The geography ones are soul-crushing.
The geography ones are soul-crushing.
29 is probably quite hard outwith the bounds of being reasonable. Oh well. The others you just have to see it I think.
Before I caught on to the list of fielding terms, I thought 14 had something to do with cricket. Feather, bouncer, Clarke...
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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.
Hello all. Will have a look through this tomorrow, but jumping in with this for now. 42:
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Lurking Little Pleb.
Yeah, and would have stayed that way if I didn't need to post to see if I'm right or not.
Ah well.
28 - only docking at costal UEFA Cup winners between 1976 and 2008?
Ish.
UEFA Cup winners yes. Obviously it being a boat explains the coastal bit.
Bellum also right.
31 is Ancelotti.
Edit - Milan/1989.
Not Ancelotti, he misses it on 2-3 counts. You're in the right country though.
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Is it me, or could 32 be any one of three players?
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Said with such certainty as well.
It's Sousa.
Wasting loads of time on these, when I could be wasting time at work so one more. 19:
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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.
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.
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?
26. Yes, all islands
27. Nope
28. Already answered, it's UEFA Cup winners
29. Nope
30. Nope
Fucking hell
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Also, good luck docking at Bangalore.
That's correct.
Hmm. I always think it's on the SW coast for some reason.
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.
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Goldeneye is the odd one out, but not for that reason.
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."
Bumpy bump. While away those dull Christmas hours with something possibly even duller. Quite a few still to get.
Could you mark the ones that have already been done?
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.
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
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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.
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