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Christmas Lepidoptera quiz

Published: 13 December 2010

Graham Wenman has posted a Christmas Lepidoptera quiz on the UK Moths discussion group. The quiz is devised to help raise money for Moths Count. You do not have to contribute to the scheme but it would be much appreciated if you donated at least £1 to Moths Count to participate in the quiz.

Quiz information

There are 100 questions/clues.
Every answer can be found in a Bradley and Fletcher 2000 list.
Answers can be a Genus, a Species or a vernacular name.
Where the answer is more than one word, this is stated at the end of the clue. Where a word is hyphenated (e.g. Yellow-tail) this is also stated.
Clues are mostly based on word-plays or anagrams. The word play is deliberately there to confuse you.
As all answers are Lepidoptera, there are no definitions in the clues.
In clues which are anagrams, there is always a word which indicates this - e.g mixed/scrambled, etc.
In every group of 5 clues (e.g. 1-5, 6-10) there is always 1 butterfly, 1 micro moth and 1 macro moth.
Prizes are available, including a subscription to the Entomologist's Record donated by the AES.

How to enter

Copy and paste the list of clues in to an email.
Add your answer following the clue.
Send your completed answer sheet to: gjwenman@yahoo.co.uk
Remember to put your name on your answers and please indicate if you have made a donation to Moths Count.
Closing date 15 JANUARY 2011

The Quiz

Fish
Fish with Polaroids? (2 words)
Fish after fish
Fried fish ruin creel flame
I'm one of Floyd's (Pink)
I'm in hotty (bottled)
I'm with Charles
I'm at the bar!
I'm mixed with Paul
I'm with the old man (2 words)
Did Orpheus break one?
Sister of Lynn and Corin
Pliant, bent, not soft
Hark, I'm a singing angel
Sounds like a lecherous bloke
Buzz and Neil's transport
A cheval-glass
Make sub-class leer (2 words)
Sputnik?
M. Ali, boxing clever.
I'm with Cherubim
Late 80s punk/rock blend
N Hussain was (2 words)
Percussion instrument
Ruby (not tiger) on TV
I'm with 'The sailor man'
I blood aria, woven! (2 words)
I'm back behind Cambridge city
Found in Moody Blues nights (2 words)
Error all switch-back
'Nature' place - on Brighton beach perhaps?
I'm in the class
Cooked Roo ribs?
Batting back
Museum of Culinary History and Alimentation
Thread cutter?
Outgrowth (bony)
Outermost Galilean satellite
Crazy 'tingler' (hanging)
Advice from a fan? (hyphen)
Troubled toil
Honda model
Classic yacht (2 words)
Buddy, sad (2 words)
One of 16 in the Harum?
Bull to finish - YESSSSSSSSS! (2 words)
Mixed play
2/3 of promissory note
I'm well in Knaresborough (2 words)
Bars (disreputable)
See how eagerly I advance (Alice)
Myristica
Mrs Julius?
Agatha taxies in somehow (2 words)
I'm in ideal banana plantation
Capillary? (2 words, hyphen)
Wimbledon, Hampstead (2 words)
An awful pain
Biblical animal (Job 40.15) de-aspirated (2 words)
Supporter-soccer, with no ball (hyphen)
Brush or vac? (2 words)
CIA probe Tory Hall scandal (2 words)
Tobacco (at HM's pleasure)
Type of dress coat
Tod's wart treated (2 words)
A genital pimple sale transformed (2 words)
St Michayl, early transformer!
Two pirates (2 words)
Doorkeeper's peasant (2 words)
Can apple be just hidden with lumpy sugar? (2 words)
E.G mangled (mangled) (2 words)
Was 'The Red Baron' one of these? (2 words)
Acid applied in to make this (2 words)
Leaking biros
I'm on an elephant (2 words)
I rub front to back
Le drapeau de la France par exemple
What you might have got as Gwenllian passed? (2 words)
God of the Afterlife, not so!
Margaret (dim,) back
'I'm a pet' Polly said, crazy! (2 words)
A rude e-mail message!
Spooner's white brave (2 words)
Ten thousand gallon brewing vat? (2 words)
Wow, all of Albania go free! (2 words)
String edge (or a tan!) (2 words)
9 under par round ORN, all a prince can make (2 words)
Small pause?
No run scored of this ball!
Cuss if top boy sails abroad (2 words)
I lash a coley, (battered) (2 words)
Unknown in tea (2 words)
Ex-England manager's boys?
Ella Mae Bailey? (3 words)
Words Bing sang to Rev Spooner? (2 words)
Privet cutters
Would Mrs Ratner ask for her..? (2 words)
Minor aches, minutes lost finds me.
Hugh 11 (3 words)
A-team Gemmini scrambled (2 words)

Clue 101 is for the person who has helped me as a guinea pig for this quiz and the most helpful person for my moths IDs - with grateful thanks

Cormartley - guinea pig extrordinaire - thanks (2 words)

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