Welcome to the Christmas Quiz for 2005!

Last year we ran this quiz is based around 'The River Cottage Year' book with only a mere 50 questions. This year we have a massive 150 questions. The quiz this year is based around the 'The River Cottage Cookbook'.

Questions

1.    What plant heavily influenced Hugh’s career choice?

2.    If you want a March calf you inseminate when?

3.    What is the success rate of cattle artificial insemination?

4.    What is a wethers?

5.    What did Hugh find in a London car park?

6.    Smyrnium olusatrum are what?

7.    What is the most common name for the Norway lobster?

8.    How do you remove pigeon feet?

9.    What is almost indistinguishable from good beef stock?

10.  What are ‘branchers’?

11.  For which quarry would a torch and a hosepipe be handy?

12.  How many blackcurrent bushes did Hugh’s parents have?

13.  Which fish does Hugh think is sleek and bullet like?

14.  What is the approximate wood pigeon population in the UK?

15.  How long will 25kg of pignuts feed to weaners for?

16.  Name the donkey Hugh fell in love with?

17.  What is one of the things Hugh misses most about River Cottage?

18.  What is Hugh hiding about an hours drive from River Cottage?

19.  Once paunched how long can a rabbit hang?

20.  How long will a fully ripe strawberry last once picked?

21.  What is another name for ‘Flightless Partridge’?

22.  How many regional variations of boudin noir are there?

23.  Acidophilus is a natural what?

24.  How many fish did Hugh’s flapper lure?

25.  What makes lethal itching powder?

26.  What was Hugh hopping would affect the taste of his pigs?

27.  Pennybuns can come in at what size?

28.  When did Hugh move to his Gloucestershire farm?

29.  Hugh has never been convinced of the merit of which tomato dish?

30.  When do baconers go to slaughter?

31.  On what day do Supermarkets expect to sell the most fish?

32.  When was walnut introduced to the UK?

33.  What do Hugh’s favorite recipe testers use to open bottles of wine?

34.  What is a polled cow?

35.  Sulphur Polypore is also known as?

36.  What does Hugh consider the finest lamb?

37.  At what temperature does a smoking chamber operate at?

38.  What can fetch £160 per kilo?

39.  What are plucker’s perks?

40.  How long will well packed Turbot remain worthwhile for?

41.  What turns eels into a worthwhile delicacy?

42.  Can you hope to mature a piece of beef in a fridge?

43.  Eating what turns you mouth purple?

44.  Pots are best left in the water for how long?

45.  Why are cowslips now not used to make wine?

46.  Petits-gris are what?

47.  Hugh eats what with a good splash of ketchup?

48.  Who does Hugh buy most of his fish from?

49.  Are Hugh’s friends at Washingpool farm organic farmers?

50.  What has a triffid-like profusion?

51.  Which is the larger of the two kinds of hare found in the UK?

52.  Name Peggy Darvill’s partner

53.  A smoked Herring with its guts intact, has what sort of flavour?

54.  What fruit tree did Hugh plant against River Cottage?

55.  What colour is a Majorie’s Seedling plum?

56.  Where is animal welfare probably better then anywhere else in the world?

57.  Where should the cleaned out bedding from chickens be slung?

58.  What young shoots appear like embryonic envelopes?

59.  How much salt should cured sausage have?

60.  What is loaded with sexual symbolism?

61.  Which is the smaller of the two kinds of hare found in the UK?

62.  How high off the floor should a chicken perch be?

63.  Brown hen is also known as what?

64.  What type of sprout man is Hugh?

65.  What does Hugh use to unblock his sausage funnel?

66.  What does Hugh’s father like with his Christmas Dinner?

67.  Will boudins freeze well?

68.  How many fertile eggs can be under a single hen?

69.  You’ll need a what, if you spend £20 on seasonal veg?

70.  Where in the UK is watercress not found?

71.  How long did it take Hugh to decide to rent River Cottage?

72.  Lord Lambourne is a type of what?

73.  What’s the golden rule of vegetable growing?

74.  What does Hugh feed slugs?

75.  For what part of the year do cattle take care of their own feeding?

76.  What is the quality range of organic beef?

77.  What has the traditional name for piss-en-lit?

78.  What grows exclusively on dead or dying wood?

79.  How often should you check ewes ready to lamb?

80.  What is the Scottish name for Bilberry?

81.  Where was Hugh on 15^th Aug 1998?

82.  If Hugh could only have one fruit what would it be?

83.  Which pork cure is Hugh’s favorite?

84.  Knotting Regulus is what?

85.  What is a chilver?

86.  Eating what is regarded as eccentric?

87.  After how long after hatching should chickens be off heat?

88.  How often should you change pig bedding?

89.  How long does Hugh cold smoke Pollack for?

90.  Which wood, when burnt, maybe carcinogenic?

91.  What is right beside the front door at River Cottage?

92.  What is almost impossible to buy as a cut herb?

93.  Miss Jessopp’s Upright us what?

94.  Hugh is mad about mussels so why is he disappointed?

95.  Frampton’s supply pigs from who?

96.  Which range of household cleaning products does Hugh use?

97.  What is unagi?

98.  A raging torrent removed Hugh’s……..?

99.  Ray calls what a picnic ham?

100. Whose fish has a very real chance of being fresher than the Fishmongers?

101. What were the most controversial scenes in the River Cottage TV series?

102. What free range bird has Hugh never seen?

103. How many rabbits are on Hugh’s stick?

104. What type of vegetables does Hugh tend to grow?

105. What is Hugh’s biggest regular catch?

106. After slaughtering his pigs what did Hugh have for supper?

107. The smelliest what makes the preferred bait for crayfish?

108. Organic was practically a synonym for what?

109. Where can pork stock be used?

110. Name Hugh’s friend that used to go out fishing with Dennis Cheeseman.

111. Name one of Hugh’s most exhilarating gardening jobs

112. Green Bacon is also known as what?

113. How far is River Cottage from the sea?

114. Crevettes Grises is French for what?

115. What does Hugh do with white fish before freezing?

116. What is the only acceptable way to kill a deer?

117. How much rusk does Hugh add to his sausages?

118. When did Hugh arrive at River Cottage?

119. What beat Hugh at Osmington Mills?

120. What status do some wreck congers have?

121. Why does Hugh not fancy geese?

122. When is the battery system due to be phased out completely?

123. Pigs are split which way?

124. Who’s wine boxes does Hugh use for making gavad max?

125. For the beginner what is the really difficulty of sausage making?

126. What is the ultimate dual-purpose smallholder’s animal?

127. If your Rotovator breaks down what will you probably do?

128. What does Hugh have that is beautiful and delicious on the inside but undeniably ugly?

129. What dilemma does the vegetable gardener who also keeps pigs face?

130. Name the four creatures that attempt to sabotage Hugh’s vegetable efforts?

131. What phrase does Hugh invent in the book?

132. What crisps does Hugh eat?

133. What is Hugh not calling for?

134. How much did the salmon Hugh caught last year weigh?

135. Quote one of Hugh’s stock numbers

136. What fruit with excellent acidity and high pectin levels combine to make jellies and jams?

137. What is the realistic truth behind many ‘old-style’ greengrocers?

138. As a child what was top of Hugh’s untouchable foods?

139. What is Worcesterberry a hybrid of?

140. How long does a salami take to mature?

141. What sheep did Hugh choose for River Cottage?

142. What is Hugh’s advice on sheering?

143. Jacob’s coat is a type of hat?

144. What two areas are disappointing standards in the RSPCA’s Freedom Food Standard?

145. How many Salmon did Hugh catch in the year of writing the book?

146. How long after hatching do chicks need to eat?

147. What’s the secret to a successful pig processing weekend?

148. What accompaniment does Hugh like with squirrel?

149. What in Hugh’s opinion is the minimum requirement for pork?

150. What goes well with children?