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Re: out of season quizzes, conundrums, & did-you-knows!
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2014 11:44 am
by Prufrock
Macron
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Re: out of season quizzes, conundrums, & did-you-knows!
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2014 12:34 pm
by Bruce Rioja
Lost Leopard Spot wrote:Follow the trail - a series of questions on football. The answer to each question is the subject for the following question:
1 which is the oldest club in the world still playing association football?
Sheffield
2 who are their neighbours founded in 1889?
Sheff Utd
3 who was their present football manager's deceased dad?
Brian Clough
4 what was his fifth and final club as manager?
Nottingham Forest
5 what was their record number of consecutive unbeaten league games?
Haven't a fecking clue! 
6 who is the man who has that squad number and was man of the match in a Premiership Derby in 2013?
7 who is his present club manager?
8 what was the club he was managing in 2003?
9 who was their leading goalscorer for the 1947 season?
10 what was the first international side he played for?
11 who was their strip manufacturer in the year 2000?
12 what is the new name of that stadium?
Re: out of season quizzes, conundrums, & did-you-knows!
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2014 1:57 pm
by Burnden Paddock
Bruce Rioja wrote:Lost Leopard Spot wrote:Follow the trail - a series of questions on football. The answer to each question is the subject for the following question:
1 which is the oldest club in the world still playing association football?
Sheffield
2 who are their neighbours founded in 1889?
Sheff Utd
3 who was their present football manager's deceased dad?
Brian Clough
4 what was his fifth and final club as manager?
Nottingham Forest
5 what was their record number of consecutive unbeaten league games?
Haven't a fecking clue!
6 who is the man who has that squad number and was man of the match in a Premiership Derby in 2013?
7 who is his present club manager?
8 what was the club he was managing in 2003?
9 who was their leading goalscorer for the 1947 season?
10 what was the first international side he played for?
11 who was their strip manufacturer in the year 2000?
12 what is the new name of that stadium?
Number 5 - 42 games
Re: out of season quizzes, conundrums, & did-you-knows!
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2014 2:04 pm
by Lost Leopard Spot
Prufrock wrote:Macron
!
Is the correct answer
- but I'm only awarding half points for not showing your reasoning
Re: out of season quizzes, conundrums, & did-you-knows!
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2014 2:06 pm
by Lost Leopard Spot
Burnden Paddock wrote:Bruce Rioja wrote:Lost Leopard Spot wrote:Follow the trail - a series of questions on football. The answer to each question is the subject for the following question:
1 which is the oldest club in the world still playing association football?
Sheffield
2 who are their neighbours founded in 1889?
Sheff Utd
3 who was their present football manager's deceased dad?
Brian Clough
4 what was his fifth and final club as manager?
Nottingham Forest
5 what was their record number of consecutive unbeaten league games?
Haven't a fecking clue!
6 who is the man who has that squad number and was man of the match in a Premiership Derby in 2013?
7 who is his present club manager?
8 what was the club he was managing in 2003?
9 who was their leading goalscorer for the 1947 season?
10 what was the first international side he played for?
11 who was their strip manufacturer in the year 2000?
12 what is the new name of that stadium?
Number 5 - 42 games
Yup, immaculate reasoning up to here... (by both Bruce and Padduck)
Re: out of season quizzes, conundrums, & did-you-knows!
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2014 2:36 pm
by LeverEnd
Lost Leopard Spot wrote:
6 who is the man who has that squad number and was man of the match in a Premiership Derby in 2013?
YAYA TOURE
7 who is his present club manager?
MANUEL PELLEGRINI
8 what was the club he was managing in 2003?
RIVER PLATE
9 who was their leading goalscorer for the 1947 season?
ALFREDO DI STEFANO
10 what was the first international side he played for?
ARGENTINA
11 who was their strip manufacturer in the year 2000?
REEBOK
12 what is the new name of that stadium?
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MACRON
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Re: out of season quizzes, conundrums, & did-you-knows!
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2014 2:54 pm
by Lost Leopard Spot
And Lever End cleans up... I award him full points
(I know, life's not fair).
Re: out of season quizzes, conundrums, & did-you-knows!
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2014 3:09 pm
by LeverEnd
Haha! Free lesson at the end of my last day at this school, books marked, class tidied. Thanks for keeping me occupied. Time to consider the next phase of my catastrophic employment record.
Re: out of season quizzes, conundrums, & did-you-knows!
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2014 3:20 pm
by Prufrock
Pfft, I didn't need the rest of the questions.
Where answer eleven is a sports brand that do football kits, and question 12 is what is the new name of that stadium, and we're on a BWFC forum, I was pretty confident! I should get double marks for using my brain and not wasting my time on superfluous questions
Re: out of season quizzes, conundrums, & did-you-knows!
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2014 3:59 pm
by Montreal Wanderer
Lost Leopard Spot wrote:Gary the Enfield wrote:Lost Leopard Spot wrote:CrazyHorse wrote:Lost Leopard Spot wrote:So, what's the answer to this: the only footballer on the pitch who during play is allowed, but is the only one who usually cannot.
(you can tell I'm bored).
Is the answer a goalkeeper rolling his sleeves up?
You are sooooooooo close. I'm gonna reveal the answer... Which is : goalie; allowed to touch the ball with his bare hands when the ball is in play, but doesn't because he wears gloves.
What about throw ins?
And shouldn't the question have been 'Who is the only footballer on the pitch who, during play, is allowed to do something, but is the only one who usually cannot?'
Technically, I believe that the ball is not in play during a throw in until after the ball is launched and has left the players hands.
And isn't that pretty much the question which what I asked?
To be fair I think Gary's question was a trifle clearer....
Re: out of season quizzes, conundrums, & did-you-knows!
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2014 5:02 pm
by Lost Leopard Spot
^ But Gary didn't have to formulate it from scratch!
Re: out of season quizzes, conundrums, & did-you-knows!
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2014 5:03 pm
by Lost Leopard Spot
LeverEnd wrote:Haha! Free lesson at the end of my last day at this school, books marked, class tidied. Thanks for keeping me occupied. Time to consider the next phase of my catastrophic employment record.
De nada. Hope you get on in the real world!
Re: out of season quizzes, conundrums, & did-you-knows!
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2014 5:05 pm
by Lost Leopard Spot
Prufrock wrote:Pfft, I didn't need the rest of the questions.
Where answer eleven is a sports brand that do football kits, and question 12 is what is the new name of that stadium, and we're on a BWFC forum, I was pretty confident! I should get double marks for using my brain and not wasting my time on superfluous questions
I know, I knew there'd be one cleverdick...
As my mum says, "nobody likes a smartarse, but everyone wishes they were one".
Re: out of season quizzes, conundrums, & did-you-knows!
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2014 5:15 pm
by Prufrock
Well I bet I'm the only one who got the answer without Google
Of course, if there was someone who knew that it was United not Weds formed in 1889; that Forest went 42 games unbeaten; that Manuel Pellegrini was manager of River Plate in 2003; that Di Stefano was their top scorer in 1947 AND that Reebok did the Argentina kit in 2000, and you'd need all of them, well, fair play
. One or two and the odd guess perhaps, but erm, I'm not convinced!
Re: out of season quizzes, conundrums, & did-you-knows!
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2014 5:31 pm
by Lost Leopard Spot
Prufrock wrote:Well I bet I'm the only one who got the answer without Google
Of course, if there was someone who knew that it was United not Weds formed in 1889; that Forest went 42 games unbeaten; that Manuel Pellegrini was manager of River Plate in 2003; that Di Stefano was their top scorer in 1947 AND that Reebok did the Argentina kit in 2000, and you'd need all of them, well, fair play
. One or two and the odd guess perhaps, but erm, I'm not convinced!
Neither am I. In fact I needed tinternet to compile it... But you still had to use your noodle to unravel the obscure ones, Yaya Toure being difficult to find even with digital search facilities.
And anyway, it was intended to entertain, both for compiler me and for solvers like LeverEnd, plus lateral thinkers like yourself, so result all round.
Edit; and I know Sheff U foundation date - it's prominent on their badge and I live near a lit of their supporters, and I know Di Stefano was River Plate's top scorer in 47 coz it was in his recent obituary, and if you listened to the half time talk on the beeb somebody mentioned the Reebok kit that Argentina wore in 2000
Re: out of season quizzes, conundrums, & did-you-knows!
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2014 5:38 pm
by Prufrock
True enough, I enjoyed it
Yaya Toure might have been a tough one to compile, but not to answer. Don't know many players with the squad number 42!
Re: out of season quizzes, conundrums, & did-you-knows!
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2014 5:45 pm
by Lost Leopard Spot
Prufrock wrote:True enough, I enjoyed it
Yaya Toure might have been a tough one to compile, but not to answer. Don't know many players with the squad number 42!
Indeedy... I didn't know he wanted 24 but it had been 'retired' until I compiled it - I do now though. Trouble is, how long will I remember that fact?
Re: out of season quizzes, conundrums, & did-you-knows!
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2014 6:48 pm
by Burnden Paddock
Prufrock wrote:Well I bet I'm the only one who got the answer without Google
Of course, if there was someone who knew that it was United not Weds formed in 1889;
that Forest went 42 games unbeaten; that Manuel Pellegrini was manager of River Plate in 2003; that Di Stefano was their top scorer in 1947 AND that Reebok did the Argentina kit in 2000, and you'd need all of them, well, fair play
. One or two and the odd guess perhaps, but erm, I'm not convinced!
Some of us have a memory. No google involved!
Guessing Macron as the last answer, i'm going to go out on a limb and label you a chancer of the highest order! You're no better than DF!
Re: out of season quizzes, conundrums, & did-you-knows!
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2014 8:41 pm
by Bruce Rioja
Prufrock wrote:Well I bet I'm the only one who got the answer without Google
No, we all did. Simply by looking at the last question. We just decided to play along. Stop flattering yourself.
Re: out of season quizzes, conundrums, & did-you-knows!
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2014 9:58 pm
by Prufrock
Pfft. Well I was definitely the first to get it AND post it, and you can't take that away from me. Well, not without dodgy editing. So that has to count for something.