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Pub Quiz thread

Discussion in 'Watford' started by colognehornet, Jun 26, 2013.

  1. colognehornet

    colognehornet Well-Known Member

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    Close enough Theo - the scenes in the film show Port Vale's ground in the 1950's - strangely enough round about the time of Sir Stanley Matthews return to the club.
     
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  2. hornethologist a.k.a. theo

    hornethologist a.k.a. theo Well-Known Member

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    Cheers, Cologne...I'm actually starting to enjoy this quiz business. OK, my question...

    What links a leopard and a red horse?
     
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  3. Bolton's Boots

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    Coat patterns - as in the spotted pattern of an Appaloosa looks similar to the spotting on a leopard?
     
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  4. colognehornet

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    Are they linked in heraldry - maybe on the same flag/pennant ?
     
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  5. hornethologist a.k.a. theo

    hornethologist a.k.a. theo Well-Known Member

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    Cologne and BB...they're inventive and ought to be the right answers, but they're not what I had in mind...

    clue...our current owners...
     
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  6. Bolton's Boots

    Bolton's Boots Well-Known Member

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    They are both brands of lager? Leopard lager brewed by Lion Nathan in NZ, Red Horse lager brewed by San Miguel in the Philippines?
     
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  7. colognehornet

    colognehornet Well-Known Member

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    Are a red Horse and a Leopard the crests of Udinese and Granada ?
     
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  8. hornethologist a.k.a. theo

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    It's Italy rather than football that's the link...
     
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  9. colognehornet

    colognehornet Well-Known Member

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    The Red Horse was a novel from Eugenio Corti - so, is there a novel called the leopard, also written by an Italian ?. Go for it....2 novels written by Italians.
     
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    You have it, Cologne...perhaps the best known Italian novel of the 20th century by Guiseppe di Lampedusa. Set in Sicily, it wasn't published until after his death and I think is the only novel he ever had published.
     
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  11. colognehornet

    colognehornet Well-Known Member

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    Ok. Which country, apart from France or her colonies, protectorates, or countries occupied by France, has used 'Le Marseillaise' as it's national anthem ?
     
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  12. Bolton's Boots

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    None - the French national anthem is La Marseilles?

    Or, that aside,was it Russia?
     
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  13. colognehornet

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    Spot on BB ! Between the Menshevik and Bolshevik revolutions. Sorry, my school French was wasted !
     
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  14. Bolton's Boots

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    For a light-hearted moment -

    Why do the children in my family always fill the rubbish bins to overflowing and never think of replacing the bin liners instead?

    There must be an expert out there with an answer.... ;)
     
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    Because you do it. It is the innate principle of the division of labour.
     
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  16. colognehornet

    colognehornet Well-Known Member

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    Exactly - Union demarcation and all that !
     
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  17. zen guerrilla

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    You are not alone; and teenagers, dirty clothes and washing baskets seem like polar opposites - if you can have three poles!
     
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  18. Bolton's Boots

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    I'll go with that <laugh>

    Over to you if you're still awake...
     
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  19. colognehornet

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    I would set another one BB, it's 5 a.m. in NZ.
     
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  20. NZHorn

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    I've just woken. Give me a moment to think of a question that isn't easy to find on wiki.
     
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