Pub Quiz thread

[yorkshirehornet]

Was it Nelson Mandela?

 

[colognehornet]

Was it Nelson Mandela?

Nope Yorkie, more than a hundred years earlier.

 

[yorkshirehornet]

Was it

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[colognehornet]

Was it

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It was indeed Yorkie - 3 years before Ulysses S. Grant became the second. Garibaldi also has a room named in his honour at Nottm. Forest football club ! Over to you.

 

[yorkshirehornet]

It was indeed Yorkie - 3 years before Ulysses S. Grant became the second. Garibaldi also has a room named in his honour at Nottm. Forest football club ! Over to you.

Thank you.

My step dad ran a pub in the city after the war...and he was a freeman....... lotos of fancy certificates etc...... hitrorically very interesting tho.


OK what started going round in 1884

 

[Bolton's Boots]

Steam cable trams?

 

[yorkshirehornet]

Steam cable trams?

Nooo

 

[colognehornet]

The hands on Big Ben ?

 

[yorkshirehornet]

no......

 

[Bolton's Boots]

The Oxford English Dictionary?

 

[yorkshirehornet]

no.... it goes round and round

 

[colognehornet]

no.... it goes round and round

Anything to do with time - Greenwich was established as the universal time meridian in 1884 ?

 

[yorkshirehornet]

noo... this moves.......

 

[colognehornet]

Bicycles with two wheels of the same size (as opposed to the penny farthing) ?

 

[yorkshirehornet]

no.... but it is transport

 

[J T Bodbo]

The Circle line ?

 

[yorkshirehornet]

The Circle line ?

yup you got it.... over to you

 

[J T Bodbo]

Thanks. Have a lot on, just now, but will think of something soonest. One easy question. Why am I so useless at the predictions league ? Rhetorical.

 

[J T Bodbo]

Simple one. What links WFC & Burton Albion ?

 

[yorkshirehornet]

Kwadwo Baah joined Burton Albion on a season-long loan which was the3n cancelled due to injury?