Pub Quiz thread

I have been down various lines of trying to connect everything, but no joy at all.

 

Sorry, you lost me...

 

And me...

 

Ok - I'll give it one more go.

What is associated with sound from a church ? Can be heard at a distance.
Father Xmas is known as St...
It's hard work walking in San Fran Cisco as he streets always seem to go ...
The freeman of a town used to be called a ...
An old-fashioned term for making money , or an opportunity to make money...
There is a village called ... On ouse in N Yorkshire- also has an RAF station.

 

Not getting anywhere with this - I think the common village name might be Linton but I can't form a connection to anything else.

 

Ok
The sound of a church is a Bell
Father Xmas is known as St Nicholas
Carry on !

 

Bobby Bell
Ken Nicholas
Denis Uphill
Ron Burgess
Jimmy Linton

1959 promotion winning team?

 

Absolutely ! (I'll let you off Freddie Bunce - making money)
I could have added - the first game I watched, but wouldn't have helped much. McNeice, Chung, Benning, Hartle, Holton.
Cliff scored from outside the penalty area - absolute rocket. I'd never seen the ball hit as hard. If the goalkeeper had got to it, he would just have disappeared into th net with the ball. I became a Watford fan that very day. I just can't remember the opposition. I expect it was Reading, we seemed to play them every week!

Off you go.

 

Hadn't a clue about that part - and still don't either....

What was delayed for eighty seconds by the assassination of John F Kennedy?

 

The first episode of Dr Who ?

 

Well that didn't take long...
Yes, the series debuted the day after his assassinaton, but, due to ongoing news coverage, the first episode started later than expected.

Over to you

 

Cheers BB. Where is the largest stadium integrated solar power plant in the World ? ( a football stadium which supplies all its own electricity and also the neighbourhood).

 

Lusail Stadium in Qatar, purpose built for the FIFA World Cup.
Currently the Antalya Stadium in Turkey for club football.
Stadia anorak alert...

 

Neither of those Fez. The stadium in question has 300,000 square metres of solar panels and generates 700,000 KwL. It is in Europe. Unfortunately from a footballing point of view it isn't perfect having a synthetic pitch. It will host one of the Europa League last 16 matches.

 

It's also been used for ice hockey matches.

 

Is that the one near you - Stadion Koln?

 

Nope, sorry BB. The Cologne Ice Hockey stadium is the Lanxess Arena which is not used for football. This is primarily a football stadium which, because of the artificial pitch, is easily used for ice hockey and concerts as well. The stadium is also used for international matches - making it one of the only national stadiums where football is not played on real grass. The English national team have played there and it will be used for one of the Europa League last 16 games (second leg).

 

The old stadium (on the same site) was once used for a World Cup final.

 

****dorf Stadium in Bern? If it's still called that...


Edit - amusing that the first four letters are replaced by asterisks.

 

It is indeed the so named stadium BB over to you.