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MIKE’S TRICKY QUIZ FOR SERIOUS WATERWAYS ANORAKS No.3

ANSWERS

SECTION A : WHERE & WHEN?

Notes

A1 Limehouse Basin 1 mark Entrance from the Thames
A2 1820s 1 mark
A3 Titford Pools 1 mark IWA National Rally
A4 1978 1 mark
A5 Market Harborough 1 mark The first IWA National Festival
A6 1950 1 mark
A7 Slough 1 mark  
A8 1982 1 mark
A9 Barton 1 mark Demolition of the original Barton aqueduct to make way for the Ship Canal & the swing aqueduct.
A10 1890s 1 mark
SECTION TOTAL 10 MARKS  

SECTION B : ANAGRAMS

B1 TRENT AND MERSEY 1 mark
B2 GRAND TRUNK CANAL 1 mark
B3 LEICESTER NAVIGATION 1 mark
B4 RIVER WISSEY 1 mark
B5 TIDAL TRENT 1 mark
B6 FRADLEY JUNCTION 1 mark
B7 BRAUNSTON TURN 1 mark
B8 WIGAN LOCKS 1 mark
B9 POMONA LOCK 1 mark
B10 CAMBRIAN WHARF 1 mark
  SECTION TOTAL 10 MARKS

SECTION C : SOMETHING IN COMMON

Notes

C1 Admiral Lord Nelson 1 mark  
C2 Third Duke of Bridgewater 1 mark  
C3 Steam power 1 mark  
C4 Blisworth tunnel 1 mark  
C5 Both finished in 1805 1 mark Nelson died. Blisworth tuinnel completed
C6 Woolwich 1 mark (a) nb Fulbourne is a Big Woolwich
(b) The Woolwich Ferry way off its usual territory
(c) Woolwich barge roads
C7 Oxford Canal 1 mark Fenny Compton Tunnel
C8 BCN Old Main Line 1 mark Smethwick locks
C9 & 10 James Brindley & Samuel Simcock 2 marks Each was started by Brindley & completed by SImcock.
SECTION TOTAL 10 MARKS  

SECTION D : CANAL PIONEERS

Notes

D1 Telford 1 mark Brindley 1716-1772, 56yrs : Telford 1757-1834, 77yrs : Jessop 1745-1814, 69 yrs : Smeaton 1724-1792, 68 yrs
D2 James Brindley and Hugh Henshall 1 mark  
D3 Thomas Dadford Sr & his sons Thomas & John. 1 mark  
D4 Thomas & William Bartholomew 1 mark  
D5 Sir Edward Leader Williams 1 mark  
D6 The Manchester Ship Canal 1 mark  
D7 Willow Wren 1 mark  
D8 Lesley Morton 1 mark  
D9 Matthew Pickford 1 mark  
D10 Fellows Morton & Clayton 1 mark  
SECTION TOTAL 10 MARKS  

SECTION E : MAPS

E1 Smethwick 1 mark
E2 The grey one 1 mark
E3 James Brindley 1 mark
E4 Thomas Telford 1 mark
E5 John Smeaton 1 mark
E6 Warwick & Birmingham 1 mark
E7 West Croydon 1 mark
E8 Oozells Street 1 mark
E9 Icknield Port 1 mark
E10 Soho 1 mark
SECTION TOTAL 10 MARKS

SECTION F : START & FINISH

F1 Autherley Junction and Nantwich 2 marks
F2 Salford Junction to Bordeseley (or Proof House) Junction 2 marks
F3 Outwell to Salter's Lode 2 marks
F4 Skipton Wharf to Skipton Castle 2 marks
F5 Tiverton to Taunton 2 marks
F6 Marston Jabbett to Burton-on-Trent 2 marks
F7 Belfast to Lough Neagh 2 marks
F8 Longford Junction, Coventry, to Banbury 2 marks
F9 Brecon to Pontymoile Junction, near Pontypool 2 marks
F10 New Cross to Portsmouth 2 marks
SECTION TOTAL 20 MARKS

SECTION G : MIXED BAG

G1 Grand Junction/ Grand Union 1 mark
G2 New Bradwell 1 mark
G3 Milton Keynes 1 mark
G4 Fotheringhay 1 mark
G5 River Nene 1 mark
G6 Richard III 1 mark
G7 Mary Queen of Scots 1 mark
G8 The Mont (Montgomeryshire Canal) 1 mark
G9 The Llanymynnech Branch of the Ellesmere Canal 1 mark
G10 Graham Palmer 1 mark
G11 The Erewash Canal 1 mark
G12 Sandiacre lock 1 mark
G13 Kennet & Avon Canal 1 mark
G14 Devizes locks 1 mark
G15 Caen Hill 1 mark
G16 1990 1 mark
G17 The Queen 1 mark
G18 Chillington Wharf 1 mark
G19 BCN Main Line 1 mark
G20 Canal/Railway interchange basin 1 mark
G21 President & Kildare 1 mark
SECTION TOTAL 21 MARKS

GRAND TOTAL 91 MARKS

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