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  1. bradymk2

    bradymk2 Well-Known Member

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    I have a picturr of jim clark in his lotus
    So i know 16 for an absolute definite

    Legendary driver
     
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  2. Ernie Shackleton

    Ernie Shackleton Well-Known Member

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    If you’re ever pootling about the Scottish Borders, pay a visit to the Jim Clark museum in Duns. They’ve got a Lotus 38, as well as his Jaguar D-Type and his Mk1 Lotus Cortina. All iconic cars - the Jag especially seeing as it was designed and built in the 1950s is stupendous.

    Also masses of his trophies, a great display about his life and plenty of audio visual material to keep a fan happy for hours.

    The greatest ever racing driver. My opinion but also the opinion of luminaries such as Juan Fangio and Ayrton Senna.
     
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  3. TwoWrights

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    4 & 8?! :emoticon-0138-think


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  4. Baldrick's Cunning Plan

    Baldrick's Cunning Plan Well-Known Member

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    Answers below...

    November Quiz 2024

    1) In what year and where was the red and yellow card system introduced to manage football on-field discipline?
    2) Which club did Kevin Keegan leave to go to Newcastle?
    3) Why did Max Yasgur's US dairy farm become world famous in 1969?
    4) Who were the original 'Tories'?
    5) When were driving tests introduced in Britain?
    6) Which bone do jockeys break most often?
    7) Bill Clinton served as governor of which US state from 1979 to 1981?
    8) What makes an opera a grand opera?
    9) By trade, what was Shakespear's father?
    10) What colour blood has a lobster?
    11) Mick Jagger first appeared on TV doing what?
    12) After which creatures were the Canary Islands named?
    13) Who wrote the song "Belfast Child" in 1989
    14) Approximately how long is the lifespan of a robin?
    15) Who was the Roman god of sleep?
    16) On which race track was Jim Clark killed in 1967?
    17) What is the cube root of 729?
    18) Who was the first coloured performer to appear in the Black and White Minstrel show?
    19) What was the first film to feature the sound and visual depiction of a toilet flushing
    20) Which football manager remarked, 'I have just opened the trophy cabinet. Two Japanese prisoners of war came out.'
     
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  5. Baldrick's Cunning Plan

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    1) It was introduced during the 1970 World Cup in Mexico
    2) Southampton
    3) It became famous as the venue for The Woodstock Music Festival
    4) Irish bandits
    5) In 1933
    6) The collar-bone, or clavicle
    7) Arkansas
    8) Nothing is spoken - everything is sung
    9) A butcher
    10) Blue
    11) Demonstrating rock-climbing, as a schoolboy
    12) Dogs
    13) Jim Kerr Kerr wrote the song after watching news reports of the 1989 Remembrance Day bombing in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, which killed 11 people
    14) Just over one year - it is about the shortest-lived British bird
    15) Somnus
    16) Hockenheim
    17) 9
    18 Lenny Henry
    19) Psycho. The toilet was shown when Marion Crane flushed the scrap of paper evidence down the drain
    20) Tommy Docherty when manager at Wolves
     
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    4. better than usual.
     
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  7. Baldrick's Cunning Plan

    Baldrick's Cunning Plan Well-Known Member

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    It wasn't easy. Low scores are expected.
     
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  8. Plum

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    I got 4.
    3, 6, 10 and 17
    <doh>
     
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  9. Oregon Tiger

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    I thought he was a glover, rather than a butcher?
     
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  10. Plum

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    Steward's enquiry! I think you're right. I went to Shakespeare's house recently, there is a room dedicated to leather processing.
     
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  11. bradymk2

    bradymk2 Well-Known Member

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    Yea heard about that
    Meant to be pretty amazing

    The lotus 49 is just absolute peak british engineering and one of the best cars ever made in my opinion

    please log in to view this image
     
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  12. TwoWrights

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    Tanned again, Baldrick? :emoticon-0138-think


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  13. Baldrick's Cunning Plan

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    He did a bit of moonlighting on the side.
     
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    indeed. i think i got four in this week's brain of britain prog from radio 4 too (or an old one from r4x). i ended up with the greek god related to sleep and dreams. i remembered there was a phrase for going to sleep along the lines of "into the arms of morpheus". it took me a while to remember the name, but i did in the end.
     
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  16. Brucebones

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    Driving test says 1935 on google?

    Only reason I knew that was my Dad once told me he didn’t have to take one, but could drive anything, but only had to take one when he changed his driving license to be able to ride motorbikes only, for some bizzare reason.
    For some reason the year stuck in my mind, because he’d been driving everything for years until then.
     
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    can i have half a point for my 1936 guess?
     
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  18. Baldrick's Cunning Plan

    Baldrick's Cunning Plan Well-Known Member

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    You just can't trust these £1 quiz books they sell in charity shops.
     
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    Spendthrift. :emoticon-0138-think


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  20. Baldrick's Cunning Plan

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    Go on then, near enough
     
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