AUTUMN QUIZ
RESULTS
Thank you for all your entries. It was tight at the top, but the winners were:
Gold – Bill with 48 points
Silver – Mike with 47
Bronze – Keith with 44
There were four others with
scores of over forty, so it was a close run thing, with Sue and Chris and Mike
just a point behind in joint fourth.
Here are the answers I was
looking for:
1. Dudley, in the West Midlands
2.
Chris Moyles
- The Liberal Democrats
in Brighton [some of you answered while Labour was in Blackpool and
forgot the Lib Dems had already met]
4. To clear the autumn leaves
5.
Gerhard Schröder (SPD) and Edmund Stoiber (CDU/CSU)
6.
Equinox
7.
Indian summer
8. Harvest moon
- Chlorophyll [late
in the year, there is not enough light or water for photosynthesis so the
green chlorophyll disappears from the leaves and we see the underlying
yellow, orange and brown colours instead]
- Autumn gentian (or
felwort) [autumn gentian needed for 2 points – there are other
members of the gentian family which are different in appearance]
11. Halloween
12. Robert Catesby
13. Black Wednesday, when, after a massive run on sterling, the UK left the European exchange rate mechanism
14. The October Revolution [one point for the Bolshevik Revolution]
15. 14 October
16. Michaelmas
Day, St Michael’s Day, is one of the four financial quarter days in England and
falls on 29 September [some of you forgot to say
that it was a quarter day and/or a saint’s day, for the second point]
17. Antonio Vivaldi
18. John Keats
19. Johnny Mercer (lyrics) and Joseph Kosma (music)
20. The American Civil War (1861 – 1865)
21. Argenteuil, near Paris
22. The Ryder Cup (golf match)
23. Colombo, Sri Lanka [Sri Lanka enough for the points]
24. Thailand. Great Britain won 3 – 2
25.
Jungle fever
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