Scores after Fraser Challenge

Lasses, this week there were 31 responses sent in. Braw job!

Perfect scores:

Murray: Mordag, Zella, Muirne, Morrigan, Mona, Marsali, Mary, Joan

Mackenzie: Ceili, Kinley, Kellan, Ide

Beauchamp: Muirne, Caroline, Nemetona, Elspeth, Ealasaid, Eilis, Moven, Isobel

Winner of the Fraser Challenge -- picked by Kellan's healthy twins:

Congratulations to Kinley Mackenzie. You've earned 5 extra points for the Mackenizes.

Clan Standings:

Beauchamp: 239

Fraser: 72

Mackenzie: 144
Murray: 201

Murray Clan Participants: Ceitidh, Mordag, Zella, Muirne, Morrigan, Mona, Marsali, Mary, Angelique and Joan

Mackenzie Clan Participants: Catrionia, Siobhan, Ceili, Kinley, Mrs. Fitz, Isabelle, Kellan, Leigh, and Ide

Beauchamp Clan Participants: Muirne, Caroline, Brianna, Nemetona, Elspeth, Ealasaid, Eilis, Morven, Imogen, Leslie in the Springs/Lady North Facing, Isobel, Suisan

Beauchamps pulled ahead with the number of participants. There were 12 Beauchamps, 10 Murrays and 9 Mackenzies.

The scores:

Beauchamp: 113

Fraser: 0 -- because they wrote the Challenge, and were unable to prevent anyone from getting a perfect score

MacKenzie: 61 +1 (Sneaker) +5 Kinley's winning name = 67

Murray: 91 + 1 (Early Bird) = 92

Awards and Special Notice:

Early Bird goes to Ceitidh of Clan Murray

Sneaker award goes to: Leigh of Clan Mackenzie. Her email was received at 11:52 p.m. on the deadline.

Leslie in the Springs more formally known as Lady North Facing -- most wrong answers that ended up being marked right...clever lass! Marsali Murray -- who appreciates a good pair of plump, white partridges! ;)

Respectfully submitted,

Fiona Fraser

Fraser Answers

Lassies, I apologize for this taking so long to get posted. We've had a bit of the sickies going around our place. While Fiona had the information to me in a timely fashion, I unfortunately did not get it posted here in a timely fashion.

There was amazing participation in the Fraser Challenge. There were 31 ladies who played this round of the games and practiced our map reading abilities.

Without further ado, here are the answers to the Fraser Challenge

Across
2. Furey Street
4. Loch Ness
7. stable
8. Spanish Main
9. British Museum

Down
1. Watendlath Tarn
3. Ellesmere
5. Helwater
6. Carribean

I am feeling well enough, I will get the winning post made tonight.
~Kellan

Fraser Challenge

This is a tale that roams near and far in both space and time...therefore ye will search through hundreds of years to find the answers ye seek. They will all be places -- proper names some, but not all. The tenth question is one that will necessitate the other 9 being answered. Ye must fill in all the answers in the crossword.

EDITED TO ADD on 10.25.09:

Question 10 is the act of filling in all the answers into the crossword. Ye must send the answers to the 9 clues to the highlandergames ymail address with fraser or crossword in the subject line.

If you mis-spell anything, that would make #10 wrong, as it wouldn't work in the crossword.

The due date is October 28th. Send to highlandergames@ymail.com. Put Fraser Challenge in the subject line. Note, this should be the same address you ALWAYS send the challenge to.

Two-worded answers will have a space in the puzzle to separate the words (in fact, only 4 of the answers are ONE word!).

Sample Clue: The "road" to Jamie Answer: Craigh Na Dun Crossword: would show 13 empty spaces

Luck be with ye, sisters, we hope this quiz be much fun and little stress on ye, and ye enjoy your tromp back through the book for the answers...

~Ladies of Clan Frasers

Note: This game is for all Lassies in Beauchamp, Murray and Mackenzie clans.

Across

2. Trains, planes & automobiles...where was Claire headed?

4. Where Claire shares a memory of a ancient soul with Roger

7. Bess & Blossom roomed with Jamie in here

8. On what sea were they when those fine, white, plump partridges leapt out of their concealment?

9. Brianna's "whoop" necessitated their hasty departure from where?

Down

1. "O Lucifer, thou son of the morning" ...where were they?

3. Where, on a stormy night, one life is lost, as another is saved.

5. Drink of the damned

6. "the posterior zygapophysys had broken clean off" ...where did it happen?

Fraser Challenge Results

A total of 21 of our lasses sent in their guesses. Of that there were 10 who got a perfect score. They were: Eilis (vicjorob) and Muirne (bwarnergroup) of Clan Beauchamp; Kellan (knitmo), Kinley (Rehnbo), Fiona (caela) and Ceili (theknittingmama) of Clan Mackenzie; Mordag (abitknottie), Marsali (mommaowie), Joan (Vivian5), and Morrigan (mainefan1) of Clan Murray. The Frasers did not participate in the challenge because they were the authors.

My lassie drew Joan of Clan Murray out of the hand-knit felted cloche

Round 2 Clan Standings:

Beauchamp: 60

Fraser: 0 – since they authored the games

Mackenzie: 64

Murray: 72

Additional awards: (for bragging rights)

Early bird: Eilis Beauchamp submitted her answers at 12:16 on March 20.
Sneaker: Edme of Clan Murray squeaked in with 4 minutes to spare at 11:56 p.m. On March 28. This is the second week in a row she's claimed this title.
Best Curse: Mordag of Clan Murray: “May your cottages be covered in this freaking plant (Pellitory of the Wall) and let the person who thought up this question have the nettle juice drip on her!”

Statistics:

21 of 46 clan members participated in the first round of the Highland Games, that's 46 percent. This round, Clan Fraser sat out, since they sponsored the round.

Clans Murray scored an additional point for having the highest participation in this round of the games, and that's because Brigitte (sinkitty) participated, even though she didn't score any points. Proof participation matters!

Clan Beauchamp had 47 percent or 7 of 15 members participate, earning 60 points.

Clan Mackenzie had 40 percent or 6 of 15 members participate, earning 64 points.

Clan Murray had 50 percent or 8 of 16 members participate, earning 72 points.

Up-to-date Standings
Beauchamp: 297
Fraser: 191
Mackenzie: 346
Murray: 320

Special thanks goes to Fiona and the Frasers for writing the challenge, tallying the results and sending them to me.
~Kellan

Answers: Fraser Challenge

Thank you ladies, for enjoying this quiz with us! Although we may hope that we'd stumped more of you, we're satisfied that we were, at least, quite tricky! ;)
~Fiona

1. a. What Hebrew letter is this: aelph
b. What character expounds on this? Comte St. Germaine
c. What did the character say about the occult meaning of this letter? the font of Christ's blood

2. A) “it’s kept near the fleur-de-lys stamped jar in the healer’s box; what is this herb?” Pellitory-of-the-Wall
B) this herb/plant is related to: ________ Stinging Nettle
C) answer B is used to do what in this section? make a fake pox pustule
D) what other herbs/plants are mention in conjunction with answer B? rosemary & madder
E) one of these herbs/plants produces a certain color, what is that color? madder = crimson pee pee!

*note: there were some other herb/plant answers that were correct for parts c, d & e...if you did not answer the crossword & I "graded" you on this question individually, I allowed for those other answers.


3. He learned from a famous Calvin; although he bears more resemblance to the wild man of borneo...

"He" shares an acquaintance with Claire...one who may have replaced the dispicable du Carrefours."

Who is the shared acquaintance, and What city did each of these people meet their common acquaintance in?

4. Her home in France seems to include much from a nearby country. Along with the intentional acquisitions, there is a fugitive from the same country. Name the "acquisitions" (both animate & inanimate), and the fugitive from this country.


Shared acquaintance is Master Raymond, Claire met him in Paris, the mystery "him" (who was Walter Laurent) met Raymond in Geneva.

acquisitions: cuckoo clock, Berta & Maurice (who were possibly brother & sister), and the fugitive was Reverend Walter Laurent. I also saw the monkey & a sconce mentioned as other objects from Switzerland, which I would have double checked if it had mattered with regard to the scoring...


5. Translate this:

Pater noster, qui es in caelis:
sanctificetur Nomen Tuum;
adveniat Regnum Tuum;
fiat voluntas Tua,
sicut in caelo, et in terra.
Panem nostrum cotidianum da nobis hodie;
et dimitte nobis debita nostra,
Sicut et nos dimittimus debitoribus nostris;
et ne nos inducas in tentationem;
sed libera nos a Malo

This is the Lord's Prayer.


6. a life has been lost
a life is placed at her feet
a color remains

Whose life? Faith
Whose life? Bouton
What color? Blue

*note: this question was in direct reference to the scene in the hospital just before Master Raymond visits her & heals her.


7. name the man who wrote:
"freedom and Whisky gang tegither"
and name his poem too!

name the man, name the poem: Robert Burns, "The Author's Earnest Cry and Prayer"

8. a limb that's injured
a creamy colored treatment
the beast who caused it

whose limb? Jamie
what is the treatment? Hanged Man's grease (or "salve")
what beast? horse (or the specific animal -- also accepted Fergus as the one who caused it, lol)


9. news so long delayed
hand does not match appearance
"she" is met mid way

news regarding what place? Lisbon
whose hand? Murtaugh's (it was commented that his handwriting was quite nice/neat -- "not the formless scrawl she expected")
"she" is met by whom? Jamie ("she" is the ship, which stops in Lisbon midway through the trip & Jamie goes aboard then)

10. fill in this crossword -- or simply send us the words in a list format.

Across:

2. cuckoo clock
3. lisbon
5. master raymond
8. bouton
9. jamie/horse/salve

Down:

1. lords prayer
4. stinging nettle
6. aleph
7. earnest

~Submitted by Clan Fraser