The 2003 Trail organised by Bexleyheath NWR

1. Could this digit belong to King Midas? REVEAL ANSWER

   Answer: Goldfinger
   Everything King Midas touched turned to gold.

2. A man made us - A musician from Vienna. REVEAL ANSWER

   Answer: Amadeus
   Almost an anagram.

3. Famous resident of Batemans ponders on life. REVEAL ANSWER

   Answer:If
   Rudyard Kipling who wrote If, lived at Batemans - it is now owned by English Heritage and is a museum to him.

4. If you mention this name backstage you must go outside and turn round three times before being readmitted.REVEAL ANSWER

   Answer: Macbeth
   This is always referred to as the Scottish play as thesps are so superstitious.

5. Something spreading from the USA for your biscuits.REVEAL ANSWER

   Answer: Philadelphia
   The cream cheese made by Kraft.

6. Moth in transition. REVEAL ANSWER

   Answer: Cocoon
   Total luck (we know most groups struggled with this one).

7. It went in off the black.REVEAL ANSWER

   Answer: Fluke
   It went in off the black.

8. English name for the festival of Samhain or Feralia.REVEAL ANSWER

   Answer: Halloween
   Samhain is Irish and Feralia is Roman for this holiday.

9. Old white house in Morocco.REVEAL ANSWER

   Answer: Casablanca
   Casa=House. Blanc=White.

10. This one found 15 almost too much but still asked for more.REVEAL ANSWER

    Answer: Oliver
    Jamie Oliver's restaurant was called Fifteen and despite the problems he still decided to do it all over again.

11. A set of Swans.REVEAL ANSWER

    Answer: Seven
    Seven swans a-swimming from the Christmas song.

12. What's a composer doing digging up a root especially in a Sussex town? REVEAL ANSWER

    Answer: Beethoven
    Beet is the root and Hove is the town.

13. Red, Yellow, Green - can cause congestion.REVEAL ANSWER

    Answer: Traffic
    Traffic light colours.

14. Manger, Boire, Adorer, but beware Theobromine is addictive. REVEAL ANSWER

    Answer: Chocolat
    To eat, to drink, to love - Chocolate. Don't we all?

15. The cured pork is allowed to be in Will's play.REVEAL ANSWER

    Answer: Hamlet
    Cured pork is ham; Shakespeare's play includes the soliloquy, the famous to be or not to be. Sorry it was so obvious.

16. Relief for those taken short, while visiting captive, exotic animals.REVEAL ANSWER

    Answer: Zulu
    Animals live in a zoo and when caught short you need a loo.

17. Doris and Frank have just blown in.REVEAL ANSWER

    Answer: Chicago
    Chicago was known as the windy city and is where Calamity Jane has just blown in from. Frank Sinatra also sang that it was his kind of town.

18. Black sheep is in love with Cinderella.REVEAL ANSWER

    Answer: Barbarella
    Baa Baa Black Sheep + ending of Cinderella.

19. UHF or VHF - who cares so long as it can be heard.REVEAL ANSWER

    Answer: Frequency
    Ultra High Frequency or Very High Frequency so either can be used.

20. 1789 was the year that one began.REVEAL ANSWER

    Answer: Revolution
    The French revolution began in that year.

21. Sling your Dutch fishing line on the bench before it sinks.REVEAL ANSWER

    Answer: Hook
    Hook of Holland. Fishing Hook. Bench Hook. Hook line and sinker.

22. A performer at Etruscan funerals. He could have marched to his own tune.REVEAL ANSWER

    Answer: Gladiator
    Gladiatorial games were a feature of Etruscan funerals and there is a quite famous piece of music called the March of the Gladiator.

23. Two humps are sold together.REVEAL ANSWER

    Answer: Camelot
    Camels have one hump so two sold together are a Lot, as at auction.