Answer the following questions and complete the tie-breaker caption competition at the bottom.

1. Everyone knows that Tony Robinson played Baldrick in Blackadder, but what is a 'baldric'?

A balding actor
A Viking sword strap
A medieval tax

2. At the Birdoswald Roman fort, on Hadrian's Wall, Phil Harding confidently identified one find as part of a Roman roof tile. What did it turn out to be?

Part of a modern field drain
A lump of natural clay
Part of a film container

3. The saying to 'cadge a lift' comes from the word 'cadge'. What is a cadge?

An ale cart
A hoist for lifting armour
A frame for carrying falcons

4. Which Time Team expert, more usually called upon for his knowledge of an earlier era, is also an aviation archaeology expert?

Phil Harding
Francis Pryor
Guy de la Bédoyère

5. Time Team helped to excavate an Islamic cemetery in Spain during the 2000 series. What does Islamic practice require that a grave should be no wider than?

The one next to it
Two feet outstretched
A [hand] span and four fingers

6. What, in archaeology, is a 'sondage'?

A small exploratory trench
A small exploratory device
A small exploratory person

7. Time Team has carried out three excavations of crashed war planes, two of them in Britain and one in France. Whose permission is required to excavate military remains in the UK?

English Heritage
The local council
The Ministry of Defence

8. Who was Time Team's 'secret' visitor to its Sedgefield dig during the 2003 series?

Madonna
Tony Blair
Prince Charles

9. What was Tony Robinson's advice to the archaeologists when parch marks on the grass seemed to dispense with the need for geophysics surveys during a dig at Greenwich?

'Just dig on the dry bits'
'Put a sprinkler on and we'll come back tomorrow'
'Why dig it up when you can see it all from here?'

10. What was Time Team looking for when it went to Hartlepool?

Evidence of one of England's oldest football clubs
A monastery founded by St Aidan
A Roman villa

11. Where was the biggest hole ever dug by Time Team?

Hartlepool
Blaenafon
Turkdean

12. What did Time Team 'give back' to the water at Flag Fen?

A bronze cast sword
The bones of a Bronze-Age inhabitant
Some badly brewed wine

13. What 'age' do archaeologists identify in the Mediterranean but not in Britain?

Old age
Golden Age
Copper Age

14. Which people were Time Team looking for evidence of on Mallorca in the 1998 series?

Indigenous Spaniards
British tourists
The Beaker folk

15. Where did Time Team digger Jim Mower spend the night at Appleby, Cumbria, during the 2003 series?

A police cell
A Roman legionary barracks
The pub

16. Time Team visited Castle Howard, in Yorkshire, to look for traces of the village of Henderskelf, which was demolished in the early 1700s. Why was it demolished?

It was no longer occupied
Castle Howard was built on the site
It spoilt the view from Castle Howard

17. What did Tony Robinson have to take before he could make the programme at Kinlochbervie, Scotland, for the 2002 series?

A course of antibiotics
A diving refresher course
A TV production course

18. Where was the Time Team pilot programme filmed in 1992?

Dorchester
Ribchester
Bristol

19. What was distinctive about the lettering 'THOMAS' stamped on a tile found in the church at Bawsey St James, Norfolk, in the 1999 series?

It was written backwards
It was written upside down
It was written in French

20. To the nearest thousand, how many people are employed in archaeology in the UK?

1,000
5,000
50,000

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