Answers to the Woudrichem Scavenger Hunt.
Did you get 0–10 questions right?
Then you’re a Junior Detective!
You have a knack for detective work and know how to solve lots of riddles!
Did you get 10 to 20 questions right?
Then you’re a Top Detective!
You don’t get flustered easily and take the detective’s profession very seriously!
Did you get more than 20 questions right?
Then you’re a Special Detectives!
You’re a real sleuth who can solve all the riddles!
Here are the answers:
1. A monk is standing on top of the bear so that enemies couldn’t enter the city by climbing over it.
2. Hugo escaped from Slot Loevestein in a book chest.
3. The river between Woudrichem and Loevestein is the Afgedamde Maas.
4. The other two rivers are the Waal (behind the Maas) and the Merwede (from the point where the Maas and Waal converge).
5. The three provinces that border each other here are North Brabant (Woudrichem), South Holland (Gorinchem), and Gelderland (Loevestein).
6. The Oude Raedthuys was built in 1592.
7. Behind the little doors were prison cells (and the house above it served as a police station).
8. Answer a is correct. The first houses were built here around the year 866.
9. This alley is called the Alversteigersteegje.
10. Hoogstraat 4 was built in the year 1601.
11. Hoogstraat 6 and 8 were also built in 1601.
12. Hoogstraat 10 and 12 were built in 1593.
13. Hoogstraat 14 and 16 were built in 1606.
14. Hoogstraat 20 was built in the year 1600.
15. The bumps on the Gevangenpoort are stone cannonballs.
16. Jacoba of Bavaria lived from 1401 to 1436, which was in the 15th century.
17. The Leugenbank. This is where fishermen used to tell each other tall tales.
18. Nothing happened here in 1832.
19. You can see Dr. Tinus’s house.
20. The poem on the black barn is about sledding from the city ramparts to the church wall.
21. The Nooit Gedagt Mill has eight sides.
22. Sheep graze on the city ramparts.
23. A lot of salmon was caught and traded here.
24. The cannon was built in 1818. What year is it now? Subtract 1818 from that, and you’ll have the correct answer!
25. Jan Claesen was a trumpeter in Prince Maurits’s army.
26. The tower’s nickname is: the Mosterdpot.
27. Spieringstraat is named after a fish: the spiering.
28. Speech is silver, silence is golden.