Pub Quiz thread

[oldfrenchhorn]

Clue: Big Bopper

 

[Bolton's Boots]

Chantilly Lace?

 

[oldfrenchhorn]

Chantilly Lace?

Chantilly is the answer. Chantilly cream, Chantilly horse racing centre, and the expensive silk Chantilly lace.
Over to you BB.

 

[Bolton's Boots]

Thanks ofh.

Which former Watford player with a distinctly Scottish surname was transferred to Spurs and made his debut for them in a drawn match against Watford - a debut which turned out to be his one and only appearance for Spurs?

 

[andytoprankin]

Thanks ofh.

Which former Watford player with a distinctly Scottish surname was transferred to Spurs and made his debut for them in a drawn match against Watford - a debut which turned out to be his one and only appearance for Spurs?

Was the debut a league match?

 

[andytoprankin]

Also, can we assume this was not in the era of the Premier League? (Tentative research tells me that, assuming the debut was a league match)

 

[Bolton's Boots]

Was the debut a league match?

Also, can we assume this was not in the era of the Premier League? (Tentative research tells me that, assuming the debut was a league match)

It certainly wasn't a cup match and neither was it a Premier League match - by a long way.

 

[Bolton's Boots]

His surname is also the name of a historic area of Scotland.

 

[Bolton's Boots]

To help narrow it down, he was a war casualty - died at Givenchy-lès-la-Bassée and is commemorated on the Vimy Memorial.

 

[yorkshirehornet]

George Badenoch?/

 

[Bolton's Boots]

George Badenoch?/

George Huntley Badenoch to be precise.

Over to you

 

[yorkshirehornet]

Where has a VIP route been discovered by a sentinel?

 

[yorkshirehornet]

BoJo or his mates no doubt involved

 

[yorkshirehornet]

a sentinel is a newspaper

 

[Bolton's Boots]

Anything to do with Michelle Mone recommending a company for a multi-million pound PPE contract before it even existed?

 

[yorkshirehornet]

Anything to do with Michelle Mone recommending a company for a multi-million pound PPE contract before it even existed?

yes that is it....

 

[Bolton's Boots]

yes that is it....

Cheers yorkie.

In 1975, the birth of a baby boy in the USA led to a 150 year-old mystery being resolved. What was the mystery and who was the boy?

 

[andytoprankin]

Cheers yorkie.

In 1975, the birth of a baby boy in the USA led to a 150 year-old mystery being resolved. What was the mystery and who was the boy?

Is this blue Benjy Stacey? Methemoglobinemia?

 

[Bolton's Boots]

Is this blue Benjy Stacey? Methemoglobinemia?

It certainly is - the blue-skinned Fugate family of Kentucky, who had lived in the remote Appalachian mountains for 200 years - a strange tale of inbreeding and recessive genes. Funnily enough, the cure was simple - those with the blue skin simply had to ingest methylene blue dye in pill form.

Over to you.

 

[andytoprankin]

Thanks, BB.

Tomorrow marks the thirtieth anniversary of the opening of what?
CLUE: It is a WFC thing.