Extremely difficult quiz questions

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What is the name of the cottage next door to The Crown & Anchor pub, near Kilnsea, East Yorkshire. ?

What's the Latin for "Kick and rush"?

It's more pulchra ludum for me...

One of the posts snapped and held up the game

Reg Cutler "ended up in the net after an aerial challenge with goalkeeper Bert Williams, causing one of the goalposts to collapse".

http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/sport/9694264.display/

That was in 1957, and in those days physical challenges on goalkeepers were allowed. Bolton's Nat Lofthouse notoriously demonstrated that in the Cup Final of the following year, when he barged Manchester United's Harry Gregg over the goal line and was awarded a goal. Clearly it wasn't just the rules which were different then - Manchester United also didn't have a Howard Webb (or a Phil Dowd) as their twelfth man....  

Referees cheat more now than they ever did back then ( although , for the life of me, I cannot see how Lofthouse's challenge was seen as fair even in those bone-crunching days).

At that time the worst accusation directed at officials was that they had forgotten their glasses / lost their guide dog, or asked if they had received their ( over-used) whistle as a Christmas Gift ( ie 'What else did you get from Santa, ref?).

But who was the only Football League referee to officiate having only one arm? These days there are a number who get through a game with no brain whatsoever...

Phil dowd yesterday Phil, utd v chelsea, he did all he could to let utd equalise, even sent a chelsea player off with total of 7mins to play.
then up pops old robin v.p. 1-1 30 seconds left to play.

I never got on with referees in my playing days ( can't think why, given what a very nice chap I am! ). But I only got sent off once after telling the man in black he was a disgrace and would not be out of place in a circus.

I think playing in goal helped - most refs didn't have the puff to want to run back up the pitch to book me and the linesmen I used to abuse from my goal area were seemingly deaf. I was known as a critic of officialdom in local football circles. One Referee's Society asked me to go and give them a talk from a player's point of view , but I declined their kind invitation, on the grounds that, if they didn't like the truth on a Saturday, they weren't going to listen to it on a Wednesday night either...

Oh Phil you should definitely have gone, if they had not have liked what you were saying they could always have given you a red card.

What's this all about?  

All the letters of the alphabet...

How do you figure that Phil?

He just typed it!

Ever heard of a pangram?

" But who was the only Football League referee to officiate having only one arm?"

I never did get anyone telling us this one...

It has got to be regards Phil's soccer days when he says that he only got a red card once, for telling the man in black that he would not be out of place in a circus?
Should the dog not be black then and not white? or is that PHIL?

stu. I don't know about the one-armed football referee, but there have been a few who are short-sighted, especially when they adjudicate at Old Trafford, but that's another story.....  

A pangram is a sentence which contains the whole of the alphabet at least once. It's therefore useful for checking all the letters on a keyboard. One such sentence is: 'The quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog'.

The man in question was Alf Bond who came from London.

Wiki says :

"Alf Bond was the referee in the 1956 FA Cup Final. He was 45, in charge of his first FA Cup Final. Former right-half for Danes Athletic in the South-West District League - of which he was Vice-President - Bond lost his right arm at the age of 19 when working in a rubber factory. Promotion came via the Corinthian League, the Football Combination and the Southern League.

He was the proprietor of a newsagents business in Fulham. His comment on being selected to officiate at the Cup Final: "It's a grand feeling to know that you have gained this honour"[1]

He controlled his first league game in 1948 - a Third Division (South) match. He officiated at the 1954 FA Amateur Cup Final at Wembley between Bishop Auckland and Crook Town and has also refereed four international matches.

He died in 1986."

Ivan I knew what the pangram was, I just could not think of the word that had the z in it, duh.

Incidentally, the 19th century saw a ref who probably ,iived up to his name : Segar Bastard - I kid you not.

He still has, clearly, any number of relations throughout football officialdom...

I bet he has been called that a few times too Phil.

When is the Great Referee in the Sky going to call "Time" on the putrefying greed of FIFA?

Sorry - that's far too difficult a question for me...

Same here Phil.

Who wrote this?  

22 June 1976

“They do drain one, these late nights. I went home for a couple of hours and, as I lay by the pool, thought how diminished (by earlier standards) was my sexuality. Always in the past I would get erotic sensations lying out after a ‘dip’. Short of food and sleep of course – that strange affliction at Easter (exactly two months ago) had something to do with it. And strange after effects, practically off alcohol for virtually six weeks.

Just a note from dinner at Saltwood for Norman Tebbit: ‘Many would like you as Folkestone’s next MP….’, one woman said. Jane, with her usual good sense just replied flatly: ‘…. many wouldn’t.’ And certainly balance of that number hasn’t necessarily shifted in my favour since being in ‘Parly’.”

No idea!

Grrrh....too many clues, I guess. Parliament - Tories - Saltwood (his castle) - Jane (his long-suffering missus).

I must try to make these questions harder in future!  

I don't understand why the next MP for Folkestone was being discussed in 1976. Sir Albert Costain held that post from 1959 until 1983, and we all know who succeeded him, regardless of whether he did or did not later threaten to overrule Derek Lewis....

Alan Clark grew up in the shadow of his father, always referred to in Private Eye as Lord Clark of Civilisation from an epic TV series he produced, called "Civilisation". When the "Diary" was published in 1993 or whatever it was, it caused a sensation mainly because he had evidently lusted after Margaret Thatcher (eeuugh!) and inter alia claimed to have had sex simultaneously with the wife and two daughters of a diplomat.

Having dismissed the possibility of Jeffrey Archer, there remained only one candidate, Alan Clark, who had famously belittled Michael Heseltine as "a man who'd had to buy all his own furniture" i.e. not inherited.

Curious people, those Tories.

Here's a question that anybody can answer. It was the published editorial of a British national newspaper this weekend, but the question is ... Which newspaper?

".... Tens of thousands of British businesses have been hit by digital giant multinationals and others which pay very little tax in Britain. While small firms creak under the weight of business rates and other taxes, companies such as Amazon - which on its most recent financial year paid £4.2m in Corporation Tax on sales of £4.3billion - live a gilded existence. Starbucks has just declared its first profit in Britain, of £1m.

.... Voters worry about the economic damage a Labour government could do, but the Tories have failed to make hay. The party that should be the champion of the entrepreneur too often comes across as the creature of its City friends and naïve about the digital giants. It needs to change, too."

Overwhelmed by entries from the usual suspects, it's time to reveal to a waiting Public that the passage was First Leader in the Sunday Times. Seems the Tories can't even necessarily rely upon their friends for encouragement. (Quelle domage!)

“The Duke had slept badly the night before because of nerves, and he had added to his burden by proposing an extra speech. So many people were expected to attend that he decided to make a brief address to the crowds outside as he opened the great doors of the new Parliament House with a golden key. Dame Nellie Melba sang the national anthem; troops paraded and aeroplanes droned overhead – one of them crashed from four hundred feet about a mile from the reviewing stand, killing the pilot. Although some twenty thousand people were present (and an estimated two million listened at home on the radio) the Duke won the battle with his nerves.”

Who is that about?
What is the title of the book from which that extract is taken?
Where and when that did that event take place?

Well, as I wasn't alive in 1927 (rumours to the contrary notwithstanding) I'll let someone else hazard a guess at that first.

Not the abdication?

The abdication was 1936.

The sage has correctly (as always) identified this as 1927 - but who, where, and what is the book?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Reluctant-King-Reign-George-1895-1952/dp/0312043376/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1425145176&sr=8-3&keywords=books+about+george+vi

?
In 1927, as Duke of York, he made a state visit to Australia and presumably had a crisis of confidence about making a speech in public, as he was painfully shy and had a very bad stammer

There's an interesting commentary by Peter Conradi describing his co-authorship of this book, amongst associated events.

http://www.laurelzuckerman.com/2011/03/laurel-zuckerman-talks-with-peter-conradi-co-author-of-the-kings-speech-on-edward-viii-and-the-chall.html

Oh well

A question which has had to wait until today:

How many MPs are there?

Well, I know it's not 650 - that would be too easy

Zero according to BBC news this morning.

Oh, yes

Who wrote these thoughts about the future, and what was the title of the book, first published in 1956?

“How far towards equality do we wish to go?........The apocalyptic view that we might one day wake up to find that something called ‘socialism’ had arrived was born of revolutionary theories of capitalist collapse. But in Western societies change is gradual and evolutionary, and not always either foreseeable or under political control.”

(Clue – the author, who died in 1977, has already featured in a previous question on this thread but hasn’t been named!)

Given the date of death, I would have gone for Antony Crosland, although without that clue I would have been looking at Michael Foot or Tony Benn...