Pub Quiz thread

Brocolli?

 

No - am looking for a root vegetable.

 

Globe artichoke?

 

Must be the Elephant Foot Yam!

 

No - don't think that's a root vegetable

No - it's a much more common one that that.

The name is derived from a Middle English word which, surprisingly, is almost the vegetable's name in Scots.

 

Turnip

 

That's the one - so named as 'turn', because it looks like it's been turned a lathe, and 'nepe', which is the Middle English word for the vegetable.

Over to you.

 

Here this vegetable is næpa.

 

Carrot?
- Bollox did not refresh the page!

 

Hence neeps and tatties on Burns Night?

 

Quick and easy one.... What place does Roger Hugo hold in Watford FC history?

 

First used substitute in a competitive first‐team match.

 

Yes, of course, over to you.

 

Thanks Vicky. This may have been posed before, but here goes:

Sunderland won it in 1979 and Villa won it in 1981. Who won it in 1980?

 

Trevor Brooking!

 

Bingo Dave, over to you

 

Cheers Bloother.

The two league teams in Sheffield are the "Blades" and the "Owls." Why would it have been more appropriate if their nick names were swapped?

 

Sheffield Wednesday were the Blades when they formed and were renamed as Owls later when they moved to Owlerton in the north of Sheffield. Sheffield United were also the Blades and were from Owlerton first. Does that have sense?

 

It's not what I'm looking for Ak, but you have provided an extra clue!

 

Need a clue?

It's to do with why they are called Sheffield Wednesday!