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1. Why is Creamery Lane, so called?
2. Which Parwich house was a YHA youth hostel in the 1930s?
3. Daisy Bank Farm was initially developed soon after 1838 in order to hire out horses. What were these horses used for?
4. Put the following shopkeepers at the old Parwich Shop in the correct chronological order: Goulden, Wibberley, Birds, Lowes, Slater
5. Whose effigy was burnt on Parwich village green in or shortly after 1911 following a church service?
6. What do the following Parwich deaths have in common: Richard, Geoffrey Bunbel’s man in 1281, Mrs Elizabeth Dakeyne in 1807 and Miss Mary Roe in 1807?
7. The Rev Beetham, thought to be vicar of Parwich in the 1770s, following a run in with some unruly parishioners took as text for his sermon “And I caught certain of them and smote them and plucked off their hair and made them swear by God”. What village celebration provided the setting for this fracas?
8. What in Parwich opened in 1982 and closed in 2000?

Thank you to Parwich & District Local History Society for these questions taken from some of their previous Quizzes.

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1. What was the exact title of John Lennon & Yoko Ono’s 1971 Christmas single?
2. The Christmas Star (Poinsettia) originated from… a. Cuba, b. China, c. Mexico d. Brazil
3. Which Wallace & Gromit movie, set at Christmas and first aired on 24 December, won the 1995 Oscar for best Animated Short Film and which recurring character was introduced in the movie?
4. In which country does Joulupukki, the Yul Goat, bring the presents?
5. Which cartoon family have a dog called Santa’s Little Helper?
6. Four of the top five teams at the 2006 ClauWau, the Santa Claus World Championships, came from the host country, Switzerland. The other team was from… a. Japan, b. Jamaica, c. Holland, d. Kenya
7. In what year did Band Aid release their record “Do They Know It’s Christmas?“? (Mike A definitely knows this one)
8. In Dickens ‘”Christmas Carol“, how many children does Bob Cratchit have and what’s the name of the youngest?

Those who went to the History Society Quiz will have a decided advantage as these questions were used in one of its general konowledge sections.  So if you were there, hold back a day or so before revealing the answers.

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1. Where in Parwich was the tithe barn, it later became Tyburn or Tithe Barn Cottage, and is now a ruin?
2. Now the water supply is disconnected, what is the Hampson Memorial currently used for? (Official use only, please.)
3. How is the date of Parwich Wakes established?
4. What do Robert Bunting and Batman have in common?
5. What metal was stamped with the place name Lutudarum?
6. What was the building that now houses the British Legion previously used for?
7. What instrument of punishment was located on the Green outside Parwich Church up to the late 1800s?
8. Pikehall is split between a number of parishes, which are they?

Thank you to Parwich & District Local History Society for the above questions, taken from their old Christmas Quizzes.

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1. In Charles Dickens’ novel A Christmas Carol, who was Scrooge’s dead business partner?
2. From the Christmas Carol “Good King Wenceslas”, where was Good King Wenceslas the King of?
3. What was the title of the song and the name of the artist for the Christmas Number 1 in 2000?
4. He’s known as Father Christmas in the UK, Pere Noel in France, Kriss Kringle in Germany, La Befana in Italy, Julinesse in Denmark and Dedushka Moroz in Russia but what does the Russian version of Father Christmas actually mean?
5. On 26th December of what year was the USSR officially dissolved?
6. In what year were the first electric Christmas lights used?
7. In the 1930’s, the Addis Brush Company produced the first artificial-brush trees, using the same machinery that made their…. a) toilet brushes, b) hair brushes, c) tooth brushes or d) paint brushes?
8. The music to ‘Silent Night’ was originally written for a…. a) guitar, b) piano, c) harpsichord or d) pipe organ?

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1. Presepe in Italy refers to what Christmas tradition?
2. Which of the Wise Men was said to have brought the gift of gold for the baby Jesus?
3. The Christmas period of 1813-14 saw the last what in London?
4. In Victorian England what people were popularly called robins because of their red uniforms?
5. What animal is Snowball in George Orwell’s book Animal Farm?
6. Yorkshireman William Strickland is believed to have brought the first what to Britain from North America in 1526?
7. What is the biggest selling Christmas single of all time?
8. Every year in November Sinterklaas, the Dutch Father Christmas, arrives in Holland. Where does he come from and how does he get to Holland?

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1. In Main Street, Parwich Mrs Brownson had a general store, what is this building now?
2. Where was Gerald Lewis’ market garden?
3. Where in Parwich would you find a plaque announcing that the Success, Rushy Cliff and Nancy Consols Lead Mining Company Ltd intend to prosecute trespassers?
4. What were the names of the three pubs in Parwich in 1900, and what related organisation was formed in the village in 1910?
5. What in Parwich was consecrated by the Bishop of Derby in 1964?
6. Sir Samuel Allsopp, later Lord Hindlip, bought Alsop Hall in the 1880s. How did he make his money?
7. Which is the only building in Parwich that is constructed entirely of dressed sandstone?
8. When was the last beacon lit on Parwich Hill and why?

Thank you to Parwich & District Local History Society for the above questions. Please note they are holding their annual Christmas Quiz at the Sycamore Inn at 8pm this Thursday. All are welcome and mulled wine and mince pies will be served.

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1. Which house in Parwich was in the early twentieth century a commercial cheese factory?
2. What was this factory’s retail outlet in Ashbourne, which continued to trade well beyond the closure of the factory, called?
3. What is Saint’s Hill now better known as?
4. Who is the writer who created Peak Practice?
5. What was the first Parwich pantomime performed in 1984?
6. What local archaeological site was identified by Martin Wildgoose and excavated by Sheffield University?
7. Which organisation ran Parwich Hospital as a convalescent home for soldiers during World War I?
8. What was Parwick Hall, over and above a spelling mistake?

Thank you to Parwich & District Local History Society for the above questions. Please note they are holding their annual Christmas Quiz at the Sycamore Inn at 8pm this Thursday (10th Dec). There are seperate prizes for the local and the general knowledge sections.  All are welcome and mulled wine and mince pies will be served.

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1. Which famous mathematician was born on Christmas Day in 1642?
2. Who wrote Auld Lange Syne?
3. The character Jack Skellington appears in which 1993 Tim Burton film?
4. Who was the first British monarch to broadcast a Christmas message to the nation?
5. What Christmas item was invented by London baker and wedding-cake specialist Tom Smith in 1847?
6. Who are the four ghosts in Charles Dickens’ A Christmas Carol?
7. Christmas Island in the Indian Ocean is a territory of which country?
8. Child star Jimmy Boyd sang which hugely popular 1950’s Christmas song, which was initially banned by the Catholic Church in Boston because it supposedly mixed sex and Christmas?

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We have planned a series of Quizzes over the Christmas period.  Some sections will have Christmas related questions as below and others local knowledge questions.  Add your answers as comments each post, and we will let you know how you are getting on after a day or so.

1. Which country traditionally provides Britain with a Christmas tree for Trafalgar Square in London?
2. Who were Balthazar, Melchior and Caspar?
3. Which well known female singer was born on Christmas Day in 1954?
4. The song White Christmas was first performed in which 1942 film?
5. When singing The 12 days of Christmas in it’s entirety how many gifts are given in total?
6. What liqueur goes into making a snowball cocktail?
7. What changed in 1752 which caused Britain to have a White Christmas less frequently thereafter?
8. Who wrote How the Grinch Stole Christmas?

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There are only a few days left to enter the competition. Click here to print out the pictures. So far we have had just one entry, who just fell short of ten out of ten.  However if no one else enters he will win.

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Also if you know any youngsters or anyone that does not have broadband, that might like to have a go, why not print out the pictures for them.

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Don’t miss out on our competition. Click here to print out the pictures, so you can go round the village to locate the lights.  So far we have had no entries, which means if you enter, you stand a very good chance of winning.

Click on the poster to find out more.

Also if you know any youngsters or anyone that does not have broadband, that might like to have a go, why not print out the pictures for them.

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Don’t miss out on our competition.  Click on the poster to find out more.

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Get your Summer holidays off to a flying start by entering the ‘Lights of Parwich‘ competition.

Print off the pictures so you can locate ‘the Lights‘ and email your answers to parwich@hotmail.co.uk.

Click here for details of the competition.

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Lots of people have looked at this brain teaser published on Saturday, but I’m not sure how many of you got the correct answers.  All the answers are to do with pounds, shillings & pence and the sum of the answers comes to 32 pounds, 7 shillings and 81/2 pence.  Be sure to say the answers out loud, it all becomes so obvious! (more…)

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 Another teaser, but no clues this time. 

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After all that turkey and pudding, let’s exercise the mind.  What are the next two numbers in the sequence?

For a clue, but if you don’t want to know don’t click here. (more…)

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