E: 02/09 WEEKLY Win bottles of Jura whisky

reniannen

Week 50: 15th -21st August 2011

Q: Jura is teeming with a variety of wildlife, but what breed of otters can be found around the coast of the Isle?
A: C. European Otter (source)


The answer to last week’s question is C. Congratulations to bertrand Jorez from France who is our lucky winner of a bottle of 10 yr old :T

reniannen

Week 51: 22nd -28th August 2011

Q: During the Neolithic period (new stone age) around 4000BC Jura was thought to have been covered by a forest consisting mainly of which kind of trees:
A: A. Birch Trees (source)


The answer to last week’s question is C. Congratulations to Stephen Middleton from United Kingdom who is our lucky winner of a bottle of 10 yr old :T

reniannen

Week 52: 29th August - 4th September 2011

Q: During the Autumn on Jura, it has been known for up 20,000 of what type of bird to arrive on the island in just a few hours?
A: A. Barnacle Geese (source)


The answer to last week’s question is A. Congratulations to Harry Hussain from United Kingdom who is our lucky winner of a bottle of 10 yr old :T

I thought this would be the last one, but they're saying there will be a Q53

reniannen

The answer to last week’s question is A. Congratulations to john bound from United Kingdom who is our lucky winner of a bottle of 10 yr old.

The Jura Pub Quiz 2010-2011 has now finished and the annual winner of the grand prize will be announced soon.

Good luck everyone Where did the year go?

A new weekly contest will follow shortly...

fire**fly

big thanks to you reniannen for keeping up the thread :A
:T:T :A xx

reniannen

thanks to everyone who helped too, think we all deserve a dram after that :T We did well even if some questions did come down to eeny meeny miny mo!

3Dogs

Thank you Reniannen

Dram

WHISKY PURSUIT!


(IT'S FAR FROM TRIVIAL)


Jura’s pub quiz is back, and with whole new theme! In honour of the much-loved past time, Whisky Pursuit is our take on everyone’s favourite quiz game.

The quiz will run weekly until August and there are special prizes waiting for a lucky (and clever) few, with weekly winners taking home a bottle of Jura Superstition. Plus this year there will be an ultimate prize of the new Jura 1976, worth £500! Participants with the most correct answers will be in with a chance of winning the grand prize.

So answer to last week’s question was A - Metallica. Congratulations to Michael McKillop from United Kingdom who is the lucky winner of a bottle of Jura Superstition.

To the right you will find our next Whisky Pursuit question. You’ve got until midnight Sunday (GMT) to answer and the winner will be announced next Monday along with the next question. Good luck!

Dram

CATEGORY:
Sports and Leisure


The Ardlussa Sports Day is now one of the biggest annual events in Jura’s community calendar. Who was responsible for starting the event more than 60 years ago?

ANSWER:

• Robin Fletcher
• Campbell
• George Orwell

Dram

Robin Fletcher

ARDLUSSA SPORTS DAY 2011
The annual Ardlussa Sports day has been running now for either 61 or 62 years. No-one can quite remember, and anyway, timing isn’t important. It’s the taking part that matters. We do, however, know that it was started by Robin Fletcher, one of the distillery founders and proprietor of the Ardlussa Estate. In times gone by there were events like sheep wrestling, but legalisation has put paid to that. Nowadays the sheep have been relegated to onlookers after being replaced by slippery mats in the obstical race. Now that’s progress.

The tug of war was taken a little more seriously, as usually the north side of the island lose out – but they do pride themselves on being slimmer. And last year the Ardlussa Estates dog won the Open Mile, so you never quite know what to expect.

Nearly £500 was raised for the multiple sclerosis charity, Revive