Pit your wits, courtesy of the Club. Some tricky ones and I only managed to "push for Europe" (a measly 7/10). http://www.fulhamfc.com/news/2013/september/08/quiz
A meagre 4 out of 10 for me. Banished to the back of the classroom for me. Not very good with the older questions !!!
Is there a pattern emerging, with scores in this quiz being directly related to the age of the participants? If so, youngsters like Bidley can be excused, whereas old codgers like Cottager (no offence!) should have a handicap system imposed. The handicapping should start at precisely one year older than me, and be raised by one every year. That seems fair.
You're absolutely correct, Cottager! That said... Severe pedantry warning: Anyone can have their biscuit (or, more commonly, cake) and eat it. The usual formulation of the phrase is wrong. You have your biscuit, then you eat it: no trouble. The phrase ought to be 'You can't eat your cake and have it'. Sorry, that's been a pet peave of mine for years. One of my co-authors of a book used the phrase once, and the three of us had a lengthy discussion about whether to use the common form which we knew to be logically wrong but which most people wouldn't think twice about, or to reverse it and risk that people would miss the point we were making because they were momentarily distracted by the unfamiliar form of the phrase. Maybe I should get out more.
This seems like the perfect platform to restate my frustration with the phrase "the proof is in the pudding". What on earth does that that mean? The actual phrase (the proof of the pudding is in the eating) makes sense, in that you'll know if the pudding is good when it's eaten. What kind of proof would be in a pudding, exactly?
