Water, Water Everywhere!: Autumn/Winter 2020/21 Wildlife Quiz Answers

Water rail, the answer to question 4. Photo: Tony CC Gray, Flickr

The prize quiz winner has been chosen in a random draw from 10 entries with all 50 correct answers. The winner is Mrs Kate Kuss of Haydock, St. Helens. Congratulations Kate!

Here are the answers:

1. Biting insects causing angst. (5). Gnats

2. Thematic warrior plant. (5, 7). Water Soldier

3. Is this plant what nine nibbled? (7). Frogbit

4. Bird, or thematic mode of transport. (5, 4). Water rail

5. Plant shocked Lupper with unrestrained conflict. (6, 11). Purple loosestrife

6. Male goose swallowed nothing very large, a duck! (9). Goosander

7. God! Hospital habitat! (5). Marsh

8. Type of woodwind with spice plant. (8). Reedmace

9. There’s nothing in the former West Germany for this creature. (4). Frog

10. Stirring reveals two mammals. (5, 5). Water voles

11. Bird is what push comes to with the French right. (8). Shoveler

12. I’m told people with birthdays in December to February form an intermittent stream. (12). Winterbourne

13. Bird sees Ray, for example, come between maybe Henry VIII and Queen Elizabeth. (10). Kingfisher

14. Bird in very large quarry. (6). Osprey

15. Thematic corpse? (5, 4). Water body

16. Insect has permission to take off. (6). Mayfly

17. Keep your hair on!  I hear a bird. (5). Heron

18. Ocean, burn, river, fish. (6, 5). Arctic charr

19. Primate and follower, forgetting Old Latin, see this plant. (6, 6). Monkey flower

20. Host, once seen “beside the lake, beneath the trees”. (9). Daffodils

21. Grand odds on Trump’s barrier for a swimmer. (7). Gadwall

22. Thematic sailor, a six-footer. (5, 7). Water boatman

23. Bird from Westminster house together with traditional Scottish instrumentalist. (6, 9). Common sandpiper

24. Huge friend of Ant turns round, takes in recuperation with ... novel tango. (5, 7, 4). Great crested newt

25. ... or with good fermented beer. (5, 7, 5). Great crested grebe

26. I had nap disturbed by small creature. (7). Daphnia

27. Are these algae just simple molecules? (7). Diatoms

28. Feature that hides in Lake Windermere when a flock of ducks is landing on the water. (6). Island

29. Sad young woman, take an aeroplane, a little flyer. (4, 9). Blue damselfly

30. Creature is ’pon land strangely. (4, 5). Pond snail

31. Thematic potter’s rest, arachnophobe’s nemesis. (5, 6). Water spider

32. “Don’t tell him” this fish’s name! (4). Pike

33. I hear strong man Edward lower his head for a swimmer and diver. (6, 4). Tufted duck

34. Fifteen is verse rewritten in Republic of Ireland, middle of Waterford. (9). Reservoir

35. You can read the tea leaves and predict where you’ll find this bird. (4). Teal.

36. Does this insect eat its own rear end? (11). Swallowtail

37.  Tree may be seen, if you look westward, among a hundred lakes. (5). Alder

38. The Torville and Dean of one kind of fifteen? (4, 7). Pond skaters

39. Fifteen sea, French and European. (4). Mere

40. Is Ms Lovelace able to pinch the bottom of this bird? (6, 5). Canada goose

41. Plant of thematic corvine extremity. (5, 8). Water crowfoot

42. Lens opacity featured in a river. (8). Cataract

43. Royal drinking vessel is a May-blob. (7). Kingcup

44. Turbulent R Dee is subjunctively dead habitat. (7). Reedbed

45. Insect, a fuzzy target (a non-starter), almost heavenly good vegetable the Spanish turns round. (5, 6, 6). Great diving beetle

46. “Duck - it’s a James Bond film!” (9). Goldeneye

47. Fifteen cooked kale. (4). Lake

48. Dragonfly, a fat Grand National runner maybe? (5-6, 6). Broad-bodied chaser

49. Fish spectrum, start of this defeat. (7, 5). Rainbow trout

50. Neston holes scream excitedly as East African leaders fall out in Scotland. (4, 4, 7). Loch Ness Monster

For anyone wishing to give their brain cells another workout, we will be launching the spring/ summer 2021 quiz soon.