OT - The Pub Quiz Thread

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sb_73 said:
I would have gone for Hampstead Heath next so your go Mr Nines.
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I forgot about Hampstead and Crystal Palace park too. An interesting geographical observation is that if you look at a map of London most of its main parks are all in alignment. So from North to South it would be Hampstead Heath, Primrose Hill, Regents Park, Hyde Park/Kensington Gardens, Green Park, St James's Park, Battersea Park, Clapham Common and Tooting Bec Common.

70% of our planet is covered by water. What percentage of Earth's water is drinkable?
 
QPR999 said:
I forgot about Hampstead and Crystal Palace park too. An interesting geographical observation is that if you look at a map of London most of its main parks are all in alignment. So from North to South it would be Hampstead Heath, Primrose Hill, Regents Park, Hyde Park/Kensington Gardens, Green Park, St James's Park, Battersea Park, Clapham Common and Tooting Bec Common.

70% of our planet is covered by water. What percentage of Earth's water is drinkable?
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1%. Compared to the oceans and salt water lakes there can’t be that much fresh water.
 
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sb_73 said:
1%. Compared to the oceans and salt water lakes there can’t be that much fresh water.
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Correct, less than 3% of the planet's water is fresh non-saline water with about 1% of it fit for human consumption.
 
QPR999 said:
Correct, less than 3% of the planet's water is fresh non-saline water with about 1% of it fit for human consumption.
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****ing hell that was a good guess.

100% of the population of Hong Kong is urbanised i.e live in an urban area. For the UK it’s 82%. At just 14.3% what is the least urbanised country in Europe?
 
sb_73 said:
****ing hell that was a good guess.

100% of the population of Hong Kong is urbanised i.e live in an urban area. For the UK it’s 82%. At just 14.3% what is the least urbanised country in Europe?
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It was one heck of a good guess ... Finland?
 
sb_73 said:
Logical but wrong. Lot of open space but they live in towns.

That’s the one. All eight people in the population have a hut at different points of the compass. There is an unmanned post office in the centre.
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Cheers Stan. I remember that the capital has only 5,000 inhabitants and all the rest live in small villages or on farms. Ok. Which 2 European football clubs were founded by refugees from another country ? There is a clue in the official names of the clubs.
 
colognehornet said:
Cheers Stan. I remember that the capital has only 5,000 inhabitants and all the rest live in small villages or on farms. Ok. Which 2 European football clubs were founded by refugees from another country ? There is a clue in the official names of the clubs.
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Hartlepool Albanians FC and Atletico Siam de Llucmayor. Obviously.
 
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Nothing right so far. The 2 teams play each other on a regular basis in what is known as the 'Double-headed eagles derby' which is fiercely contested though the supporters have friendly relations to each other. One of them is in the champions League (which some Scots are pissed off about). One of them shares a city with 'The Shamrocks', though they have nothing to do with Ireland.
 
colognehornet said:
Nothing right so far. The 2 teams play each other on a regular basis in what is known as the 'Double-headed eagles derby' which is fiercely contested though the supporters have friendly relations to each other. One of them is in the champions League (which some Scots are pissed off about). One of them shares a city with 'The Shamrocks', though they have nothing to do with Ireland.
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Well the double headed eagle is Albanian. One would be AEK who beat Celtic and many years ago QPR, and the other, having looked it up, is PAOK Thessaloniki. No idea who the shamrocks are.
 
sb_73 said:
Well the double headed eagle is Albanian. One would be AEK who beat Celtic and many years ago QPR, and the other, having looked it up, is PAOK Thessaloniki. No idea who the shamrocks are.
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All yours Stan. The Double headed eagle was also the symbol of the Byzantine Empire. After the Greco-Turkish war of 1919-22 there was a compulsory exchange of populations between Greece and Turkey with 2 million people being uprooted and going in one direction or the other. Before the war 30% of the population of Constantinople (now Istanbul) were Greek. Altogether there were 1.5 million refugees forcefully moved to Greece. The 2 clubs were founded by these refugees and still bear the name 'Constantinople' in their names. AEK stands for 'Athlitiki Enosis Konstantinoupoleos' = Athletic Union of Constantinople, and PAOK Thessaloniki came from the same background. The clue about 'The Shamrocks' - this is the nickname of Panathinaikos. Apparently the only club outside of the UK. and Ireland to use a Shamrock as their emblem. Over to you.
 
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What did the monks of Weihenstephan Monastery first start doing in about 768AD, which is still being done under the same name?
 
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