Telephone Treasure Trail
Monday, 11 to Thursday, 14 November 2024
We hope you all enjoyed taking part in the quiz this year.
A BIG thank you goes out to our 2024 host and quiz compiler, the Beccles group and to all our wonderful clue holder volunteers.
TTT Theme, Clues and Answers
Please click on the link below to check how your group did in this year’s quiz.
We had 260 groups taking part this year and an amazing 259 Clue Holder volunteers taking your calls.
143 groups submitted the correct answers
CONGRATULATIONS to our winners
GROUP WINNER : Leicester South
CLUE HOLDER Winner: Donna Wood (Milton Keynes West)
| This is what some of you had to say after this year’s quiz… |
| “Dear National Office team, Beccles NWR and all clue holders. Our Group participated in Monday evening’s telephone trail. Many thanks to everyone involved in organising the annual event. We had great fun, and are always amazed at the logistic behind the event for everything to go so smoothly.” Chineham and Old Basing NWR |
| “A few thoughts about this year’s event. We opted for the afternoon session, many of our members are not fond of venturing out at night! We all enjoyed the quiz, the questions were answered by all participants and the theme caused many of us to remember past holidays on the various islands. I was in charge of phone calls and found it very easy to contact all the clue holders, much better than in previous years, the icing on the cake was no infernal answering machines. Please run the afternoon session next year. I was a clue holder on Wednesday evening, not as busy as previous years but still a delight to speak with members around the country. Please pass on our thanks to the organisers.” Eve on behalf of the Rugby NWR group. |
| “This was a great afternoon as we combined it with a charity lunch for the food bank. A win win. The quiz was satisfying as it was not too obscure. This quiz is the highlight of our new year.” Liz on behalf of Halesowen NWR |
| Chandler’s Ford D did the quiz on Tuesday afternoon which worked well for us. There were 14 of us and at times we were very quiet, putting our brains to work! Some clues were easy, for some we had several attempts and three really had us stumped right till the end but got them to loud cheers with minutes to spare! And the answers were so obvious… Good fun. Thank you all. |
The Telephone Treasure Trail, our popular annual telephone quiz is now over for another year and we hope you had fun.
The quiz takes place over four days in November with a maximum of 100 groups taking part each day.
The NWR held its first Telephone Treasure Trail in 1995. 231 groups took part in that first TTT, and it was so successful it turned into an annual event; one of the most popular in the NWR calendar.
As well as taking part in the quiz, groups also provide ‘clue holders’, who are allocated one clue and answer each and will have up to 100 groups calling them to check if their answer is correct, and to be given their next clue.
Each group attempts to answer a block of 20 clues plus a compulsory web clue. This aspect of the quiz gives groups a chance to speak to other NWR members all over the country, which enhances the fun and ‘national’ feel of the quiz.
Each year there is a different hidden ‘theme’ for the quiz which becomes apparent as clues are solved – over the years themes have ranged from parts of the body to capital cities.
