Quiz 1

Hilary Bradt: The female explorer who transformed travel

For the past 50 years, the co-founder of the world's largest independently owned guidebook publisher has been inspiring travellers to go off the beaten path.

In 1973, Hilary Bradt and her then-husband George was two young backpackers chasing a rumour they had heard near the border of Ecuador and Peru: that somewhere, deep in the Peruvian Andes, a hidden trail starting in the ancient Inca capital of Cusco led to Machu Picchu.

What’s wrong with this sentence?

• was instead of were

• rumor instead of rumour

• backpacker instead of backpakers

• nothing

After countless days getting lost and hacking their way through the thicket, the couple eventually trekked its entirety before hopping aboard a river barge in the Amazon to scribble a detailed account of the route. 

 

What’s wrong with this sentence?

• Countless is incorrectly spelled

• Trecked instead of trekked

• It is instead of its

• Nothing

These handwritten notes became the first-ever published description of travelling the full Inca Trail in English, and the start of Bradt Guides, the world's largest independently owned guidebook company, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2024. 

         

          What’s the verb 1 version of handwritten?

• Handwritte

• Handwrite

• Handwritty

• Handwrity

When George abruptly left the company (and the marriage) in 1980, Bradt could have returned home to England to continue her previous career as an occupational therapist.

          Abruptly has the closest meaning to the word ….?

• Purposefully

• Intentionally

• Suddenly

• Gradually

Instead, she ploughed ahead without him, publishing guides to destinations where no guidebook previously existed, like Uganda, Yugoslavia, North Korea, Eritrea and Madagascar.

          Select the correct synonym(s) for “instead”

• In that regard

• Although

• Conclusively

• Rather

Her work effectively introduced dozens of previously off-the-beaten-path destinations to the masses, and led Queen Elizabeth to honour her as a Member of the Order of the British Empire on 2008 for her commitment to tourism and charity. 

          What’s wrong with the sentence above?

• effective instead of effectively

• dozen is already plural, no need ‘s’

• on 2008 instead of in 2008.

• nothing

From hitchhiking across the Middle East for three months to getting arrested in Tanzania after being suspected of spying, Bradt recounts many of her adventures on the road in her forthcoming book, Taking the Risk.

 

          Opposite of Recount?

• Convey

• Create

• Confuse

• Credit

 

The octogenarian recently spoke to the BBC from her home in Devon about why she's always been drawn to underrepresented destinations, the long-term effect of helping to popularise "bucket-list" destinations and how travel has changed in the past half century – especially for women.

          Octogenarian means ?

• Someone who is 80 years old

• Someone who is 80 to 89 years old

• Someone who is 80 to 90 years old

• Someone who is almost 80 years old

I led trips to Peru for 15 years in total and I saw the difference that careless tourism makes. We've always talked about responsible tourism, and particularly how it's best to interact with local populations – you know, interact with them; don't just give them things. So many [Indigenous societies] are based on reciprocity and I think that's an important message. 

What's a synonym for careless?

9 letter word starting with "N"

Also, cheap airfares. When I first went to the States in 1964, I went by boat because you couldn't fly cheaply. And once I was there, I couldn't afford to go home. So, it's all so different. You wouldn't dream of taking a holiday in America or the Arctic or Antarctica in the '70s and '80s. They were quite beyond reach. The world has got smaller and the tourists have got fussier – which means we have to do better books because they can get their information elsewhere.

 

Fussy also means … ?

• Picky

• Carefree

• Buoyant

• Clumsy