Off Topic Baldrick's October 2025 Quiz

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

1) How many of Ruud Van Nistelrooy's 150 goals for Manchester United was from outside the box?
2) Which is the only team in the English Football League with a name in which you can’t colour in any of the letters?
3) Which team held the FA Cup for the longest period of time?
4) Who rode the 2000 Grand National winner Papillon?
5) Which Scandinavian country has never hosted a Summer or Winter Olympics?
6) What type of bird is a Flicker?
7) How many of the Beatles could read music?
8) In which industry is a machine called a 'nodding donkey' used?
9) Walter Raleigh was executed during the reign of which monarch?
10) What is a lugger?
11) What is the highest age of a 'quinquagenarian'?
12) In which country is the seaport of Chittagong?
13) Outlaw Harry Alonzo Longabaugh is better known as?
14) Talca is a city in which country?
15) 'No tears for the clown' was an autobiography of which comedian?
16) What were the names of the brothers who became known as 'the princes in the tower?'
17) Which USA state is called 'Tobacco Road'?
18) What nationality was the man after whom the Richter scale was named?
19) Which animal sleeps standing up and can’t vomit?
20) What is the best-selling car of all time?

 

I know no.2!

 

I guess you won't be alone

 

Either they are getting easier or I am getting brighter .
I think I know 9.

4 8 10 11 12 14 16 17 18

 

1) 5
2) Hull City
3) Royal Engineers
4) Sylvester McCoy
5) Denmark
6) Like a kind of pelican
7) 0
8) Oil industry, there's loads of them in the U.S.
9) Elizabeth 1st
10) Someone who lugs timber
11) 89
12) Bangladesh
13) Butch Cassidy or the Sundance Kid.
14) Croatia
15) Tony Hancock
16) Bill & Ted
17) Louisiana
18) German
19) Meerkats
20) Nissan Juke...I've got one and there's a boat load in Hull.

100% all guesses...except for 2 and 8..

 

2 Hull City
4 Ruby Walsh
5 Denmark
8 Oil extraction
10 Type of sailing boat
14 Chile
20 VW Beetle

 

1. None
2. Hull City
3. Portsmouth
4. Lester Piggott
5. Denmark
6. Chicken
7. 1
8. Mining
9. Elizabeth 1st
10. Gun
11. 59
12. Thailand
13. Ned Kelly
14. Argentina
15.
16.
17. Tennessee
18. German
19. Flamingo
20. Mini

 

I'm pretty sure they must be easier.

 

I actually mis read question 2 as I think we all know the answer to that one .
When I read it my eyes read nickname rather than name so I would like to change my score to 10.

 

I think Blackadder may be at fault for that answer!

 

1. 1
2. Hull city
3.Portsmouth
4.Ruby Walsh
5.Denmark
6. Woodpecker
7. None
8.Oil
9.
10. sailing boat
11.59
12.
13.
14.
15.Les Dawson
16.
17.
18.American
19.Horse
20.Toyota Corolla