OT - The Pub Quiz Thread

I suspect this is a trick question, but I’ll bite.

Afghanistan.

 

just looked at the list and had forgotten zaire no longer exists

 

Really? Kind of disappointing.

Who is estimated to be the richest person in human history?

 

As rich as............... Croesus.

 

Apparently not as rich as this bloke, who ruined the economy of an entire country (not his own) simply by spending so much while passing through.

 

Sounds a bit like Harry Redknapp, only he did it with other people's money.

I'd guess at Rockefeller, but I'm not sure about his spending ruining a country's economy.

Genghis Khan?

 

Neither of those, though Rockefeller is very close to being the richest. Overall wealth is hard to verify as well, especially with historical figures. But the BBC rated this chap as wealthiest ever.

It’s a hard one, I only read about this bloke a couple of weeks ago. Clue, he lived either side of 1300. More clues will be supplied, there is no way I would get this without internet aid.

 

Someone was telling me about a radio programme recently about what must have been this person. I can't remember the name but he was an African Sultan who travelled on a pilgrimage to Mecca and took his entourage with him, over 20,000 and they went through Egypt and nearly bankrupted them because of all the gold they had flooded the market and effectively devalued it. He obviously didn't like travelling light...

 

That’s the man Sooper, and close enough to get the next go. Musa I of Mali. From Wiki:

“Musa made his pilgrimage between 1324 and 1325.[21][22] His procession reportedly included 60,000 men, all wearing brocade and Persian silk, including 12,000 slaves,[23] who each carried 1.8 kg (4 lb) of gold bars, and heralds dressed in silks, who bore gold staffs, organized horses, and handled bags. Musa provided all necessities for the procession, feeding the entire company of men and animals.[20] Those animals included 80 camels which each carried 23–136 kg (50–300 lb) of gold dust. Musa gave the gold to the poor he met along his route. Musa not only gave to the cities he passed on the way to Mecca, including Cairo and Medina, but also traded gold for souvenirs. It was reported that he built a mosque every Friday.[citation needed]

Musa's journey was documented by several eyewitnesses along his route, who were in awe of his wealth and extensive procession, and records exist in a variety of sources, including journals, oral accounts, and histories. Musa is known to have visited the Mamluk sultan of Egypt, Al-Nasir Muhammad, in July 1324.[24]. However, Musa's generous actions inadvertently devastated the economies of the regions through which he passed. In the cities of Cairo, Medina, and Mecca, the sudden influx of gold devalued the metal for the next decade. Prices on goods and wares greatly inflated. To rectify the gold market, on his way back from Mecca, Musa borrowed all the gold he could carry from money-lenders in Cairo at high interest. This is the only time recorded in history that one man directly controlled the price of gold in the Mediterranean.[20]”

Apparently, before the discovery of the Americas, half the gold in the world came from West Africa. Musa’s predecessor made him regent while he went on a trip (with 2,000 ships apparently) to see if he could sail across the Atlantic. In the 1200’s. He and his fleet disappeared without trace.

There is a lot of African history that I am completely ignorant about, but it seems worth a bit of reading to me.

 

Which former QPR player later became a manager in Spain and with his club won consecutive La Liga/ Copa del Rey doubles and 4 consecutive Copa del Rey in the 1930s including a 12-1 win over Barcelona, still their record defeat. A brownie point if you name the club he managed...

 

I don’t know the manager but will guess the club to be Athletic Bilbao, who were huge when the Spanish League was first set up.

 

That's your brownie point...

 

Correct. He is idolised in Bilbao and known as 'El Bombin'...

http://boxtoboxfootball.uk/fred-pentland-brit-gave-spain-tiki-taka/

 

I really didn’t understand the original question

This one is easy though. It’s Ian McKellen in The Dirty Dozen.

 

Wow isn't he gorgeous

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If thats Gandalf I'll eat my hat! Surely with those headphones is a 70's or 80's film?