Well done to all readers who came up with the answers, or most of the answers, to our quiz. The first person to email us with all the correct answers was Ms Jane Lofter and we have donated £100 to her nominated charity, Katharine House Hospice, which provides free specialist care for adults with incurable illnesses in north Oxfordshire.
Thank you Joe Brannan for giving us some entertainment and head-scratching in the last issue. The questions and answers can be found below.
The Bridge Cotswold Quiz
Who was “set down from the carrier’s cart at the age of three” and in what village did their life begin? (2 points)
This appropriately named Cotswold village was visited at Christmas time by which 30-something diarist worried about her weight, in the film of the book? (2)
Where and in which “Games” can you become Shin Kicking World Champion? (2)
Which Shropshire lad wrote the following about a Cotswold Hill and which Cotswold composer later set it to music? (2)
The bells they sound on Bredon
And still the steeples hum,
“Come all to church good people”,
Oh, noisy bells be dumb;
I hear you I will come.
This Cotswold Church was described by Miss M.D. Anderson as “an illogical agglomeration of parallelograms”. (1)
Which Jacobean Manor House with a famous fountain connects Father Brown to Wolf Hall? (1)
Where was Queenie born in 2022? (1)
Which knights might you hear whispering near which Cotswold village? (2)
Why is Upper Slaughter doubly thankful? (1)
Which Dr Who opened what in Chipping Norton in 1975? (2)
Which Emperor enthused Japanese tourists to visit this Cotswold village? (2)
Which Cotswold Memorial incorporates part of the clock from the Cloth Hall building in Ypres, Belgium? (1)
Who wrote the following about which Cotswold River? (2)
A lonely river all alone,
She lingers in the hills and holds
A hundred little towns of stone
Forgotten in the western wolds.
Which street would you be on if you were heading to Corinium from Verulamium ? (1)
What links New Street, Chipping Norton with Baker Street, London? (1)
To the textile designer the house was “a heaven on earth”; to his artist friend the village was “the doziest clump of old beehives to look at you could find anywhere”. Name both characters and the village. (3)
Which one of six wives is buried in this Cotswold castle? (1)
In which village might you run into the Mucklowe cousins? (1)
Which Cotswold-based poet wished they’d looked after their teeth and spotted the dangers beneath? (1)
Which Bos taurus contains an Ankylosaurus? (1)
Total 30 points
Answers & Explanations
Laurie Lee, Slad (Paraphrase/quote of first sentence of Cider with Rosie).
Snowshill, Bridget Jones. (Snowshill was used for some of the pre-Christmas scenes in film of Bridget Jones’ Diary).
Cotswold Olympick Games, Dover’s Hill or Chipping Campden for location.
A.E Houseman , Ralph Vaughn Williams.
St John the Baptist Church, Burford. (Burford Church acceptable).
Stanway House. (Scenes from both TV series were filmed there).
Cotswold Wildlife Park. (Queenie is a baby rhino).
Little Rollright, Rollright stones. (The Whispering Knights are part of the Rollright Stones).
All their members of the armed forces survived the First and Second World Wars.
Tom Baker, The Theatre Chipping Norton. (Tom Baker was at the time the fourth incarnation of Dr Who).
Hirohito, Bibury. (Hirohito praised Bibury on his return to Japan from a pre-war tour of Europe and Japanese tourists have come to visit ever since).
The War Memorial in Westwell. (The Number “1” is from the Cloth Hall in Ypres near where Harold Strachan Price was killed at the Second Battle of Ypres. The monument was built by his sister Aimee).
Hilaire Belloc, The Evenlode.
Akeman Street. (Akeman Street is the Roman Road that linked Corinium (Cirencester) with Alchester (Bicester)).
Gerry Rafferty. (His hit song Baker Street was recorded at the Chipping Norton Recording Studios in New Street, Chipping Norton).
William Morris, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Kelmscott.
Catherine Parr, Sudeley Castle. (One point only as you can hardly know one without the other – and 2 points would make the total 31)!
Northleach. (The BBC ‘mockumentory’ This Country featuring the cousins is filmed around Northleach).
Pam Ayres. (One of her best-known poems is Oh, I Wish I’d Looked After Me Teeth).
Bull Hotel Burford. Bos taurus is the scientific name for a bull, Bull Hotel features amongst its artworks a reconstructed Ankylosaurus (Cretaceous dinosaur) leg in what was originally the sushi restaurant.
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