Pub Quiz thread

A bit tricky this BB. Batman is an old English surname related to Bateman and coming originally from Saint Bartholomew (meaning a friend or servant of Bart). The first famous person called Batman (with that spelling) was Stephen Batman an English author of the 16th Century.

 

Well maybe my answer wasn't the first famous one - but I'd never heard of Stephen, so he can't be that famous.

The one I'm looking for wasn't English, but his parents were - and, indeed, they dropped the 'e' from their name to avoid a stigma. An enigmatic character, he was both famous and infamous in his country of birth - depending upon your point of view. Died from syphilis at the relatively young age of 38.

 

Four years before his death, whilst exploring for suitable land, he found an area to his liking and named it 'Batmania'.

 

Is it John Batman, founder of Melbourne, Australia?

 

It surely is - famous for being founder of Melbourne and infamous for his murderous treatment of Aboriginal people in Tasmania.

Over to you.

 

Thanks, BB.



Who sits on the right of the manager here in 1956?

 

I’m going to offer this to my Dad on Monday morning when I see him, he’s been going since the early forties. If he gets it before any of you guys, I’ll get a question from him.

 

As a guess, Ernie Bateman.

 

Good try, but no.

 

Is it Frank Mitchell?

 

You got it. Captain, I believe, and a firm favourite of my Dad’s. Over to you.

 

An Aussie to boot... I only remember him because he sadly died a month before our first FA Cup final appearance - just two days before I arrived from Australia for a six week holiday.

Will have to go and think about another question.

 

Where and when was this picture taken - and what surrounded the podium?

 

Isn't Frank Mitchell sitting on Len's left side and not his right? Just being awkward.

 

I’ll get Dad to confirm, but I believe Mitch is to the right as we see it.

 

A rather young royal couple.

 

Queen Elizabeth and Philips first state visit to Australia ?

 

That's the where, and roughly the when - but what surrounded the podium?

 

A present from the Australian Dried fruits association - like thousnads of kilos of raisins - what exactly they did with these I have no idea. About 5,000 kilos so i don't think the Royals ate them on the way home

 

That's it - a visit to the rural township of Red Cliffs in Victoria in 1954. For some reason, the locals thought it would be a good idea to gift them 5000k of locally produced sultanas and the boxes surrounded the podium. The boxes were shipped back to England where they were distributed to orphanages - due to rationing, many of the kids there had probably never seen a sultana.

Over to you.