To celebrate another year of BMC work our resident quizmaster Martin Kocsis whipped up 40 questions covering climbing, hill walking, mountaineering and the BMC. Some easy - others less so. The quiz is now finished but is here online for eternity to test your knowledge - with the answers of course.

CLIMBING

1 Who recently wrote a guide to Nesscliffe?

2 Why is Lundy’s Black Hole named thus?

3 Who once climbed Little Chamonix wearing roller skates and boxing gloves?

4 In the first four issues of Crags magazine, how many naked female breasts could be seen?

5 You range east, you range west, but where are you?

6 What do Dinas Rock and Trevallen have in common?

7 Which magazine did Ken Wilson once edit?

8 Where can you find The Watchdog and The Blacksmith?

9 Men of Kernow, Supermassive Black Hole and The Grey Man can be found on “the best trad crag in Britain”: name it.

10 Who was “Born on the top of a quarry”?


WALKING

11 Why was the story of Beddgelert created?

12 Kinder Scout, Brown Willy and Holdstone Down. What, according to some, is significant about these hills?

13 The Grade 3 scramble of Lorton Gully will get you nearly to the top of what?

14 Where would you meet Lady Isabella?

15 When going from grid to magnetic bearings, what correction factor must you use in The Scottish Highlands?

16 What is the collective noun for a group of hill walkers?

17 What was left at Mompesson’s Well?

18 Which English cricket captain has completed all the Munros?

19 Which mythical Lake District creature has the body of a hedgehog, the tail of a squirrel and the wings of a bee? (No, really)

20 What is 27km long, starts in Lancaster and ends in Kirby Lonsdale?


MOUNTAINEERING

21 Which of the 8000m peaks gets the fewest ascents?

22 What dangerous peak did Homer Simpson once climb?

23 What is the ninth most prominent peak on earth?

24 What, or who, connects Lytton Strachey, Duncan Grant and Rupert Brooke?

25 The third of the Great Peaks was climbed in 1953. Which was it and who did it?

26 What is the tilt board test used for?

27 “Men play at tragedy because they do not believe in the reality of the tragedy which is actually being staged in the civilised world” Who said this?

28 In what year was Europe’s highest mountain first climbed?

29 And how many glaciers does its ice cap feed?

30 What is the Piolet d’Or awarded for?


THE BMC

31 Name three crags under the ownership of the BMC.

32 Who is the appropriately named BMC Access Rep for Yorkshire Limestone?

33 Who is the new BMC Competition Officer?

34 When did Doug move out of Rock Hall Cottage?

35 What does RAD stand for?

36 Name four crags that have been subject to BMC organised clean-ups in 2007.

37 When was the BMC formed?

38 Who was the first editor of Summit?

39 Who is the current President of the BMC?

40 Who is found at /feature.aspx?id=1701 on the BMC website?

The winners
Thanks to all who entered . Congratulations go to: Richard Mitson (35), Joanne Hudson (34½), T.Gregson (37), Paul Groves (35), David Tudor Bell (32½) & Stephen Jones (30), but the eventual winner was Dan Woolnough from Rutland with an outstanding score of 39. He wins a year’s membership, a year’s travel insurance, plus one of every BMC publication (DVDs, guide and maps) out there, plus a year’s subscription to a mag of his choice. Special mention goes to Joe King, who submitted no correct answers in the traditional sense, but 40 entertaining answers that amused nearly everyone in the office. Well done, you’ll be hearing from our lawyers.

Download the answers here.

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