Pub Quiz thread

[yorkshirehornet]

I can find lots of football;; connections but nothing to Watford.....

 

[Bolton's Boots]

That is the question!

If you know the name of the father, you can look up his history in English football. He worked for two clubs, having been signed by a well-known ex-Hornet.

 

[yorkshirehornet]

John Harbin Port Vale with Rob Page?

 

[Bolton's Boots]

John Harbin Port Vale with Rob Page?

Yes - both Port vale and Northampton to be precise.

Over to you.

 

[yorkshirehornet]

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Why is this person in the news?

 

[Bolton's Boots]

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Why is this person in the news?

At first glance, that looked like the outline of some sort of exotic Siamese fighting fish...

 

[oldfrenchhorn]

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Why is this person in the news?

Sebastian Vettel is to retire from Formula 1 at the end of this season?

 

[yorkshirehornet]

At first glance, that looked like the outline of some sort of exotic Siamese fighting fish...

noooooooooooooo

 

[yorkshirehornet]

Sebastian Vettel is to retire from Formula 1 at the end of this season?

yep.......

 

[oldfrenchhorn]

If you were in a rush to get to Saint-Dié-Des-Vosges today (28th July), why would you be going to Rosheim tomorrow?

 

[oldfrenchhorn]

This is a sports question.

 

[Bolton's Boots]

If you were in a rush to get to Saint-Dié-Des-Vosges today (28th July), why would you be going to Rosheim tomorrow?

Are those the start and end points of one of the stages of the women's Tour de France?

 

[oldfrenchhorn]

Are those the start and end points of one of the stages of the women's Tour de France?

Exactly. There have been some spectacular crashes involving forty riders some of the time. All yours.

 

[Bolton's Boots]

Exactly. There have been some spectacular crashes involving forty riders some of the time. All yours.

Cheers...

Probably another quickie - which best selling book failed to win a literary award as the judges deemed it to have been poorly written?

 

[andytoprankin]

Cheers...

Probably another quickie - which best selling book failed to win a literary award as the judges deemed it to have been poorly written?

Total guess, but was it ‘The Da Vinci Code’?

 

[Bolton's Boots]

Total guess, but was it ‘The Da Vinci Code’?

No - wrong genre.

 

[Bolton's Boots]

The literary award in question was the Nobel Prize in Literature.

 

[andytoprankin]

The literary award in question was the Nobel Prize in Literature.

Was it Twerphill’s History of the Second World War?

 

[Bolton's Boots]

Was it Twerphill’s History of the Second World War?

No - that sounds like Nonfiction rather than Fantasy.

Maybe I should re-word the question - it was the author who failed to win the award rather than the book...

 

[andytoprankin]

Ulysses?