Monday 8 February 2016

Wirral Wildlife Prize Quiz 2015 - The Answers!


Congratulations to everybody who entered the Wirral Wildlife Prize Quiz 2015! There were no fewer than five entries with all correct answers – Mrs Enid Bradshaw, Mr and Mrs Gordon and Helen Hall, Mrs Linda Haylock, Dr B M Patel and Mr Bill Wonderley. Very well done all of you. The prize goes to Linda Haylock who was selected in the random draw.

Limpkin - the answer to question 18. Photo: Pamala, Wikipedia.


















Questions

1. Insectivorous mammal – a talkative person’s cricketing equipment. (9, 3)

2. Pleasure of a person heading for foreign parts, a climber. (10, 3)

3. War unfinished in Welsh house, be taking in boy next, for orchid. (9)

4. Scottish island with partly digested food catches a fish. (9)

5. Peter, stand up, turn around and see a ruminant. (3)

6. Aromatic plant, possessive and accusative pronouns. (5)

7. Troglodyte goes down with cancer for marine animal. (6, 4)

8. Coloured, not European, union leader has colour for a primate. (5, 4)

9.In quizzing, or searching for answers to these clues, look for a shrub. (5)

10. Fruit of violet, squashed timelessly. (5)

11. Polish boy with love for a ruminant. (7)

12. Marine animal, first person leaving Irish politician, devastated. (6)

13. Tree crustacean, IT company. (4, 5)

14. Grub worn by motorcyclist? (13)

15. Irish coin I placed on a shortened pedestal for a minibeast. (9)

16. Small measure of acidity, silver, and half number of mosses. (8)

17. Tidy tree. (6)

18. Walk of the lame family to see an American wading bird. (7)

19. Chocolate biscuit to secure a helmet for a bird? (9, 7)

20. Shy leader off French coast is a carnivore. (6)

21. The name of a plant? Keep your nose out of my affairs! (4, 4, 3, 8)

22. Piece of music after a short month for a mollusc. (7)

23. Different take on a tree. (4)

24. One who talks about crime to move sinuously is a reptile. (5, 5)

25. Bird I hear dismissing President Clinton. (8)

26. Is Heather included in Alistair Darling’s memoir? (4)

27. In German-occupied Alsace in 1916, troops stationed at Colmar, bled white at the battle of Verdun, discovered a butterfly. (7, 5)

28. Do twitchers lose their head if they see these birds? (10)

29. I enter old Marburg, which is in ruins, for a flower. (3, 8)

30. This tree is sacred, containing the beginning of Lent and crowned at Christmas. (5)


Answers

1. Natterer’s bat
2. Traveller’s joy
3. Twayblade
4. Barracuda
5. Yak
6. Thyme
7. Hermit crab
8. Orang utan
9. Gorse
10. Olive
11. Buffalo
12. Shrimp
13. Crab apple
14. Leatherjacket
15. Centipede
16. Sphagnum
17. Spruce
18. Limpkin
19. Chinstrap penguin
20. Coyote
21. Mind your own business
22. Octopus
23. Teak
24. Grass snake
25. Shoebill
26. Ling
27. Marbled White
28. Dowitchers
29. Bur marigold
30. Holly

2 comments:

  1. The other entry with all correct answers was from Bill Wonderley - apologies to him for missing his name off the list above!

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    1. I will edit the blog post to include Bill's name.

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