The Hills Are Alive!: Spring/Summer 2020 Wildlife Quiz Answers

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”.

We will be shortly launching the Autumn/Winter quiz entitled “Water, Water, Everywhere!”. More details soon...