OT - The Pub Quiz Thread

Sooper ...very close but actually the opposite. Will have to see if you are actually right though

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Group two is losing FA Cup finalists in the 80s.

 

Correct Stroller

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Group 3 and 4 are connected..group 4 is a super group within group 3, if you know Venn diagrams.

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Is Group 1 teams relegated from Premier League?

Group 3 teams promoted consecutively from 3rd to top tier?...

 

Sooper Group 1 ...relegated from the premier league more than once

To help you will group 3 and 4..."always the bridesmaid"


Sorry for delay in answering...been busy elsewhere, but more of that somewhere else

 

Did we ever bring this question to its timely conclusion, or are we all still feverishly working through all the permutations?
For my part, I’m completely flummoxed

 

Is this thread dead? I’ve got a good question but no idea of what the current, and apparently abandoned, question means, let alone what the answer is.

 

Take it away Stan, no one else is...

 

OK, what is claimed to be the first international sporting event (one country v another) of the modern era (ie not including the original Greek Olympics)?

 

In what context is modern? Jousting? Real Tennis? Cricket?...

 

Post 1800.

 

I'd guess cricket but with limited travel is it England v Wales?...

 

Calcutta cup? They keep going on about it being the oldest international match - 1872 I think?

 

It was cricket, and travel was limited, but not this pairing.

nope, this was 1844.

 

Australia v NZ?...

 

No. Neither of the teams involved have ever been in the top echelon of Test teams (though Test cricket didn’t come until well after this match).

 

The clues have narrowed it down a lot. Ireland & Scotland?

 

Cricket was once the most popular game in the USA so was it them against Canada ?

 

Good thinking but no.

Yes it was, match in Manhattan in 1844, often cited as the first ‘modern’ international sporting event, seven years before the first Americas Cup race, and 33 years before the first Ashes Test. Though I suspect it was a match between two teams from those countries rather than two national representative selections. Cricket was huge in the US before the introduction of baseball in the 1870s, and still big enough for a team from Philadelphia to beat the Aussies in 1893.