OT - The Pub Quiz Thread

[sb_73]

Well done Roller. Air France and Lufthansa other options. Its seems there is no direct flight from the UK, and no reduction in cost flying from Heathrow, so at least I start with a short drive. It's a long one, movies, reading and kip. There until end of next week, hopefully by the time I'm back something positive will have happened to cheer us all up.

 

[Rollercoaster Ranger]

Have a good trip mate.

Anyone else fancy setting a question? I've got a great book of them upstairs, but I'm downstairs watching the cricket......

 

[Star of David Bardsley]

Players from 13 different nations have played for QPR 100 times or more. Name these nations and one of the players from each.

 

[Rollercoaster Ranger]

Players from 13 different nations have played for QPR 100 times or more. Name these nations and one of the players from each.

This one should be fun, and maybe a team effort

England - Gerry Francis
Northern Ireland - Macca
Republic of Ireland - Don Givens
Scotland - Don Masson
Morocco - He who must not be named
Hungary - Akos Buzsaky
Argentina - Ale Faurlin

erm, help

 

[Rollercoaster Ranger]

Latvia - Kaspars Gorkss

 

[Kilburn]

Players from 13 different nations have played for QPR 100 times or more. Name these nations and one of the players from each.

Brian Bedford - Wales
Marc Bircham - Canada
Dexter Blackstock - Antigua & Barbuda
Akos Buzsaky - Hungary
John Byrne - Ireland
Bobby Cameron - Scotland
Alejandro Faurlin - Argentina
Les Ferdinand - England
Richard Langley - Jamaica
Alan McDonald - Northern Ireland
Danny ****tu - Nigeria
Adel Taarabt - Morocco
Jan Stejskal - Czech Republic

I wonder how that group would have played together as a team?

 

[Rollercoaster Ranger]

Antigua & Barbuda - Legs of Wood


Good stuff Killy, I can stop now.....

Missed Birch, Big Dan and Langers, oh the shame

 

[Rollercoaster Ranger]

Brian Bedford - Wales
Marc Bircham - Canada
Dexter Blackstock - Antigua & Barbuda
Akos Buzsaky - Hungary
John Byrne - Ireland
Bobby Cameron - Scotland
Alejandro Faurlin - Argentina
Les Ferdinand - England
Richard Langley - Jamaica
Alan McDonald - Northern Ireland
Danny ****tu - Nigeria
Adel Taarabt - Morocco
Jan Stejskal - Czech Republic

I wonder how that group would have played together as a team?

Hang on, no Kaspars, no Latvia .........

 

[Kilburn]

Hang on, no Kaspars, no Latvia .........

Good catch - 121 appearances for QPR - 6 goals, so that would be fourteen player/country combos, and possibly counting?

Anyway I will try and come up with a new question.

 

[Kilburn]

My home town? Hint: The Troggs

 

[QPR999]

My home town? Hint: The Troggs

Andover?

 

[Star of David Bardsley]

Who is the longest-serving current reigning monarch in the world?

 

[Rollercoaster Ranger]

Who is the longest-serving current reigning monarch in the world?

Rama IX of Thailand.

 

[Rollercoaster Ranger]

The layout of which African city was based on the shape of the Union Flag?

 

[Kilburn]

Andover?

Yes, indeed - became a London overspill town in the 1960's.

 

[Kilburn]

The layout of which African city was based on the shape of the Union Flag?

Pretoria, South Africa?

 

[Rollercoaster Ranger]

Pretoria, South Africa?

Nope.

 

[Kilburn]

The layout of which African city was based on the shape of the Union Flag?

Khartoum, Sudan

 

[Rollercoaster Ranger]

Khartoum, Sudan

That's the one, apparently Lord Kitchener thought it would be easier to defend.

 

[Kilburn]

That's the one, apparently Lord Kitchener thought it would be easier to defend.

Well he fared better than General Gordon during his time in Khartoum, at least until his ship hit that German mine en route to Russia in 1916.