Scalby Fair Week 2023: event reports and photos

We had a fabulous evening on Tuesday, 13 June for our annual Treasure Hunt; the weather was perfect for roaming around the village. We had 36 entrants and 33 handed-in sheets as one family took one away to complete at a later date.

(Click on any photo above to view as a slide show.)

We had a lot of high-scoring families with joint winners, so we had to decide with a tiebreaker: ‘Tell us your best joke!’. 

The winning team will receive a £20 Waterstones voucher, and we hope they will be in Scalby on Fair Day to receive their award.

We also had a lucky dip which the children enjoyed; it was a bag for £1 with a bendy pencil, a rubber, and some sweets.

Below is the entrants’ scores, and our question sheet (with the answers).  We have also shown below all the jokes we received.

Yvonne Gibbs
Scalby Fair Treasure Hunt Team

Photos by Mike Shingler

The Scores!

Result	Name	Score
1st	Team D	29
	The Warriors	29
	The Sizzlers	28
	Bob, Al & Pol	28
	The Hardy-Stevenson’s	28
	Team United	28
	The Unicorners	27
	Beth & Cammy Amos	27
	Team Rainbox Tractor	27
	Forbes Rabble	27
	Mingstocks	27
	Team Rocket	26
	Sursum Corda	26
	Team Jem	26
	The Tutti Fruities	26
	Lester & Son	26
	Eva’s Clan	25
	The Paw Prints	25
	Fast Chickens	24
	The Lazenby’s	24
	Kinder Warriors	24
	Katrice & Axel	24
	Team Allison	23
	The Hunters	23
	M & M	21
	The 2 Witches	20
	The Walkers	20
	Kenches Assemble	20
	Jake & Pops	17
	The Hectic Bunch	16
	Nurseries Crew	16
	The Whitakers	15
	Mallo	11

The Answers!

The Jokes!

Why is six afraid of seven?
Because seven, eight, nine

Two goldfish are in a tank one says to the other, how do you drive this thing?

Knock knock
Who’s there?
Europe
Europe who?
Know you’re a poo!

Knock knock
Who’s there?
Lettuce
Lettuce who?
Let us in I’m busting

What’s the difference between a snowman and a snow woman?
Snowballs

A horse walks into a bar. The barman asks why the long face?

Why can’t eggs talk?
They crack each other up.

What type of bees make milk?
Boobies

What do you call a dinosaur fart?
A blast from the past.

What happens when Claire from Steps’ car breaks down?
Faye Tozer

What sort of sandals do frogs wear?
Open toad

Why don’t pirates do the dishes before they walk the plank?
Because they washed up on shore

A man put a map of the world on the kitchen wall and told his wife to throw a dart at it, and they would go on holiday where it landed. They are currently spending two weeks behind the fridge.

Why can’t Elsa have a balloon?
Because she will ‘let it go’

What do you call a cross between a centipede and a parrot?
A walkie-talkie.

What’s brown and sticky?
A stick

What did the fish say when he swam into a wall?
Dam.

Why did the toilet paper roll down the hill?
To get to the bottom!

What do you call a unicorn with no horn?
Pointless

What’s a rabbit’s favourite music?
Hip-hop

A little boy gets lost at Scalby Fair. The boy finds a police officer and tells him he’s lost his mummy. “What’s mummy like?” asks the police officer. “The Plough and the Nag’s Head” replies the boy.

If I had 50p for every maths test I’d failed, I would have £4.25 by now.

Why are Scalby festival goers such good dancers?
Because they all go to the RumBar (15th June)

Why do we tell actors to break a leg?
Because every play has a cast

What does a police officer say to his tummy?
You’re under a vest

What’s the difference between Scalby and Burniston?
A treasure hunt.