Thruxton News
Thruxton Village web site is seeking volunteers to update the various sections; volunteers will be provided access to update the pages themselves via the content management system (if you can use a document editor, such as MS Word, you'll be able to update the pages).
The Parish Council has agreed that as a fitting recognition of the Diamond Jubilee of HM The Queen, to purchase commemorative china mugs which will be presented to villagers under the age of 16. There will be some more of these available for purchase for anyone who would like to have one as a memento of this special year.
Answers to the Christmas 2011 Village Quiz
- What was the name of the BP oil rig that caused so much pollution in the Gulf of Mexico?
Deepwater Horizon - In what year did sweet rationing end after WW2?
September 1953 - On 1 Jan 11 Estonia joined the Euro. What was the name of its currency prior to joining?
The Kroon - Four Railway Companies were nationalised in 1948 to form British Rail. What were these companies ( in full, please).
Great Western, London Midland and Scottish, London North Eastern and Southern - Billy Butlin opened his first Holiday Camp at Skegness. On what date was it opened?
Easter Saturday 11 April 1936 - Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland) was the pen name of whom?
Rev Charles Lutwige Dodgson - What navigational device was carried on both Apollo 15 (Endeavour) and Captain Cook's ship (Endeavour)?
A sextant - Which Knight of the Round Table can you spell out using only the middle row of letters on a QWERTY keyboard?
GALAHAD - SS Canberra, of Falklands fame, was broken up at which shipyard?
Gadani Beach, Pakistan, some 48 km north of Karachi - Having a single syllable is monosyllabic, what is the word meaning 'having fewer than four syllables'?
Oligosyllabic - NIESR may be a Qango, but what do the initials stand for?
National Institute of Economic and Social Research - Now one for the gardeners. I am "Glycyrrhiza glabra" and I am a member of the pea family. What am I?
Licorice - Where was the long-running series "Last of the Summer Wine" filmed?
Holmfirth - Where was Winston Churchill's first Constituency?
Oldham - From which country does the 'Bossa Nova' originate?
Brazil - Our NHS has approx 1.7 million staff making it the fourth largest employer in the World. Name two of the top three.
Chinese People's Liberation Army, Wal-Mart and Indian Railways. - I am often used in cryogenics and in the making of ice cream. My boiling point is minus 196 deg C. What am I?
(Liquid) Nitrogen - A useful fastener is based in plant burrs. What is it?
Velcro - How many Space Shuttles were there and what were the names?
Six: - Enterprise, Columbia, Challenger, Discovery, Atlantis and Endeavour - The Pentagon is the largest building in the world, but which is supposedly the second largest? Ceausescu's Palace in Bucharest.
(More than 60% got it right) Accepted (for 1 mark): Largest by volume, Boeing factory; largest by floor area, Dubai; largest by office space, Pentagon - In which Cathedral would you find the grave of King Canute?
Winchester - There are 6 bells in a church belfry, which are rung in sequence 123456. If the No2 bell hunts up, and the No5 bell hunts down, what does the sequence become?
132546 - On 24 April 1990, the Discovery space shuttle launched the HST. What was that?
Hubble Space Telescope - Two British postage commemorative stamps were issued for the 1951 Festival of Britain. What were their values and colours?
2 1/2d red and 4d blue - What is the collective name for rhinoceros or rhinoceroses or rhinocerii?
A crash - What is the medical name for "Pins and Needles"?
Paraesthesia - What have the following in common; Buchanan's, Windsor and Bushmills?
They are all brands of Whisk(e)y - From a recent analysis of the 1000 most popular Pub names, which name was the most popular?
The Red Lion with 518 so-named pubs - Can you name 4 of Wilbert Awdrey's famous engines other than Thomas? Edward;
James, Percy, Toby, Gordon, Henry and Daisy. Annie and Claribel were coaches, not engines. - The Duke of Edinburgh was 90 this year. On what date?
10 June - 96 Liverpool football fans were tragically killed in April 1989 where?
Hillsborough Football Ground, Sheffield - When was the Test Valley Tapestry completed and first put on public display?
June/July 1990 - What is the mileage inscribed on our Milestone?
LXVIIII from London and V from Andover - When was the centre of Thruxton declared a Conservation Area?
16 January 1985 (but 1985 accepted) - Which Country's stamps have the country name "SUOMI"?
Finland - What comedy sitcom, currently being rebroadcast on TV, was made in 80 x 30 min episodes?
Dad's Army - Children in France eating school meals have been banned from having what on their food more than once per week?
Tomato Sauce - What was the date of the sinking of the "Belgrano" by HMS Conqueror during the Falklands War?
2 May 1982 - When was the Berlin Wall initially opened up?
9 Nov 1989 - When was the handover of Hong Kong?
1 July 1997 (midnight 30 June) - Five 'developing nations' span the Greenwich Meridian. Name four
Algeria, Mali, Burkina Faso, Togo and Ghana. - What major catastrophe in Bhopal, India in 1984 killed over 8000 workers and people living nearby?
Union Carbide Chemical plant explosion - Who wrote "A Royal Duty" exposing many of the inner activities at Buckingham palace?
Paul Burrell - Which was the year of the Queen's "Annus Horribilis!"?
1992 - Which was Holywood's first Talking Movie?
"The Jazz Singers" - What has the letter T at both the beginning and end and has T in the middle?
Teapot - Which Commercial firm overtook "Coca Cola" as top advertised brand?
McDonalds - "Grolsh" Beer originates from which country?
Holland - In the "Hunt for Red October" (James Bond), what was "Red October"?
A nuclear missile submarine - submarine accepted - Where, in the UK, are the Farne Islands?
Off the Northumberland coast