Family friendly Isolation quizzes

Stuck at home and bored? Why not do my Logo quiz with your family. It's got lots that children would recognise and is easy! Fancy something a bit harder? Try my tube quizzes. Why not try a Zoom quiz with your family? Each person will need to prepare a quiz round for each of the others which have the same number of questions.  Then everyone presents their quiz for the others. You share the answers and then add up your final scores.
Today, CBC and I took part in a quiz with his family- CBC prepared a Geography round, his sister a History, his mum -trivia, his brother- TV shows, and me- Morse code isolation edition!

If that seems too much effort,  here are some to get you started:

The Logo Quiz

The number quiz round

Think historically, think mathematically, think cultural references- decipher what the letters mean in order for the phrase to make sense!


e.g. 4 C B in the T D of C = 4 calling birds in the twelve days of Christmas.


Or 100 C in a M = 100 centimetres in a metre

Clue:


1.  10 G B H on the W


2.  21: K to the D


3.  24 B B in a P


4.  12 D of C


5.  100 D C= B P of W


6.  1066 B of H


7.  12 L of H


8.  7 D S


9.  7 W of the A W


10.  52 C in a D of C


11.  6 D of S


12.  5 G R in the T D of C


13.  1001 A N


14. 366 D in a L Y


15. 11 P in a F T


16.   1760 Y in a M


17.   14 P in a S


18.   10 Y in a D


19.  5 S on a P


20.  13 in a B D


London Underground quiz:..  

This quiz is the DOWN THE TUBE quiz based on London's Underground.  If you would like to have a go at doing this quiz, you can download the London Underground Tube map from here.

You could also do your own version based on your own train system.

 Disclaimer: SOME of these are made up by me (the bad ones like the Channel island one!) some were ones I obtained in a quiz night some time ago so thank you to whoeever thought these up and I am sorry I can't acknowledge you directly.

 I'll post the answers in a separate post.

All the answers to the following riddles are the names of London Underground Tube stations.

CLUE:
1.  An angry monarch
2.  Make ‘em sick
3. Monks with dirty hands
4. Ecological vicars
5. Richard Whittington’s Des.Res
6. Charred quercus robur.
7. Dorian Green’s domain?
8. Cockney rabbit ‘ole
9. Woof woof
10. Created a valley
11. A mound of dyslexic mosquitos
12. She was not amused.
13 A place to Live and Let Die!
14. Would you find a branch of Lloyds Bank here?
15. Babar and Balmoral
16. Could this be where the chief executioner lives?
17. Catches a rabbit by a stream
18. Alpine Dwelling
19. A university with a big top Elliptical
20. Flockwatcher’s flora
21. Chelsea’s home by a stream
22. A lucky number of nuns
23. Where you cultivate calcium carbonate
24. An ancient thoroughfare
25. A description of the enormity of this station
26. Gabriel?
27. Doctor Foster practices here
28. Is this station falling down?
29. Oriental pig
30. 1980's TV school
31 Patella’s lair
32. A Scottish thoroughfare
34. Chopped this man a smaller channel island?
35. Bigger than?
36. A just cutting?
37. Trumpeting New York thoroughfare
38. A big house for a tea party?
39. Famous ursine visitor?
40. The home of capitalism’s swine?

Let me know if you use any of these?

The maize-maze at Millet's farm- It's a little corny!

Last week, CBC and I travelled to Oxfordshire to stay with CBC's Mum in CBC's sister's house. It's a little -complicated!   We'd been there for 4 days and on the 4th day, driving to Wallingford to see my uni friend, I noticed we were driving past Miller's farm which had a Maize-maze which I have in my 'Amazing Maze' book (yes, I have one of those-I'm planning future holidays based on it! Anyone live near Dobbie's maze world?)  Ridiculously excited, I decreed that we MUST go there in the morning and SMSd KKWTTG (Bruv in law) who immediately texted back lots of corny maze jokes!)

The next morning, we set off there and swiftly the three of us near ran to the Maze section. If you have kids and are going on holiday in Oxfordshire in the summer months, I cannot say how much I recommend you take them there (or if you just like mazes like us).  We paid £6.50 each and were given a 'Ration book' and pencil which were places to record your maze findings.  You can see some past Maize-mazes in the photo below.  They have had one every year for 17 years. This year's theme was 70 years since the end of WW2.

There's a range of activities. We were, er- expecting to be done in about an hour, but 3.5 hours later and we were still in the maze section, never mind the rest of the garden centre, picky your own, koi carp or craft section of Millet's farm.

We headed in. There are 3 main maze:

The mini, the midi and the main mazes.

You head through some maize to reach the entrances to the maze.

We started with the Midi- Maize.

I thought I'd share the moment we entered this maze with you. You can hear what an idiot I am with the daft commentary!

The thing that takes the time is, you have things to hunt for in the maze.
In the Midi, you were searching for the 8 ration stations which had multiple choice questions about food during WW2.

 Aha! CBC has found one!

 We swiftly found the first 5 without any trouble.  There was some contention over answers, so we all answered differently.

I should mention,for those of you that panicked when I wrote about the maze in my Scavenger Hunt, that you are supplied with a tall flag, should you need help!

 There was a platform to go over with the Millet's farm signs.

 The corn was quite tall and stretched for long way.

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 You aren't supposed to touch the maize or go off the paths but I suppose if you were really desperate to leave, you could squeeze through some gaps!

We loved the differing hair colours of the cobs!

 When we'd answered question 5, we found question 8 and ourselves at the end of the maze! Ahrgh, where were questions 7 and 6?

 Back into the maze, we became separated!!!  It took ages to find the last one!

When we checked our answers at the end, I was a Field Marshal (highest rank) and CBC and bruv were Brigadiers!

That was only the midi-Maze.

The main maze was even more fiendish with red herrings galore!! 

I should say that the ration books provide you with a picture of the mazes but for directionally-challenged moi, this was no help!

In here,we  were searching for the letters and numbers on poppies but there were extra ones! There were four colour zones of the maze to search in!

 Right-o chaps!

NOOOOOOO, a red herring!

 CBC separated and left me and WKWTTG together as he didn't have the ration book! We noticed the corn was taller in here!

The bridges were good for helping orientate yourselves but we wandered for ages without finding any correct poppies!!

Meeting up with CBC again, he found a few in the red zone but the yellow zone was proving impossible!

 We separated off again and WKWTTG and I had some luck once we found the bridge- we found several green zone clues!!!

Eventually, we found ALL the poppies and the codebreaker and I worked out the answer!

Next, we entered the woods which functioned like a simple maze for the Aces High challenge. Outside the maze, was a picture of sillhouettes of enemy, servillian and Allied planes.

Upon finding them in the woods, you had to sketch them and then name the models!

 Great fun for little-uns!

Next, we entered the Mini-maze, for little ones and the corn was suitably shorter! Plus, a slide!!

Ridiculously, as a teacher, I always tell kids to read the question carefully.

We walked around and around the maze trying to find all the pictures and wondered why the mini-maze was so hard. Doh! The book said find FOUR of these pictures,not all!

At this point, our phones rang, J, CBC's Mum wondered where we were. We sheepishly explained we were still in the maze. 

It was time to go, there was plenty more to do, but we had to drive back to Essex.

Before we went, we went to have a look at this friendly tank!

If you are ever south of Oxford, I heartily recommend Millet's farm! It is enormously fun, there's something for all ages and there was plenty more to do.

Here's the website to find out more.

If you aren't near Oxford but fancy finding a maize-maze, may I suggest this Maize-maze website, so you can search for one near you: http://www.maize-maze.com/contact.php.

Hazel, fancy going to the Southwold one?!

xx

Over to you, have you been to one!?

Watercolour challenge

I am linking up to Tahdah Tuesday with the lovely Lakota!

I have talked about going to France but haven't posted photos yet - it always takes me so long to select, upload and rotate photos, that I always put it off for a couple of days, doing a bit at a time! Anyway, one family holiday activity that CBC's family have introduced me to is 'Watercolour challenge'.  The family went to France (Avignon maybe?) when CBC was little and they went into a French supermarket and bought a couple of sets of kiddie-water colours (you know, nothing special or swanky) and then the kids and J (Mum) found a picturesque spot to sit and they all painted the view.  Then, they got WOMOTM to judge which was the best one (sadly, CBC lost, despite having a charming, very good painting due to the fact he developed a penchant for the pink paint and painted several pink cars into the scene).

Fastforward 20 years or so to rural idyllic location in central France and we had Watercolour challenge with grownup CBC, Monkeygirl, J and respective other halves (me and S) painting the house or garden.


It was late afternoon on the Wednesday, pre-excursion to the Monsegur night market.  We each took our kiddie watercolour set and piece of art paper, lovingly purchased in the Carrefour supermarket and took a space in the garden.

It was a decidedly peaceful afternoon and as we sat there, trying to make muted earthly shades from the lurid pallette of colours by muddying them with black, the wind rustled the leaves on the tree, the hummingbird hawk moths buzzed around contentedly, the sun cast a glow over endeavours and all was right with the world.

It was only when we realised that we'd have to get to the nightmarket sharpish that finally the artists laid down their weapons and compared paintings.

(Clockwise from top-left:  CBC, J, S, MG)

 (and K)

(since I forgot to get a shot of me painting, I took one after.  Ignore the barbecue...)

Upon our return, I e-mailed WOMOTM and the other siblings and respective other halves who were not there to cast their judgement over our masterpieces.  It was a lovely exchange of e-mails, that for all of us competitors, now back at work, could remember the restful, serene afternoon of painting.

So..... cast your vote.  Which one do you think deserves to win and why?  

Watercolour challenge is a great activity and I strongly recommend it to anyone with kids or even a group of adults on holiday together!  We left the paints and remaining paperpad in a drawer for any future guests to the house to try the challenge with instructions in the guest book)