Quizzes & Puzzles Round Up August 2011

[AB Editor]

Dear All,

Here is the August edition of the Quizzes and Puzzles round up. Below is a selection of quizzes for the next month.

If anyone out there has any more please feel free to add full details to this thread.

Enjoy!

1. Summer Quiz For MacMillan Cancer Care 140 cryptic clues to British Placenames, closing date 26th August.

2. Words Quiz Rhodes Minnis Methodist Church, closing date 31st August.

3. 'Cocktails' Quiz about Cocktails to raise money for Assisi Funding, closing date 16th September.

4. New Quiz for Adults From the Friends of Whittlesey Library, closing date 24th September.

5. New Quiz for Children From the Friends of Whittlesey Library, closing date 24th September.

6. Mixed Bag Picture Quiz New picture quiz in aid of the Village Hall at Heage, closing date 30th September.

7. New Railway Quiz Quiz about all things train in aid of Chatris Community Care, closing date 30th September.

8. Billericay Lions - Collectively Cryptic Collective nouns quiz in aid of the Billericay Lions, closing date 1st October.

9. My Visit to the Zoo Quiz in aid of East Anglia Air Ambulance, closing date 30th December.

[quizmouse]

DOWN THE TUBES raisins money for MAGPAS the emergency medical charity.
100 cryptic clues all answers are London tube stations. Closing date 17th October. Prize of £15 to highest scoring entry and £5 prize from those received srawn completely at random.
Should you like a copy, please send your donation (£1 min) and a SAE to
Diane Wakeling 3 Lark Rise, Hardwick, Cambridge CB23 7XZ.

[spritzer]

Lizzes Quizzes (3)

In aid of macmillan Cancer Support.

50 questions, each with 2 clues and 2 rhyming answers.

4 cash prizes (£40, £20, £10, £5) to be won after the closing date of Sat 15th October 2011.

For a copy please send £1 +sae to

Liz Hardy
27 Whitecross
St Ives
Cambs
PE27 6DR

(cheques/po's payable to Macmillan Cancer Supprt please)

Thank you

[vegas9302]

HAMPSHIRE SEARCH AND RESCUE's (Charity No. 1098332) new 'FLOWERS' quiz is now available. 100 general knowledge questions all with a reference to the name of a flower in either the question or the answer.
£25 First Prize and two further £5 prizes awarded to two quizzes drawn at random regardless of the correct amount of answer.
Closing Date: Monday 31st October 2011.
Please send £1 per quiz + S.A.E to: HANTSAR Quiz, 7 Fromond Road, Winchester, Hants, SO22 6DS.
Cheques made payable to: HANTSAR.

Thank You for your continued support

[KendalCorner]

'What Not To Wear' Quiz from Dean Gibson School:

http://www.theanswerb.../Question1044648.html

Closing date 29th October

[bettysue]

MATLOCK TOWN FOOTBALL CLUB SUPPORTERS AUXILIARY ASSOCIATION, CAUSEWAY LANE, MATLOCK, DE4 3AR Tel [phone]

Send £1 plus SAE to the above address please for your copy!

PRESENTS A QUIZ ENTITLED

“JUST FAMOUS PEOPLE”
Solve the clues to find famous people, (well I and my husband have heard of all of them!) a clue, they are from film, sport, literature, television, politics, entertainment - maybe some not in these categories – some are still alive and some are not.
There are anagrams, cryptic clues plus some ‘factual’ clues

Entries to be returned by 30th September 2011

PS - note that the clues include number of letters in the answer - tip - some are incorrect - so just use your heads!

[Mamyalynne]

http://www.theanswerb.../Question1046788.html

another new one.

[amostyn]

Why can't there be more downloaded quizzes like the Billericay one ...... I hate sending off for them ?

[bosey]

"Through the Garden Gate" Quiz in aid of 6th Chatteris Brownies
Please send £1 per quiz and SAE (at least DL size) to:
Mrs Ann Smith,
87 London Road,
Chatteris,
Cambs
PE16 6LW

Closing date 30th September 2011
Prize £10

Items you would find in a garden

[Stamford_Richard]

Summer Quiz for MacMillan Cancer Care - Win a magnum of Champagne
This quiz consists of 140 cryptic clues to British placenames. Closing date is 26th August. It is available via www.justgiving.com/thesummerquiz.

UPDATE: The draw for the winner will take place in The King's Head, Maiden Lane, STAMFORD, Lincolnshire at 4.00pm on Sunday 28th August.

[Mamyalynne]

New Quiz

The new Capel le Ferne quiz is now available. Called In the Countryside. 50 questions. £1 + SAE from C Leppard, 29 Albany Road, Capel le Ferne, Folkestone, Kent. CT18 7LA. Closing date Sept 16.
07:27 Tue 16th Aug 2011

Posted by Julesy

[Mamyalynne]

daltonlass
New Quiz - Cities, Towns & Villages Quiz

Funds raised for St John's Church Grayrigg, Nr Kendal.

Quiz Sheets £1. Cheques payable to St John's Church,

Closing Date 30th November 2011.

Available from
Mrs K Dickinson
Meeting House Cottage, Beckhouses, Grayrigg, Kendal, Cumbria LA8 9ET
15:05 Fri 26th Aug 2011

[furrypusscat]

Buxton Mountain Rescue Quiz 2.

New Quiz in aid of Buxton Mountain Rescue Team now available.
60 questions General Knowledge/Cryptic/Anagrams of place names in British Isles containing name of an animal.

1st Prize: £10 / 2nd Prize £5 randomly picked from all returned sheets.

£1 plus sae to Mrs G Halliday,
'Lorien', Main Road,
Stickney,
Boston,
Lincolnshire, PE22 8AG.

Cheques payable to Buxton Mountain Rescue Team. Closing date: 3rd December, 2011.

Thank you.