Thank you to everyone who took part in the quiz. Nobody got all thirty questions correct but two people got 29 out of 30, so we have two winners. Congratulations to Alistair Black and James Fisher. Pictures of them receiving their prizes will be posted in a couple of weeks. Meanwhile, here are the solutions to the 30 questions. Was the quiz too hard or too easy? We would welcome your comments at info@crsc.org.uk
- Come tell me how it all began COMET (the first steamer)
- This is really a double-edged sword CLAYMORE
- This time I’ve picked a ripe one, and twisted it PIONEER
- That metal is very fast MERCURY (quicksilver)
- Is she married to Prince Charles? DUCHESS OF ROTHESAY
- You’ll find it in a little vent LEVEN
- She was mum to those paddlers Mars and Vulcan JUNO
- Somewhere backwards in a ton of ash ASHTON
- One of my favourite ferries bides here HEBRIDES
- It’s just a hop over the saddle from Glen Rosa GLEN SANNOX
- The biggest, and no rings! JUPITER (planet!)
- In that field a cow also sits COWAL
- It’s a ten mile circular cycle ISLE OF CUMBRAE
- The baron threw down his glove REDGAUNTLET
- Mrs Simpson sounds like she really set the heather alight MADGE WILDFIRE
- Let’s curtail a dunk in Loch Lomond KINLOCH
- A nice big raisin SULTANA
- Is Leo far rangier than Capricorn and needing clipped? ISLE OF ARRAN
- The atoms of lithium arm ions of chlorine with extra electrons, so need reduced MARMION
- Sounds as though it would go well with ice and coke RHUM
- Will a hot beverage be served after this swimming event? GALATEA
- Befuddled Scotsman Tom was killed in battle TALISMAN (Tam slain)
- Have a rethink owl KENILWORTH
- An I seen Jade too, only in better English JEANIE DEANS
- Feels I is low, is not good English either ISLE OF LEWIS
- It’s really the man in number eleven CHANCELLOR
- A mixed up hollow cylinder BUTE (tube)
- Noodle fuss is very Western, if scrutinised with an eye SOUND OF SEIL (anagram + i)
- This one was stunningly colourful VIVID
- That’s a wide river to cross BROADFORD