Christian Aid Quiz
This quiz is now closed. There were 3 completely correct sets of answers. Congratulations to all 3. On the tie-breaker, the committee awarded the prize to H. Walker from Essex. Please feel free to send me an s.a.e and a donation to Christian Aid if you enjoyed doing this quiz and would like the answers.
Our next quiz will be for St Peter's Appeal and should appear in the autumn. The next CA quiz will be spring 2011
Have a little fun as you help someone else, and you could win a hamper of Fairtrade goodies.
Below are clues to popular singers or groups. The clues may be factual, cryptic or just bad puns (occasionally a mix). Where a group name has an initial 'The', it is ignored.
Solve as many as you can (you don't have to complete it) and send the leaflet to Mrs Walker, Upper Bottle House, Stane St., Slinfold, RH13 0RE, together with a donation of at least £3 for Christian Aid (If you can fill in the Gift Aid declaration at the end, your gift is worth even more). Closing date is May 31st. You can also hand it in at the Christian Aid Lunch in Slinfold Village Hall on May 15th
The winner, whoever correctly solves the most clues, will be announced at morning service, St. Peter's, Slinfold, on June 3rd and the prize delivered in the next few days
In the event of a tie, the winner will be the person who, in the opinion of the committee, best completes this sentence, using ten or fewer words:-
'I support Christian Aid because
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The Quiz
- Gloating insects (7)
- Artistic school - did it kill them? (5)
- Not quite hips, but possibly the most hip (5)
- Mate of the Christmas bush? (5,5)
- Not very mossy (7,6)
- Not a stony coastline (6,4)
- Which people? (3)
- Brainwashers (11)
- Cuddly toys (5,5)
- Cinnamon misses? (5,5)
- Well! In the desert? (5)
- Littlejohn with money (6,4)
- Offspring of Fate (8,5)
- Metre in small print unit (6)
- Wonderful cats and dogs (5,5,7)
- Wireless capital (9)
- Z-cars in Greenland...(4,6)
- ...and more arctic fun (8)
- You can't ban Kimberley and the other 4 (5,5)
- B-P wouldn't have it in 1909 (8,3,5)
- Killing sparked a conflict (5,9)
- Chilly simians but not the brass ones (6,7)
- I've lost my glasses (4)
- Dual power supply (2,2)
- More highly seasoned than 10 (3,3,5,7)
- The only things Oscar can't resist (11)
- BSc, MA, PhD (5,7)
- Did he lead a band or a party? (3,5)
- Liver salt siblings (7,7)
- Ready to give you a personality test? (3,5)
- Big plates (8)
- Lard and suet pub-game tile (4,6)
- Is she in the convent choir (7,3)
- Ex-slave orator with sports cars (6,1,3,3,3)
- Vivaldi liked pizza (4,7)
- Did they surf with no. 6? (5,4)
- Stretch to get rid of them (5)
- They look hard (9)
- Anti-heroes of sci-fi horror (7)
- Composer of fairy-tale opera (9,11)
- More than one hidden Himalayan valley (7-3)
- Parents! (5,3,3,5)
- Way in and way out (5)
- A late Edwardian confectioner (8-3,8,7)
- To go with peaches (5)
- The way things were (6,3)
- Woodworkers (10)
- Just offstage, either side (5)
- Three-quarters of the classical elements? (5,4,3,4)
- E.R. (5)
- Scarp-face Dick (5,7)
- Teetotal septet (10,5)
- Competent sea-man, a bachelor (4)
- The windy city (7)
- Big rissole (8)
- Posher than cocoa (3,9)
- Book I, O.T. (7)
- Lambert Simnel and Perkin Warbeck (10)
- Intellectual Association (7,4)
- Give the big cat a hearing aid (3,7)
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Print out the quiz and have a go!
Solve as many as you can and send the completed leaflet to :-
J Walker, Upper Bottle House, Stane St., Slinfold RH13 0RE
together with a donation of at least £3 for Christian Aid
(If you can fill in the Gift Aid declaration at the end of the page, your gift is worth even more).
Closing date is May 31st 2010.
(If you would like the complete answers, include an s.a.e. with your entry and we'll send them out in June.)
The quiz is now closed. Please feel free to send me an s.a.e and a donation to Christian Aid if you enjoyed doing this quiz and would like the answers.
Christian Aid Week 2010
May 9th to May 15th
Activities planned in Slinfold
- Sat. May 8th - Jumble Sale
- Slinfold Village Hall - 2pm
- Mon. May 10th - Coffee Morning and 'Bring and Buy Sale'
- 10am at 'Padora'
- Sat. May 15th - Christian Aid Lunch
- Slinfold Village Hall from 12 noon
During the week a house-to-house collection will take place
volunteers to help with the house-to-house collection or the Jumble Sale will be eagerly welcomed as will Raffle Prizes and donations.
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