Standard pub quiz fare Sooper. He scored the first goal in an FA Cup Final, but I can’t remember who for.
Yes, but I thought it apt for the evening of the 3rd Round Draw. More interesting is the fact that he played for Wanderers under the pseudonym 'A.H. Chequer', derived from his membership of the Harrow Chequers Club. I'm surprised the FA haven't had him up on a posthumous disrepute charge...
Topical questions, excellent! Here’s one that isn’t topical. What is the biggest selling work of fiction of all time (ie excluding the Bible, Koran, Guinness Book of Records etc)? Harold Redcrapps autobiography doesn’t count as a work of fiction.
Without googling, it’s gotta be a perennial favourite, one that still sells today, so enduring appeal, I give up
Worldwide? Nope. one of the Potter books is in the top ten and all of them in the top 25, but not number 1 Dickens David Copperfield is number 2 and I reckon he must be the bestselling author of all time, just beating Rowling.
No, no Shakespeare on the list. its in the top five but not at number one. Some good suggestions coming through. The answer is hard to guess but blindingly obvious once you hear it. And I bet I am the only person on here stupid enough to have read it cover to cover.
I have read that cover to cover and it’s worth the effort, but I don’t think it’s even in the top 25. Even scholars of the top seller don’t recommend you read it all, as I discovered many years after doing just that. Shawswood had the right idea in his first response.
I take my hat off to you for that Stan, patience isn't one of my virtues, I'm still surprised almost 50 years later that I made it through 'Lord of the Rings'...
I loved that book when I was 13 or 14, and I thought the films were brilliant. I leafed through a copy in the bookshop a few months ago and thought it almost unreadable. But not as unreadable as the top seller that I did actually read.
i remember reading of mice and men and animal farm at school if they were on the national curriculum for any ammount of time they would have sold a few
