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Stonechat: the answer to the first question of the quiz. Photo: Charles J Sharp, Wikipedia |
The judging for the latest prize quiz has been completed and the winner is Viv Pitcher of Greasby. She got 50 marks out of 50 and was chosen as the winner in a random draw from seven all-correct entries.
Here are the answers:
1 |
Good man, one talks about birds. |
10 |
Stonechats |
2 |
Sources of seasonal railway. |
6, 4 |
Spring line |
3 |
Feature of dish with gold symbol. |
7 |
Plateau |
4 |
Water feature bound up in the choice between buying a flat or
renting a house. |
7 |
Torrent |
5 |
With platinum limb I started game. |
9 |
Ptarmigan |
6 |
Irrigate autumn feature. |
9 |
Waterfall |
7 |
A wintry bird - rock star digests this instant roll. |
4, 7 |
Snow bunting |
8 |
Bird stirred up green pool, valid with no artificial
intelligence. |
6, 6 |
Golden plover |
9 |
"Plant angry Brexit vote!" - dead PM. |
5-6, 5 |
Cross-leaved heath |
10 |
A short distance inside what bird? |
8 |
Whinchat |
11 |
Regarding theologist, 'e takes the queen for an animal. |
3, 4 |
Red deer |
12 |
24 mane, I hear animal. |
8, 4 |
Mountain hare |
13 |
Bird call at river Loire's source (alternative spelling). |
4, 5 |
Ring ousel1 |
14 |
Feature common to river crossing and kitchen cooler. |
5 |
Ridge |
15 |
Insect, after 24, Radio Times wrapped around fireplace. |
8, 7 |
Mountain ringlet |
16 |
Plant needed when the lady is cold. What's her name? |
7 |
Heather |
17 |
Red or black, good to wake for game. |
6 |
Grouse |
18 |
Shortened beak reportedly conceals fruit. |
10 |
Bilberries |
19 |
We hear male offspring expected, living on insects. |
6 |
Sundew |
20 |
Quite a small bird, unlike the Big one seen at fairgrounds! |
6 |
Dipper |
21 |
Shelley's "scorner of the ground". |
7 |
Skylark |
22 |
Feature of a hundred scraps of cloth. |
5 |
Crags |
23 |
Moorland features to sort out. |
4 |
Tors |
24 |
Scrambling unto main upland feature. |
8 |
Mountain |
25 |
Bird of Arthurian character. |
6 |
Merlin |
26 |
Predator - those are world-shaking! |
5-5, 3 |
Short-eared owl |
27 |
Mental torture he, the Frenchman, bears for a plant. |
9 |
Tormentil2 |
28 |
Thank you, Royal Navy, for fresh water. |
4 |
Tarn |
29 |
Ice Age relic, i.e. Roman ruin. |
7 |
Moraine |
30 |
Is this a fire-breathing insect that was rewarded on the fifth
day of Christmas? |
6-6, 9 |
Golden-ringed dragonfly |
31 |
Initially, big rooms and cold kitchens endear nobody to this
fern. |
7 |
Bracken |
32 |
Angela or Maria perhaps follows grand ancient English bird (now
rare in England). |
6, 5 |
Golden eagle |
33 |
Cudgel Kate took on Colm's bus? |
8 |
Clubmoss |
34 |
Worried, lest I'm one footpath feature. |
9, 8 |
Limestone pavement |
35 |
Wearing imperial colour, Margo Ross shivered on the heath. |
6, 9 |
Purple moorgrass |
36 |
Feature of 24, or short name of soap? |
6 |
Corrie |
37 |
Look through the windscreen for feature of 24. |
5 |
Scree |
38 |
Spread incomplete value in damp places. |
10 |
Butterwort |
39 |
Tree found in a few narrow and steep valleys in Snowdonia and
the Lake District. |
5 |
Rowan |
40 |
This bird has a ringlet with opposite directions. |
6 |
Curlew |
41 |
Possible description of a saltire with draft legislation for a
bird. |
9 |
Crossbill |
42 |
Catcall secures promotion - start of tennis after no. 1 seed
finds a bird. |
6, 5 |
Meadow pipit |
43 |
Seen in summer, Graeme, a potter, takes an exciting Scottish
dance. |
8 |
Dotterel |
44 |
Bird that zeroes worship I hear. |
6 |
Osprey |
45 |
VTOL plane pursues female bird. |
3, 7 |
Hen harrier |
46 |
One of fifty shades perhaps - what a happy dog does, usually at
the waterside. |
4, 7 |
Grey wagtail |
47 |
Summer reptile. |
5 |
Adder |
48 |
First person, German, in magnifier produces symbiotic relations. |
7 |
Lichens |
49 |
Heads of government conferring on 24. |
6 |
Summit |
50 |
Corporal punishment after family treasure tree. |
6, 5 |
Silver birch |
Notes: 1We also
accepted “Ring ouzel”. 2We
also accepted “Hellebore”.
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