Pub Quiz thread

[yorkshirehornet]

What is the link between Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Sadi Carnot and what financial scandal was one of them involved in?

Where they from Limoges??

 

[yorkshirehornet]

What is the link between Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Sadi Carnot and what financial scandal was one of them involved in?

Sadi Carnot as president was involved in the Panama scandal (1892), when the press discovered that the Panama Canal Company bribed the French Govt to save the project??

 

[oldfrenchhorn]

Two goes but you got there Yorkie. The press were also bribed to not report what was going on

 

[yorkshirehornet]

I like the Limoges link

What two brothers were on opposite sides of the battle... on this day..

 

[oldfrenchhorn]

The Holdsworth brothers I think.

 

[yorkshirehornet]

The Holdsworth brothers I think.

Frenchie you are on the good Bordeaux today....



awesome

 

[oldfrenchhorn]

It is not that bad.

It used 55,000 tonnes covered with boiled linseed oil. What is it?

 

[yorkshirehornet]

Forth Road Bridge...... all that steel painted/treated with that oil.....

 

[oldfrenchhorn]

Forth Road Bridge...... all that steel painted/treated with that oil.....

Close, but No!

 

[Jsybarry]

I like the Limoges link

What two brothers were on opposite sides of the battle... on this day..

That question had a completely different meaning for me as the Battle of Jersey took place on 6th January 1781. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Jersey

 

[yorkshirehornet]

Close, but No!

<deeply embarrassed>

erm.... Forth Rail Bridge?

 

[oldfrenchhorn]

<deeply embarrassed>

erm.... Forth Rail Bridge?

That's better. It is all yours.

 

[yorkshirehornet]

Talking of the cup what happened on this day of note......

 

[yorkshirehornet]

Clue: The FA cup... .this date...... Watford

 

[oldfrenchhorn]

Clue: The FA cup... .this date...... Watford

Last time we lost to a non-league club maybe?

 

[yorkshirehornet]

Last time we lost to a non-league club maybe?

erm... which one?

 

[oldfrenchhorn]

erm... which one?

Blooming teachers! Northwich Victoria. Always sounds like a railway station.

 

[yorkshirehornet]

Blooming teachers! Northwich Victoria. Always sounds like a railway station.

ok ok you win!

 

[oldfrenchhorn]

Which Watford legend is an assistant manager at a league club and has his son playing in their first team?

 

[yorkshirehornet]

Is it Andy Hessenthaller... but is he still at Gillingham?