2026 Subscription Quiz

A series of quizzes running through the year

SUBSCRIPTION CHARITY QUIZ 2026

The second (May) quiz in the 2026 series has closed and the Result and Answers are below.

The third quiz in the current series, for July, will be sent to contributors at the end of June.

New subscribers can sign up here, for £6, and will receive two bi-monthly quizzes - for July and September - and the 2026 Christmas Quiz which will be available in November.

May Quiz Result

The first quiz in this year's series was obviously a bit of a tester. There were 60 completed entries received, 13 fully correct.

Congratulations, and the prize of £25, went to Phil Anderson of Buntingford,with the tie-break question:

The chef has been too long in the sun "Pink Floyd"

and here are the Answers

1	Utilitarian colour often now replaced by dazzle (10,4)	Battleship gray
2	Rick’s while house (10)	Casablanca
3	The colour of water (4)	Aqua
4	Hoary old joke (8)	Chestnut
5	Red French conductor’s stick (5,5)	Baton Rouge
6	The home of kirschtorte (5,6)	Black Forest
7	If you are in it, try dressing (4)	Buff
8	So named because of Southern Water’s efforts? (8,6)	Brownsea island
9	My Acer is extremely colourful this year (6)	Cerise anagram
10	The bowler had a nice arm action (7)	Carmine. Anagram
11	Pricilla changed from one extreme to the other (5,5)	Cilla Black
12	Mucky pond? (9)	Blackpool
13	Horatio, Tom, Barnabas and Willy were in the crew (5,3)	Black Pig (Pugwash)
14	The poetic word used for an October clear blue sky (5)	Azure
15	She inhabits a house with a coloured end (3,2,5,6)	Anne of green gables

16	Where to fine an isolated conifer (4,5,9)	Blue ridge mountains
17	Weigh this near Minehead (4,6)	Blue Anchor
18	You will never find this on a Wiltshire hillside (5,5)	Black Horse
19	Have cereal for breakfast before swimming here (5,4)	Coral reef anagram
20	You can make a slab cake with this (5,3)	Black Sea anagram
21	Did they all have this in Avatar (8)	cyanosis
22	How Guinness was used to commemorate the death of Prince Albert (5,6)	Black Velvet
23	Gary K’s nemesis (4,4)	Deep blue
24	The snooker player thought a bad rack led to a bad break (10)	Blackadder
25	There is no sort of cure for this (4)	Ecru anagram
26	Sounds like this warbler is connected with capital punishment (8)	Blackcap
27	She had a mad leer on her face in the jewellers (7)	Emerald anagram
28	Excellent Oxbridge sportsman or woman (4)	Blue
29	Next to Juno (but not Jupiter) (4,5)	Gold Beach
30	Even from space station 5 it wouldn’t look that colour (4,6)	Blue Danube. (2001 music)
31	Trumo wants it, but it isn’t (9)	Greenland
32	Infrequent occurrence, which last happened on 31 May (4,4)	Blue moon
33	Dark Balkan mountain (10)	Montenegro
34	I have a bowl to hold figs (8)	Goldfish anagram
35	Shopping centre clearly found between political parties (9)	Bluewater
36	He said you Jane (4,9)	Lord Graystoke
37	Is this a sign of planetary acne (5,3,4)	Great red spot
38	A massive bull? Awe, he looks bigger than that (4,5)	Blue Whale anagram
39	Did you hear the angry radio interview about an odd painting (6,4)	Dorian Gray anagram
40	Bambi (4)	Fawn
41	Potential Guide tastes fudge and chocolatey (7)	Brownie
42	Their 4000 holes were enough to fill the Albert Hall (9)	Blackburn
43	Ask Paul or Steve about these (5,3,5)	Eboony and Ivory
44	Carve deep to find these islands (4,5)	Cape Verde. Anagram
45	Not just an ugly duckling, but filthy dirty as well (5,,4)	Black swan
46	Cold Baltic sea curtailed (6)	Cobalt
47	Full fat supergroup (5)	Cream
48	She is a proponent of sexual cannibalism (5,5,6)	Black widow spider
49	Bumbling fool out in the icy cold with no socks or shoes on (4,6,5)	Blue footed booby
50	Found on a Vanwall or Connaught (7,6,5)	British racing green