Beside The Seaside: Wildlife Quiz 2019 Answers

Fulmar, the answer to question 3. Photo: Andreas Trepte, Wikipedia

Here are the answers to the Wirral Wildlife Prize Quiz 2019.

Many congratulations to Linda Sutton of Upton who got 50 correct answers out of 50 and was chosen as the winner in a random draw from seven all-correct entries.

1	Bad weather upsetting Peter, novice flyer.	5, 6	Storm petrel
2	Spoil sheep with pasture seen in forty-seven.	6, 5	Marram grass
3	Left mother wrapped in ermine, maybe, seen on twenty-eight.	6	Fulmar
4	Would it stoop to demolish the green pier?	9	Peregrine
5	Shellfish starters - bread is valuable addition - loaves very easily sliced.	8	Bivalves
6	Pigeons fluttering over docks.	4, 5	Rock doves
7	Fish-girls’ handbags containing new skates.	8, 6	Mermaids’ purses
8	Holy seal flops at the top of the beach.	3, 5	Sea holly
9	London thoroughfare with railway on twenty.	6, 4	Strand line
10	R.W. Blackadder turned brown forty-eight.	12	Bladderwrack
11	One of twenty-one hidden in the slim petals of sea-aster.	6	Limpet
12	Five - part of the heart that needs warming?	7	Cockles
13	Upset? Trust none on the shore!	9	Turnstone
14	Forty - the queen follows good man behind world without General Electric.	7	Lobster
15	Snowy chargers, effect of the wind.	5, 6	White horses
16	Mammal seen in the sea, not terribly far from the shore.	5	Otter
17	Flowers saving pennies.	6	Thrift
18	Bounces left this scattered on nine.	10, 5	Cuttlefish bones
19	Sea swallow, BLT maybe, with change of direction reportedly	8, 4	Sandwich tern
20	Labour leader leaves chemical whitener beside the sea.	5	Beach
21	Octopuses, for example, with a short time left - left you and me with tear gas.	8	Molluscs
22	Seabird which, when it turns round ...	4	Skua
23	... finds more seabirds.	4	Auks
24	A thousand cockneys’ cry for assistance for forty-eight.	4	Kelp
25	“Two-ale” Phil, when drunk, sometimes ends up beached.	5, 5	Pilot whale
26	Horseplay, and more horseplay, for an uncommon bird.	5, 4	Shore lark
27	Scattered leaves, and, er, flowers.	3, 8	Sea lavender
28	Feature belonging to Dallas’s Mr Barnes.	6	Cliffs
29	EU glass broken by one of twenty-one.	3, 4	Sea slug
30	Explosive projectile, remains of twenty-one or forty.	5	Shell
31	Seasonal washing powder for state of the sea.	6, 4	Spring tide
32	Gestures of parting on the sea.	5	Waves
33	Keep your crazy beard crisp with this forty.	6, 4	Spider crab
34	Coastal feature swallowed by scavenger.	4	Cave
35	One of five that accompanied the walrus and the carpenter to the bitter end.	7	Oysters
36	Duck! Lambretta loses duck!	6	Scoter
37	From a bird I hear the cry: “Rouse yourself, pussycat!”	9	Kittiwake*
38	The queen, after religious holiday, finds fast flyer.	5	Eider
39	Bird of music genre, and Philip Pirrip with it.	4, 5	Rock pipit
40	Does Cheshire railway interchange remind you of this type of arthropod?	10	Crustacean
41	Fruit-flavoured dessert followed by e.g. salmon - beware of getting stung!	9	Jellyfish
42	Swimmer left at sea wasting time with balance.	8	Porpoise
43	Could this echinoderm be the last sign of the zodiac?	8	Starfish
44	Five that reportedly give me strength.	7	Mussels
45	European royal dynasty cut short beside unknown river mouth.	7	Estuary
46	16 + 30 = 46 (one of five).	5, 5	Otter shell
47	Sweden - and nudes cavorting at the top of the beach!	9	Sand-dunes
48	Not cold, we ceased mixing types of algae.	7	Seaweed
49	Various tailless seabirds.	6	Divers
50	Just one, including hospital, a feature of twenty.	7	Shingle

*We also allowed “KITTYWAKE” as an alternative spelling.