Forest, Forestry, Forrest & Forester Facts Quiz

Answer: Forrest Gump

Based on the Winston Groom novel of the same name, "Forrest Gump", was released in 1994. The film - starring Tom Hanks - tells the story of a man telling his life story to various strangers he meets whilst sitting on a bench.

One of the stories that Forrest tells is about when he joins the army where he befriends a fellow soldier - a former shrimp fisherman called Benjamin Buford "Bubba" Blue. When "Bubba" is killed in action, Forrest ends up eventually forming the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company with his former commanding officer. Forrest though eventually leaves though to return to care for his mother.

In 1996, the Bubba Gump Shrimp Company Restaurant opened its first restaurant in Monterey, California. Since then Bubba Gump Shrimp Company has opened a number of restaurants, including ones in Hong Kong, London, Mexico and Indonesia. In addition to selling food, the restaurants also sell branded merchandise related to the film "Forrest Gump".

Answer: Lumberjills

Nicknamed "Lumberjills", some 9000 women were enlisted to take the place of lumberjacks who were called up to fight during the Second World War. Under the Women's Timber Corp, women - including girls as young as 14 - cut down trees, processed them ready for the saw mills, and even worked in saw mills, replacing mean who were away fighting in the armed services.

In 2006, the Forestry Commission Scotland, decided to erect a memorial to the Lumberjill's in the Queen Elizabeth Forest Park near Aberfoyle in Scotland. In 2013, another memorial was unveiled in the Dalby Forest in North Yorkshire to the women who served in the Women's Timber Corp.

Answer: Horatio Hornblower

Written by C. S Forester, the first novel containing the character of Horatio Hornblower was released in 1937. Entitled, "The Happy Return", it featured Hornblower as a captain a frigate, HMS Lydia. The plot surrounded Hornblower on a secret mission to provide guns to a landowner preparing to revolt against Spanish colonialists.

Later novels were to expand on Hornblower's earlier career, starting with being a midshipman, the last novel by C.S Forest being released in 1967, a year after his death.

Born in 1899, C.S Forester wrote a number of novels other than the Hornblower series, including "The African Queen" which was subsequently made into a film starting Humphrey Bogart and Katherine Hepburn.

The ship in the picture is that of the Grand Turk which was used in the television adaptation of the "Hornblower" novels, starring Ioan Gruffrudd as Horatio Hornblower.

Answer: True

Written by Terry Jones, Michael Palin and Fred Tomlinson, "The Lumberjack Song" starts with a man who is disillusioned with his current job, dreaming her could be a lumberjack in Canada. However as the song progresses, Palin lists a number of un-manly pastimes he would like to indulge in, including wearing women's clothing, much to the disgust of his girlfriend and a group of Canadian Mounties.

First featured in the TV series "Monty Python's Flying Circus" in 1969, the song has been performed many times in various live reunions, and was released in 1975 along with the "Spam Song".

Answer: Borneo

Found in the rain forests of Borneo - and Sumatra - the orangutan is Asia's only great ape. The name orangutan originates from the Malaysian word, "person / man of the forest". There are two species of orangutan, with the ones living on Borneo the biggest.

When adult, the males grow cheek pouches and a beard, being larger than females. They can also live to around 45 years. As arboreal apes, orangutan's spend most of their time in trees, mainly feeding on fruit. However, they are under threat from de-forestation, with around 40,000 orang-utans left in Borneo and less than 10,000 in Sumatra.

Answer: Sherwood Forest

A figure of popular folklore, Robin Hood has been the subject of numerous works of fiction and films, all of which depict him as a heroic outlaw, stealing from the Norman rules of England, and giving their money to the poor.

A subject of much debate, some believe the legend of Robin Hood was based upon a real person, and as such there are a number of candidates to whom Robin actually was, placed to have lived around the 13th century. On film and TV, Robin is often depicted as living around the time of King John's rule in the early 13th century.

Although it is claimed Robin lived in other areas, such as Yorkshire, he is most closely associated with Sherwood Forest in Nottinghamshire. At the time the legend of Robin Hood was said to have taken place, Sherwood Forest was a royal forest, covering a larger area, that includes a number of counties bordering Nottinghamshire.

Answer: Brazil

Encompassing around 7,000,000 sq km and nine South American countries, the bulk of the Amazon rainforest can be found in Brazil. Although only around 5,500,000 sq km of the Amazon rainforest now contains trees, it is still one of the largest, unexplored rainforests in the world, home to a number of species of plant and animal life.

The area was firs describe by Francisco de Orellana. who after fighting a number of battles against indigenous tribes found in some women fought alongside the men, named it Amazonas, after the legendary Amazon women described by Heroditus in ancient Greek mythology.

The Amazon rainforest though is under threat from exploitation, from land being clears for farming, logging and extraction of mineral wealth.

Answer: False

Although originating in the Black Forest area of Germany, the Black Forest Gateau (Cake) actually takes its name from the Schwarzwälder Kirsch(wasser) liquor distilled in that region.

Schwarzwälder Kirsch is a liquor made from distilled sour cherries which under German statutory interpretation must be added to the cake to be classed as Black Forest Gateau (Schwarzwälder Kirschtorte).

The cake itself, is made up from layers of chocolate cake and whipped cream. It is covered then in more whipped cream before decorated with black cherries.

Answer: Nottingham Forest

Born in 1935, Brian Clough was a well know football manager, known for his outspoken views on football.

Clough's career started as a football player for Middleborough, and then Sunderland, becoming a prolific goal scorer for both teams, however an injury forced Clough to retire at the age of 29. Clough first became a manager of Hartlepool United in 1965, alongside his long time assistant Peter Taylor. The pair then moved on to Derby County, leading them to the old English First Division title in 1971-72 football season. After a short stint at Brighton and Hove Albion football team, Clough joined Leeds United as manager. However conflict between Clough and a number of player led to Clough being sacked. This period of Clough's life was covered in the 2009 film, "The Damned Utd", starring Michael Sheen, based on a book of the same name.

In 1975, Clough joined Notting Forest as manager, leading the club to its most successful period during the 20th century, wining the Division One League Title (now known as the Premier League for top flight English clubs), back to back European Cups (now known as the Champions League), Four League Cups, and two Full Members Cups - which was a short lived competition for English clubs in the old First & Second Divisions of the Football League.

Founded in 1965, Nottingham Forest play at the City Ground in Nottingham, England. One of the stands at the County Ground is named in Brian Cloughs honour, whilst a statue to him was erected in Nottingham itself. In addition statues of Clough can be found outside Derby County football ground and in Middlesbrough.

Answer: 100

To build a warship like HMS Victory, would require felling 100 acres of woodland. However, it was not just simply a case of cutting down any tree, but often specific shaped trees were fell to make certain beams and keel parts.

The reason behind this was that it would be easier not only to shape a particular piece of timber that had been cut form a tree but also, it gave the piece more strength. Since until the advent of the first armoured warship, this meant large areas of woodland - mainly oak - had to be felled in order to build up a fleet of ships.

Vice Admiral Cuthbert Collinwood (whom fought alongside Lord Nelson in a number of battles) recognised this fact, and when on shore leave Collingwood would often plant acorns when out walking on his country estate in Northumberland. This is because Collingwood recognised the need for oak to build ships for the Royal Navy and knew that large numbers of trees needed to be felled to make a warship.