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Our quizmaster, Nola, has received 5 100% correct sets of answers. As promised, Nola put the names in her woolly hat and drew out 3 winners: Hilary Coote, Roger Mitchell and Phil Bailey, all of Hastings. Commiserations to the equally brilliant B.Moore of Icklesham and H.Godwin of Pett. Congratulations, too, to these who made only 1 mistake: Mrs. A. Buchan, Mr. & Mrs. J. Geater, Mrs. G. Jenyon, Mr. P. Emerson, Mr. & Mrs. R. Woolhouse, all of Hastings. The quiz sheet raised around £600 this year. Thank you to everyone who bought a sheet. Hope you enjoyed it! Here are the answers, with a few explanations:
Part A: The answers are all PARTS OF THE BODY
1. You don’t hear this from yes-men (4) nose (noes)
2. Sounds like the most spiritual part of the body (4) sole (soul)
3. Brian is easily confused (5) brain (anagram)
4. 30.48 cm (4) foot
5. Is it part of your skeleton? Guess! (6) tongue (hidden clue: …ton + gue…)
6. Like Moscow’s famous department store (3) gum (G.U.M)
7. A pipe you can find in an extra cheap version (7) trachea (…tra + chea…)
8. Dr Spooner would have called this the most important 40 winks (7) kneecap (key nap = Spoonerism)
9. If confused, this body part might cause elation (7) toenail (anagram)
10. Sounds like a spoon-bladed oar (5) skull (scull)
11. It stops your food going down your windpipe. (10) epiglottis
12. Sounds intellectual, to a Cockney (7) eyebrow (‘ighbrow)
13. Could be a flower (4) iris
14. Out of luck, Ken! (7) knuckle (anagram)
15. A cad, a bounder (4) heel
16. They’re toilets on board ship! (5) heads
17. Put a hat on Mrs Clinton when she loses her head (9) capillary (cap + ‘illary)
18. The opposite of dead, biblically speaking. (5) quick (1 Peter 4: 3-5)
19. With the hammer and the anvil, it’s the 3rd tiny bone in the ear (7) stirrup
20. Not quite as high as a marquis, and not quite as good as a CBE (7) earlobe (earl + OBE)
21. A part to be conceited about, by the sound of it (4) vein (vain) – but we accepted the brilliant gums (= ‘smug’ about/ backwards)
22. Sported by body-builders, and priests (9) pectorals (muscles, or crosses)
23. What French mushroom-lovers do at the market? (6) biceps (buy ceps)
24. Sound move before losing feeling (in Munster, perhaps) (7) sternum (stir + numb, and also anagram)
25. Soccer plus (anag.) (10) corpuscles
26. A membrane in the eye that sounds like a description of worse jokes. (6) cornea (cornier)
27. It measures alcohol from an upturned bottle – the cheek! (5,5) optic nerve
28. Sounds like a bivalve (6) muscle (mussel)
29. The pages at the back of Grey’s Anatomy, for example. (8) appendix (index isn’t 8 letters)
30. The province of the hepatologist (5) liver
31. Half the diameter – of your forearm? (6) radius
32. That dangly thing that vibrates when you snore (5) uvula
33. Tease (3) rib
34. Presumably Adam didn’t have one. (5) navel (whereas he did have an Adam’s apple)
35. They were much prized by Red Indians (6) scalps

PART B: Points mean prizes? You must work out the theme of this section for yourself. They all contain a point of the compass
1. Mr Prunella Scales (7,4) Timothy West
2. Parker & Stone’s satirical animated sitcom (5,4) South Park
3. Useful for keeping your head dry (9 + an apostrophe) sou’wester
4. Jane put fury at the heart of this novel (10, 5) Northanger Abbey
5. Resort on the Blyth (9) Southwold
6. Dendrologists’s delight in Gloucestershire (10,9) Westonbirt Arboretum
7. In which Cary Grant was strafed by a crop duster (5,2,5-4) North by North-West
8. Tom Brown’s best friend (5,4) Harry East
9. The only British place-name that boasts an exclamation mark (8,2) Westward Ho!
10. Where Erich said all was quiet (2,3,7,5) On the Western Front
11. Where Polly, Rob, Kaddy et al keep us informed (5,4,5) South East Today
12. Gateshead’s guardian (3,5,2,3,5) The Angel of the North
13. Crux, to a star-struck Australian (8,5) Southern Cross
14. America’s answer to Sandhurst (4,5) West Point
15. Where it’s said there’s nothing like a dame (5,7) South Pacific

PART C: HOW WELL DO YOU KNOW OUR TOWN?
1. How many town councillors are there altogether? 32
2. Which church was founded by the poet Coventry Patmore? St Mary Star-of-the-Sea
3. Which mathematician links St Leonards with Enigma? Alan Turing
4. Which fraud (related to Carrie and Ada ) appeared to packed houses at the White Rock Theatre? Grey Owl / Archie Belaney
5. Which fisherman’s death sparked a riot in the Old Town that lasted for days?
Joseph Swain
6. In which room is there a roll of the names of local figures, starting in 1588?
The Council Chamber
7. What’s the connection between the Dawn & Dorset Laundry and the Albert Memorial?
They were both destroyed by fire.
8. Who came to the Hastings Workhouse as Head Laundress in 1930?
Catherine Cookson
9. Who was the first Etonian to gain a master’s certificate which he put to good use on the “Sunbeam”? Lord Brassey / Thomas Brassey
10. What must you be wearing, to win Peter Trickett’s walking stick? Seaboots

PART D: FOOTBALL TEAMS. Which teams are these?
1. You wouldn’t want these nomads at your door, in short (6) Wolves
2. Where witches attempt to score (8) Coventry
3. They used to play at Gay Meadow (10) Shrewsbury
4. A Scottish club that was named after an English rugby team (7) Rangers
5. What do they use in the way of toiletry? None! (anagram) (6,6) Leyton Orient
6. They should play explosive football! (7) Arsenal
7. Its players might rue mouthiness (anagram) (13) Stenhousemuir
8. Do they only play mid-week? (9,9) Sheffield Wednesday
9. They should have good parenting skills (10) Motherwell
10. Their nickname recalls Del and Rodney (6,9) Bolton Wanderers (aka The Trotters)

PART E: A RIDDLE. Why did a mother (who loved puns, the more the better) advise her 3 lads to name their new beef ranch “Focus”? ‘focus’ is where the sun’s rays meet (the sons raise meat)