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Cave Maps Quiz 2 - Round Trips

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Cave Mapper

Member
For your entertainment, here is the second Cave Maps Quiz. If you missed the first one, it's still available here:

http://ukcaving.com/board/index.php?topic=11212.msg144722#msg144722

All you have to do is identify the twenty round trips below.

They are all in Northern England. The first ten are all well known, so if you know your northern caves you should recognise them. The second ten are a mixed bag, with some that are well off the beaten track, but none of them are intended to be fiendishly difficult and all the information that you need is online.

As before PLEASE DO NOT SHOUT OUT THE ANSWERS, but do let us know how you are getting on.

The winner will be the first person to PM me a complete list of correct answers.

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C

Cave Mapper

Member
Maybe this quiz is harder than I intended - it's not easy to judge the difficulty of something when you already know the answers.

Anyhow, I'm glad a few people are giving it a shot. I've had one set of answers PM'd to me, from Beardy, who has a score of 19.5 / 20 (his answer for No. 10 identifies the correct cave but doesn't indicate which of the many popular round trips in that cave it is).

Dunc: No. 14 shouldn't be that hard, I expect you've been there several times, although you may not have done the round trip. In fact it may never have been done - it is very tight and very wet. No. 19 is a place you won't have visited, and probably never will, but it is well documented.

I'll announce the winner next week. Beardy needs an extra half point to clinch it, Dunc is not out of the running and I don't know how many dark horses there are who could still make a late run.
 
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kay

Well-known member
I recognise no 6, and that's my lot without further research! But yes, nice quiz.
 
C

Cave Mapper

Member
IT'S A PHOTOFINISH!

Our two leading nags have been charging down the home straight neck and neck.

I got an updated answer from Beardy with the missing information for number 10, but he still missed a key part of the round trip, so he's now sitting with a score of 19.75 out of 20.

Dunc then submitted his answers, but number 19 had him stumped, bad luck Dunc.

Then, just 15 minutes later, Dunc solved number 19. He'd obviously been searching through every page of the Northern Sump Index. Did he get the perfect score? Sadly no, Dunc also missed a crucial part of the number 10 trip, and its not the same bit that Beardy missed. Perhaps these two should cave together, that way they'd be able to find their way around County Pot.

Anyhow, I think 19.75 is good enough. So well done to both our brave competitors, and on the basis that Beardy submitted his answers first he is the winner.

Well done Beardy, you can now carry the title of '2012 Walking Cave Encyclopedia of the Year'.

I'll post the answers on a different thread.

P.S. Dunc was the winner last time.
 
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dunc

New member
Hmm, waits patiently for full answers to see what passage name I missed out...

Well done to Beardy and thanks to Mr Mapper for setting another fine quiz, I look forward to next years!
 
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