COUNTRY PUZZLES
RACK YOUR COUNTRYFILE BRAIN WITH THESE WILD AND WONDERFUL GAMES
Our countryside quiz and crossword
1. Which poet and novelist “watched a blackbird on a budding sycamore”?
a) Robert Louis Stevenson
b) Rudyard Kipling
c) George Meredith
d) Thomas Hardy
2. Which forest is situated between the Severn and Wye rivers?
a) New Forest
b) Ashdown Forest
c) Forest of Dean
d) Sherwood Forest
3. Which member of the finch family is pictured?
a) Linnet
b) Hawfinch
c) Bullfinch
d) Crossbill
4. Black Mountain is the source of which Welsh river?
a) River Dee
b) River Cleddau
c) River Usk
d) River Teifi
5. Oncorhynchus mykiss is the Latin name of which freshwater fish?
a) Rainbow trout
b) Brown trout
c) Chub
d) Barbel
6. Which National Trail runs from Edale in Derbyshire to Kirk Yetholm in the Scottish Borders?
a) Cleveland Way
b) Pennine Way
c) Southern Upland Way
d) Hadrian’s Wall Path
7. In what year were so many sheep put on to the Highlands that it was called Year of the Sheep?
a) 1685
b) 1734
c) 1782
d) 1816
8. What is the name of Britain’s deepest cave?
a) Reyfad Pot
b) Peak Cavern
c) Ogof Ffynnon Ddu
d) Wookey Hole
9. Lammas is a festival marking which annual event?
a) Salmon spawning
b) Bird migrations
c) Trees coming into leaf
d) Wheat harvest
10. Known as the Red Lady, Britain’s oldest human bones are actually the remains of a man who lived 34,000 years ago. Where were they found?
a) Gough’s Cave, Somerset
b) Paviland Cave, Gower
c) Smoo Cave, Lairg
d) Peak Cavern, Derbyshire
11. Where is Fingal’s Cave?
a) Isle of Staffa
b) Isle of Skye
c) Isle of Uist
d) Isle of Wight
12. What is the collective name for a group of frogs?
a) An army
b) A dazzle
c) A chorus
d) A school
13. Which two colours represented the rival houses in the Wars of Roses (1455-1487)?
a) Red and black
b) Blue and white
c) White and red
d) Red and blue
14. Which modern county did the Iron Age Iceni tribe principally inhabit?
a) Norfolk
b) Northumberland
c) Dorset
d) Cumbria