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WATERWAYS QUIZ NUMBER 2

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SECTION A : WHERE IS IT?
	PLACE	WATERWAY
A1	Bingley 5-rise	Leeds & Liverpool	2 marks
A2	Shardlow	Trent & Mersey	2 marks
A3	Coxes lock & mill	Wey Navigation	2 marks
A4	Ellesmere Port	Shropshire Union or Wirral Line of the Ellesmere Canal	2 marks
A5	Farmer's Bridge	Birmmingham & Fazeley Canal	2 marks
A6	Crofton	Kennet & Avon Canal	2 marks
	SECTION TOTAL		12 MARKS

SECTION B : JUNCTIONS
B1	Staffs & Worcs	1 mark
B1	Shropshire Union or Birmingham & Liverpool Junction	1 mark
B2	Trent & Mersey Main Line	1 mark
B2	Caldon Branch of the Trent & Mersey (often known as the Caldon Canal)	1 mark
B3	Grand Union Main Line or Grand Junction Main Line	1 mark
B3	Bulbourne Branch	1 mark
B4	Bridgewater Canal main line	1 mark
B4	Stretford and Leigh Branch	1 mark
B5	River Trent	1 mark
	Trent & Mersey Canal	1 mark
	River Derwent (the Derbyshire one)	1 bonus mark
B6	Leicester Navigation (section of the GU Leicester line)	1 mark
B6	Loughborough Navigation (section of the GU Leicester line)	1 mark
	SECTION TOTAL	12 MARKS + 1 POSSIBLE BONUS

SECTION C : WATERWAYS MAPS
C1	River Lee (or Lea) Navigation	1 mark
C2	Brentford, where the Grand Union joins the Thames via Brentford Creek	1 mark
C3	Cumberland Market Arm or Cumberland Arm	1 mark
C4	Teddington	1 mark
C5	Birmingham	1 mark
C6	Stourport	1 mark
C7	Staffs & Worcs	1 mark
C8	Severn	1 mark
	SECTION TOTAL	8 MARKS

SECTION D : AQUEDUCTS
	GOES OVER	GOES UNDER
D1	Grand Union main lineor Grand Junction	River Great Ouse	2 marks
D2	Aire & Calder Navigation (Wakefield Branch)	River Calder	2 marks
D3	BCN Old Main Line	BCN New Main Line	2 marks
D4	Startford-on-Avon Canal	A road and a railway	2 marks
D5	Peak Forest Canal	River Goyt	2 marks
D6	Worcester & Birmingham Canal	Holliday Street	2 marks
D7	Grand Union main lineor Grand Junction	Fray's River	2 marks
	SECTION TOTAL		14 MARKS

SECTION E : ANAGRAMS
E1	Wey and Arun	1 mark
E2	Duckett's Cut	1 mark
E3	Rochdale Canal	1 mark
E4	Bradford on Avon	1 mark
E5	Stratford on Avon	1 mark
E6	Wilts and Berks	1 mark
E7	Trent and Mersey	1 mark
E8	Huddersfield	1 mark
E9	River Soar	1 mark
E10	Shropshire Union	1 mark
	SECTION TOTAL	10 MARKS

SECTION F : THE BEGINNING AND THE END
	PLACE	BEGINNING OR END OF ....
F1	Bulbourne Junction	Wendover Arm	2 marks
F2	Haywood Junction	Staffs & Worcs	2 marks
F3	Derwent Mouth	Trent & Mersey	2 marks
F4	Marsworth Junction	Aylesbury Arm	2 marks
F5	Aldersley Junction	BCN main line	2 marks
F6	Trent Junction or Trent Lock	Erewash Canal	2 marks
	SECTION TOTAL		12 marks

SECTION G : ALTERNATIVE NAMES
G1	The Hertford Union Canal	1 mark
G2	The Llangollen Canal	1 mark
G2	bonus mark for adding "..and the Wirral Line"	1 bonus mark
G3	The Cotswold Canals	1 mark
G4	Gas Street Basin	1 mark
G5	The Staffordshire & Worcestershire Canal (which was originally proposed as the Wolverhampton Canal)	1 mark
G6	Sutton's Stop	1 mark
G7	Calcutt locks	1 mark
G8	The Regent's Canal (which was originally proposed as the London Canal)	1 mark
G9	Marsworth	1 mark
	SECTION TOTAL	9 MARKS + 1 POSSIBLE BONUS

SECTION H : BOATS & CARRIERS
H1	Walkers of Rickmansworth	1 mark
	Harland & Woolf of Woolwich	1 mark
	Yarwoods of Northwich	1 mark
H2	GUCCC - 1930s	1 mark
H2	FMC - 1880s	1 mark
H3	"Chocolate Charlie" Atkins	1 mark
H4	Cadbury's	1 mark
	SECTION TOTAL	7 MARKS

SECTION I : UN-OBVIOUS ANSWERS
I1	Wolverhampton & Nantwich	2 marks
I2	Two	1 mark
I3	Wiltshire and Oxfordshire	2 marks
I4	River Trent, River Weaver and Derbyshire River Derwent	3 marks
I5	Two	1 mark
I6	Digbeth (or Bordesley) and Salford Junction	2 marks
	SECTION TOTAL	11 MARKS

GRAND TOTAL 95 MARKS + 2 POSSIBLE BONUSES

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