COUNTRY PUZZLES
Test your knowledge with our crossword.
1. Which of these counties does not have a border with Warwickshire?
a) Herefordshire b) Staffordshire c) Derbyshire d) Oxfordshire
2. A group of rooks is called a…
a) Murder b) Building c) Haunting d) Raft
3. In which county would you find the market town of March?
a) Lincolnshire b) Cambridgeshire c) Kent d) Hampshire
4. What are the Welsh Marches?
a) Wetlands in South Wales
b) Annual protests against English rule
c) English counties that border Wales
d) An old breed of British cattle
5. Which of these migrant birds can be heard singing in March in the UK?
a) Swift b) Cuckoo c) Nightjar d) Chiffchaff
6. A female hare is known as a…
a) Haress b) Hind c) Jill d) Doe
7. William Cecil, Lord High Treasurer to Elizabeth I, was the 1st Baron of where?
a) Buckinghamshire b) Burghley c) Burford d) Bucknell
8. How many locks are there along the Grand Union Canal?
a) 137 b) 21 c) 166 d) 0
9. What does ‘shrove’ in Shrove Tuesday mean?
a) Pancake b) Penitence c) Shrinking d) Feasting
10. At 117 miles, what is Scotland’s longest river?
a) Clyde b) Forth c) Tay d) Tweed
11. When was Dartmoor declared a national park?
a) 1851 b) 1951 c) 1971 d) 1991
12. Who was the founder of Warwick Castle?
a) William the Conqueror b) Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick c) Richard III d) Henry VIII
13. Who wrote “Daffodils, that come before the swallow dares, and take the winds of March with beauty”?
a) William Wordsworth b) Elizabeth Barrett Browning c) Samuel Taylor Coleridge d) William Shakespeare
14. Which of these isn’t a regional nickname for the woodlouse?
a) Slater b) Grandfather c) Cheese-log d) Granny’s pill