Christmas Quiz 2015

[Jimmy Floyd]

50 questions as below on a variety of subjects. They should be relatively Googleproof. You can answer as a group in the thread as I think it's probably quite hard, but if anyone wants to have a full go themselves and either post or PM me their answer they're more than welcome - but beware spoilers in the thread replies if so. Enjoy and Merry early Christmas. The only hint I'll give is that most of these are quite cryptic and things aren't often as they seem (although sometimes they are). If you get all 50 between you I'll award you a gold star.

Sport 1. Each of these sequences represents an annual progression in sport from 2010 to 2015, which is left blank. Can you name the 2015 entry for each sequence?
1. Victoria - North Lanarkshire - Essex - Essex - Leicestershire - ???
2. Scotland - England - Scotland - Brazil - United States - ???
3. Barcelona - Man Utd - Dortmund - Man Utd - Benfica - ???
4. 49ers - Rams - 49ers - Patriots - 49ers - ???
5. 5 - 11 - 5 - 13 - 0 - ???

Music. Name an artist which completes the sequence. NB: There are various possible answers for each, and they are in order.
6. Belle & Sebastian … Oasis … The Beatles … Jake Bugg … UB40 … ???
7. Gershwin … Debussy … Vaughan Williams … Tchaikovsky … ???
8. U2 … Rolf Harris … Bob Marley … ??? … Noah and the Whale
9. ??? … Michael Jackson … Neil Diamond … Tom Jones … The Beatles
10. John Denver … Tony Christie … Sting … Ed Sheeran … ???

Sport 2. Name the sporting link in each of these picture sets.
11. http://i.imgur.com/8aUG0BG.jpg?1
12. http://i.imgur.com/lQj4D59.jpg
13. http://i.imgur.com/pv09Mr4.jpg
14. http://i.imgur.com/yfgFhB9.jpg
15. http://i.imgur.com/MqC13Kn.jpg
16. http://i.imgur.com/IujkOiP.jpg
17. http://i.imgur.com/kjb3LvF.jpg
18. http://i.imgur.com/8kDolyQ.jpg
19. http://i.imgur.com/iueu1Lz.jpg
20. http://i.imgur.com/M9ZvTMy.jpg

Film. Name the odd one out.
21. Jaws, The Jungle Book, The Lion King, Jurassic Park
22. The Full Monty, Goldeneye, Brideshead Revisited, Goal!
23. Cool Runnings, Live and Let Die, Quantum of Solace, A Few Good Men
24. Saving Private Ryan, Saving Mr Banks, Apollo 13, Charlie Wilson's War
25. Manhattan, Doctor Dolittle, Evergreen, Toy Story 3

Geography. I'm going on some long distance cruises, but there's a certain rule about where the ship can dock on each journey. Can you name it?
26. Dublin to Auckland, docking at: Madeira, Praia, Victoria, Colombo, Jakarta and Hobart
27. London to Mumbai, docking at: Southampton, Bridgetown, Port-of-Spain, Wellington, Brisbane, Colombo and Bangalore
28. Liverpool to St Petersburg, docking at: Ipswich, London, Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Gothenburg. Not quite docking at Dundee.
29. Guangzhou to Miami, docking at: Rangoon, Chennai and Lagos.
30. Stockholm to Busan, docking at: Oslo, London, Vienna (this one's on a narrow boat), Alexandria, Accra and Rangoon.

Football. Who am I, which club do I play for, and what season is it?
31. I play in midfield, and this year I'll win the first of two European Cups in a row, although my first final was six years ago. Myself and two of my current team mates will each manage a different London club in the future. One of my team mates will lift the next World Cup - but another two will win World Cups 24 years apart. Only one of this squad will ever play for Derby County.

32. The manager's leaving at the end of the season - that'll be the end of an era, for sure. Two of this squad are reigning World Cup winners, and of course most of us won the European Cup last year. I'm one of three world famous forwards at the club. We play for three different countries internationally, but we'll all be forever associated with our time here.

33. What a squad we have here. Some of these players will go on to win everything the club game has to offer, but none of it will be at this club. In seven years' time, I'll win the European Cup, beating two of my current team mates in the final. One team mate of mine will eventually become a Sky Sports man. Another team mate will win two UEFA Cups, another still has already won the World Cup Golden Boot - it's a wonder we're so crap.

34. We're having some season this year, winning the European Cup, and it won't be the last one I win either. This is a hell of a team. Our right back and captain will go on to manage the club, and I'll become a manager myself, although perhaps my best managerial work will take place at one of our chief rivals before I make a successful move to England. One of the elder statesmen here has appeared in the World Cup final twice, something I'll never do. Brian Clough once signed our goalkeeper.

35. Finally, the wait is over for my club. We've won the European Cup. The World Cup's coming up in the summer, and lots of the squad here are going, for eight different countries, including most of the leading contenders. I, though, will be the only player here who wins it. It'll be a bit of a disaster for the domestic players here, but one of my club team mates will win the Golden Boot. Times will change for me, though - in three years I'll be playing for an unfashionable English side, a club that one of my current team mates will manage many years later.

36. It's rare to see such a decorated squad of this quality in this part of the world. I play alongside World Cup winners from two different countries, and our manager won the World Cup as a player with yet another country. I never reached the heights with my country, but I've won everything there is to win at club level, and broken records along the way. The rest of the squad? Well, if I remember their names on a daily basis, I'm happy with that.

37. We have an eclectic squad here, one that's bringing the club arguably the best period in its history at the moment, and we'll retain our European trophy this season. Our futures diverge, however. One of my team mates in particular will go on to have a glittering career with a bigger club in the same country. Another will be a dreadful flop on Merseyside, and sadly another will die in tragic circumstances. Me? I'll go to Manchester, and I'll win the Premier League.

38. Good times lie ahead for my club, but currently we're in the third tier and in the midst of a bizarre invasion of manager and 7 players from a small European country. A decent career also lies in wait for me, although I've only made one senior appearance so far, in the LDV Vans. I'll go on to represent a country other than the one of my birth, and perhaps my best years will be spent at that country's leading club, but I'll also play on both sides of a local rivalry in England.

39. Our squad has some interesting players. I've scored the winner in a European Championship final, and one of my team mates is a legend who's won everything in European club football many times over. One of our midfielders will go on to win it all with a European giant, too, as will our goalkeeper. But what about this club? It never quite happens for us. This year's European Cup semi-final was a remarkable achievement, considering, but you get the feeling that's as good as it's going to get.

40. I'm the manager here, and what a coaching future lies ahead of me. I'll win the league, and I'll win the European Cup - but right now I'm at a tiny club whose finest hour will be to have had me as its manager. It's about to change its name - slightly - and it'll achieve a little cult fame via television, but that's decades away. One of my players here, though, will win everything with me, not that he'd guess it now. His balls have barely dropped.

General Knowledge
41. Which duo regularly performed under pressure?
42. Which US President began to dance after receiving a letter?
43. Which arse plays with a flute?
44. Who went to Paris and started a war?
45. Which impossible situation was caused by something worse than hell?
46. What lies between an elephant and an oval?
47. Where can you find hot, mad, lax fun?
48. Which three Americans went down on a mare?
49. What can be bald, booted or solitary?
50. Where would you find a digital watch, an Academy Award, a female comedian and a turd?

[Giggles]

I actually can't answer one of them.

Someone post the answers to 3, 4, and 5 as I want to know what they are.

[Baz]

41

Duo is an odd way to word it.


Top, top effort. :thbup:

[wullie]

Having a quick glance I think I got one straight away rather than the months the rest will clearly take

11. NHL teams

[Jimmy Floyd]

Yes Wullie.

It is Baz, I guess quintet also applies.

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

I know 11:

NHL teams

and 49, I think:

Eagles?

[Jimmy Floyd]

49 is indeed eagles.

[Baz]

It is Baz, I guess quintet also applies.
Queen and David Bowie

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Yes Wullie.

It is Baz, I guess quintet also applies.

Surely that's:

Queen and David Bowie then?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Yeah. I was kind of thinking of Bowie/Mercury when I wrote it.

[Baz]

http://alchemyondemand.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/03/in-yo-face1.gif

[Foe]

15 is something like football teams beginning with B (bournemouth, cherries, brighton, seagulls but can't get the other two).

Wullie got my other one. :moop:

[wullie]

It took a while to get the Torres image

17. golf shots

[Jimmy Floyd]

Yes to golf shots.

[wullie]

35. Christian Karembeu

[Giggles]

It took a while to get the Torres image

17. golf shots

Even knowing the answer I can only get two of the clues.

[wullie]

Drive, chip, pitch, flop

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Even knowing the answer I can only get two of the clues.

Second is chip, then pitch and Torres is either flop or wedge I think.

Not sure about the first.

Wullie is donning this so far.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Yes to Karembeu. Need the club and year although I assume you've got them.

[Yevrah]

Even knowing the answer I can only get two of the clues.

Me too. :D

[Giggles]

Second is chip, then pitch and Torres is either flop or wedge I think.

Not sure about the first.

Wullie is donning this so far.

The one you didn't get was Drive. I didn't get Torres or chip.

[wullie]

Yes to Karembeu. Need the club and year although I assume you've got them.

Oops. Real Madrid 1998

[Lewis]

49 is indeed eagles.

I was going to say you.

[Lewis]

46 is Kennington, and that probably covers 47 and 50 too.

[Browning]

I got a couple of ones that have already been said, but not much else. I'll take a punt at 21...

Lion King- It' the only one with no humans whatsoever.

But I guess those probably have multiple answers.

I'm determined to get the NFL one...

[Jimmy Floyd]

That's not quite what I have for the reason, but Lion King is correct and it's along the right lines.

Kennington is right, but 47 and 50 aren't to do with the tube, no.

[Luca]

15

It's the nicknames of football teams from southern port cities. Brighton (Seagulls), Saints (Southampton), Pompey (Portsmouth), and Cherries (Bournemouth).

[Jimmy Floyd]

Yes, or 'south coast' as we say in the motherland.

[Spoonsky]

44. ISIS?

This is seriously impressive, by the way.

[Lewis]

I thought Napoleon, but the war had started before he got to Paris.

[wullie]

Helen of Troy?

[Lewis]

That would require a pretty slack definition of 'went to'.

[wullie]

Is 47 airport codes?

[wullie]

4. 49ers - Rams - 49ers - Patriots - 49ers - Chiefs

Share a home with the World Series champion

[Spoonsky]

Wullie. :mad:

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

Is 47 airport codes?

Ding.

HOT - Memorial Field Airport in Hot Springs
MAD - Madrid Barajas International Airport
LAX - Los Angeles International Airport
FUN - Funafuti International Airport (Tuvalu).

[Sir Andy Mahowry]

4. 49ers - Rams - 49ers - Patriots - 49ers - Chiefs

Share a home with the World Series champion
Damn, that one had been haunting me ever since Jimmy posted it.

I was nowhere close.

[wullie]

3. Barcelona - Man Utd - Dortmund - Man Utd - Benfica - Bayern Munich

The champion of each country that hosted the Champions League final in the same season

[Giggles]

Wullie :hail:

[Browning]

Would never have got that NFL question as I know nothing about baseball. The most shocking thing about finding out the answer was that the Yankee's haven't won it in ages.

[Jimmy Floyd]

All the above right (Helen of Troy, not ISIS).

[Jimmy Floyd]

A couple of minor clarifications reading it back.

7 is actually in no particular order, but 6 and 8-10 the order matters.

34, the 'right back and captain' are one person, who is right back and also captain.

42, don't put too much stock in 'began to', it's just a filler word.

[Luca]

40 must be

Brian Clough with Hartlepool in '65/66, and the player is John McGovern.

[Luca]

50 is

The Brazilian National team. Cassio = Casio = Digital Watch. Oscar = Academy Award. Miranda = Miranda Hart. Turd = Kaka.

[Luca]

12 is

Cricket fielding positions. Third man, fine leg (lol), slip, and (magazine) cover.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Yep to all.

[Foe]

Got number 1.

essex, it's the hometown of the world snooker champion

I was sure it was about Andy Murray. It's not.

[Foe]

Also nailed 14.

boxing weight classes. Heavyweight, middleweight, bantomweight, featherweight

[Foe]

Probably worth adding in a note on the OP of the ones that have been solved though.

[Jimmy Floyd]

I'm leaving the OP for anyone who might come in and want to do it fresh. 1 and 14 both right.

Nothing on any of the music, geography or film ones yet. 17/50 done in total.

[Spoonsky]

The geography ones are soul-crushing.

[Jimmy Floyd]

29 is probably quite hard outwith the bounds of being reasonable. Oh well. The others you just have to see it I think.

[Luca]

Before I caught on to the list of fielding terms, I thought 14 had something to do with cricket. Feather, bouncer, Clarke...

[Toby]

Probably worth adding in a note on the OP of the ones that have been solved though.


I'm leaving the OP for anyone who might come in and want to do it fresh. 1 and 14 both right.

Nothing on any of the music, geography or film ones yet. 17/50 done in total.

Cheers. Been using what little willpower I have not to look at spoilers as I'm planning to have a whack at it through the week.

[Belum]

Hello all. Will have a look through this tomorrow, but jumping in with this for now. 42:

James Polk?

[Lewis]

Lurking Little Pleb. :happycry:

[Belum]

Yeah, and would have stayed that way if I didn't need to post to see if I'm right or not.

Ah well.

[Mellberg]

28 - only docking at costal UEFA Cup winners between 1976 and 2008?

Ish.

[Jimmy Floyd]

UEFA Cup winners yes. Obviously it being a boat explains the coastal bit.

Bellum also right.

[Mellberg]

31 is Ancelotti.

Edit - Milan/1989.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Not Ancelotti, he misses it on 2-3 counts. You're in the right country though.

[Belum]

37:

Jesus Navas, Sevilla, 2006-7

[Belum]

Not Ancelotti, he misses it on 2-3 counts. You're in the right country though.

Paulo Sousa, Juventus, 95/96?

[Belum]

Is it me, or could 32 be any one of three players?

Charlton, Best or Law, Man Utd, 1968/69?

[Mellberg]

Not Ancelotti, he misses it on 2-3 counts. You're in the right country though.

Said with such certainty as well.

It's Sousa.

[Belum]

Wasting loads of time on these, when I could be wasting time at work so one more. 19:

Golf nicknames: Norman, Stadler, Woods, Nicklaus

[Foe]

Cheers. Been using what little willpower I have not to look at spoilers as I'm planning to have a whack at it through the week.

Yeah, what I meant was to add the spoilers below the question to show that it had indeed been answered if you wanted to see the answer.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Is it me, or could 32 be any one of three players?

Charlton, Best or Law, Man Utd, 1968/69?

Oh shit, you're right, I cunted that one. Was meant to be Best but I seem to have left out the airport reference that was in there at one point.

Sousa and the golf nicknames correct.

[Mellberg]

You have to really do your research on that please with some of them. Started with Ancelotti who won it twice on the bounce with Milan, lost with Roma a few years earlier (although having checked it was 5 years, not 6), managed in London (didn't check this, but Gullit was there, although both Chelsea) and Milan even had a Derby player roughly around that time in Baiano. Then touched on Davids (Barnet, Ravanelli, but didn't move to Juventus in time for 1996 following his Ajax win in '95), Rijkaard and various others before giving up.

[Jimmy Floyd]

It's of course possible there's a duplicate for any of them, but I tried to drop in one quite narrow clue to each one to lead you to the right ballpark. Not sure that Milan side had the World Cup winners 24 years apart either, which Juve had in Del Piero and Vierchowod.

For the Best one I'm absolutely positive I wrote the sentence 'We used to face some heavy tackles in those days, and people are still flying into me now'. Mystified.

[Mellberg]

I was thinking Maldini was still going internationally in 2006, as remembered him scoring in Istanbul, but he was gone by then. Which thinking about it, Grosso and all that. Should've known.

Defo not a duplicate, but there's a few players to get excited about before realising you're wrong. Adds to the charm if anything.

[Belum]

Back. 33:

Michael Carrick, West Ham 2000/01?

[Mazuuurk]

A go at the film ones (dunno if anythings been answered yet):

Film. Name the odd one out.
21. Jaws, The Jungle Book, The Lion King, Jurassic Park
The lion king isn't based on a book (unless you count Hamlet, I guess)

22. The Full Monty, Goldeneye, Brideshead Revisited, Goal!
The main character in Goal is american, the others are English?

23. Cool Runnings, Live and Let Die, Quantum of Solace, A Few Good Men
All the others have real connections to Carribean islands, but the one in live and let die is fictitious

24. Saving Private Ryan, Saving Mr Banks, Apollo 13, Charlie Wilson's War
in the other 3 Tom Hanks play real people?

25. Manhattan, Doctor Dolittle, Evergreen, Toy Story 3
Evergreen is really fucking old. The others aren't.

[Jimmy Floyd]

21. As stated previously it is The Lion King, but the previous guess was much closer to the reason I'm thinking of - although yours is of course also right.
22. Wrong
23. Correct
24. Correct
25. Wrong. Obviously nobody has heard of Evergreen, including me, so you'll have to look for reasons why I might have included it.

Carrick also right.

[Mazuuurk]

OK trying Geography now:

Geography. I'm going on some long distance cruises, but there's a certain rule about where the ship can dock on each journey. Can you name it?

26. Dublin to Auckland, docking at: Madeira, Praia, Victoria, Colombo, Jakarta and Hobart
Can only stay on small island harbours, not main continents

27. London to Mumbai, docking at: Southampton, Bridgetown, Port-of-Spain, Wellington, Brisbane, Colombo and Bangalore
Have to avoid Africa alltogether (both good hope and suez)

28. Liverpool to St Petersburg, docking at: Ipswich, London, Amsterdam, Rotterdam and Gothenburg. Not quite docking at Dundee.
Have to visit European Cup final venues along the way?

29. Guangzhou to Miami, docking at: Rangoon, Chennai and Lagos.
Cannot travel on the Pacific?

30. Stockholm to Busan, docking at: Oslo, London, Vienna (this one's on a narrow boat), Alexandria, Accra and Rangoon.
Have to go through as many canals as possible?

[Jimmy Floyd]

26. Yes, all islands
27. Nope
28. Already answered, it's UEFA Cup winners
29. Nope
30. Nope

[Mazuuurk]

Fucking hell :(

[Belum]

26. Yes, all islands
27. Nope
28. Already answered, it's UEFA Cup winners
29. Nope
30. Nope

Is there more to 27 than Test cricket venues?

Also, good luck docking at Bangalore.

[Jimmy Floyd]

That's correct.

Hmm. I always think it's on the SW coast for some reason.

[ItalAussie]

I'm going to try and answer as many as I can tonight without looking at any other responses, so apologies if I double up.

[MartinSAFC]

A stab at number 22 due to a piece of James Bond knowledge. GoldenEye is the odd one out as it is directed by a New Zealander while the others are directed by Britons?

[Jimmy Floyd]

Goldeneye is the odd one out, but not for that reason.

[Browning]

Glad someone got the Tom Hanks question. I had a theory about it but when I searched the movies it turned out not to be right. The Mrs happened to walk in and see I'd googled Saving Mr Banks and Saving Private Ryan, and when I explained why, without knowing what the other 2 films were she suggested "Is Tom Hanks fighting the Nazis in 3 of them, and playing a Nazi in the other." :D

[Jimmy Floyd]

Bumpy bump. While away those dull Christmas hours with something possibly even duller. Quite a few still to get.

[Boydy]

Could you mark the ones that have already been done?

[Jimmy Floyd]

I could, but not now as I'm on a phone and away from my answer spreadsheet. All the music ones are unsolved and a handful from each of the other rounds.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Unanswered ones:
2
5
6-10
13
16
18
20
(21-22: nobody has correct reason)
25
29-30
34
36
38
39
43
45
48

[igor_balis]

Unanswered ones:

6

The Clash. Those are british bands in order of when a team from their city first won a European cup/Champions League.

[Jimmy Floyd]

Bang, well done. Would have accepted any act from London. The others are of a similar ilk in that there are probably various acts that fulfil the criteria.