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Rotary Club of Sandy

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31^st Annual Christmas Charity Quiz

ANSWERS & WINNERS

This 2025 quiz has now closed and all entries have now been marked

Thank you for supporting our Charity Quiz.
We hope you enjoyed the mental stimulation over the festive season.

Firstly, congratulations on all your hard mental work finding the answers to so many of the cryptic clues.

The standard of entries was very high this year with nearly all the entries scored over 90% correct; if you were not one of the winning entries, I think you can claim a moral victory especially for those who only had spelling mistakes!

I hope you enjoyed the challenge !

This year has been a good year bearing in mind the difficult economic climate and are very grateful for your support.

However, you may be pleased to hear we hope to raise over £5,000 for charity this year through the Quiz.

Thank you also for all the kind comments I received about the Quiz.

Remember if you nominated on your entry form one of the named charities that we are supporting this year, i.e. ‘St Johns Hospice, Moggerhanger’, ‘MacMillan Cancer Support’ or Other Charities supported by Rotary, they will receive all of your £2 donation.

The answers are shown below.

The number in the final column is the percentage of entries who gave an incorrect or misspelt answer to that clue.

All this year entries have now been marked.

As there were more than ten totally correct entries, ten were drawn by lot from these to win a share of the prize.

The winners’ names are published below.

Thank you again for helping us raise money for charity and hope you will look out for the next quiz which will be our 32^nd.

Barring major problems, it should be available in November !

The venues where it will be available will be published on this website later in the year

… and the supported charities are:

‘St Johns Hospice, Moggerhanger’

‘MacMillan Cancer Support’

Rotary Charities

Best wishes for a Happy New Year

Thank you again for your support

D.A. Heslop (Quiz Organizer)

On behalf of Rotary Club of Sandy

ANSWERS:

Final column is the percentage of entries that had an incorrect or misspelt answer

1	Father of the man who didn't really have a choice	3	HOB	7%
2	Strike with a light but audible blow	3	TAP	0%
3	Aquae Sulis	4	BATH	0%
4	Area under the (no 47)	4	LOFT	4%
5	Bung; promote or advertise (a product)	4	PLUG	0%
6	Go down under water	4	SINK	2%
7	Half a Tun; Hookah	4	PIPE	16%
8	Middle half of where Ljubljana is capital	4	OVEN	1%
9	Othello of Venice; upland heath reversed,	4	ROOM	1%
10	Pandemic which killed more people than the First World War?	4	FLUE	2%
11	Place for the musical Fiddler	4	ROOF	0%
12	Royal Albert or Carnegie?	4	HALL	0%
13	Screen separating the chancel from the nave in reverse	4	DOOR	1%
14	The way you walk?	4	GATE	18%
15	A region drained by a river and its tributaries	5	BASIN	3%
16	BBC afternoon place to find the cash	5	ATTIC	0%
17	Dissolute night would be on these	5	TILES	3%
18	Formerly made at Stewartby; Fired clay block	5	BRICK	0%
19	Learn about or educate yourself	5	STUDY	1%
20	Motivation; straight cricket stroke	5	DRIVE	0%
21	Not heavy	5	LIGHT	0%
22	Roman 500 before watery precipitation	5	DRAIN	1%
23	Shortest ever PM	5	TRUSS	0%
24	Subject to severe and persistent cross-examination	5	GRILL	2%
25	Type of gymnastics routines with no equipment	5	FLOOR	1%
26	12th letter before maker of Core™ Processors	6	LINTEL	1%
27	Anglicised form of extended Chaise	6	LOUNGE	20%
28	Diminutive of 'Trouble's' pairing?	6	TOILET	15%
29	In spoken Cockney it might sound like home planet?	6	HEARTH	0%
30	Inverted rag with years of existence	6	GARAGE	1%
31	La voce	6	ALCOVE	0%
32	Oddie, Brooke-Taylor & …… in the Goodies	6	GARDEN	0%
33	Re______rator	6	FRIDGE	0%
34	Singular Microsoft operating system	6	WINDOW	0%
35	Someone who removes all the intestines	6	GUTTER	1%
36	Tall woody plant where sauce and sauté varieties grow?	6	PANTRY	13%
37	Tame animal for your personal vehicle	6	CARPET	1%
38	Temple	6	PELMET	2%
39	To bestow liberally or lavishly	6	SHOWER	1%
40	What a buyer needs	6	CELLAR	3%
41	What Cornwall does to Gloucester in King Lear	6	BLINDS	2%
42	Closing or shutting?; type of wax?	7	CEILING	3%
43	Ffiosst	7	SOFFITS	2%
44	Garment for the upper body when labouring	7	WORKTOP	14%
45	Late queen's cypher after (no 22)	7	DRAINER	0%
46	Opposite of take off	7	LANDING	0%
47	Packed to the …... (extremely full)	7	RAFTERS	1%
48	Quiet!  Before Thranduil and Elrond?	7	SHELVES	2%
49	Swept by Victorian little boys	7	CHIMNEY	0%
50	Takes thing below 32 degrees	7	FREEZER	0%
51	Underwear for the lower body; Crayon users	7	DRAWERS	4%
52	aaabgllmrrru	7.5	BURGLAR ALARM	2%
53	Arid rota	8	RADIATOR	0%
54	Block or put an end to male chicken	8	STOPCOCK	2%
55	Drink container with group of directors	8	CUPBOARD	0%
56	First sub 4-minute mile runner?	8	BANISTER	11%
57	Oval tray	8	LAVATORY	0%
58	Where you find (No 3)	8	BATHROOM	0%
59	Between radio and infrared	9	MICROWAVE	1%
60	Pasted to internal verticle surfaces	9	WALLPAPER	0%
61	Several poorly (no 34)	10	WINDOWSILL	7%
62	Wind Weapon	10	WINDOWPANE	2%
63	Bring Up the Bodies or Wolf Hall for example?	11	MANTELPIECE	12%
64	School (of music or dance)	12	CONSERVATORY	0%
65	Icteric telemetry	11,5	ELECTRICITY METER	1%
66	i.e. tunes	2,5	EN SUITE	1%
67	What city towers scrape with what ran away with the spoon	3,4	SKY DISH	0%
68	Where to bury 007?	3,4	SPY HOLE	6%
69	Worthy credential	3,5,8	HOT WATER CYLINDER	4%
70	Leaf of Laurus nobilis for (no 34)	3,6	BAY WINDOW	0%
71	Tito's annul foil	4,10	LOFT INSULATION	2%
72	Container for famous retired Yorkshire umpire	4,3	BIRD BOX	1%
73	Fox be us	4,3	FUSE BOX	0%
74	Person who is the habitual object of abuse; where letters land	4,3	DOOR MAT	1%
75	Mortice, cylinder or pad for (No 13)	4,4	DOOR LOCK	3%
76	Torpedo's	4,4	DOOR STEP	3%
77	A long band or scarf worn over one shoulder type of (no 34)	4,6	SASH WINDOW	1%
78	Water music composer for (No 13)?	4,6	DOOR HANDLE	2%
79	Lilo water	5,4	TOWEL RAIL	1%
80	100cm of H2O	5,5	WATER METER	1%
81	Aid or stoop	5,5	PATIO DOORS	2%
82	Flat module of photovoltaic cells	5,5	SOLAR PANEL	0%
83	Three leafed flower with Roman 50 removed for (No 22)	5,5	DRAIN COVER	1%
84	Humerus bone	5,6	HOUSE NUMBER	4%
85	Swap or replace (no 21)	5,6	LIGHT SWITCH	2%
86	(No 55) for witches flying implement	5,8	BROOM CUPBOARD	0%
87	Container for Q or F or H or ….	6,3	LETTER BOX	1%
88	Dehydrater for (Justin) Fletcher's alter ego	6,5	TUMBLE DRYER	9%
89	Indivitual game of snooker for (no 34)	6,5	WINDOW FRAME	0%
90	Translate Portes	6,5	FRENCH DOORS	4%
91	Dew minor word	6,6	DORMER WINDOW	0%
92	When you have 2 panes; globalized gun	6,7	DOUBLE GLAZING	0%
93	Broadcasting or ventilating (no 55)	6,8	AIRING CUPBOARD	0%
94	Micro locket	7,4	MORTICE LOCK	2%
95	To your limit	7,4	UTILITY ROOM	0%
96	Lives longer with Calgon	7,7	WASHING MACHINE	1%
97	Electronic one in radio replaced by transistor, with (no 53)	8,5	RADIATOR VALVE	2%
98	Raunchy cities	8,5	SECURITY CHAIN	1%
99	Songbird krait	8,5	SKIRTING BOARD	0%
100	Eclectic stroke	8,6	ELECTRIC SOCKET	2%

© D.A. Heslop 20/6/2025 All Rights Reserved

WINNERS

There were many with only one wrong or a spelling mistake
( I think these can claim a moral victory ).

Anyone scoring over 90 certainly deserves an A* !

In accordance with the rules as there were more than 10 completely correct entries, 10 were drawn by lot from these, each to win £10. The names of the lucky 10 are below.

1. Mr. C. Underwood Sandy

2. Mr. B. Vardy Milton Keynes

3. Mrs. A. Blacow St. Neots

4. Peers & Musgrave Potton

5. Mrs. M. Hall Ashbourne

6. Mr. D. Rowntree Sandy

7. Miss A. Henman Biggleswade

8. Mrs. A. Brown Bedford

9. Mr. J. Bowes Wixams

10. Mrs. J. Harley Great Barford

… a Reminder of the Competition Rules:

1. In event of a tie:
a)   if there are up to 10 possible winners the prize will be divided.
b)   if there are more than 10 possible winners then 10 names will be drawn by lot.

2. Closing date for entries: Midday 10th January 2026

3. The winner(s) will be notified by letter.

4. There is only one correct answer to each question; the judge’s decision is final.

5. All facts on which this quiz is based are believed to be correct.
Any inaccuracies however caused will in no way invalidate the result.
No correspondence will be entered into.

6. Return of entry indicates acceptance of rules.

Thank you again for helping us raise money for charity and hope you will look out for the next quiz which will be our 32nd.

Barring major problems, it should be available in November!

The venues where it will be available will be shown on this website later in the year.

Dr. D.A. Heslop (Quiz Organizer)

On behalf of Rotary Club of Sandy

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