Honduras Quiz part 6 -the answers!

Well done for keeping on coming back, and here are the answers you have been waiting for:

1. Belize
2. Bottle nose dolphins
3. depths
4. silver
5. 80%
6. Maya
7. 1821
8. 8,000,000
9. Orchid
10. 11

So how did you do?

When the team going to Honduras did it, some of us only got 2 and a few got up to 7, so we reckon it's quite difficult!

Honduras Trip - How can I pray?

Please start by...
Thanking God for his provision of money and team members, and for the way in which he has been working on the planning of this trip.

Pray for the team:
Lorna, Lois, Pippa, Ruth, Sarah, Ben and Beth, Duncan, Ellie, Charlotte, Carol, Alejandra, Rosalie, Sam, Dylan.

Please also pray for:

• Flights on 31st March/1st April and 11/12th April.
• For health and safety for all.
• For the events planned - children’s holiday club and women’s event especially.
• For energy for the whole trip.
• For our communication in Spanish.
• For family and friends in the UK.
• That we know God's love for ourselves as we seek to share it.

Thnak you for your prayers

Honduras Quiz part 5 - last questions

Last two questions, and the answers tomorrow

10. What is the national flower of Honduras?

• Peace Lily
• Orchid
• Amaryllis
• Bird of Paradise

9. In Britain we have 426 motor vehicles per 1000 people. How many are there per 1000 people in Honduras?

• 11
• 28
• 42
• 73

Hope you have been enjoying guessing or finding out the right answers (which you can still add as a tweet on twitter with #2013honduras), and we will reveal the answers tomorrow.

Honduras Quiz part 4 - How are you doing?

just a couple more! Last ones tomorrow

7. Once part of the Spanish Empire, when did Honduras become an independent nation?

• 1795
• 1821
• 1850
• 1878

8. What is the approximate population of Honduras?

• 5,000,000
• 8,000,000
• 11,500,000
• 19,000,000

Have fun guessing or finding out the right answers (which you can add as a tweet on twitter with #2013honduras, ), and we will reveal the answers (and last few quiz questions) by the end of this week.

Honduras Quiz part 3 - Can you tell what it is yet?

Ok, you might have noticed a pattern! Here are another two to tax your knowledge

5. Honduras has three distinct topological regions – two narrow coastal strips and an interior mountainous region. Approximately what percentage of the country's area is in the central mountains?

• 20%
• 40%
• 60%
• 80%

6. In Western Honduras, there is the archaeological site of Copan. Which pre-Spanish civilisation had its' capital city there between 500 and 900 AD?

• Maya
• Olmec
• Aztec
• Teotihuacan

Have fun guessing or finding out the right answers (which you can add as a comment or as a tweet on twitter with #2013honduras), and we will reveal the answers (and a few more quiz questions) later in the week.

Gift from St Peter's 9.30am service - A Thank you

Thank you to the members of the 9.30am morning service, which meets on the 1st sunday of each month at St Peter's church.

They have given at total of £126.26 before gift-aid, which will be given to The Manuelito Children's home when we go out to Honduras in a few days time.

Honduras Quiz part 2 - what do you think?

Here are some more questions, can you guess these?

3. On his 4^th voyage to the New World in 1502, Christopher Columbus reached the Bay Islands and landed on the cost of Honduras near the modern town of Trujillo. Honduras is supposedly named by him – what does it mean?

• Depths
• High mountains
• Green land
• Thanks to God

4. What valuable resource was a major factor in inducing the Spanish to form settlements in Honduras, where they subsequently ruled for around three centuries?

• Bananas
• Uranium
• Silver
• Lead

Have fun guessing or finding out the right answers (which you can add as a comment or as a tweet on twitter with #2013honduras), and we will reveal the answers (and some more quiz questions) later in the week.