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Wainwright's Lake District - The Southern Fells
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Alfred Wainwright wrote a 7 volume Pictorial Guide to the Lake District. Here is a quizzical guide to the hills and surrounding area covered in Volume 4, "The Southern Fells".
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Northwest England
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Difficult
10 Q
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paper_aero
Jan 01 09
291 plays
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Coniston - Town, Water and Fells
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Coniston is a small town in the Lake District. It also lends its name to a large body of water to the east of the town and the surrounding fells to the west. This quiz covers all these aspects.
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Northwest England
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Tough
10 Q
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paper_aero
Mar 14 08
231 plays
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Wainwright's Lake District - The Northern Fells
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Alfred Wainwright wrote a 7 volume Pictorial Guide to the Lake District. Here is a quizzical guide to the hills and surrounding area covered in Volume 5, "The Northern Fells".
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Northwest England
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Tough
10 Q
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paper_aero
Jan 08 09
201 plays
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Wainwright's Lake District - The Western Fells
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Alfred Wainwright wrote a 7 volume Pictorial Guide to the Lake District. Here is a quizzical guide to the hills and surrounding area covered in Volume 7, "The Western Fells".
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Northwest England
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Tough
10 Q
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paper_aero
Jan 30 09
195 plays
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Horsham and Surrounding Villages.
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Horsham is an old town in the county of Sussex. Its name is Saxon in origin possibly deriving from "Place of Horses". Smaller in population than neighbouring Crawley, Horsham and the rural area around it, is still rich in information for a quiz.
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Southeast England
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Difficult
10 Q
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paper_aero
Jan 13 07
321 plays
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Tracking through Sussex
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About transportation that runs (or ran, as the case may be) on tracks through Sussex.
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U.K. Railways
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Difficult
10 Q
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paper_aero
Aug 19 10
168 plays
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Wainwright's Lake District - North Western Fells
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Alfred Wainwright wrote a 7 volume Pictorial Guide to the Lake District. Here is a quizzical guide to the hills and surrounding area covered in Volume 6, "The North Western Fells".
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Northwest England
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Tough
10 Q
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paper_aero
Jan 18 09
162 plays
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Wainwright's Lake District - The Central Fells
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Alfred Wainwright wrote a 7 volume Pictorial Guide to the Lake District. Here is a quizzical guide to the hills and surrounding area covered in Volume 3, "The Central Fells".
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Northwest England
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Average
10 Q
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paper_aero
Dec 27 08
171 plays
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Moor England Questions
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Moors in the UK tend to be (although not exclusively) uncultivated land above average altitude. Here are some questions about some of the better and lesser known moors of England.
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England - General
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Average
10 Q
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paper_aero
Aug 29 09
438 plays
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A Fit of Peak
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Hill bagging is the hobby (or obsession) with ascend all the hills on a certain list, or that fit certain criteria. Here is a quiz about some of the lists of hills in the UK.
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Outdoor Activities
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Tough
10 Q
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paper_aero
Nov 17 08
387 plays
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Wainwright's Lake District - The Eastern Fells
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Alfred Wainwright wrote a 7 volume Pictorial Guide to the Lake District. Here is a quizzical guide to the hills and surrounding area covered in Volume 1, "The Eastern Fells".
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Northwest England
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Tough
10 Q
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paper_aero
Dec 14 08
180 plays
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Dead and Buried in Sussex
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Inspired by a book of the same name by David Arscott, this quiz is about graves and life ending incidents in Sussex - a nice and cheerful subject.
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Death Becomes Them
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Difficult
10 Q
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paper_aero
Nov 23 08
285 plays
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Wainwright's Lake District - Far Eastern Fells
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Alfred Wainwright wrote a 7 volume Pictorial Guide to the Lake District. Here is a quizzical guide to the hills and surrounding area covered in Volume 2, "The Far Eastern Fells".
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Northwest England
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Difficult
10 Q
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paper_aero
Dec 18 08
186 plays
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The Run of the Downs
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The South Downs are a range of chalk hills running through Sussex and Hampshire in the south of England. This is a quiz concerning some of them.
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Southeast England
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Tough
15 Q
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paper_aero
Jul 29 08
330 plays
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The "Dark Fields" of Show of Hands
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In 1997, folk duo "Show of Hands", which consists of Steve Knightley and Phil Beer, released an album entitled "Dark Fields". This is a quiz drawn from some of the music on it.
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Show of Hands
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Average
10 Q
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paper_aero
Jan 01 10
99 plays
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The Guv'nor: Volume 1
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Ashley Hutchings is known as "The Guv'nor" in English folk-rock and related circles. This is a quiz based around the music of volume one of the retrospective of that name.
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Tough
10 Q
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paper_aero
Dec 23 08
129 plays
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Crawley, Sussex, England, Gulp!
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After World War 2, the British government decided to create several New Towns to alleviate the overcrowding in London. Only one of these was constructed south of the River Thames, Crawley, so here's a quiz on the town.
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Southeast England
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Tough
10 Q
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paper_aero
Apr 24 06
315 plays
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A slice of 'Country Life'
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In 2003 the folk-rock duo Show of Hands released the album 'Country Life'. Take this quiz and let Show of Hands cut you a slice of country life.
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Show of Hands
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Difficult
10 Q
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paper_aero
Nov 04 08
132 plays
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Chasing the Green Diamond
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The Ordnance Survey marks 'Recreational Trails', that is 'National Trails' and 'Long Distance Routes' with green diamonds on UK maps. Some of these routes such as the 'Pennine Way' are well known. This quiz is about trails in south-east England.
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Southeast England
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Tough
10 Q
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paper_aero
Oct 29 08
204 plays
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BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2000-2011
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Most, if not all, music genres have their own awards ceremonies and British Folk Music is no exception. Here are questions about some of the winners from the first twelve years.
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Music Industry Awards
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Tough
10 Q
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paper_aero
Apr 30 11
99 plays
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Sussex Made Easier
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My first two quizzes on Sussex seem to have been a fraction on the tough side, so here is one which might be a little easier. But maybe not.
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Southeast England
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Average
10 Q
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paper_aero
Jan 23 06
795 plays
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Sussex, By The Sea
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A certain Mr Kipling wrote a far better eulogy to Sussex than I could ever do, on the other hand he never wrote a quiz on Sussex for FunTrivia.
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Southeast England
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Difficult
10 Q
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paper_aero
Jan 06 06
621 plays
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Surrey, Home of the Stockbroker Belt
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Surrey, so close to London, but protected from being a concrete jungle by the Green Belt.
Most importantly it appears no-one has written a quiz about it, until now.
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Southeast England
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Difficult
10 Q
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paper_aero
Feb 27 06
540 plays
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Back down to Sussex
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More about an under rated and quizzically under represented part of England.
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Southeast England
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Tough
10 Q
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paper_aero
Jan 17 06
561 plays
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Music at the 'Cold Frontier'
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In 2001 the folk-rock duo Show of Hands, consisting of Steve Knightley and Phil Beer, released an album entitled 'Cold Frontier'. This is a quiz about some of the music from that album.
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Show of Hands
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Tough
10 Q
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paper_aero
Dec 04 08
117 plays
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Bearing folk Witness by a Show of Hands
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The duo Show of Hands was formed in 1991, by two members of the English folk scene. In 2006 they released the album "Witness".
Hopefully this explains the odd looking capitalisation of the title. This quiz is about the songs on the album.
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Show of Hands
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Tough
10 Q
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paper_aero
Sep 24 08
105 plays
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The Cruel 'Cruel River' Quiz
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In 2008 Steve Knightley of the folk-rock duo 'Show of Hands' released a solo album, 'Cruel River'. Following the maxim about being cruel to be kind, here is a cruel quiz about it.
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K
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Average
10 Q
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paper_aero
Nov 19 08
126 plays
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Too Cruel River
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In 2008 Steve Knightley of the folk-rock duo 'Show of Hands' released an album entitled 'Cruel River'. I've already written one quiz on the album, so this is a quiz on it 'too'.
(Hopefully that explains the attempted pun in the quiz title.)
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K
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Tough
10 Q
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paper_aero
Nov 25 08
105 plays
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Newspapers and Magazines (Mainly British)
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Newspapers and magazines, including publishers, editors and columnists. Based on titles distributed in the UK.
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Newspapers & Magazines
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Difficult
10 Q
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paper_aero
May 29 06
300 plays
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