Tom's Cornish Quiz - round 2

Are you ready for round 2? Merry Christmas quizzing…

(Answers at the end)

1. Standing stones are normally in circles, where is the unusual rectangular form known as King Arthur’s Hall?
2. The name Camelford has no connection to ships of the desert (although ford represents the obvious). How did the River Camel come about its name?
3. Who built Tintagel Castle?
4. What popular 2010s TV series based on Winston Graham’s books had a previous TV adaption (made in the 1970s)?
5. There are 2 Fisherman’s Friends films, both set in Port Isaac – what are they about?
6. What Cornish lifeboat disaster occurred in December 1981?
7. What’s considered Cornwall’s national dish?
8. Padstow is famed for its Seafood Restaurant and other Rick Stein establishments, but which chef has not one, but two, Michelin Star eateries in Port Isaac?
9. Held annually at Wadebridge, when is the Cornwall Garden Society’s flower show held?
10. How is the arrival of spring declared in Cornwall each year – being the marker for all England?
11. Where is Cornwall’s highest point?
12. Where is Prideaux Place?
13. What National Trust property provides access to park and woodland trails on its 900-acre estate, as well as its historic house and gardens?
14. St Endellion is famed for its (classical) music festivals at Easter and in August, but what type of festival does it hold each September?
15. Port Isaac has one in April and Boscastle one in November, but what?
16. What happens in Wadebridge each August bank holiday weekend?
17. Where is Cornwall’s military museum, known as The Keep?
18. The Isles of Scilly are fabled to be the remnants of which lost land?
19. Why, according to folklore, did Port Quin become deserted in the 1700s?
20. What bridge was ‘built on wool’?
21. What is the oldest legal system in Britain?
22. Haywood Farm Cider is loved by locals for their summer Sunday socials – what village borders their orchards?
23. Apart from by car, how else might visitors arrive at the award-winning Camel Valley Vineyard?
24. Distilled near Wadebridge, Tarquin’s was the first Cornish gin to be produced in how long?
25. Which narrow Cornish thoroughfare is listed in the Guiness Book of Records?
26. Who, according to her memorial stone at Roughtor Ford, murdered Charlotte Diamond in 1844?
27. What is the Cornish connection to Captain Bligh of HMS Bounty fame (and its mutinous crew)?
28. What unique Cornish establishment offers degree courses in horticulture, sustainability and plant science?
29. What was the first form of surfing at Polzeath, which became popular in the 1960s?
30. Golfers can play a different course each day of the week in North Cornwall, but one is ranked UK and world-wide as one of the finest. Amongst its distinguishing features is a 12^th century church amid its links – name the course!
31. Which steam railway is the only one in Cornwall that operates full-size locomotives?

Answers

1. Bodmin Moor
2. Cam is Cornish for crooked, so refers to crooked river
3. Earl Richard of Cornwall
4. Poldark
5. The sea shanty singers of the same name
6. Penlee (Mousehole)
7. The pasty
8. Nathan Outlaw
9. The 1^st weekend in April
10. 6 of the Great Gardens of Cornwall all need to have recorded 50+ blooms on their champion magnolia trees
11. Brown Willy at 1,378’ (420m) above sea level – the name is Cornish for hill of swallows
12. Padstow
13. Lanhydrock
14. North Cornwall Book Festival (Endelienta Arts)
15. Sea Shanty Festivals
16. Cornwall Folk Festival
17. Bodmin
18. Lyonesse
19. All menfolk were lost at sea in a storm while out fishing (on a Sunday) – the women and children gradually drifted elsewhere to make a living
20. The old (main) Wadebridge bridge
21. Cornwall’s Stannery Parliament (that governed the tin industry)
22. St Mabyn
23. By bicycle along the Camel Trail
24. 100 years
25. Port Isaac's Squeeze-Belly Alley
26. Her boyfriend Matthew Weeks
27. William Bligh was born at Tinten Manor Farm near St Tudy
28. The Eden Project
29. Belly-boarding on wooden boards
30. St Enodoc, near Rock
31. Bodmin Railway (sometimes known as Wenford railway)