Finally – after weeks of marking over 700 returned quizzes – the winners can be announced!
Only 13 entrants achieved 100%, which is lower than usual. One question caught more people out than any other, but we’ll come back to that when the answers are released in the next few days. Today is about the winners, who are…
In first place comes L Thain (Peterborough) who takes the top prize of £200, and who said when she heard “I am so chuffed! I’ve been entering for years although usually with some guesses in the answers”.
In second place, all the way from Scotland, we have L Paterson who takes the £100 prize, and then it’s back to Peterborough for third place J Redmond who takes £50.
Of course the real winners are those who get their own Runners-Up mug to cherish: P McCarroll (Bungay), H Turner (Allithwaite), J Baker (Chesterfield), K Hedison (Mansfield), J Edwards (Oakham), V Thompson (Lincoln) and J Catling (Peterborough). Your prizes will be heading your way shortly and we’d love to see photos of you with them shared to our Facebook page if you’re so inclined!
Well done everyone, keep an eye out for the answers any day now!
Thank you to everyone who supported us in 2023, it was a great year! Santa tells us he met a lot of really lovely people, and with his help we raised a lot of money that we can put to good use this year.
We’ve had hundreds of Right Royal quiz sheets returned to us for marking – which we’re working hard to now so we can announce the winners – and the all important answer sheet – ASAP (this is no small task, but our target is to draw the winners at the club’s March business meeting). And already we’re working on the 2024 quiz for release in September!
Finally, the time has come to release the answers to the Peterborough Lions Club 2022/23 “Altered Images” quiz, and to tell you who won the cash prizes. Which of those is most important to you may well depend on whether you’re one of the ten named below!
We had over 1000 sheets returned, so huge thanks are due to the team of markers who whittled them down to just 49 100% correct sheets in time for the draw last night.
The winners were:
1st Prize (£100): G. Utting (London)
2nd Prize (£75): D. Prisk (Newborough, Peterborough)
3rd Prize (£50): C. Pairman (Tillicoultry)
4th Prize (£25): B. Canham (Stamford)
Runners up (£10 winners):
D. Nash (Gloucestershire)
H. Burrow (Longthorpe, Peterborough)
J. Watkins (Stamford)
B. Hoffmann (Orton Wistow, Peterborough)
P. Utting (Bretton, Peterborough)
C. Brown (Castor, Peterborough)
Were you one of the lucky ten? If not, were you one of the unlucky 39 who got 100% but missed out in the final draw, or did you get one or two wrong? You can now download the answers and check for yourself. While you’re at it, you can pre-order the 2023-24 quiz so that you’re amongst the first to receive it in September, giving you the best chance of making the winner’s list next year!
It’s good to get back to some semblance of normality after 2020! Our “It’s About Time” quiz sales are heading back in the right direction – raising over £4000 so far – and we had over 500 returned to us for marking of which 60 were 100% correct. We managed to avoid any errata – so not quite back to normal there – and have now completed marking and can share both the answers and the list of winners.
First things first, then: the prize draw took place at the Club’s February business meeting (Tuesday 8th), and the winners are:
First Prize (£100): S Hicks (Gunthorpe, Peterborough)
Second Prize (£75): R Martin (Orton Wistow, Peterborough)
Third Prize (£50): J Smith (Hoddesdon, Herts)
Fourth Prize (£25): C Roper (Alnwick, Northumberland)
Runners up (£10 winners):
C Twydell (Ashford, Kent)
C Harrop (Oundle)
A Wade (Folkestone, Kent)
N Griffiths (Grantham, Lincs)
C Chinnery (Peterborough)
S Blenkhorn (Hanslope, Bucks)
Well done to all the winners, commiserations to everyone else – especially the other 50 who returned 100% correct sheets! Prizes are on their way to you – check your email (if you gave us an address) for more info.
Answer sheets are heading out to those who requested them by post, or you can download the answers below.
Once again, thank you to everyone who took part, for the feedback we received, and for the advance orders for the 2022/23 quiz (to be released in September).
We’re already busy working on the new quiz, and if you haven’t already you can pre-order a copy using the form on the answer sheet, or save money by pre-ordering via our store. In the meantime you will find lots of past copies to keep you entertained until September!
Peterborough Lions Club, and our community minibus Elsa, are proud to be supporting Peterborough Reads with their Elves on the Bus around the Ortons this coming Monday, 22nd November!
This year the Royal British Legion marks its centenary – that’s 100 years supporting service men and women, ex-serving personnel and their families.
Pictured: Lions Shelter at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire
Today, as the 2021 Poppy Appeal launches, we are proud to announce that, as last year, we will be donating 50% of all “It’s About Time” quiz sheet sales via this website to the appeal. That’s 75p from each sheet sold between now and Sunday 14th November (Remembrance Sunday).
If you’ve not yet got around to picking up a copy of this year’s quiz, this is the perfect time to do so. (If you already have a copy, why not treat friends and family?)
We’re also extending this to sales of any past issues of our quiz sheets, so if you missed Sweet Tooth or any other sheet from the past few years now is a great time to rectify that!
You can buy copies here – £1 is charged for postage and card fees no matter how many you order (£3 for international orders).
What a long Quiz Sheet season it’s been! Launched in September as always, we extended the closing date to March to allow a longer selling window due to the pandemic, and after weeks of marking and verifying alternative answers we finally reached the point you’ve all been waiting for – and the draw for winners was carried out at last night’s business meeting.
The winners are:
First Prize (£100): P Guscott (Tiverton)
Second Prize (£75): C Pairman (Tillicoultry)
Third Prize (£50): B Stone (Crawley)
Fourth Prize (£25): K Whitehouse (Newcastle upon Tyne)
Runners up (£10 winners):
R Ainscough (Pickering, N Yorks)
A Granville (Orton Wistow)
N Houston Davies (Deeping St James)
D Prisk (Newborough)
D Hedison (Mansfield)
J Pugh (Cardiff)
Well done to all the winners, commiserations to everyone else – especially the rest of the 36 who returned 100% correct sheets!
Answer sheets are heading out to those who requested them by post, or you can download the answers below.
Once again, thank you to everyone who took part. We’ve had some lovely feedback – it seems to have been the ideal topic* to keep you busy during the Christmas lockdown away from friend and family.
We’re off to put our efforts into the 2021/22 quiz – you can pre-order a copy using the form on the answer sheet and it’ll be available for pre-order via our store shortly. In the meantime you will find lots of past copies to keep you entertained until September!
Further to activity reported below, another significant contribution has been the provision of ‘PATIENT ACTIVITY PACKS’ (PAPs) to PETERBOROUGH CITY HOSPITAL. ANN PEACOCK, herself a former Lion and wife of Lion Bill, a very long-serving Lion and former President, has been compiling activity packs which are donated to wards at PCH. These are for patients who, due to Corona Virus restrictions, are unable to receive visitors, in order to relieve some, at least, of the boredom.
Through Ann’s good services the club has been able to fund and donate 147 of these packs in total, including child-age relevant packs to Amazon ward and, recently, 35 packs for the Cavell mental health unit. These PAPs have been extremely well received by ward staff who are very grateful for them. The packs are compiled in a Covid-safe manner and are supplied in wipe-clean plastic wallets, so that they can be disinfected before being issued to patients.The club has, at its February (Zoom) meeting voted to provide a further £100 batch of packs.
This initiative has been taken up by other Lions Clubs in E. Anglia and beyond, extending, even, to a club in Australia!
Well, another year begins and Peterborough Lions Club is STILL unable to hold physical meetings; thank goodness for Zoom!
As you can see below, we were forced to curtail Santa’s visits before Christmas, so our fund raising has been limited. We have NOT, though, been inactive, in spite of Coronavirus restrictions.
We have made, and continue to make, monthly donations of food and long shelf-life drinks to the PETERBOROUGH FOOD BANK – this is food donated by Lions club members. Amounts vary by month, eg September 35 kg, October 60kg, November 48kg, December 103kg, Jan 2021 35kg; donations earlier in the year were made but not recorded.
We have also supplied:
“MARY’S CHILD” (Yaxley & Farcet Churches) with a donation towards supporting vulnerable families with food and toiletries in July.
SOUTHFIELDS SCHOOL PTA with a donation towards food hampers for needy families. Made in December
The club have, in our February meeting, agreed to supply the LIGHT HOUSE PROJECT, Peterborough with a donation towards refreshments for visitors to the Garden House (Homeless support hub). This, along with two packs of coffee will be delivered later in the month.
Today, it was announced that Peterborough will be amongst many places moving into a new Tier 4 of COVID restrictions. This has forced many of us to completely change or cancel out Christmas plans, and Peterborough Lions Club are no different.
Santa joined us on a hastily arranged Zoom call this evening and here’s what he had to say:
First and foremost, Christmas is NOT cancelled. Santa knows who’s been good, he knows what you’re hoping to find in your stockings, and he is exempt from the Tier 4 restriction so will still be visiting you on Christmas Eve.
Santa wanted to say thank you to the people of Peterborough who have come to see him on tour around Orton Wistow last night, or outside Sainsbury’s today or last weekend. He loves seeing you, even with social distancing, and he, along with Peterborough Lions Club, thank you for your generous donations which will be put to good use around Peterborough next year.
But: Santa, and all of us involved with bringing him to you, have no alternative but to accept that for this year that must come to an abrupt end. This is to protect your safety and the safety of his Peterborough Lions helpers. Santa will return to his workshop to make sure that everything is ready for when he sees you in just six sleep’s time.
Santa is extremely sad that he will not now be able to tour Netherton tomorrow, nor Stanground next Wednesday. But he has assured us that this just means he’ll have to bring extra chocolates when he returns in 2021.
Peterborough Lions Club would like to add that we thank Santa for his company this year and look forward to seeing him again next year.
You can find details about the projects supported by the money raised elsewhere on this website, including:
Our community minibus, provided free of charge for use by local community groups
We hope that 2021 will allow the return of our annual Showtime, providing an entertaining free night out for hundreds of adults in care homes
Not to mention many smaller projects.
If you had planned to donate to us in person, but now cannot, you can donate via our website. You can also buy one (or several) of our quiz sheets – past and present – from our store.
Thank you Peterborough for your support. See you soon, stay safe.
