Many thanks to Ascot Brewery Company for sponsoring the quiz. Please read the corresponding article on the Ascot Brewery Company on how they are copying during the lockdown. In this article explains their Xtra voucher scheme in which you can get 50% more beer than the beer you pay for.

Why not order beer from Ascot Brewery Company ascotbrewing.co.uk. There is free delivery on all orders when you spend over £30 if you live within 15 miles of the brewery or elsewhere when you spend over £50 (please check with brewery to confirm). An ideal complement when trying to answer the quiz questions!

The first prize is a 5L keg of one of their beers and the second prize is an Ascot Brewery Company T-shirt. The winner will be the entry with the most correct answers. In the event of a tie then the winner and runner up will be pulled from a hat.

All entries are to be sent to the email address below and must arrive by the end of March (no exceptions).

Please send all entries to ku.gro.armac.bhs@eladnaswen

The Not Christmas Quiz 2020

Just in case you had become bored with lockdown I have designed this ‘beer’ quiz with all the questions based on historical or mythological themes. In this era of the internet and search engines the answers should be relatively easy to obtain and they are all taken from the 2019 Good Beer Guide. Have fun. Bob Southwell

1. A mild for Samuel Homfray at his iron works.

2. A stout for this Grand Duchess Nikolaevna and daughter of Nicholas II.

3. A pale ale for upgrading his lily house at Chatsworth to something considerably more grand in Hyde Park in 1851.

4. Which one of Nelson’s ships at Trafalgar was captained by Israel Pellew.

5. Camulodunum number 1 beer.

6. Iron Age fort on the Ridgeway in Wiltshire.

7. William and Marianne created this hotel with crystal in 1856 at the corner of Brook Street and Davies Street in Mayfair.

8. The more famous sister of Euryale and Sthenno giving them their collective title, but fortunately they are not still alive. 9. Brewery village for English Civil war battle of 29th of March 1644 and a victory for the Parliamentarians.

10. A pledge to invent the steam turbine in 1887.

11. Designed by Sidney, not Hubert, Camm in the early 1930s.

12. Pale ale for the leader of the Peasant’s Revolt of 1381.

13. Ale to commemorate the disaster led by the Duke of Medina Sidonia.

14. Beer attributed to Abraham Darby I at Coalbrookdale about 1707.

15. It’s not good news if you met this ferryman who would take you across the Styx to Hades.

16. What was white and late to arrive at the battle of Waterloo and probably turned the tide for Wellington.

17. Mathematician, astronomer and Catholic clergyman (1473-1543) after which the European Union Earth Observation Programme is named.

18. Military punishment, and modern day idiom, where you had to run between two rows of soldiers to be beaten with sticks and ropes.

19. An act of stupidity for Henry John Temple who was prime minister twice in the 19th century.

20. Edward of Woodstock and eldest son of Edward III.

21. Scottish outlaw and folk hero (1671-1734) who had taken part in the Jacobite Rebellion of 1689.

22. Polyphemus the son of Poseidon.

23. Visiting this Craft brewery you will not need to lash yourself to the mast as Odysseus did to prevent being lured on to the rocks by lyrical music/songs. 24. Another name for the Royal Irish Constabulary Reserve Force.

25. Dreadnought battleship built in 1909 and destroyed by a massive explosion in Scapa Flow on 9th of July 1917.

26. Trading Company chartered by Charles II on 2nd May 1670 and given a monopoly of 3 million square miles in North America/Canada.

27. An ale for the Dukedom of Prince William Augustus third son of George III.

28. Stout for this ex steel town making tubes for PLUTO during World War II and closing in 1981.

29. Patron Saint of shoemakers with the date of October 25th giving its name to a speech by Henry V.

30. A beer for the Operation to evacuate Dunkirk.

31. Brewery for a canal involving the iron master Richard Crawshay of Merthyr Tydfil to create a link to Cardiff.

32. Oxfordshire palace and battle of August 13th1704 during the war of Austrian Succession.

33. Meeting Hall of the Salvation Army.

34. Benjamin Huntsman invented this process for making small scale steel production about 1740.

35. Beer for this Rochdale mill owner (1811-1889), Liberal, Quaker, free trader and anti-slaver.

36. King of Mycenae and husband of Clytemnestra.

37. Beer for the victors at the battle of Isandlwana on 22nd January 1879.

38. Beer for a project leading to the production of Gadget, Little Boy and Fat Boy.

39. What would you be if you worked with the inventions of Hargreaves, Arkwright and Crompton.

40. Roman God of fire and especially destructive events such as volcanoes and calamities.