The Big and Brutal Quiz Questions 1-10 Part One: Questions and Hints. Mike Bender

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The Big and Brutal Quiz - Questions 1-10

Part One: Questions and Hints

Some of you may be wondering vaguely what the answers were to the quiz, although you never entered. Perhaps it was too big and brutal. But Kay Harding and her daughter, Jo, had searched the Internet for the pictorial answers, so it would be a pity if they never saw the light of day. So here are the first 10 questions so you can scratch your heads or brains again and then turn to the separate page with the illustrations and answers.

1. I’d never seen so many soldiers and knights in a small seaport. “Where are you all going?“ I asked one knight. “To fight the infidel!” he replied. And not just once but twice! a. the port? b. their destination? c. and d. - the years? Hint: ‘Infidel’ - crusade?

2 The church was built among sand dunes and for many years was so covered by them that the vicar climbed in through the roof twice a year to claim his stipend. a. Where? Hint: Sand dunes, so north coast

3. Which Irish saint came ashore and ended up living on the beach? a. Hint: Not that many saints live on a beach

4. And where did a saint get beheaded but, no sweat, put his head under his arm and sailed back to Wales? a. saint? b. location of beheading? Hint: sounds more like the uncivilised north coast and easier to get back to Wales.

5. We anchored in the roads and I went ashore to drink to a pirate? a. place? b. pirate? Hint: Where are ‘roads? and where might they link to pirates?