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Winners of 2013 Big Fat Farmers Weekly quiz

Isabel Davies 09 January 2014
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Ten lucky people have been selected as the winners of the 2013 Farmer Weekly Big Fat Christmas Quiz.


The names have been picked at random from the people who answered all our online multiple choice quiz questions correctly over the festive period.


The first five names drawn out of the hat win a Farmers Weekly subscription and the others will receive either a onsie, T-shirt or iPad cover. All winners will be contacted by email.


The winners are:



  • Thomas Lines, Argyll
  • Camelia Longley, Kent
  • Stephen Evans
  • Sam Rawson, East Sussex
  • Alastair Eddie, Aberdeenshire
  • Mandy Ead
  • Michael McHugh, Northumberland
  • Andrew Boothman, North Yorkshire
  • Paul Scott, Stirling
  • Steven Glover, Kent

The questions and answers to the quiz were as follows:



  1. Peter Kendall announced his retirement as NFU president in 2013. When he retires he’ll have served eight years. Who did he replace when he took over the role in 2006?
    Answer: Tim Bennett
  2. Technological advances in 2013 saw the creation of synthetic meat. The meat was cooked and sampled for the media in the form of what?
    Answer: A beef burger
  3. The horsemeat scandal broke back in January 2013. The Food Standards Agency in Ireland found horsemeat DNA in frozen burgers on sale in Tesco, Iceland, Aldi and Lidl. The Tesco beefburgers tested as what percentage of horsemeat?
    Answer: 29%
  4. March 2013 saw the UK plunged into freezing temperatures. The Met Office pronounced it the second coldest on record with only, which year, being colder?
    Answer: 1962
  5. In April 2013, the EU voted to bring in a ban on the use of neonicotinoids. The campaign against the use of the pesticides had some famous supporters. Which of these people protested in favour of a ban outside Parliament?
    Answer: Designer Vivienne Westwood
  6. The Moo Man, featuring an East Sussex dairy farmer, became an artistic sensation in the summer. What was it?
    Answer: A documentary film
  7. What exotic creature did a pair of Suffolk contractors find while harvesting winter wheat?
    Answer: A macaw
  8. Where was the Young Farmers AGM held in 2013?
    Answer: Blackpool
  9. Which celebrity has set his sights on becoming a deer farmer – and attended the Farmers Weekly Awards in 2013?
    Answer: JLS’s Jonathan “JB” Gill
  10. Hapless tractor thieves were apprehended by police after the machine’s GPS system tracked them to their finals destination – a set of farm buildings where?
    Answer: Poland

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