Monday 21 September 2015

Topsham rail day out photos

Strollers’ Day Out Exe Estuary 2015 - see below for Quiz answers
Any more photos from the day  - send them to me at dnembruce@btinternet.com






NOT QUITE ACCESSIBLE!!

BUT it wasn't!!




Michael in unusual hat on a rickshaw with a bar!!

THE QUIZ ANSWERS

See photos on other post

The Quiz! with results

Extra question - what was the score of the Plymouth Argyle-Bristol Rovers clash. We learnt all about it on the train home!!


1. Name three famous Devonians

Drake, Rayleigh, Michael Foot among others
2. Devon cream tea - jam then cream OR cream then jam?

Devon - cream first then jam

3. Which poet described Devon as “a splashy, rainy, misty, snowy, foggy, haily, floody, muddy, slip-shod County”?

Keats

4. Name a House Agatha Christie lived in in Devon

Greenway 2011 Day out

5. What family owns Powderham Castle?

The Courteney family, who became Earls of Devon only in 1831

6. Which house is linked to the Savoy Operas?

Colleton Fishacre 2012 Day out

7. What religious sect appears to have started in Devon?

Plymouth Brethren

8. Who said she didn’t give a damn?

Vivien Liegh said it when playing Scarlet O'Hara

9. Where can you see a Commando?

Lypmstone Commando railway station and camp

10. Describe the weather in Salcombe in 2013 (points will be given for originality without obscenity!)

Bracing was one fine answer! see question 3 for another.

11. What do points mean?

PRIZES

Wednesday 16 September 2015