John Cooper Quiz Walks
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Robert & Sue Whales' 2009 Handicap Quiz Walk.
The Hurtwood Inn, Peaslake, Surrey.
Distance: 2.9 miles (4.7 km)
HANDICAP WALK QUESTIONS & DIRECTIONS
Starter Clues
All answers can be found on the 2 sides of the pub which have main entrances.
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| Q 1 | Let your finger get connected |
| Mail man may be so directed? |
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| Q 2 | Expect a top-notch drinking session |
| They're both at the peak of their profession |
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| Q 3 | Part of a sexist agenda? |
| A night with the lads on a bender |
Stage 1
Turn right out of pub and follow lane past the memorial hall. After a couple of hundred yards, this starts to slope
gradually uphill. Stage ends at junction (Lawbrook Lane sign).
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| Q 4 | I wouldn't recommend running down this little sneak |
| He'll only go blabbing to the reverend next week |
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| Q 5 | Designed to call to mind the trees |
| With pendulous extremities |
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| Q 6 | Outdoor pursuit to which you'd confess |
| A race that is held in time of success |
Stage 2
Continue ahead. Soon, at junction by Peaslake House sign, bear right. After about 25 yards (just before white barrier
at entrance to property), bear left on bridleway and into wood. Keep ahead to first cross-path, where stage ends. (If
very muddy on lower level, use raised path to left for 50 yards or so).
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| Q 7 | Pursuit requiring a bit more exertion |
| With what you might throw in a left or right version |
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| Q 8 | This may well guard the booty |
| But perhaps lose rustic beauty? |
Stage 3
Keep ahead at this cross-path, and again at the next one, where you should also ignore a slight fork to the left. Stage
ends at road.
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| Q 9 | Electing NC might not be astute |
| DC at least keeps us on the right route |
| Someone's gone AWOL, so no chance for he |
| It seems that the future looks bleak for GB |
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| Q 10 | Rolls supplied by Bill, we hear? |
| No, but this is something near |
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| Q 11 | It updates spectators, if they should forget |
| With latest details of the sporting set |
Stage 4
Cross the road and continue along lane, which bears almost immediately to the right. Keep following the lane, ignoring
any footpaths leading off to the left. Eventually, after passing through a gateway, the path splits, here ignore
driveway to house, keeping to the right-hand side (but to left of field). Continue ahead with field on right. Stage
ends by electric fence warning sign on left.
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| Q 12 | Sewell's creation is here illustrated |
| Isn't it time you decelerated? |
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| Q 13 | The place where the runners wait to compete |
| And all of the riders are still in their seat |
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| Q 14 | Elderly rust-ics whose stance never varies |
| We think they're a pair of old secretaries |
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| Q 15 | X marks the spot, you'll agree |
| It's the Age of the New Century |
Stage 5
Continue ahead, passing Dicks Hill Farmhouse on left and then wire vine enclosure on your right. At far end of field,
turn right along wide path behind the enclosure. At far corner, over stile and turn right, following path as it bears
round to left and downhill. Over stile and ahead to Y-junction. Take left-hand fork along footpath. Through next
gateway and keep ahead on path which becomes grassy. Through gate and continue on path to road where stage ends.
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| Q 16 | They'll watch out, serving tenants overnight |
| Nocturnal experts, OK? With long sight |
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| Q 17 | Rarely seen in the news, there's no doubt |
| And apt to get cold if the drugs have run out |
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| Q 18 | A footballing brother could yet become knighted |
| His skills clearly leave the first family delighted |
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| Q 19 | Obviously an 'ome with a canine connotation |
| Far from fox-friendly or full of feline fascination |
No clues on the next short stretch: Cross the road (take care) and turn right, keeping to left-hand side as you pass
round a sharp right-hand bend. After 100 yards turn left at gateway (Kiln Platt Cottage).
Stage 6
Don't take the track leading to house but keep to left-hand side on grassy path, with fence to your left. Go through
the spring-loaded gate, keeping to left-hand side of field, over rise, then through a similar gate. Keep straight ahead
with open fields on left and right, then through another gateway to road, where stage ends.
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| Q 20 | REJOICES perhaps, having got it on board? |
| That would surely get one a big points reward |
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| Q 21 | Depicting three of a very well-known set |
| The last two seem to have left the quintet |
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| Q 22 | It's a crumpled red cap you might wear |
| To the Broadway production of 'Hair' |
Stage 7
Turn left and follow lane for 100 yards with stone wall on right, then take footpath on right. Follow the pedestrian
route around the building work, then at back of property, keep to RH path along edge of field. Keep on this path as it
goes fairly steeply downhill, then finally through kissing-gate back to the Hurtwood Inn.
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| Q 23 | Nigel S he beat for the prize |
| Here he's certainly been cut down to size |
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| Q 24 | A new building block |
| That's in hard square rock? |
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| Spare A | Renowned for a mocking sense of fun |
| This eye first spied in '61 |
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| Q 25 | You'll be at the pub in just a jiffy |
| Cognacs taken ... getting squiffy? |