Essex Stragglers Orienteering Society New Years Novelty Event Hylands Park, Chelmsford 1st January 2000

Welcome to the Stragglers' New Year's Novelty 2000 - "1000 Years of Orienteering"

This is a novelty progressive Norwegian handicap score event.

There is one course, with 20 controls. You must visit as many controls as you can, in the correct order, within 60 minutes. The course starts off at White standard, and the legs then get generally longer and harder.

The first 10 controls should be copied from this sheet before you start. You will find another map hanging from control no. 10, showing two possible locations of control 11. The correct location is indicated by the answer to a quiz question on 11^th Century orienteering. Two answers - A and B - will be given, corresponding to the possible locations marked A and B on the map. If you can't work out the answer to the question, you may have to visit both locations before you find the next control. There will be no control marker at the incorrect site. There will be another map and a question on 12^th Century orienteering at the next control site, and so on.

You will score one point for each correct punch, lose one point for each illegible or wrong punch, and lose one point for each minute (or part) over the 60 minutes.

Handicap points will be added based on your 2000 age class - M21 0 points, M18/20/35 1, M16/40/45 2, M14/50/55 3, M12/60 4, M10/65/70/75 5. Ws will get 2 more points than the corresponding M, and family groups will be assessed by the organiser.

11 111 Ditch/dry ditch junction Before becoming king in 1066, Harold was known as Harold of which orienteering club? A - Wessex B - Essex Stragglers
12 112 Pond, E side In 1117, the Chinese book "Pingchow Table Talk", referred to which piece of orienteering equipment? A - Compass B - Gaiters
13 113 Vegetation boundary Marco Polo was an early …. A - Orienteer B - Orientalist
14 - 114 Dry ditch end Pietro Vesconte's 1311 navigational map was of A - Mediterranean Sea B - Italy
15 115 Ruin Prince Henry of Portugal was know as Henry the … A - Map-maker B - Navigator
16 116 Culvert In the last quarter of the 16th Century, the centre of world map production was in … A - Italy B - France C - 48 Meadow View Road, Sudbury D - Netherlands
17 117 Culvert Willebrord van Roijen Snell used which map-making technique for the first time in 1615? A - Triangulation B - Surveyor's wheel
18 118 Dry ditch The Ordnance Survey was founded in 1791. Its first maps were drawn at the scale of A - 1:63,360 B - 1:50,000
19 119 Earthbank foot The first modern Olympic Games to not feature orienteering was held in 1896 in A - Paris B - Athens
20 120 Pond, S side Yvette Baker won the World Orienteering Championship short course at A - Dallaschyle Wood B - Plodda
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