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Round one

1. Cotswold phrases from the past: What does the following refer to - “He had teeth curled and his ears pinned further back”? 2. When did the Stroud Sub Rooms open - 1834, 1904 or 1927? 3. Which is the nearest airfield to Meysey Hampton? 4. What does ARRC stand for? 5. Where can you find a Roman amphitheatre in the county? 6. What did boy John Stafford Smith write? 7. Which year did The Queen’s Hotel in open - 1838, 1742, 1900? 8. What do they make at the iconic family company Watts of Lydney? 9. Which viewpoint is closest to the - Coaley Peak or Pleasant Style at Littledean? 10. Innocent Drinks have just joined up with which local sports team?

Round two

1. Tony Allcock, who lived in our county for many years, was a world champion in what sport? 2. Rearrange from most to least in population - Churchdown, Quedgeley, Stonehouse? 3. Which Stroud Valley has Renishaw, William’s Kitchen and The Bottle Green Drinks Company? 4. What product is GR Lanes in Gloucester most famous for? 5. What period of history do you most associate with Tewkesbury? 6. Which year did the GCHQ Donut open - 2004, 2007 or 2010? 7. Which month is the Lister Tyndale Steam Rally at Berkeley Castle? 8. Where is the spine road? 9. Cotswold folklore: “When his hat’s on, his house is thatched” refers to what sort of man? 10. Which member of Blur relocated to the to make cheese?

Round three

1. What three letter word links Cheltenham and Bath? 2. Which came first - The Ivy in Cheltenham, John Lewis in Cheltenham or Gloucester’s new bus station? 3. Parts of Poldark were filmed at which magnificent house? 4. Where is Butts Farm? 5. Where would you find The Northern Quarter, Dockham Road and Gloucestershire College? 6. Name the theatre in the county that might put the fear of god into you if you were a pig? 7. What does EDF stand for? 8. Here’s the school but where is it based – Rednock? 9. In which comedy filmed in the county would you find The Keepers Arms - Butterflies, This Country or Father Brown? 10. Where is the Salt Way?

Round four

1. Samuel Pepys visited the Forest of Dean during the summer of 1671, just a year before his appointment as Secretary to the Admiralty. Why did he come? 2. Where is Shepard’s Patch? 3. The Buttercup is associated with which part of Gloucestershire? 4. From a Cotswold Glossary what does the word Moot mean - is it a type of bird, stump of a tree or tributary? 5. What insect do you associate most with Selsley Common? 6. Where in the North Cotswolds have Gloucestershire County Cricket played some of their matches? 7. What’s special about 4 Clarence Street in Cheltenham? 8. We have one in the Cotswolds near Cirencester and one 151 miles north, but can you name the town? 9. During which month is Rose Week at Sudeley Castle? 10. Which is furthest north up the Severn - Lydney or Longney?

Round five

1. What is the motto for Gloucestershire? 2. Which is closest to the top of Cleeve Hill - Moreton or Cirencester? 3. When the Queen bought Gatcombe House and Farm for Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips in 1976 how much was it rumoured to have cost? (The nearest answer wins the point) 4. On which Gloucester Gate Street would you find Wilkinsons and the Farmhouse Deli? 5. Complete the following – “Scratch Gloucestershire and find…”? 6. What does the word Chipping mean in reference to Chipping Campden, Chipping Sodbury and Chipping Norton? 7. Where would you find Sir Thomas Keeble School? 8. Which has the highest population - Brockworth or Charlton Kings? 9. Cheltenham born Richard O’Brien wrote which cult musical show? 10. What are Legless Cow, Pig’s Ear and Budding?

-- You’ll find the answers below --

Round one Round four 1. Smartened up 1. To inspect the timber urgently needed by 2. 1834 a British fleet that was preparing for war 3. RAF Fairford with Holland 4. Allied Rapid Reaction Corps 2. Slimbridge 5. Cirencester 3. Badgeworth 6. The Star Spangled Banner 4. Stump of a tree 7. 1838 5. Butterfly 8. Tyres 6. Moreton-in-Marsh 9. Pleasant Style 7. Holst birthplace 10. Forest Green Rovers 8. Barnsley 9. June Round two 10. Longney 1. Bowls 2. Quedgeley, Churchdown, Stonehouse Round five 3. Nailsworth 1. Prorsum Semper which means Ever 4. Olbas Oil Forward 5. Medieval 2. Moreton 6. 2010 3. Between £500,000-£750,000. 7. June 4. Northgate Street 8. Divides Gloucestershire and Wiltshire - 5. Rome near The Cotswold Water Parks 6. Market 9. Bachelor 7. Stroud, top of Chalford Hill 10. Alex James 8. Charlton Kings 9. The Rocky Horror Show Round three 10. Local beers 1. Spa 2. The Ivy 3. Chavenage 4. South Cerney 5. Cinderford 6. The Bacon Theatre at Dean Close School 7. Electricity de France 8. Dursley 9. This Country 10. Cirencester to Winchcombe