Off Topic Baldrick's October 2025 Quiz

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Baldrick's Cunning Plan

Baldrick's Cunning Plan

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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?
 
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..
 
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2 Hull City
4 Ruby Walsh
5 Denmark
8 Oil extraction
10 Type of sailing boat
14 Chile
20 VW Beetle
 
Baldrick's Cunning Plan said:
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?
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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
 
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
 
1. one
2. hull city
5. faroes (guess)
7. none
8. oil
9. elizabeth 1
10. a boat (guess)
11. 59
14. mexico (guess)
17. tennessee (guess)
18. german
19. giraffe
20. vw beetle
 
1) 0
2) Hull City AFC
3)
4)
5) Denmark
6) A Bean Flicker is a type of Dyke
7)
8) Oil Industry (Upstream if you want to be precise)
9) James the 1st
10) Sailing Boat
11)
12)
13) Sundance Kid
14)
15)
16)
17)
18) American
19) Giraffe
20) If this was a Swedish quiz it's be this
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Baldrick's October 2025 Quiz

Answers below...

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?
 
Answers...

1) Only one of Ruud Van Nistelrooy's 150 goals for Manchester United was from outside the box. It was against Charlton Athletic
2) Hull City is the only team in the Football League with a name in which you can’t colour in any of the letters. Because there are no closed letters in the words "Hull" and "City
3) Portsmouth hold the record for having held the FA Cup for the longest - seven years - despite only winning it once in that time. This was because they won it in 1939 and there was no professional football during the war"
4) Ruby Walsh
5) Denmark
6) Woodpecker
7) None of The Beatles Could Write or Read Music. Paul McCartney finally admitted that neither he nor any of his Beatles bandmates were able to read or write music during a 2018 interview
8) A nodding donkey is an informal name for a pumpjack, a mechanical device that extracts oil from onshore wells
9) Sir Walter Raleigh was executed during the reign of King James 1. He was beheaded on October 29, 1618, after being convicted of treason for a failed expedition to find the mythical city of El Dorado in South America, which violated the terms of his pardon.
10) Boat
11) 59
12) Bangladesh
13)The Sundance Kid
14) Chile
15) Les Dawson
16) Edward and Richard
17) North Carolina
18) American
19) Horses
20) The Toyota Corolla
 
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