Off Topic Baldrick's March 2025 Quiz

Answers next week, no cheating. If you Google the answers don't post.

1) Who is the only player to have played for eight different English Premier League clubs
2) Which country has appeared in three World Cup finals, but never won the competition?
3) Which athlete has won the most Olympic medals?
4) Haka and AC Oulu are football teams that play in which country?
5) What is the smallest number of finishers ever in the Aintree Grand National?
6) Among the 268 who died at the battle of the Little Big Horn in 1876, how many were called Custer?
7) What was Robinson Crusoe's first clue that his island was inhabited?
8) Where do mosquitoes lay their eggs?
9) Name all three Bronte sisters
10) Longacre Square in Midtown Manhattan USA changed its name in 1904 to what?
11) The world's least densely populated country is?
12) Who was the first car manufacturer to fit three-point seat belts as standard equipment in its cars?
13) What is a group of owls called?
14) Which is the only organ in the human body that can regrow to a normal size typically within a few weeks?
15) What was the first satellite to enter space called?
16) Which country has the largest number of pyramids?
17) What gives flamingos their pink color?
18) What company was originally called "Cadabra"?
19) What colour ribbon does the Victoria Cross have?
20) “Pride (In the Name of Love)” by Irish rock band U2, was written in tribute to who?

 

1) No idea. Looked it up. It was a surprise.
2) Holland...v. West Germany 1974, Argentina 1978, Spain 2010.
3) Carl Lewis
4) New Zealand
5) 6
6) 1
7) Footsteps in the sand
8) On their legs
9) Charlotte, Emily and Sharon
10) Grammercy Park or Madison Park
11) M0ngolia
12) Ford
13) School
14) Seen this...Can't remember.
15) Sputnik
16) Mexico
17) Eating something which turns them pink
18) Tesla
19) Red
20) Martin Luther King Junior

All guesses....Confident on a couple.

 

1) Martin bent
2) Netherlands
3) mark Phelps
4) new Zealand
5)
6)
7)
8) in water
9)
10) time Square
11) *****lia
12)
13)
14) blood
15)
16) Mexico
17) prawns/shrimp
18)
19)
20)

 

4 and one of those is a guess, so may be wrong.

Hard this week.

 

1. James Milner
2. Netherlands
3.American sprinter fella
4. New Zealand (or have I fallen for the haka)
5. 3
6. 1
7. Footsteps in the sand
8.
9. forgotten the third one
10. Times Square
11. *****lia
12. Mercedes
13. Parliament
14.
15. Sputnik
16. Egypt
17. Eat shrimps
18.
19. Maroon, dark red.
20. Martin Luther King

Most, not all, but most are guesses.

 

7 I think

9 - Charlotte, Emily, Anne
11 - a bit topical - Greenland I think?
12 - famously invented by Volvo and made a free patent so that everyone else could use them too, but less sure who fitted them as standard first
13 - Parliament
17 - actually algae more than shrimp, but given that the shrimp also eat the algae it might be a moot point

Then 15 & 20

 

Is Greenland a country? Always thought it was part of Denmark, like a protectorate, though the Yanks reckon its theres.

 

Yeah, I wasn’t entirely sure either tbh. I could have a look now I guess, but it’s not really in the spirit of not googling it is it?

 

Exactly, agreed Googling the answers to any quiz is cheating. It could be Greenland, or Finland, even Russia or a place in North Africa. I guess there will be variations. I've gone M0ngolia for a guess.

 

2 holland
3 s-s-s-s-steve redgrave's mate
4 tahiti
7 mcdonalds wrappers littering the place
9 emily charlotte chardonnay
10 madison square garden
11 mon go lia (which the bloody software half asterisked out on the grounds that outer *****lia contains a swear word)
13 parliament
16 china
17 embarrassment
18 google

 

1. James Milner
2. Holland/Netherlands
3. Micheal Phelps
4. Finland
5. 3
6. 1
7. Footprints
8. In other creatures
9. Emily, Charlotte & Anne
10. Madison Square Gardens
11. Australia
12. Ford
13. A Hoot
14. Liver
15. Sputnik
16. Peru
17. Food they eat
18. Apple
19. Yellow
20. Martin Luther King

 

[QUOTE="The B&S Fanclub, post: 18260844, member: 1002073"

]1) No idea. Looked it up. It was a surprise.
2) Holland...v. West Germany 1974, Argentina 1978, Spain 2010.
3) Carl Lewis
4) New Zealand
5) 6
6) 1
7) Footsteps in the sand
8) On their legs
9) Charlotte, Emily and Sharon
10) Grammercy Park or Madison Park
11) M0ngolia
12) Ford
13) School
14) Seen this...Can't remember.
15) Sputnik
16) Mexico
17) Eating something which turns them pink
18) Tesla
19) Red
20) Martin Luther King Junior

All guesses....Confident on a couple.[/QUOTE]

Not bad but not up to your normal high standard.

Q9.Sharon? Next you'll be telling me the brother was called Dougie.

 

A decent effort

 

1) Marcus Bent
2) Netherlands
3) Michael Phelps
4) South Africa
5) 3
6) 0
7) Footprints in the sand
8) On water
9) Charlotte, Emily, Jane
10) Times square
11) *****lia
12) Saab
13) Parliament
14) Skin
15) Sputnik
16) Mexico
17) Algae
18) Tesla
19) Purple
20) DK

 

i once visited *****lia.

 

Interesting but it's the wrong answer.

 

Surprised by that, that's one I was pretty certain of - if the answer is therefore Greenland that's not correct as Greenland is a Danish territory, not an independent country.

 

Although I take your point, complain to Mr Google.

Search - 'the least densely populated country in the world'

With a population of 0.14 people per square kilometer in 2021, Greenland was the least densely populated country in the world. The country had 56,421 inhabitants in 2021.

Countries With the Lowest Population Density

1. Greenland. Greenland has a population density of 0.14 people per square kilometre (0.36 people per square mile) and is the least densely populated country in the world.
2. The Falkland Islands
3. Western Sahara.
4. *****lia.
5. Namibia

 

That's some bomb the Don has dropped.



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