Off Topic Baldrick's November Quiz

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I have a picturr of jim clark in his lotus
So i know 16 for an absolute definite

Legendary driver

If you’re ever pootling about the Scottish Borders, pay a visit to the Jim Clark museum in Duns. They’ve got a Lotus 38, as well as his Jaguar D-Type and his Mk1 Lotus Cortina. All iconic cars - the Jag especially seeing as it was designed and built in the 1950s is stupendous.

Also masses of his trophies, a great display about his life and plenty of audio visual material to keep a fan happy for hours.

The greatest ever racing driver. My opinion but also the opinion of luminaries such as Juan Fangio and Ayrton Senna.
 
Baldrick's Cunning Plan, post: 17966524, member: 1017534"]Answers next week. No cheating....

1) In what year and where was the red and yellow card system introduced to manage football on-field discipline? 1920
2) Which club did Kevin Keegan leave to go to Newcastle? Hamburg
3) Why did Max Yasgur's US dairy farm become world famous in 1969? The First to use milking machines
4) Who were the original 'Tories'?
5) When were driving tests introduced in Britain? 1935
6) Which bone do jockeys break most often? Collarbone
7) Bill Clinton served as governor of which US state from 1979 to 1981? Arkansas
8) What makes an opera a grand opera? Male Tenner
9) By trade, what was Shakespear's father? Carpenter
10) What colour blood has a lobster? Blue
11) Mick Jagger first appeared on TV doing what? Hosting TOTP
12) After which creatures were the Canary Islands named? LIZARD
13) Who wrote the song "Belfast Child" in 1989 Jim Kerr
14) Approximately how long is the lifespan of a robin? 10 years
15) Who was the Roman god of sleep? Zeus
16) On which race track was Jim Clark killed in 1967? Brands Hatch
17) What is the cube root of 729? 27
18) Who was the first coloured performer to appear in the Black and White Minstrel show? Ray Charles
19) What was the first film to feature the sound and visual depiction of a toilet flushing The Tramp
20) Which football manager remarked, 'I have just opened the trophy cabinet. Two Japanese prisoners of war came out? Neil Warnock
4 & 8?! :emoticon-0138-think


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November Quiz 2024

1) In what year and where was the red and yellow card system introduced to manage football on-field discipline?
2) Which club did Kevin Keegan leave to go to Newcastle?
3) Why did Max Yasgur's US dairy farm become world famous in 1969?
4) Who were the original 'Tories'?
5) When were driving tests introduced in Britain?
6) Which bone do jockeys break most often?
7) Bill Clinton served as governor of which US state from 1979 to 1981?
8) What makes an opera a grand opera?
9) By trade, what was Shakespear's father?
10) What colour blood has a lobster?
11) Mick Jagger first appeared on TV doing what?
12) After which creatures were the Canary Islands named?
13) Who wrote the song "Belfast Child" in 1989
14) Approximately how long is the lifespan of a robin?
15) Who was the Roman god of sleep?
16) On which race track was Jim Clark killed in 1967?
17) What is the cube root of 729?
18) Who was the first coloured performer to appear in the Black and White Minstrel show?
19) What was the first film to feature the sound and visual depiction of a toilet flushing
20) Which football manager remarked, 'I have just opened the trophy cabinet. Two Japanese prisoners of war came out.'
 
Answers...

1) It was introduced during the 1970 World Cup in Mexico
2) Southampton
3) It became famous as the venue for The Woodstock Music Festival
4) Irish bandits
5) In 1933
6) The collar-bone, or clavicle
7) Arkansas
8) Nothing is spoken - everything is sung
9) A butcher
10) Blue
11) Demonstrating rock-climbing, as a schoolboy
12) Dogs
13) Jim Kerr Kerr wrote the song after watching news reports of the 1989 Remembrance Day bombing in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, which killed 11 people
14) Just over one year - it is about the shortest-lived British bird
15) Somnus
16) Hockenheim
17) 9
18 Lenny Henry
19) Psycho. The toilet was shown when Marion Crane flushed the scrap of paper evidence down the drain
20) Tommy Docherty when manager at Wolves
 
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If you’re ever pootling about the Scottish Borders, pay a visit to the Jim Clark museum in Duns. They’ve got a Lotus 38, as well as his Jaguar D-Type and his Mk1 Lotus Cortina. All iconic cars - the Jag especially seeing as it was designed and built in the 1950s is stupendous.

Also masses of his trophies, a great display about his life and plenty of audio visual material to keep a fan happy for hours.

The greatest ever racing driver. My opinion but also the opinion of luminaries such as Juan Fangio and Ayrton Senna.

Yea heard about that
Meant to be pretty amazing

The lotus 49 is just absolute peak british engineering and one of the best cars ever made in my opinion

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It wasn't easy. Low scores are expected.

indeed. i think i got four in this week's brain of britain prog from radio 4 too (or an old one from r4x). i ended up with the greek god related to sleep and dreams. i remembered there was a phrase for going to sleep along the lines of "into the arms of morpheus". it took me a while to remember the name, but i did in the end.
 
Driving test says 1935 on google?

Only reason I knew that was my Dad once told me he didn’t have to take one, but could drive anything, but only had to take one when he changed his driving license to be able to ride motorbikes only, for some bizzare reason.
For some reason the year stuck in my mind, because he’d been driving everything for years until then.
 
Driving test says 1935 on google?

Only reason I knew that was my Dad once told me he didn’t have to take one, but could drive anything, but only had to take one when he changed his driving license to be able to ride motorbikes only, for some bizzare reason.
For some reason the year stuck in my mind, because he’d been driving everything for years until then.

You just can't trust these £1 quiz books they sell in charity shops.