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Christmas quiz 2011


Are you an expert on canals and Christmas? Test your knowledge with our annual Christmas quiz and win a Cool Canals book.

To enter the competition email your answers (which spell out a famous canal landmark) along with your name and postal address to feedback@waterscape.com by 6 January.

The first three correct entries selected at random will win a copy of Cool Canals Britain’s Great Waterways Outdoors.

Eight runners up will receive one of the assorted collection of books accumulated by the waterscape team over the course of the year. Highlights include Harwich Lifeboats: An illustrated history by Nicholas Leach and The River Tamar Through Time by Derek Tait.

Our 2011 Quiz is now closed and the answers can be found below. They spell out Anderton Boat Lift. Thank you to everyone who took part and congratulations to our winners.

Winners of a Cool Canals book:

  • Rosemary Redman
  • Sandra Coburn
  • Patrick Davis

Runners-up:

  • Alan Law
  • Will Ward
  • Carol Heald
  • David Hyde
  • A Millhouse
  • Dawn Underhill
  • Mike Todd
  • Robert Dewey

1. Sits on top of the Christmas tree

  • Angel

2. The most common type of boat on the canals

  • Narrowboat

3. Canals that re-opened in 2011

  • Droitwich

4. Scrooge’s first name in A Christmas Carol

  • Ebeneezer

5. Animal that pulls Santa’s sleigh

  • Reindeer

6. Meat you might eat for Christmas dinner

  • Turkey

7. Canal that runs through Banbury

  • Oxford

8. Play about the birth of Jesus

  • Nativity

9. City with the most canals

  • Birmingham

10. Fruit you might find in your Christmas stocking

  • Orange

11. Bridge that carries a canal over a road, river or railway

  • Aqueduct

12. River that flows through Nottingham

  • River Trent

13. The traditional method of getting a boat through a tunnel (without horses or engines)

  • Legging

14. Christmas plant

  • Ivy

15. One of the gifts brought by the three kings

  • Frankincense

16. Designer of the Pontcysyllte Aqueduct (along with William Jessop)

  • Thomas Telford

Last updated: 09/01/2012