New Year Novelty - Quiz-OSat 1 Jan

Local level event

Terrain type: Urban & Parkland

Results

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Provisional Results

participant list 20211231_095959

Report

Planners Comments

Inspired by John & Jenny Collyer’s Sudbury Event from a few years back. I know I spent a lot of time Planning it, but all credit to Eddie Banks (SOS) for all his hard work in Organising it! That’s the second one we’ve done together now & like the first one we did, great to see the local Road Running Clubs giving the Orienteering Clubs a run for their money! I’m in the process of recce’ing a similar event for Braintree, so watch this space!

Roger Gooding (SOS)

Organisers Comments

It was good to see so many of you for our annual New Year Novelty event on what was more like a spring day than mid winter. We had 72 participants with ages ranging from 1 to 81!

Many thanks to Roger and his detailed perseverence for providing this challenge. He had conceived this over a year ago, but last year fell foul of lockdown rules. Two new sign posts and one felled tree during 2021 meant a little updating was needed. Several of you commented favourably on the variety of questions and had not imagined that there was such interesting art and history to be found on a modern Essex housing estate.

Eddie Banks (SOS)

Regarding the following Questions & Answers:

Q6. What is Cllr McEwan’s First Name? Gerard (At a glance it looks like Gerald, but it is actually Gerard! I’ve given both answers as I can’t read some of your handwriting, so you could have written either!)

Q7. How many Benches are in the Roundabout? 6 (Not 4!)

Q9. Dedicated to? John Ray (If you couldn’t see it, you were standing on the answer engraved on the floor!)

Q11. How old was Barry Wright when he died? 42 (A lot of you were looking for the answer on the Notice Board when the answer was on a Plaque beneath a tree to one side!)

Q20. What Colour is the Life Buoy Post to the South of the Two Ponds? Green (Some gave a different answer relating to the Life Buoy Post to the North!)

Q26. Inscription on the sculpture "The future is bright"

Q27. What Breed of Duck might live here? Wigeon (Mallard was a different road.)

(Full Question & Answer Sheet available on request)

Last updated: Tue 04 January, 2022

Overview

SOS New Year Novelty Score Quiz-O. Find features and answer as many questions as you can in 60 minutes.

Location Info

Near: Braintree
Lat,Lng: 51.85837,0.52433
OS Grid Ref: TL739207
Postcode: CM77 7US
What3Words: ///encroach.date.crank

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