If you enjoyed last year’s Dorset Christmas quiz, we’ve SORTED out some more brain teasers for you. This time, the answers might be hiding in plain sight – perhaps a little order is all you need to find the festive fun!
1 – What is a Marin sincerity?
a) A former conductor of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra, praising its musicianship
b) A true seafarer who’s carelessly lost an ‘e’
c) A poetic village, near Yeovil, with a church dedicated to St Hippolytus
2 – What is a corset herd?
a) A hefted collection of cattle whose loins are tightly bound to their mammary veins.
b) The squeaking of whalebone
c) A hardy county location on the banks of the River Frome
3 – What is a corrupt morello?
a) A cherry of doubtful purpose in the creation of “modern” gin.
b) The local home of small, pigskin bound, books
c) An overwhelmingly peculiar clue
4 – What are unwritten monsters?
a) Constant presences in the brains of those convinced they are about to pen a best seller
b) Audiences at a central Exchange
c) Plant-based recipes changing hands only on the interweb
5 – Who was Albert Digs?
a) The brother of the late lamented Albert Dog, named for Albert Dock because his tail had been docked to a bagel.
b) The guiding light of Alice Roberts and Phil Harding, whose name gave him his raison d’etre.
c) The poached but legal home of the world’s best-known hitchhiker
6 – What is a burnout home?
a) A place for exhausted executives to put their feet up. b) It’s surrounded by the woods where the Ents originated.
c) The remnants of settlements inhabited by the charcoal burners
7 – What are stalling sausages?
a) The daily product of equines, left in their overnight accommodation and calling for XXL poo bags.
b) Favourite meal on the menu when the Drovers transitioned into roosters.
c) AKA Sleeping Policemen, bumps in the road designed to stop vehicles from moving.
8 – What is a Buford landform?
a) Discovered by Septimus Hector Buford, (bastard) son of the 34th Viscount de Gripe, this unusual topographical feature points the viewer to the virtue of the owner.
b) Also known as a Bluford Landform, it is found in sticky patches at either side of a deep rivulet in a road or track.
c) A meeting place where the Brothers of Bastardy might have been scuppered by rain.
9 – What is a Moslem iceberg?
a) A welcome relief from the searing heat of summer in the middle east.
b) A place where death is always black.
c) An ice cream, or more accurately a gelato, created in West Bay and suitable for all tastes, pronouns and religious persuasions.
10 – What are tubby boars?
a) Little piggies from the forest of dean on their way to becoming ENORMOUS boars
b) A euphemistic term for rotund and self-satisfied men (sorry, otherwise it would have been sows) overly enamoured of the sound of their own voices.
c) A place of downy cygnetary.
11 – What is Full Macenroe?
a) The irresistible urge to scream You Cannot Be Serious!
b) No castle here, but briefly known as Little Harlem
c) A large fusion dish, popular among Scottish-Italian fish-egg lovers, whose name has been adopted by Americans (and now by British eaters) to describe what used to be known as Macaroni Cheese.
12 – What are Hand Modems?
a) A hand modem changes the streaming platforms of your device with one squeeze
b) The place where Ed cures the pork.
c) Find out in the FT’s Technopolis section, next to the watches that do everything but tell the time … or ask a passing primary school child.
13 – What is glory bend?
a) The final curve on any racetrack … the place where you know you have won.
b) The resting place of the grey mare and her colts.
c) A destination sought in many work and plantation songs.
14 – Who was Anny Kare Rottnest?
a) The Kare Rottnests were well known in Dorset for the care they took over the birds on their estates. Anny began the Dorset tradition of adorning nests with swags of ivy from the Bulbarrow Yew.
b) She was tied to her true lover with a roadside knot.
c) Anny Kare adopted the name Rottnest after a visit to the island off Perth in Western Australia, where she fell under the spell of the quokkas.
15 – What is a tinned dolphin?
a) A child’s toy that springs out of the ring-pull can, in the strip of the Miami team.
b) There are those who want to change the spelling of this place, offended by its connotations.
c) Artwork left as a “legacy” of the Olympics in Dorset, celebrating its agile leaps in metal form.
Answers:
1: Ryme Intrinsica, 2: Dorchester, 3: Toller Porcorum, 4: Sturminster Newton,
5: Stalbridge, 6: Bournemouth, 7: Gussage All Saints, 8: Blandford Forum, 9: Melcombe Regis, 10: Abbotsbury, 11: Corfe Mullen, 12: Edmondsham, 13: Long Bredy, 14: Tarrant Keyneston, 15: Piddlehinton
