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It's Christmas day and you've most likely had your fair share of presents, food, relatives and drink. Aside from playing with your new toys, there's not much else to be getting on with aside from more eating and drinking, unless you're lucky enough to be heading out.

Fear not, as we've put together a Christmas Day quiz to give you your fix and a reason to escape the merry mayhem. No Googling or UKC searching allowed, you're only cheating yourself...

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In reply to UKC Articles:

Good quiz though the photo questions are nails. Not even sure of the crags let alone the routes.

For the crossword if there are several words do you separate them with a space, a comma or not at all? I know computers can be very sensitive to this kind of thing.

In reply to stp:

You can put spaces in, doesn't make a difference. Glad they're tricky!

In reply to Natalie Berry - UKC:

Chris currently leading, I hope no help was given Natalie!

In reply to James Rushforth:

That was my concern, unfortunately it has more to do with me being a bit of a climbing nerd!

In reply to UKC Articles: Good, but NOT easy. Crossword was OK, but struggled on the photos and anagrams are definitely not my thing!

In reply to chrisprescott:

Very impressed Chris. Far too hard for me!

In reply to The Ex-Engineer:


I'm with you on the anagrams. My approach was that if I knew the answer I'd put it down, if not I'd have a guess at multiple choice questions. The crossword was almost like separate questions so I got most of those. But the anagrams would need work and time ... and it's Christmas day, so I think I got one that jumped out at me and ignored the rest.

Hey ho. I was never going to compete with the walking encyclopaedias anyway!

In reply to The Ex-Engineer:

is the crossword actually formatted correctly ? for me it doesnt line up,
and are you sure you know your greeks from your egyptions ?

In reply to lithos:

True. Should be Egyptian God. The name is Greek, doh...

In reply to Natalie Berry - UKC:

That was really good, have we had one every year? Don't remember doing one last year.
I didn't mind the anagrams, just everything else I struggled with

In reply to UKC Articles:

Was enjoying it until the anagrams, which, along with crosswords, I don't consider legitimate questions, so I bailed out.

In reply to Natalie Berry - UKC:

The down clues on the list and on the crossword don't match up. Or have I had too much wine?

In reply to jon:

14 doesn't match for some reason, but answer the one in the form rather than the one on the crossword itself, so A Negligent Arête is the one that fits. Sorry!

In reply to UKC Articles:
Ouch. 27% odd, I reckon. Quite chuffed with some of the ones I DID get though, and maybe a reminder to get out and about more (surely not to spend even more time on UKC? ).

Cheers for putting it up team!
B

In reply to UKC Articles:

20%. Sandbagged Quiz!

In reply to UKC Articles:

Some of the crossword clues didn't have the number of letters for me. There's a Greek goddess, a Roman god, two Roman goddesses, some Greek nymphs and an Egyptian god on the Ben but no Greek god that I can think of!

In reply to zimpara:


Without the grit questions you'd have got 80%.

Fun! Hard for a foreigner with minimal climbing experience in the UK. 56% will have to do.

In reply to Natalie Berry - UKC:

Thanks and definitely tricky enough for me.

Stuck on the anagrams now. I'm assuming that 'Negro Tits' is probably not the answer you're looking for on question 27.

In reply to DaveHK:

If you go to the puzzle page you can count the number of squares. It's six for that one. And if you got 5 across you'll know what the fourth letter is.

I've still got no clue though. I've never been to the Ben and my knowledge of Greek Mythology is rather limited.

In reply to DaveHK:

It's actually an Egyptian God, but the Greek name as I corrected above...apologies!

In reply to Natalie Berry - UKC: I got 26/57 without any googling. I knew I'd one of the photos right as it's mine. Should have printed the crossword out but couldn't get off the couch.

In reply to Robert Durran:


Yeah, I'm totally sh*t at anagrams too. You could do what I did. I got my scrabble set out, picked out the letters for each question and played around with them until I came up with something. Might still be totally wrong but it's fun trying.

In reply to stp:

once i had the 6 letters and one letter I thought of something (newsworthy) on the Ben and work backwards like i did,
then get confused about egypt/greek I did get a greek on the Ben but didnt fit. hence my ? to Nat earlier.
I presumed the x-word pattern was unrealiabe so I am not sure which ones i got wrong on the x-word, only 1 i thought i didnt know.

pix were tough couple no idea, and quite a few guesses for me. Anagrams was ok but slow

dont know which ones i got wrong didnt write em down !

In reply to UKC Articles:

Crossword is very easy but I'm struggling elsewhere!

In reply to Sean Kelly:
hmm got 12 down wrong though my answer fits the clue perfectly !


-doh - sussed it, my answer was too x-wordy but fits the clue if a tad frenchy

In reply to Steve Perry:


I got 26 too, do I have to work out the percentage myself or have I missed it?

In reply to jon: 46%(ish)

In reply to UKC Articles:

Great head scratching, thoroughly chuffed with 51%. Big thanks to all at UKC for that!

In reply to UKC Articles:

43/57. Not sure if that will register as I f*cked up the submission. Was doing it on my phone till the crossword which wouldn't let me type clues in the boxes on the external webpage. Fired up the laptop and did the crossword on there and hit submit without filling in the rest of it! D'oh!

In reply to chrisprescott:

Well done grit crouton

In reply to UKC Articles:

Great stuff! Not that I did very well... The Ben question was nails, particularly since I only had an old guide to hand (that's not google or UKC so must be allowable). I don't know my Greek from my Egyptian, Roman etc so wouldn't have made a difference.

In reply to UKC Articles:

Think I got about 76% but I'm only counting the questions I answered

In reply to Michael Gordon:


That's generally how quizzes work lol

In reply to Michael Gordon:

I think that is definitely grounds for disqualification.

Quiz should be taken Onsight, no beta!

In reply to Michael Gordon:

I did google that one... After coming up with the name and seeing it fits the crossword i was also sure it was egyptian, so i did a quick search for the name and it came up with "...is the Greek name of a god (...) in ancient Egyptian religion", so i banged it in. Seeing the circumstances i hope that wasn't cheating!

In reply to Mr Lopez:

No googling allowed (and I take that to mean no searching generally).

I agree with Zimp. Onsight, no beta.

In reply to stp:

It's a question where they did a mistake in the clue. There is nothing in Ben Nevis named after a Greek God that fits the wordcount and matches the letters in the crossword. Starting with the solution and double checking that inconsistency and working out what their mistake was to confirm that's the word they want is not really cheating is problem solving .

In reply to Mr Lopez:

No prizes for smart arses lol

In reply to deacondeacon:


My score would be much lower if counting all the questions, as I'm sure you're meant to do

In reply to Michael Gordon:

That's like me saying my onsight percentage for VS4c is 100% (If you discount the few that I have been stuck on and needed rescuing)

In reply to UKC Articles:

If you write in the webpage with the crossword the lines turn purple when you write the correct answer?

https://www.puzzlefast.com/en/puzzles/2016122012245658/nsl-puzzle

In reply to charvey:

They do, yes! Very useful

In reply to Michael Gordon:

Still Onsight? lmao

In reply to UKC Articles:

Question 34

I've not got the guide to hand so I cannot check but I thought the answer the quiz is giving as correct is a variation finish on the original route that misses out the final E6 pitch through the top roof.

Am I remembering this correctly?

In reply to zimpara:

I wasn't replying to you above

In reply to UKC Articles:
Ok so I have submitted my pathetic entry (<50%). A great wee diversion from the Christmas eat-fest but when will we know the answers please?

In reply to keith-ratcliffe:
I'll post them up next week...if I can remember them!