54321 COASTS ROUND
This round is best used as the last round because it allows teams to submit their
answers tactically depending on their score in earlier rounds.
Questions 1-10 below are linked to pictures 1-10. Teams should be issued with
slips of paper to submit their answers on when they think they know it. If they can
identify the feature from the picture alone they get five points. If they need one clue
they get four points and so on down to one.
The clues are intended to allow the questioner to develop some points of interest
for both the teams and any audience.
Question 1
1. Name the feature in this picture
2. It rises 137m above sea level
3. It is found in the Orkney Islands
4. It was first climbed by Chris Bonnington in 1966
5. It featured in the Monty Python series
Question 2
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Give the name of the feature shown in the picture
This feature is found on the Dorset coast
It is formed from Purbeck limestone
The beach here was used as the location of the picnic in the film
“Nanny McPhee”
5. A dramatic rescue of a badly injured young man who “ tombstoned” off
this rock took place in August 2007
Question 3
1. Give the name of the feature in this picture.
2. This feature is found on the East coast.
3. It is 3 ½ miles long and only 50m wide at its narrowest point, lying at the
end of the Humber estuary.
4. There is a lifeboat station and the base for the Humber pilots at the end
of this feature.
5. The lifeboat station is in danger of being cut through by rising sea levels
forming an island and endangering Hull’s port activities.
Question 4
1. Name the coastal town shown at the bottom of the cliffs in this picture
2. The A20 and the A2 main roads meet here
3. Over 14 million passengers per year leave on a ferry from here
4. The chalk cliffs are known as the “White Cliffs” of this port
5. It is only 22 miles from here to France
Question 5
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Name the feature shown in this picture
It is made of hexagonal columns of basalt up to 12m high
It lies 3Km North of Bushmills N Ireland
There are many different shapes including the pipe organ and the
chimney stacks
5. Myst 111 Exile computer game and the film, Hellboy11 :The Golden
Army both used this location
Question 6
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Name the seaside resort shown in this picture.
It is found on the Atlantic coast
It is close to an airport which shares a runway with RAF St Mawgan
It is the largest resort in Cornwall
It has several famous surfing beaches
Question 7
1. Give the name of the feature in this picture
2. It is found off a island lying off the south coast of England
3. There is a secret rocket testing site called the old battery on the cliffs
opposite this feature
4. Nearby Alum Bay has several different colours of sand in the cliffs
5. These rocks are very pointed which gives them their name.
Question 8
1. Name the west coast seaside resort shown by this picture
2. South Wales lies off to the left across a wide estuary.
3. Some famous people who have lived here include: John Cleese, Jill
Dando, Roald Dahl and Jeffrey Archer
4. It had a famous pier which was badly damaged by fire recently
5. It is near Bristol
Question 9
1. Name the famously fast eroding coastline shown in this picture?
2. The boulder clay cliffs here are crumbling into the sea at a rate of 1.8 m
per year
3. The remains of the fort on the right of the picture was built into the cliff
line originally but is now in the North Sea
4. This whole coastal area between Flamborough Head and the Humber
estuary is prone to erosion
5. Several villages and about 3 miles of land have been lost to the sea
since Roman times
Question 10
1. Give the name of the feature shown in this picture
2. It is found on the South coast near Swanage and marks the Eastern
end of the Jurassic coast World Heritage Site
3. The picture shows Poole and Bournemouth in the background
4. The larger stack had a smaller one next to it which was called the ‘wife’,
but she collapsed to form a stump in 1896
5. It is thought that the rocks were named after the devil or Harry Paye a
Poole pirate
Question 11
1. Name the shingle ridge shown in this picture(it is named after the
nearby Devon village)
2. The picture show a fresh water ley behind the ridge which is a SSSI
3. The ridge of shingle stretches between the 2 headlands forming a bar
4. The road along the bar and the village shown in the foreground has
been damaged by storms in the recent past
5. This beach was used for exercise Tiger in 1944 during the Second
World War by the USA in training for The Normandy landings.
Unfortunately they were attacked by a German boat and there is now a
memorial to the many soldiers who died here. 3,000 local people were
also evacuated to allow this exercise to take place. This story was the
basis of the last episode of Foyle’s War.
Question 12
1. Give the name of the feature shown in this picture
2. It was formed along the South coast of England enclosing the Fleet
lagoon
3. It is 18miles long with a maximum height of 14 m
4. The ridge is a spit which is joined to an island called Portland Bill
making it a tombolo
5. It is close to the town of Weymouth
Answers
1. Durdle Door Dorset or Arch
2. Spurn Point/ Spurn Head East Yorkshire or Spit
3. Dover
4. Newquay, Cornwall
5. The Needles or stacks off the Isle of Wight
6. Weston-super-mare Somerset
7. The Holderness Coast or East Yorkshire
8. Old Harry Rocks/Handfast Point Dorset
9. Slapton Sands – bar and freshwater Ley – South Devon
10. Chesil Beach– Dorset or tombolo
Sources of photos
1. www.wikipedia/commons
2. www.romancesouthwest.co.uk
3. www.geography.learnonthenet.co.uk
4. www.flickr.com
5. Ruth Ward
6. www.restormel.gov.uk
7. www.staceypeakmedia.co.uk
8. www.bbc.co.uk
9. Ruth Ward
10. www.staceypeakmedia.co.uk
11. www.staceypeakmedia.co.uk
12. www.flickr.com
The photo clues follow on the subsequent pages of this document.
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