Pub Quiz thread

Ok. Cheers NZ. An easy one - which is the biggest town, or city, in the UK. not to have a fully professional football club ?

 

Luton

 

By area or population?

 

By population Barry.

 

I would guess that it is one of the rugby league strongholds, but which one? It could also be a town like Gloucester which has a rugby team, but not FL team.

 

A bit bigger than Gloucester Frenchie.

 

I'm thinking Exeter

 

You haven't been to Gloucester recently cologne. There must be millions moved in there since the last census.

 

Think of a famous religious person in literature

 

The Vicar of Wakefield?

 

Spot on Theo ! I guess you are suggesting that Wakefield is the answer - it is one of the 2 which I would accept. The Borough of Wakefield has a population of around 333,000 and the whole Borough has city status - placing it just ahead of Dudley (which also has no professional football). Depending on the actuall status of 'semi professional', Belfast also has no fully pro. teams, Linfield and Glentoran both being, officially, semi professional. Over to you.

 

Cheers Cologne...didn't know about the football but the literary clues are good for me of course! Haven't read the Oliver Goldsmith poem since school though. Funny the things you still remember 50 years on.

Which novel, also with religious connotations, was originally turned down by its publisher because he thought it "too full of vulgarity and exaggeration"?

 

Off cruising the Gulf of Bothnia on Tuesday so some clues needed for a quick answer:

Alan Rickman and Donald Pleasance starred in a TV version and it's set in a county sounding a little like one of our former managers.

 

Trollope's Barchester Chronicles I believe.

 

That's it, OFH...Barsetshire being the county of course. The publisher initially rejected the first volume...'Barchester Towers'. It was widely regarded when it did appear as an attack on the Church of England.

All yours.

 

Thanks Theo, enjoy your cruise.

Who was the first foreign player that Watford signed from a foreign club?

 

The earliest one that I can think of is Jan Lohman from Lokeren.

 

That is right Barry. I wonder how many there have since him? Over to you.

 

How many of Ireland's first Test team had played international cricket for England and who are they?

 

Is it just one.. Boyd Rankin?