Quiz – October 2020 Answers
We hope you enjoy playing the quiz in our latest newsletter! The answers are below, but first here is a reminder of the questions…
The Questions
- Name the pigment which trees stop producing, thus causing leaves to lose their green colour?
- Which autumnal farming practice has been banned in England and Wales since 1993?
- Which world championship takes place every year in Northamptonshire on the second Sunday in October? Something that occurs naturally every autumn is a crucial part of the sport.
- What is a cribbar, which appears in Cornwall once or twice a year — often in autumn — for a couple of hours at a time?
- Bonfire Night takes place every November. How did Guy Fawkes reduce the pain of his execution following the Gunpowder Treason Plot of 1605?
- Maple, ash and sycamore trees produce seeds with which nickname, due to the way they fly through the air?
- Squirrels are known to bury acorns, but which bird also does this?
- What is a baby hedgehog called?
- A storm of October 1859 (which sank the ship the Royal Charter off the coast of Wales) prompted Vice-Admiral Robert Fitzroy to create what?
- Spiders mate in October. Which breed of spider shares its name with an ecclesiastical rank?
The Answers
- Name the pigment which trees stop producing, thus causing leaves to lose their green colour?
- Chlorophyll. The reduced sunlight means photosynthesis loses its benefits — it costs a tree more energy to support a leaf than the leaf gives back. Autumnal colours then result from other chemicals in the leaves, like beta-carotenes (red — also found in carrots) and luteins (yellow — also found in egg yolks).
- Which autumnal farming practice has been banned in England and Wales since 1993?
- Which world championship takes place every year in Northamptonshire on the second Sunday in October? Something that occurs naturally every autumn is a crucial part of the sport.
- What is a cribbar, which appears in Cornwall once or twice a year — often in autumn — for a couple of hours at a time?
- A huge wave, beloved of surfers. It can be up to 35ft high — just under half the size of the 2004 Asian tsunami. It takes its name from the Cribbar reef at Newquay, though is also known chillingly as the ‘widow maker’.
- Bonfire Night takes place every November. How did Guy Fawkes reduce the pain of his execution following the Gunpowder Treason Plot of 1605?
- He jumped from the scaffold, broke his neck and died. This saved him the pain of drawing and quartering, normally carried out while the condemned man was still alive after partial hanging.
- Maple, ash and sycamore trees produce seeds with which nickname, due to the way they fly through the air?
- Squirrels are known to bury acorns, but which bird also does this?
- What is a baby hedgehog called?
- A storm of October 1859 (which sank the ship the Royal Charter off the coast of Wales) prompted Vice-Admiral Robert Fitzroy to create what?
- Spiders mate in October. Which breed of spider shares its name with an ecclesiastical rank?
- The cardinal spider, named after Cardinal Thomas Wolsey, who was once scared by a spider at Hampton Court
