OT - The Pub Quiz Thread

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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.
Cheers Stan. My question is: Who did Karl Marx replace in the last couple of minutes without making any impact ?
 
It's Wittgenstein. Had too look it up, but I'd nearly got there anyway.......

Nietzsche receives a yellow card after claiming that Confucius has no free will. Confucius replies, "Name go in book".
In the second half, with nothing being accomplished on the field other than contemplation,
Karl Marx is noticed warming up vigorously on the German sidelines. Marx soon races onto the field to substitute Ludwig Wittgenstein, his energy appearing as an obvious game-changer. Upon the referee's restart, Marx simply pulls up and starts meandering in deep thought like the rest.
With just over a minute of the match remaining Archimedes cries out "
Eureka!", takes the first kick of the ball and rushes towards the German goal. After several passes through a perplexed German defence, Socrates scores the only goal of the match in a diving header off a cross from Archimedes.
As the sketch closes, the Germans dispute the call, as the match commentator says: "Hegel is arguing that the
reality is merely an a priori adjunct of non-naturalistic ethics, Kant via the categorical imperative is holding that ontologically it exists only in the imagination, and Marx is claiming it was offside." The replay proves that, according to the offside rule, Socrates was indeed offside, but the sketch, nevertheless, states that the Greeks have won
 
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It's Wittgenstein. Had too look it up, but I'd nearly got there anyway.......

Nietzsche receives a yellow card after claiming that Confucius has no free will. Confucius replies, "Name go in book".
In the second half, with nothing being accomplished on the field other than contemplation,
Karl Marx is noticed warming up vigorously on the German sidelines. Marx soon races onto the field to substitute Ludwig Wittgenstein, his energy appearing as an obvious game-changer. Upon the referee's restart, Marx simply pulls up and starts meandering in deep thought like the rest.
With just over a minute of the match remaining Archimedes cries out "
Eureka!", takes the first kick of the ball and rushes towards the German goal. After several passes through a perplexed German defence, Socrates scores the only goal of the match in a diving header off a cross from Archimedes.
As the sketch closes, the Germans dispute the call, as the match commentator says: "Hegel is arguing that the
reality is merely an a priori adjunct of non-naturalistic ethics, Kant via the categorical imperative is holding that ontologically it exists only in the imagination, and Marx is claiming it was offside." The replay proves that, according to the offside rule, Socrates was indeed offside, but the sketch, nevertheless, states that the Greeks have won
All yours Stroller <laugh> <applause>.
 
The Debenhams Cup. ( I admit to having to look it up. )

Yes, played for by the two teams that went furthest in the FA Cup from the 1st Round. I vaguely remember it being won by Blyth after their great cup run that year. It was brought to my attention by an item on Talksport which eventually helped trace the trophy missing for over 30 years. Coincidentally the two previous winners met in a National League North match days after the trophy was found...

https://www.cheshire-live.co.uk/sport/football/debenhams-cup-finally-been-found-15866272
 
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