Mourne Mountain General Knowledge Quiz

The first official quiz post (Quiz courtesy of Vicky)

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The first round is.... Mourne Mountain General Knowledge!

You have until midnight on Saturday to officially enter the ongoing quiz tournament. Shout will be given to the person who gets 100% and the answers submitted first!

You can email answers to the club at belfastclimbers@gmail.com

Next week's round will be Irish and UK Mountain Dingbats!

We are aware that the questions aren't easy...but you have the internet and >60 hours!

1. Which mountain in the Mournes is “Pig Mountain”?

2. How many summits does the Mourne wall go over? (with at least a drop of 30m)

3. What was the cave on Legnabruchan most famously used for?

4. Which of these is the LEAST common type of heather in the mournes?

a) Erica Cinerea (Bell Heather)

b) Calluna Vulgaris (Common Heather)

c) Erica Tetralix (Cross-Leaved Heather)

5. In which Mournes Quarry is a buzzard said to live?

6. What is the closest named settlement to the BCC Cottage?

7. What is the largest water body in the Mournes? (by area)

8. Name the 3 rivers that flow through Donard Forest

9. How many peaks on Slieve Binnian meet the classification of a Vandeleur-Lynam? (note: mountainviews.ie does not list them all)

10. Which was the last “hut” on the Mourne Wall to be built?

Newsletter Vol 37

Hi Folks,

Well outdoor climbing and our club sessions may have stopped but the love of all things climbing continues, albeit from behind keyboards. As you may have seen on Facebook your enthusiastic (and mostly housebound committee) are putting together a number of initiatives to keep the spirits up. We had a virtual meeting the other night and put plans together for 3 strands of initiatives to partly amuse during these strange times...

1. "Exercise with me" tracker.
Struggling to get motivated to exercise indoors with limited equipment or friends? We are going to set up an open Google sheet (or similar) where you can log what you are doing each day or set yourself a challenge for the week... we may put up a push up or pull up tournament or weekly exercise regime ideas ... This is a work in progress and we hope to get this ready soon. Talk to Lisa Davison-Kernan (or email us) if you want to get involved or have ideas for its creation!

2. Weekly newsletter
We are going to put out a weekly newsletter for your reading delights, these will be posted gradually throughout the week on Facebook before being collated as a newsletter for your delights to be distributed via the website and email.

Ideas we have so far are:
- climbing videos (to be collated by Jamie Roberts)
- climbing photography within your own home (to be collated by Niall McLaughlin)
- ever wanted to find out more about one if our more mysterious members? We will be doing a profile of one of our climbers each week as interviewed by Kyle Stewart

Any other ideas for cool content or stories please send us an email!

3. Climbing Quiz

Finally, we will be posting a weekly climbing themed quiz to be issued each Thursday. You can enter just one round or all the rounds and we will be keeping track of running totals. Vicky will be collating these (possibly helped by former university challenge contestant Rónán Davison-Kernan).

Please bear in mind the latest announcements by BMC and the government - do not climb, fellrun or hillwalk.

All our climbing love

The BCC Committee

Pub Quiz - Thank You

The Fundraising Pub Quiz for Henry’s Cottage was a great night.

The Winning Teams were:

1st - Definitely only 6 Members. *

2nd - Take me now Alex Honnold.

3rd - So who’s actually in our team.

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We Raised the fabulous amount of £454 which will be going to the improvement work already completed in the cottage and allow us to install the alpine bunks.

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* We will leave it up to you to ponder the likely accuracy of the winning team name!!

Quiz prizes!

See below for Quiz prizes! This quiz is to raise funds for the development of the Club’s new cottage in the Mournes. Thank you to all of the generous contributors!

• Chocolate goody bags - courtesy of Vicky and Niall

• Movie House vouchers - not currently showing vertical limit but there are many other high-quality films to see! https://www.moviehouse.co.uk/

• Boojum vouchers for a tasty burrito http://www.boojummex.com/

• Underdeveloped DVDs - courtesy of local legend Ricky Bell.

• Posing Production Films - courtesy of Jamie http://www.posingproductions.com/

• Fairhead bouldering guidebooks - courtesy of Rónán

• Bob&Berts vouchers - For tasty coffee and food https://bobandberts.com/

• Shower kits -  courtesy of Lisa Davison-Kernan

• Jackson Sports vouchers - For all your gear and clothing needs go to the best outdoor outlet in Belfast! https://www.jackson-sports.com/

• Two tickets to the QFT https://queensfilmtheatre.com/maintenance.html

• Port and Brandy - courtesy of Vicky

Pre book tickets here

https://www.belfastclimbingclub.co.uk/news/2020/1/17/quiz-on-21-fenruary

Pub Quiz in the Parador on 21 February

BCC are hosting a fundraising quiz for the Cottage on Friday 21 Feb at the Parador Inn, Ormeau Road, Belfast. Questions will be general knowledge with a mountain theme but don’t worry, being a climber won’t give you any advantage!

Book Tickets Here