Twenty Years quiz

Here's a quiz to peruse at your leisure.

The quiz consists of 20 questions; 5 about Pompey, 5 more about football, 5 about other sport and 5 general knowledge.

The answer is the year these things happened (additional info for clever-clogses is optional)

Because I'm such a kind and generous soul, I've listed the questions in chronological order!


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1 - The Open (golf) witnessed its youngest winner
Answer - 1868 - Singing Blue 3

2 - Pompey played an FA Cup 2nd Replay for the first time

3 - The highest number of goals scored in the Charity/Community Shield fixture
Answer - 1911 - Singing Blue 3 [12; Man Utd 8-4 Swindon]

4 - Cyprus is annexed by Great Britain
Answer - 1914 - MAJR

5 - Winston Churchill became Chancellor of the Exchequer
Answer - 1924 - MAJR

6 - Pompey recorded their highest League win
Answer - 1927 (9-1 v Notts Co) - Singing Blue 3

7 - The fewest finishers in the Grand National
Answer - 1928 - Singing Blue 3 (only 2 horses finished)

8 - The Football League Title is won by a London club for the first time
Answer - 1931 (Arsenal) - Singing Blue 3

9 - Birth of the oldest (still living) Doctor Who
Answer - 1934 (Tom Baker) - MAJR

10 - Roger Bannister ran the first sub-four minute mile
Answer - 1954 - Singing Blue 3

11 - BBC’s Match of the Day cameras were at Fratton Park for the first time
Answer - 1967 - Singing Blue 3

12 - The last time a team failed to be re-elected into the Football League
Answer - 1978 - Singing Blue 3 (Southport)

13 - Pompey experienced their lowest ever League finishing position
Answer - 1979 - Singing Blue 3

14 - The Tanner ceased to be legal tender
Answer - 1980 - Singing Blue 3 (it had a value of 2 1/2p until 30/6/80)

15 - Compulsory to wear a seat belt in the front seat of a car in the UK
Answer - 1983 - Singing Blue 3

16 - The last time a team won their one and only FA Cup Final
Answer - 1988 [Wimbledon] - Singing Blue 3

17 - Pompey involved in the Play-Offs for the only time to date
Answer - 1993 - Singing Blue 3

18 - The highest ever Cricket (team) Test Innings total
Answer - 1997 - Singing Blue 3

19 - The last time the League Cup final was contested by 2 sides who were both outside the Premier League in the 2011-12 season
Answer - 2000 (Leicester v Tranmere) - Singing Blue 3

20 - Italy most recently avoided the wooded spoon in the Six-Nations
Answer - 2012 - Singing Blue 3

 

50 views - I didn't realise they were so difficult

 

That's Tom Baker in 1934.

 

Devo, you don't suppose that the title is putting people off? Some of your quizzes have lasted for quite a duration , and who can forget the everlasting numbers thread? (Hopefully, everyone!).

Perhaps you should have entitled it, "twenty questions?"

 

Wasn't it you who said "number of hundreds and thousands on a FAB for one of the numbers?

 

Yes, I was that soldier.....

 

I believe Cyprus was annexed by the British Empire in 1914 when the Ottoman Empire declared war against us in the First World War.

Churchill became Chancellor of the Exchequer in 1924 in Stanley Baldwin's government.

 

Two more correct answers for MAJR.

meowth has the right side but the wrong year. I'm certain they could have reached 1,000+ but they declared on 952/6!

He also has the correct runner but not the year

 

Would No.20 be 2012, cos Scotland got it didn't they?

 

Q7 - was 1928

 

q10. I think was 1954

 

Q11. 1967 against Wolves

 

Q6. was 1927 against Notts County 9-1 at Fratty.

Q14. I think the last tanners were minted in 1971 so I will guess the same date.

 

Q17 was 1993 against bloody Leicester.

 

15.answer belt up in 1983

 

Q16. 1988 Wimbledon FC against of course Liverpool.

 

Five correct answers and one wrong answer for Singing Blue 3; question 14 being the odd one out.

 

Q19- the year was 2000 Leicester v Tranmere