OT - The Pub Quiz Thread
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The Orient Express ran as a scheduled service from 1865 to 2009 (the current version is run by a private company as an 'experience trip' from London to Venice). It has taken five different routes over the years, and only 1 city has been a stop on all five routes - which one?
I took a version of the Orient Express from Milan to Istanbul and back (well not quite, lack of planning re Bulgarian visa led to unscheduled stop in Belgrade and emergency flight to Istanbul from there on the way out), 2nd class, in 1989. Not a glamourous experience at all, I've had more comfortable train rides in India and China at a fraction of the cost. Least comfortable of all though Mandalay to Rangoon in Burma in a train which had, for some reason, oval wheels.
I took a version of the Orient Express from Milan to Istanbul and back (well not quite, lack of planning re Bulgarian visa led to unscheduled stop in Belgrade and emergency flight to Istanbul from there on the way out), 2nd class, in 1989. Not a glamourous experience at all, I've had more comfortable train rides in India and China at a fraction of the cost. Least comfortable of all though Mandalay to Rangoon in Burma in a train which had, for some reason, oval wheels.
Pure guess....
Hector Castro scored the last minute clinching goal for Uruguay in the 1930 World Cup final against Argentina.
Why is he unique?
Hector Castro scored the last minute clinching goal for Uruguay in the 1930 World Cup final against Argentina.
Why is he unique?
Ha, I could have phrased the question better, although they won 4-2 so his was just the clincher.
Something physical.
The one and only...
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That's the puppy ( or should that be sex kitten? ) Sooper, even my two girls know all the Blondie songs.
I remember my daughter miming to her songs when she was 6 or 7, I was looking at Debby Harry a lot more closely in those days!...
He captained England at cricket and scored over 30,000 runs at a career average of over 50 per innings, including six consecutive first class centuries, a feat never equalled.
He played football at both amateur and full England level and appeared in an FA Cup Final.
He jointly held the world long jump record for 18 months.
He was a top class sprinter, hurdler and high jumper.
His party trick was to leap from a standing position onto a mantlepiece finishing facing his 'audience'.
In later life he was offered the throne of Albania.
Who was he?...
He played football at both amateur and full England level and appeared in an FA Cup Final.
He jointly held the world long jump record for 18 months.
He was a top class sprinter, hurdler and high jumper.
His party trick was to leap from a standing position onto a mantlepiece finishing facing his 'audience'.
In later life he was offered the throne of Albania.
Who was he?...
I was thinking Compton after a few words, but am not so sure now, but anyway, Dennis Compton?
Stroller has it, the legendary C.B.Fry, another of those sporting polymaths of the early 20th century and played in the same England cricket team as W.G.Grace...