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Fed up of watching TV? fancy a challenge? weather bad and can't get out? Then why not have a go at this Dartmoor Quiz? Some of the answers can be found on this website or on my Legendary Dartmoor Facebook page or on the 1;25,000 OS map of Dartmoor other will be a little harder to find. I have left the Google search box at the bottom of this page to make things a bit easier.

 

Dartmoor 2011

1) Where was the cist found that was supposedly discovered 10 years ago?

2) On whose map did it in fact show in 1892?

3) What was restored to its original location on the King Way?

4) Who wrote 'The Devil Comes to Dartmoor?

5) What was The Dartmoor National Park celebrating this year?

6) What minister visited the National Park in April?

7) Who wrote the book which the film 'Warhorse' was based on?

8) Which author published 'The Field Archaeology of Dartmoor'?

9) Which tor remains off limits to the public?

10) What happened on parts of Dartmoor on the 23rd of June?

 

Dartmoor TORment

1) Which tor has also been known as 'The Cuckoo Stone'?

2) Which tor is sometimes called 'The Sphinx'?

3) Which tor is affectionately known as 'Queen of the Moor'?

4) Which tor has been known as 'Solar Tor'?

5) Which tor is sometimes called 'Grim's Tor'?

6) What other name is Hall Tor sometimes called?

7) Which tor is sometimes known as 'Warren Tor'?

8) On which tor is Feather Tor an outcrop?

9) Which tor did Eric Hemery describe as 'The Sentinel of the Cleave'?

10) On which tor can you find Widgery's Cross?

 

The Dartmoor Zoo (All place-names of Dartmoor landscape features)

1) On what may you find a Cuculus canorus?

2) Name a bottom were you may well see Primula veris?

3) On what could you spot a Oryctolagus cuniculus?

4) Where you might spot a Panthera tigris?

5) There may well be a Scolopax rusticola here?

6) Possibly one or two of these Helix aspersa here?

7) Some of these used to live here - Pyrrhocorax pyrrhocorax?

8) Doubt it, but you may see a Macropus fuliginosus here?

9) Generally speaking there may well be some Anas platyrhynchos here?

10) Where you could see a Ursus arctos?

Bonus Question - What is the deliberate mistake on this page which I have just noticed?

 

Write on Dartmoor

1) Who wrote High Dartmoor?

2) Who wrote Echoes of an Ancient Forest?

3) Who Wrote A Pilgrimage to Dartmoor's Crosses?

4) Who wrote Dartmoor Boundary Markers?

5) Who wrote Prehistoric Dartmoor?

6) Who wrote Along the Teign?

7) Who wrote Follow the Leat?

8) Who wrote Dartmoor Stone?

9) Who wrote Dartmoor Sun?

10) Who wrote My Dartmoor?

Bonus Question - Who wrote Thurlow's Dartmoor Companion?

 

True or False

1) There is a chilli farm on Dartmoor?

2) The Dartmoor National Park consists of 365 square miles - one for each day of the year?

3) The Legendary Dartmoor Facebook page has 77 likes - and could do with some more!

4) There is a real live Pixie Band on Dartmoor?

5) Piranha have been found in a Dartmoor river?

6) It is illegal to camp more than 50 metres into the open moor?

7) There was once a burger bar inside OP (observation post) 15?

8) Moute's Inn won CAMRA's 'Pub of the Year' award in 1994?

9) There is a 'Deadman's Bottom' to be found on Dartmoor?

10) Just like the Andes you can go Llama trekking on Dartmoor?

 

Dartmoor Anagrams

1) Much grin not?

2) Inept Crown?

3) Oh Man! to stameder?

4) Very coy beat?

5) Downing Street?

6) Found abhorrer?

7) Abler Crook?

8) Fair, soppy mends?

9) Clip put-down?

10) Still huge?

Bonus Question - Who is sanest mild?

 

Well there you go, I hope you enjoy/enjoyed the quiz, some of the questions are easy and some are bloody hard unless you have the answers infront of you like I do. ANSWERS - click HERE

 

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31/03/2012