Professor Bumblebee's Xmas Quiz

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Professor Bumblebee

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As with last year just paste a copy with answers when you've got them.

Christmas 2006 Quiz
1. What relation is Martin Bowler to John Wilson?
2. What is the English record roach?
3. What is a tulip? (angling accessory)
4. When was the first authenticated 3lb roach caught?
5. What is the Hunter scale?
6. Who was the last angler to win the world championships 3 times? (freshwater)
7. Who took Ivan Marks under his wing and taught him the matchfishing ropes?
8. Whose lake was stocked with black bass in 1878? (current owner)
9. Who stated, "It's not so much the fly as the driver"?
10. Who made/marketed the original 'Flick-em' reel?
11. What species was Robert Pashley famed for catching?
12. And on what river?
13. What is the name of the bridge that the memorial plaque to Peter Stone is attached to?
14. Who developed the dumb-bell pike float?
15. What record didn't Mark Everard break a year ago?
16. What colour was Terry lampard's first rod?
17. Who once caught 51lb of bleak in a match?
18. Dave Harrell recently had 114lb of dace in a match; who was the first angler to get 100lb of dace in a session?
19. Which freshwater record is likely to remain impossible to beat, and why?
20. What river did Kevin Ashurst claim to dislike so much that "he'd rather walk up a motorway with nails through my boots than fish it"?
 
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ED (The ORIGINAL and REAL one)

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1) Grandfather
2) 8lb 17 ozs
3) A type of flower for decorating your bivvy
4) 1743
5) An item for weighing foxes
6) Roland Clay
7) Roland Clay
8) Roland Clays
9) Roland Clay
10)Roland Clay
11)Duck Billed Platypus
12)Amazon
13)Sydney Harbour Bridge
14)Roland Clay
15)Heartbreak Hotel by Elvis Presley
16)Pink
17)Roland Clay
18)Roland Clay
19)Mersey Goldfish(scousus turdus)Because they have just installed a big new sewage plant
20)Orinoco


Please send my winnings to Deanos (because he is a bit down on his luck at the moment) and needs all the help he can get since they let him out of the lunatic asylum
 
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Ron 'The Hat' Clay (ACA)

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1: Nephew - I think.
2: 4lbs 3oz
3: Special pole rest
4: Probably Hornsea Mere - Wilfred Cutting - ca 1922.
5: Don't know.
6: Alan Scotthorne
7: Maybe someone like Roy Marlow.
8: Don't know.
9: That sounds like someone like **** Shrive.
10: JW Young.
11: Possibly bream on the Ant
13: A bridge on the Thames near Wolvercote
14: Dennis Pye
15: Crucian carp
16: Billy Lane??
17: Denis Flack??
18: Salmon - due to global warming and many other factors such as reduction in krill.
19: River Trent.
 
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Ron 'The Hat' Clay (ACA)

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And now for my Christmas quiz

1: Which famous angler was born on 29th May 1918?
2: Who's father was wounded at Gallipoli and died in the 20s.
3: Who's Grandfather when teaching him how to pike fish told him: "Don't be too previous boy, you never strike a pike until he's had it for at least 10 minutes - by your watch"?
4: Who lived at 11 Bearton Avenue - Hitchin?
5: Who was the first angler to catch a trout on a carbon fibre rod?
6: Who wrote a book in 1939 called: "The Book of the Flemish Giant"?
7: Who nagged the tackle trade to develop a roller in the pick-up of a fixed spool reel?
8: Who once bred a Siamese cat that won several top prizes in a London Cat show?
9: Who's mother was a very close friend of Elizabeth Bowes Lyon?
10: Who was the Technical Director of Lloyds and Co of Letchworth from 1954 to 1984?

That will do for now.

Come on Ed - you can answer the above 10 I am sure.
 
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come on guys they are are great questions and i know you know the answers too.......

Waiting for a bite are we???????????????
 
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BAZ (Angel of the North)

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1 It depends on who you regard as famous.

2 Albert Jones from the top of our road.

3 Matt Brown

4 There have been more than one owner

5 Do you mean the first recorded angler?

6 James Bond

7 Don't know

8 Ships Cat

9 Mine

10 Groucho Marx
 
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BAZ (Angel of the North)

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Sorry Ron.
Are they all people off this forum?
 
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Ron 'The Hat' Clay (ACA)

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No Baz.

But here are a few more clues:

Who was once tested for reaction times and the only guy who beat him was Stirling Moss?

Who, in his teens, was given the name - Dirty Stuart?

Who's wife was a first class archer who won a number of ladies tournaments?

Who, in 1946, convinced his company that they would have to make the products locally rather than import from the USA?

Who, for a short period of his life was a single figure handicap golfer?

Who, during WW2, at RAE Farnborough helped develop airborn radar?

Surely by now you have the answer to all my quiz questions.
 
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1. Bait and Hook.

2. A fish bigger than my pb.

3. Battery operated "tool" (similar to a "rabbit" but a different shape.

4. 4 years time.

5. Fox salesman's call list.

6. Deanos.

7. Me.

8. Mark Wintle's garden pond.

9. Ron Clay.

10. "Nose Picker" Smith.

11. Minnows and Flounders.

12. Idle.

13. A335 by-pass.

14. Anne Widdicombe.

15. Cliff Richard's "The Young Ones".

16. Pink.

17. Me.

18. Eddie Poole - Tuckton Boats - 1968.

19. Pass.

20. Idle.
 
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Frank "Chubber" Curtis

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I can never understand why Ron and RW never married. It's obvious from all Ron's posts that they were deeply in love.
 
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Fred Bonney

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1. Nephew
2. 4lb3ozs
3. rod/pole rest
4. 1904 medway yalding
5.
6. Alan Scotthorne
7.
8.
9.
10. Homer
11. Salmon
12. Wye
13. Wolvercote toll Bridge
14. Dennis Pye
15. Roach
16.
17.
18.
19. Burbot,believed to be extict
20. Trent
 
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Ron 'The Hat' Clay (ACA)

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Final Clue.

Who once made a split cane fly rod for a most charming titled lady and when he went to a stretch of the Test to deliver it, was told thay they only use the Dray Flay here.

OK then, who was all these things and more?
 
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