Pub Quiz thread

All yours Frenchie.

 

Thanks cologne. Jean-Jacques Rousseau created a phrase in a book of his. This has become well known and attributed to someone who was a child at the time. What was the phrase?

 

Children should not be subjected to threats, smacks or other punishments?

 

The first sentence of the Social Contract - ''Man is born free, but he is everywhere in chains'' ? This may have been attributed to later thinkers who would have been children at the time of the books release - sometimes attributed to Marx though he was not around at this time.

 

No

 

No

 

Is it anything to do with his theories on Child-centred education - many of which are now back in vogue - which he discussed in his 1762 book Emile?

 

i am sure i knew this but getting nowhere

 

If I understand the question correctly then we are looking for a phrase (or word) which Rousseau used (probably in Emile), which he may have borrowed from somebody who was a child at the time ? The shortest sentence in Emile was 'I hate books' ?

 

Or Laissez - faire ?

 

It is French phrase, but has been slightly altered for the English version. Something to do with food.

 

Let them eat cake? - in French, Qu'ils mangent de la brioche?

 

That's it BB.

 

Cheers ofh.
Hopefully this is a nice obscure one...

What links a Watford goalkeeper, a divot of turf and the British Army?

 

I'd say that most on here remember the goalkeeper in question and regularly watched him play. Sadly, he died about 15 years ago.

 

I think the goalkeeper i Bert Slater. Partly because he was Scottish. As to the rest haven't a clue.

 

Didn't he die on a golf course?

 

Yes - it was Bert Slater. That was the easy part - but knowing that he was from Scotland could be a clue to the rest.

 

(that one was staring a few of us in the face i guess.)

 

By which I mean that the answer can be found in records of his playing days in Scotland.

One particular poster on here might kick himself if he doesn't get the answer.