A bit of a quiz..........and help! UPDATED

OUT OF HOURS BULLY'S TRUCKSTOP BAR (INTERACTIVE)
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Right, for you’s it can be a bit of a quiz; for me, I need the answers to help one of my girls (8 yr old) with some fund raising for a school project!!

Maybe i’ve had a bad week - maybe i’m just thicker than I realised. Either way, completing these answers helps Dana (8 yr old) out and will then cost me in real £’s!! :unamused: :unamused: :wink:

Here goes; (BTW, I’ve got some {11*} of the answers but i’ll give you’s all the questions, just for fun!! If you know an answer, include the number of the question in your reply please.:blush: :confused: :wink: )

The answers to the following clues are Rivers of the British Isles.

  1. Delta, it’s all greek to me.*
    Dee

  2. Ding, dong, This lady is calling.*
    Avon

  3. Will this jacket conserve heat?
    Laggan

  4. A heavenly garden.*
    Eden

  5. Prohibit.
    Bann

  6. Wrap your turkey in this.*
    Foyle

  7. A university lecturer.
    Don

  8. Prefixes the bank in Scotland.
    Clyde

  9. Get a Bull’s Eye with this.*
    Dart

  10. Coloured Adam’s ale.
    Black Water

  11. Hit off these to the green.*
    Tees

  12. Does this bird echo?
    ■■

  13. Just out of the reckoning for a medal.*
    Forth

  14. Express sadness for the loss.
    Maun

  15. A breath of this does you good.*
    Aire / Ayr

  16. Wear a suit of this in the Highlands.
    Tweed

  17. Is this old car heavy?
    Humber

  18. Not Central Television.
    Thames

  19. Give a greeting? Never.
    ■■

  20. The Great one goes to the Wash.*
    Ouse

  21. Ferry on this one.*
    Mersey

  22. Cricket played at this bridge.*
    Trent

  23. Deserve in return for service.
    Earn

  24. Ask a question.
    Wye

  25. Pass or fail this exam.
    Test

Updated to include answers, so far…

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16 - Tweed
8 - Clyde? (as in Clydesdale Bank, Can’t think of a River Royal and the other scottish bank is The Bank of Scotland)

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21 trent bridge

22 ferry cros mersey

15 fresh

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Thanks Snab!

Yeah, errr that’s what I thought for 16 and 8, honest!! :blush: :blush: :blush: :laughing:

Keep 'em coming folks!!

Just spotted - thanks Animal!! :wink:

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animal:
15 fresh

You’ve got me doubting myself now!! Is there a river called fresh?? I’d guessed the River Aire, as in Leeds!!

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try this waterscape.com/?ppcgoogle

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marcustandy:

animal:
15 fresh

You’ve got me doubting myself now!! Is there a river called fresh?? I’d guessed the River Aire, as in Leeds!!

Maybe but there is the River Ayr in Scotland

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  1. Bann

Think it’s in Ireland

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20, Great Ouse

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You could search these for your answers

Rivers in Scotland
Rivers in the UK

But that probably takes the fun out it

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  1. Don

  2. Test?

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23…River Earn

I am not making these up you know…it does exsist. :laughing: :laughing:

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16…Tweed

No I have nothing better to do at this time of nig…in the morning.

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  1. Dee
  2. Avon
  3. Eden
  4. Bann
  5. Foyle
  6. Don
  7. Clyde
  8. Dart
    11 Tees
  9. Forth
  10. Aire
  11. Tweed
  12. Ouse
  13. Mersey
  14. Trent
  15. Wye
  16. Test
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Excellent Neil, many thanks!! You do realise that this actually costs me for Dana to enter the completed sheet??!! :cry: :cry: :wink:

All in a good cause, I suppose. :sunglasses:

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10 River Blackwater

Adam’s Ale is water, so ‘Coloured Adam’s ale’ could be black water, unless there is a river with another colour and water in its name.

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3.River Lag (lagging jacket)?
12. Apparently Ducks dont echo but i never heard of the River Duck?.
17 Humber.( before my time but it was heavier than a tank i believe;);)))

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jammymutt:
12. Apparently Ducks dont echo but i never heard of the River Duck?

That’s the way I was thinking as well jammy, trying to think of a river that could be a breed of duck even but can’t think of one.

BTW it is an Urban Myth that a ducks quack doesn’t echo.

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17…River Humber

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  1. Thames (as in Thames Television)