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OT - The Pub Quiz Thread

Discussion in 'Queens Park Rangers' started by Rollercoaster Ranger, Jun 15, 2013.

  1. YorkshireHoopster

    YorkshireHoopster Well-Known Member

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    Terry Fenwick?
     
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  2. QPR999

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    Get in there Yorky. 19 caps while wearing the hoops.
     
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  3. YorkshireHoopster

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    Oh good. Wasn't expecting that honour. Anyway name the 4 teams who managed to escape from LR with a draw in the 1975/6 season? I remembered 3 but had to check to remind me of the 4th. The first two were in the first month of the season. That was when Loftus Road really was a fortress.
     
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  4. Rollercoaster Ranger

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    As luck would have it I'm just re-reading Stan's "autobiography"

    Villa, West Ham, Spurs and Derby
     
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  5. YorkshireHoopster

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    Far better source of entertainment than Google. Over to you
     
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  6. Rollercoaster Ranger

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    As a result of his part in England winning the Ashes in 2005, who was appointed an honorary vice-president of Bristol City?
     
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  7. Sooperhoop

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    Off the top of my head I'll go for West Ham, Spurs & Derby, games I was at and was it Newcastle? I know they beat us 3-1 at HQ in the League cup that season and also beat us in the FA Cup as well...
     
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  8. Rollercoaster Ranger

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    Do keep up mate ;)
     
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  9. Sooperhoop

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    Oh well, I'll catch up eventually...:grin:

    Was your one Flintoff Roller?...
     
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  10. Rollercoaster Ranger

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    Nope
     
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  11. Sooperhoop

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    Trescothick? His area near Zummerzet...
     
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  12. Rollercoaster Ranger

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    Correct.

    From my extensive research for that question

    Michael Vaughan was given the freedom of Sheffield
    Steve Harmison a seat in the directors' box at Newcastle for life
    Duncan Fletcher was granted British citizenship
    Andrew Flintoff got the freedom of Preston
    Ashley Giles was made an honorary citizen of Droitwich Spa and
    Andrew Strauss signed a sponsorship deal with Heinz!
     
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  13. sb_73

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    And Kevin Pietersen was given the freedom of Capetown.
     
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  14. Sooperhoop

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    What do Aldwych, Trafalgar Square, North Weald and Ongar have in common?...
     
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  15. sb_73

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    Disused Tube stations? Though I think Trafalgar Square may have been absorbed into Charing Cross. Aldwych, and Ongar were definitely still 'live' pre 80s....
     
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  16. Sooperhoop

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    Yep, they were all regular underground stations that were closed for one reason or another. There is a very limited private service on the old Epping-Ongar line...
     
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  17. sb_73

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    I like your London questions Sooper, they help me remember stuff.

    To continue the train motif:

    What do the train lines connecting Madrid and Barcelona, Paris and Strasbourg and Dijon and Basel have in common, which no other European train lines can boast?
     
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  18. qprbeth

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    High speed trains...she says sensing this is a boy-question she knows nothing about
     
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  19. sb_73

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    I'll give it to you, they are the three lines where trains can consistently get to over 300 kph.
     
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  20. qprbeth

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    That was a completely random guess....only thing I know about foreign trains is they go fast
     
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