Pub Quiz thread

Cheers Yorkie. Dancing goats and a subsequent visit to a Sufi monastery led to what historic first ?

 

Was it the discovery of coffee by kaldi an Ethiopian goatherder who noticed his goats were a bit frisky after eating certain berries.. So he took them to a local sufi temple?

 

It was indeed Yorkie. He took the beans to the Sufi and he was initially not impressed and so threw them in the fire - upon noticing the fragrance they scrambled them out again and tried to dissolve them in water - thus creating the first cup of coffee (nearly). Or at least so is the legend - all this happened around 850 AD when the difference between legend and fact was more fluid. Nice story anyway - I would have loved to have seen the goats ! Over to you.

 

What has been cancelled ...but not cancelled this morning?

 

Surfing competition in Newquay?

 

Yes... festival cancelled but the competition is going ahead.....
Over to you

 

Water Bears are adapting to a new environment: where and why?

 

ah i have just read this.... from an Israeli space ship that crashed on the moon!

'Tardigrades - often called water bears - are creatures under a millimetre long that can survive being heated to 150C and frozen to almost absolute zero' .

 

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Yep. Over to you.

 

What cricketer hated his home town so much he said he lived elsewhere?

 

Pure guess, as he was generally a grumpy bloke. Wally Hammond ?

 

No.. more modern

 

Monty Panesar said he was from Bedford, rather than Luton, but that can’t be unique enough for a pub quiz question. Surely?

 

That must be the crappest Dr Who villain costume ever?

 

Strike that. Just seen this on BBC Photos of the Week:

 

Over to you!

 

Thanks, yorkshire. You can’t blame Monty, though, can you?

How many league games have Watford played from Sept 1898 to date?

 

I think there must be something significant about the number so I'll guess 2,019 ?

 

A little less than half and the question isn’t as clever as that.