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Scarecrow quiz

19th October 2020

Brought to you by quizmaster Graham Jones The magnificent Pitsmoor Scarecrow Festival served to highlight how making scarecrows stretches back around the world for thousands of years. Scarecrows feature in many religions and cultures. They [Read more]

Figure it out quiz

23rd March 2020

Brought to you by quizmaster Graham Jones Around this time of year many Burngreave families are celebrating various festivals. Here’s a quiz to find out what you know about these wintry festivals. 1. Approximately how [Read more]

The Festive Quiz

16th December 2019

Last issue’s quiz answers

16th December 2019

Last issue our quiz master Graham Jones asked if you can identify our local animals. Here are the answers to those questions: Rat Kingfisher Badger Dragonfly Heron Bat Goldfinch Deer Owl Fox

Quiz: Identify our local animals

4th November 2019

Brought to you by our quizmaster Graham Jones. Over a hundred types of bird and at least a dozen species of wild mammals have been seen in Burngreave. So it is no surprise that, on [Read more]

Issue 144 quiz answers

4th November 2019

Answers to the quiz questions from issue 144. More puzzled by the answers? See Quiz: it was twenty years ago today for the questions! Tony Blair ant Yugoslavia gnat Rolling Stones tit Whitney Houston bath [Read more]

Quiz: it was twenty years ago today

19th August 2019

Brought to you by quizmaster Graham Jones Of course, a lot of us weren’t around twenty years ago and so the alternative to doing the quiz is to look for hidden creatures in the words [Read more]

Last issue’s quiz answers

19th August 2019

Burn Hall Pits Moor Cliffe Page Fir Shire Vale Greave Putting them together gives us: Burngreave, Pitsmoor, Page Hall, Fir Vale, and Shirecliffe.

Quiz answers for issue 142

24th June 2019

These are the answers to last issue’s language quiz. If you haven’t had a go at it you, be sure to give it a try before reading these answers. No cheating! Arabic Slovak Punjabi Portuguese [Read more]

The quiz – Really lost in Burngreave

18th March 2019

Brought to you by quizmaster Graham Jones I must have taken a wrong turning when I got off the bus and goodness knows where I am now. All I can say is that I am [Read more]

The quiz – Lost in Burngreave again

4th February 2019

Brought to you by quizmaster Graham Jones Now that the manic Christmas season is over I’m glad to be out and about in Burngreave again. But, you’ll never guess what has happened? I’ve got lost! [Read more]

Burngreave Brainstorm answers

4th February 2019

But where exactly is Burngreave? 1.Greenland. 2.Derbyshire 3.France, Spain, Algeria, Morocco, Algeria (again), Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana (but Santa is so lost that he might even go via the North Pole thereby crossing parts of [Read more]

Burngreave Brainstorm

17th December 2018

Brought to you by quizmaster Graham Jones Where exactly is Burngreave? 1. Which island, with a shrinking population of reindeer, is more than ten times the size of Great Britain but has only about twice [Read more]

The quiz – still lost in Burngreave

5th November 2018

Brought to you by quizmaster Graham Jones Well I’ve really done it this time! My hands are on a rust coloured piece of metal about 2.5 metres tall on which, further up, there are bigger [Read more]

Playground fundraising pub quiz

17th September 2018

Pitsmoor Adventure Playground are holding a fundraising pub quiz. When: 8.30pm Thursday 20th September Where: at the Harlequin on 108 Nursery St, Sheffield S3 8GG

The quiz – lost in Burngreave again

17th September 2018

Brought to you by quizmaster Graham Jones I can’t believe it! I don’t how I’ve managed it, but I seem to have got lost in Burngreave again. Fortunately I’m touching another local landmark, and so [Read more]