of Elizabeth 1st? 1 Roger Massey 1554 2 Thomas Stronginharme1561 3 Elias Ogden1568 4 Richard Davis1570	SECTION THREE: RED MUSICAL ITEMS 1. My love is like red, red rose, Burns wrote it but about whom? Jean Armer 2. Christmas song, sung to the tune of the red flag. Oh Tannenbaum 3. Who sang of a ‘Lady in Red’? Chris de Burgh 4. Lead singer of ‘Simply Red’. Mick Hucknall 5. Mick’s small poultry. Little Red Rooster 6. Vietnam war-veterans plea. Ruby, don’t take your love to town 7. He sang of scarlet ribbons. Harry Bellafonte 8. Not a Sapphire Saturday. Ruby Tuesday 9. Fifties singer who sang about red feathers and a hula skirt. Guy Mitchell 10. Hurricanes rocking dale. Red River Valley 11. Irish born singer of ‘Roses are Red’. Ronnie Carroll 12. Two hits with ‘Red Red Wine’ who in 1968 and who in 1983. Neil Diamond & UB40 13. He sang the ‘Desert song’. The Red Shadow 14. Oh carry my loved one, home safely to me. Red sails in the sunset 15. ‘Red and Black’ comes from which musical? Les Miserables 16. He’ll be bobbing along. Red, red robin 17. You wore a tulip sweet yellow tulip……… And I wore a big red rose 18. They sang ‘Lily the Pink’. The Scaffold
SECTION TWO: RUBY RED THINGS 1. The rose red city half as old as time. Petra 2. The red priest. Vivaldi 3. The Red Baron. Manfred von Richtohoven 4. Miss Cluedo piece. Miss Scarlett 5. Who put his thoughts into a little red book? Mau Tse Tung 6. Noel Coward’s comedy duo. Red Peppers 7. Who stopped a train with a red flannel petticoat. The Railway Children 8. Ludovics wife who danced in red shoes. Moira Shearer 9. City of Red Sox. Boston 10. Reptile loving ex-mayor. ‘Red Ken’ Livingstone 11. Three times Grand National winner. Red Rum 12. They seek him here. Scarlet Pimpernel 13. She said ‘After all, tomorrow is another day’. Scarlett O’Hara 14. Shade of red hair named after an artist. Titian 15. Proper name of the red and white fairy ring toadstools. Fly Agaric (people were too clever for me here,even got the Latin name ‘Amanite Muscaria) 16. Known for his skill in putting out fires in oil wells. Red Adair 17. Said to be the model for the queen of hearts. Elizabeth of York 18. Tin town in Cornwall. Redruth 19. Designer of red telephone boxes. Sir Giles Gilbert -Scott 20. Science-fiction comedy. Red dwarf 21. They wear red coats and always get there man. The Canadian mounties 22. He wore green, until Coca-cola dressed him in red. Santa Claus 23. Miniscule garden pest. Red spider Mite 24. She wrote about a catering firm called ‘Red Feather’ (oops,should be Scarlet). Maeve Binchy 25. Nautical lepidoptera. Red Admiral 26. Now we call them ‘Red Tops’what would they have been called before the changes in reading habits? Tabloids 27. Aerial acrobatics. Red Devils was the answer I wanted,(acrobatics rather than aeronautics?) reluctantly allowed Red Arrows 28. How many red balls on a snooker table? 15 29. Parted for the Israelites. The Red Sea 30. Frost’s fishy adversary. Red’ Mullet’ 31. American film actor. Red Buttons, also allowed Robert Redford and Red Skelton 32. They wear red berets. Parachute Regiment 33. Hi-de-hi clothing. Butlins redcoats 34. The red ingredient in pink gin. Angostura bitters 35. Formed in 1942,and still touring with music and dance. The Red Army Ensemble	SECTION FOUR: NEWS,MEDIA AND SPORT EVENTS OF THE LAST FORTY YEARS 1. He shot John Lennon. Mark David Chapman December 8th1980 2. Several westerners were held hostage in Beirut, when was John McCarthy released? 8th August 1991 3. Who was tripped by Zola Budd? Mary Decker 1984 4. Who was the winner on 9th February 2002. Will Young 5. On July 13th at Wembley the Coldstream guards were first who was second? Status Quo, Live aid concert 1985 6. Formerly named Sir William Hardy, what was she when she went down? Rainbow Warrior 7. How many Golds for Nadia? Three (Comeneci Montreal Olympic Games 1976) allowed 5 as total including 1980 8. What came tumbling down in 1989? Berlin Wall 9. What momentous event interrupted the ‘Antiques Road Show’? Nelson Mandela leaving prison, some viewers complained 10. When Diana Spencer married ,who designed the dress? Elizabeth and David Emmanuel 11. First celebrity winner of Strictly Come Dancing. Natasha Kaplinsky ,3rd July 2004 12. Daniel Hooper was better known as? Swampy 13. The year that Eurovision met it’s ‘Waterloo’ at Brighton. 1974, Abba 14. Which actor was ‘Dr Who’ in 1969? Patrick Troughton 15. He was given the film role of Harry Potter. Daniel Radcliffe
	SECTION FIVE: SOME RED AND PINK FLOWERS 1. Bill sounds like a nice fellow. Sweet William 2. Tuberous, named after a cleric. Dahlia ,Bishop of Landaffe,(we had some in the plant hall) 3. Left for a while in the forge. Red hot poker 4. Moses saw it first. Burning bush 5. McRae’s poetic reminder. Poppy, (in Flanders field the poppies grow) There you have it, 88 questions and a possible 176 points, hope you had fun!