After last week’s bumper quiz we are back to our normal length this week. We hope you enjoy it! Spring continues to come in on Dartmoor and there are a lot of very pregnant ponies about. It won’t be long before the first spindly -legged foals are appearing.
Week 53
- In which English city is there a statue of Alan Turing – the Enigma Man?
- What is the only surviving feature from the original medieval chapel in Sticklepath?
- What is the name given to the depression in a river bed made by salmon for laying their eggs in?
- Why was Hutchinson’s Cross erected near Nun’s Cross Farm on Dartmoor?
- A “United Airlines” plane scattered debris over a residential area near which town when one of its engines failed on take-off last month?
- What does the village clock at Buckland-in-the-Moor spell out?
Answers to Week 52
- The erosion of the peat caused by it washing away in deep gullies between dry desolate hags.
- American Samoa in the South Pacific Ocean
- John Galsworthy
- The Goonhilly Earth Station on the Lizard Peninsula in Cornwall
- Copper
- Mothering Sunday
- Parliament rejected a proposed revision of the Book of Common Prayer using Jesus’ Two Commandments instead of Moses’ Ten Commandments at Holy Communion services.
- I935. It was voluntary at first!
- Peter Randall-Page
- Harold Wilson
- Cycling
- “Operation Torch”
- “Listen with Mother”
- A “Fata Morgana mirage”
- Princetown Railway
- Mount Kilimanjaro
- Karuna Institute
- Westminster Abbey
- Cholera
- A Singular of boars as they live on their own in the wild.
- Mark Hamill
- Gorse symbolises “Enduring Affection”
- 2 – 3 years old
- Great Staple Tor