2024 Subscription Quiz

SUBSCRIPTION CHARITY QUIZ

The 2024 Subscription Quizzes are themed Continents!

THE NEXT QUIZ "THE AMERICAS" WILL BE LAUNCHED 27th APRIL!

The Hitchin Priory Rotary Club’s 2024 Subscription Charity Quiz is now well underway and we have already had a large number of kind people who have taken out a subscription for the year. A big thank you to Robert Girvan who masterminds (or should one say blows our minds?!) with these quizzes. Where does he find these devilish questions?

For those of you who have attempted to solve his first offering for the 2024 Continent themed quiz relating to Africa we have now received all your answers and we are pleased to announce that the winner is Jeremy Evans, of Pirton, who generously donated his prize back to the charity fund.

His winning tie break clue was "No man needs all changed - might have been his his mantra" ....

Answer - Nelson Mandela

Well done to Jeremy and everyone else who submitted all correct answers.

1 The queen takes a tumble - not funny (8,5) Victoria Falls

2 Where Ilsa met Rick and Sam again (10) Casablanca

3 Artificial intelligence turns one country into another (5 & 7) Niger & Nigeria

4 Tangible product of a hole punch (4) Chad

5 Toto’s charttopper (6) Africa

6 Not just the cares of the world on his shoulders (5) Atlas

7 Here the baton was dropped and broken (8) Botswana (anagram)

8 Once thought to be at the end of the Earth (8) Timbuktu

9 Lager is brewed here (7) Algiers (anagram)

10 Did Beau Geste desert here? (6) Sahara

11 Charlie Allnutt’s boat (7,5) African Queen

12 Bony littoral (8,5) Skeleton Coast

13 American capital posted to Africa (4) Mali (anagram)

14 Posh soap or tourist site (5) Luxor

15 I’ll have that coffee takeaway please (4) Togo

17 Did she give us the needle? (9) Cleopatra

18 The great, gray-green,greasy river, all set about with fever trees

(7) Limpopo

19 Can Romeo change his name and nearly become foreign

secretary? (9) Cameroon

20 You can find this in Africa, ironically (5) Cairo

21 Sum a bible up in this pagan temple (3,6) Abu Simbel (anagram)

22 The most famous pentahedrons in the world (3,8) The Pyramids

23 He found liberty after a lengthy peregrination (6,7) Nelson Mandela

24 One of the Great’s pieds a terre (10) Alexandria

25 A city where the arch maker can be found (9) Marrakech (anagram)

26 This blue line on the map flows up the page, not down (4) Nile

27 I am also able to do anagrams (7) Somalia (anagram)

28 If you like goals, go to Nigeria (5) Lagos (anagram)

29 Did Hastings claim ‘I am law’ here? (6) Malawi (anagram)

30 Conurbation wher Superman got his clothing (4,4) Cape Town

31 Nice leather (7) Morocco

32 Use the contents of a mink oil jar to reach the peak (11) Kilimanjaro (anagram)

33 Smear a mixed salad for this port (3,2,6) Dar es Salaam

(anagram)

34 105p (6) Guinea

35 The only way to find Big Ben in Africa Benin

36 Lusitania’s sister (10) Mauritania

37 Which is more likely in Africa - digital or analog? (7) Angola (anagram)

38 Best minced fresh and raw (6) Rwanda (anagram)

39 This must be part of the passage to India (4,5) Suez Canal

40 This upland is not accompanied by chairs (5,8) Table Mountain

41 It is quite easy to find a swan swimming here (5) Aswan

42 Tommy Cooper’s African token (3) Fez

43 Earning a bonus is inclusive (5) Gabon

44 This regalia looks fit for a king (7) Algeria (anagram)

45 A fjord or sea glen found on the coast (7) Senegal (anagram)

46 If you want to, strip olive oil from the recipe (7) Tripoli

47 Processional dance with a different ending (5) Congo

48 Parisians rally round here (5) Dakar

49 Found in a mug and a cup (6) Uganda

50 Maze B is easier to solve than maze A (7) Zambesi (anagram)

Our next Continent themed Quiz relating to the Americas will be out at the end of April  so watch this space. If you haven’t already signed up for our 2024 quizzes you can do so for £8 which will also include a subscription for our famous Christmas Charity Quiz!

All receipts (less prizes) for the subscription-only quizzes will go to charities which Hitchin Priory Rotary Club supports throughout the year.  The Christmas Quiz money, less prizes and any unsponsored printing cost, will go to nominated charities and we will continue to sell this quiz sheet to the general public through this website and other local outlets.

Thank you if you have subscribed for this year but whether or not, please consider a voluntary donation.

       

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COMPETITION RULES

1.      Only one answer to each question will be allowed but an obvious clearly marked correction will be accepted.

2.      The utmost care has been taken to ensure that the answers are correct and unambiguous.

3.      The decision of the Club is final and no correspondence will be entered into regarding the results.

4.      The winning entry will be announced  at the Hitchin Priory Rotary Club meeting after the closing date. 

5.      In the event that no entries are received with all the answers correct, the prize will be awarded to that entry submitted which has the highest number of correct answers.

6.      In the event of a tie a panel of judges from the Hitchin Priory Rotary Club will determine the best answer to the tie-break clue submitted.

7.      The organisers will notify the winner as soon as possible after the result is declared.