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Cotswold Life

Answers:

1. The Star-Spangled Banner
2. 16
3. Pigeons
4. Lawnmower
5. Laurie Lee
6. Drove a Rolls-Royce into a swimming pool.
7. Croquet
8. Woodchester Mansion
9. Belas Knap
10. Source of the River Thames.
11. Brum
12. Arlington Row
13. Market
14. Cotswold Way
15. Sir Winston Churchill
16. Cotswolds Single Malt Whisky
17. Sezincote House
18. Single-Jet Fountain In The Canal
19. The Cotswold Water Park
20. Robert Dover's Cotswold Olimpicks at Dover's Hill

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google has thrown up the following answers:

1. John Stafford Smith (1750-1836), buried in Gloucester Cathedral, wrote the tune used for which national anthem?

The Star-Spangled Banner


2. From Broadway Tower how many counties can supposedly be seen?

16


3. The mineral spring to which Cheltenham owes its status as a spa town was discovered after locals went to investigate what was attracting a flock of which birds?

pigeons


4. What was invented by Edwin Budding in 1830 in Thrupp, just outside Stroud?

lawnmower


5. Who famously was born in Stroud, grew up in Slad and in later life became a regular at the Woolpack Inn?

Laurie Lee


6. How did Jeremy Clarkson recreate a Keith Moon urban legend for a 2005 Top Gear stunt?

drove a Rolls-Royce into a swimming pool


7. The laws of which game were codified at Chastleton House?

croquet


8. Which Grade I Victorian Gothic masterpiece was abandoned mid-construction in 1873?

Woodchester Mansion


9. Name the Neolithic chambered long barrow situated on Cleeve Hill.

Belas Knap


10. A monument beneath an ash tree near the village of Kemble marks what?

source of the River Thames


11. Which one time children’s TV star celebrated its 25th birthday this year at Cotswold Motoring Museum?

Brum


12. Which picturesque group of Cotswold cottages features inside new UK passports?

Arlington Row


13. Chipping Campden, Chipping Norton, Chipping Sodbury: what is the meaning of Chipping?

market


14. What starts in Chipping Campden and ends in Bath?

Cotswold Way


15. Who said “At Blenheim I took two very important decisions; to be born and to marry”?

Sir Winston Churchill


16. What, after a three year wait, will be ready to drink for the first time in October 2017?

Cotswolds Single Malt Whisky


17. Name the unique Cotswold house, built in the ‘Indian Style’, by the grandson of diarist Samuel Pepys?

Sezincote House


18. Rising to over 300 feet, what is Stanway watergarden’s greatest glory?

single-jet fountain in the Canal


19. What covers over 40 square miles and contains over 150 lakes?

The Cotswold Water Park


20. Where each year can spectators enjoy events such as shin-kicking and dwile flonking?

Robert Dover’s Cotswold Olimpicks at Dover's Hill