2024 on the weblog…and the annual quiz

The  weblog is about to rejoice its eleventh birthday!

  The primary submit was on New Years Eve 2013 and  the numbers studying  have continued to develop apace with over 233,000 views  by 142,000 guests over the course of the 12 months,  simply barely  up on final 12 months’s already document 224,000, the 100,000 for 2020 and fewer than 7,000 for the entire of 2014!  All including as much as a grand complete of over 1.08 million views from 625,000 guests

As all the time, thanks  on your loyal assist and the good feedback. Please maintain  telling your pals in regards to the weblog and get them to affix the mailing listing.  Simply  go to the very backside of any submit, enter an e mail deal with and every new submit  will seem, as if by magic, early on Saturday morning in time for breakfast. And now for the quiz….

However earlier than we get to that you just would possibly wish to know a couple of extra details and figures – and if not then simply scroll right down to this years questions…

Because of the statistics offered by WordPress I’m additionally capable of inform you that that is my 573rd submit which in complete scarily include 1.35 million phrases,  with this 12 months’s posts averaging round 2700 phrases every. Guests come from nearly each nation on the planet [apart from a few in west/central Africa] though clearly most come from the UK, the USA and the remainder of the English talking world, with Europe following fairly a means behind.

As you possibly can see from the statistics above the all-time hottest one by far has been one  I wrote in 2021 on what I believed was quite area of interest, even by my requirements, on electroculture which has had a complete of over 89,000 views.  

You may see the preferred ones this 12 months within the listing on the left.

AND NOW THE QUIZ

There are 50 questions all from this 12 months’s posts – hope that’s sufficient to maintain you busy till 2025. The solutions are on the backside of the submit however in case you can’t wait then click on on the hyperlinks…

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1:   Guiseppe Archimboldo. 1527-1593

2:   Benington Lordship

3:   Casa del Rey, Moro [House of the Moorish King], Ronda, Spain 

4:   Eltham Palace

5:   Rafflesia

6:   Kew Orchid Pageant

7:   Brutus and Rupert in my Backyard

8:   Thomas Howard the Collector Earl of Arundel at Arundel Home on the Strand in London

9:   The arrival of the primary Europeans, a gaggle of Portuguese merchants, in Japan in 1543

10:  Cedric Morris

11:  John Cheere

12:  Wrest Park

13:  Piercefield

14:  Frances Hodgson Burnett 

15:  Ranelagh Gardens, now the location of the Chelsea Flower Present

16:  The grounds of Alexandra Palace

17:  Paul Cezanne

18:  Aquascaping

19:  The final stays of the aquarium at Crystal Palace

20:  Grimsthorpe Fort

21:  The positioning of the Backyard of Eden

22:  Adam’s Peak in Sri Lanka

23:  Hieronymus Bosch

24:  William Shenstone

25:  Orchid roots

26:  It’s the authentic Bramley apple tree

27:  Frogmore

28:  Drummond Fort

29:  They’re all Mrs Richmonds

30:  Alexander Pope

31:  Within the grounds of Marble Hill

32:  Jupiter Artland

33: The  Water Gardens at Coombe Wooden had been a part of the Veitch Nursery empire

34: Thorpeness

35:  Dr Erasmus Darwin  

36:  The Titan Arum is the most important flower on the planet with the central spike standing  a number of  metres excessive

37:  The primary picture of Columbus arriving within the Americas in 1492,  being watched by King Ferdinand of Spain

38:  Part of the trunk of a sumach first included in Anatomy of Trunks, 1673, drawn utilizing a microscope by Nehemiah Grew

39:  Melbourne Corridor

40:  The Secret Backyard by Frances Hodgson Burnett

41:  Chateau de Vendeuvre in Normandy.

42:  Van Gogh

43:  St Fiacre

44:  The Backyard of Eden, as imagined by an artist in 12thc Constantinople

45:  John Parkinson

46:  William Gilpin

47:  William Kent sketched Alexander Pope working in his Grotto at Twickenham

48:  Marianne North

49:  An enormous water storage tank that serves Thorpeness

50:  The Man-Consuming Tree of Madagascar