Rydal 2025 Quiz

29 August 2025

Results:

• The Penguins – 45 points – winners on tie break
• Clem Fandango – 45 points
• Swan Blondes – 45 points
• Wharfedale Warriors – 45 points
• Shirt Your Food Hole – 45 points
• I’m Sorry I Haven’t a Clue – points
• Innominate – 45 points

Questions

• Picture round
• 10 general knowledge questions
• Family Fortunes
• One more round of 10 (zero)
• Marking
• Physical game at the end
• Tie breaker if there is a draw

Round 1 – picture round

Round 2 – general questions but the next answer begins with the LAST letter

1. The French call this dessert a Norwegian Omelette.  What do we call it?  Baked Alaska
2. Which female singer songwriter’s last album was called ‘30’?  Adele
3. What is the name of the highest point on the island of Sicily?  Mount… Etna
4. Which Greek God lent his name to the space program that got humans to the moon?  Apollo
5. What is the only property on a standard Monopoly board that is south of the river Thames?  Old Kent Road
6. Which actor played Ross Geller in the sitcom Friends?  David Schwimmer
7. What town near Bury, Greater Manchester, is home to the World Black Pudding Throwing Championships?  Ramsbottom
8. What word links a kind of penguin and a type of pasta?  Macaroni
9. Which US state’s capital is Springfield?  Illinois
10. How many symphonies did Sibelius write?  Seven

Round 3 – Family Fortunes

This round is like Family Fortunes.  I asked one hundred people in Ambleside town centre a couple of questions and I’m going to put the same questions to you.  You get a point for each of the answers that match the survey and a bonus point if you match the top answer, so put what you think is the top answer at number 1. 

Firstly, we asked one hundred people the following question. 

Name 5… Things People Do For Luck

1. Cross Fingers
2. Salt over shoulder
3. Pray / wish
4. Touch Wood
5. Wear lucky pants

Bonus point for the top answer, which was Touch Wood. Others in any order.

Second question.  We asked 100 people the following question.

Name five….  Tricks Dogs Do That You Wish You Could Teach Your Partner

1. Sit
2. Fetch
3. Beg
4. Be quiet
5. Roll Over

Bonus point for the top answer, which was Be quiet.  Others in any order.

Round 4: One wrong = zero

In this round if you get one single answer wrong, you get zero for the entire round.  But if you get all correct, you get 5 bonus points!  I think.  Therefore – do not know, do not guess! 

1. True or false: Cumbria and The Lake District are the same thing?  False
2. What single word can go before lap, coat, and time to make three other words? Over
3. Which is heavier — a litre of water or a litre of milk? Not a trick question! One is heavier.  Milk
4. How many dots appear on a pair of dice? 42
5. Spell the word Hippopotamus.
6. How many sides are on a UK stop sign? Eight
7. Name ANY winner of either the men’s or ladies’ singles titles at any grand slam tennis tournament so far this year.  Jannik Sinner or Iga Świątek or Carlos Alcaraz or Coco Gauff or Madison Keys
8. Who wrote The Mr Men series of books?  Roger Hargreaves
9. What is the letter J worth in Scrabble?  8 points
10. The following is an anagram of a famous…. person: Obscenely Woken Beyonce Knowles

Marking

Make sure you have a team name and you’ve filled in all the answers.  

Swap with a team nearby. 

Scores update:

Final: Physical round

Basically, the telephone game but with no sound.  The first person chooses a creature and an action from the folded papers and we show the audience.  All other team members have their backs to the action at the start.  The first person mimes it to the second person, who then mimes it to the third person, etc.  The final person has to guess what it is. 

Options:

Points awarded for style, accuracy, making us laugh.  Bonuses or penalties also apply. 

Tie breaker

How many tourists were there in the Lake District in 2023?  In millions, to two decimal points.

18.11 million