Hi,
Were the answers to this quiz ever made available?
I spent a bit of time trying to get the answers to the Racegoers
Quiz but there were a few I had to give up on.
It would be excellent if the answers could be published to put me
out of my misery!
Many Thanks
--- In northernracingclub@yahoogroups.com, nwrc99 <no_reply@...>
wrote:
>
> THE NEW LOOK TIMEFORM CHRISTMAS QUIZ 2005
>
> Two competitions in one! – More chances to win!
>
> Compiled by Brian Stone and Stewart Nash –Joint winners of the
> Timeform Challenge 2004
>
> No Christmas would be the same without the Timeform Christmas
Quiz.
> The Quiz has always provided a stern test but just lately the
> challenges have become a bit too great so with the very generous
> support of Geoff Greetham of Timeform we have restyled the quiz
into
> two parts, which we hope will encourage more of you to enter.
>
> The RACEGOERS QUIZ is ten easy questions about racing between
> November 2004 and October 2005. To enter all you have to do is
> answer these ten questions. The winner will receive £20 of
Timeform
> Vouchers plus a copy of Timeform `Horses to Follow'. The runner up
> will receive £15 of vouchers plus Horses to Follow and the third a
> £10 voucher plus Horses to Follow.
>
> The TIMEFORM CHALLENGE requires entrants to answer the ten
Racegoers
> questions plus the 20 `Sterner Test' questions. The rewards for
> this are that the winner will receive £25 Timeform Vouchers plus
> Timeform `Racehorses' value £70 annual. The runner up will
receive
> £15 of vouchers plus `Racehorses' and the third £10
> plus `Racehorses'.
>
> There are no trick questions and hopefully none are ambiguous but
> don't be put off having a go as the sterner test may still be won
> with less than a perfect score. If any clarification is needed
> please contact Stewart Nash on 01932 880211. Please send your
> answers together with your name and address to Stewart Nash 14
> Elland Road, Walton on Thames Surrey KT12 3JT or by e-mail to
> hilda.n@... to arrive by no later than 1 February 2006. –
> Good luck!!
>
> RACEGOERS QUIZ: (All questions relate to racing between 1 November
> 2004 and 31 October 2005)
>
> 1 Which jockey rode the winner of the Welsh, Aintree and Irish
> Grand Nationals?
> 2 Which jockey prevented the answer to question one completing
> a `National' four timer by winning the Scottish Grand National?
> 3 Which horse prevented Mubtaker from winning the Geoffrey
> Freer Stakes for a fourth time?
> 4 Which jockey was leading rider at Royal Ascot at York?
> 5 Which jockey won the Derby at Epsom for the third time?
> 6 Which horse completed a trio of wins in the three cross-
> country steeplechases at Cheltenham?
> 7 Which Irish trained horse won the King George VI and Queen
> Elizabeth II Diamond Stakes at Newbury?
> 8 Which horse won the Cheltenham Gold Cup?
> 9 Which horse completed a `stayers' handicap treble when
> winning the Cesarewitch on 15 October?
> 10 Who was the only European trained horse to win a Breeders
> Cup race in October 2005?
>
> THE STERNER TEST (all questions relate to Great Britain unless
> otherwise stated)
>
> 11 Which Champion National Hunt jockey twice rode the winner of
> the French Derby?
> 12 Which two currently licensed UK trainers share the
> forename `Leeper'?
> 13 Which Goodwood Cup winner's statue stands on the approach to
> Maisons Laffitte racecourse?
> 14 Who completes this list of jockeys? - Mr James Nash, Richard
> Dunwoody, Paul Carberry, Ruby Walsh, Adrian Maguire, Conor O'Dwyer
> and Barry Geraghty?
> 15 Which Derby winning trainer has the forenames `Leopold
> Wentworth'?
> 16 How did Myriad and Tinto make history?
> 17 Which horse has run the most times in the Queen Mother
> (formerly the National Hunt Two Miles) Champion Chase?
> 18 Which Cheltenham Gold Cup winner made his racecourse debut
> at Southwell?
> 19 At which racecourse was the Prix de l'Arc de Triomphe run in
> 1943 and 1944?
> 20 Who was the last France based trainer to win the UK Flat
> trainers championship?
> 21 Which former champion National Hunt jockey's autobiography
> is titled `Winner's Disclosure'?
> 22 Which famous race was won by Domenicus in October 2005?
> 23 Which current Royal Ascot race, first run in 1840, was known
> as The Trial Stakes up to 1929?
> 24 Which winner of a post-war Epsom Classic was beaten by 8
> lengths on its debut as a two year-old?
> 25 Which horse comes next in the following sequence? – Ardan,
> Chanteur II, Goyama, Beau Sabreur, Armour Drake, Tantieme.
> 26 Which Champion National Hunt jockey rode his first winner on
> the flat at Birmingham in 1956?
> 27 "Standing up to Jimmy the Skunk" is the title of the first
> chapter of whose biography?
> 28 As at 1 November 2005 what costs £34.50 (including VAT) each
> year?
> 29 Which race, allegedly the oldest and still run, was founded
> in 1519?
> 30 What `unique' fact links the following racecourses:
> Newmarket, Thirsk, Manchester, York and Ayr?
>