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. ?

Yeah, well, but Euclid doesn't get full credit is what I always say.

In the 70 years since the end of WW2, there has been only ONE year in which no soldier of the British Army died on active service.

What year was that?

I believe it was 1968 -slightly surprising ,if so , as the British Army was involved in Northern Island then, wasn't it...?

I also think it was 1968. I walked into 10 Downing Street in January of that year and met the occupier, one Harold Wilson, without even being frisked - but then I was with his younger son (we'd just watched Tottenham beat Arsenal 1-0). I don't think 'The Time of Troubles' in Northern Ireland kicked off until 1969.

A question from about the same time.....

Which sportsman received £90 in compensation after losing four toes in an accident?

Sounds like Fred Titmus , the Middlesex  and England spin bowler in the Caribbean on a West Indies  tour when he had a disagreement with a  motor-boat propeller...?

Ah, too easy, I guess! There was a sick joke circulating at the time: "What's got six toes and spins?".

Titmus's accident resulted in a complete overhaul of insurance cover for England cricketers when playing abroad.

Getting back to my honourable friend who took me into Downing Street.....

About ten years ago, he gave up teaching and started another job. Any guesses as to what it was?

Doesn't look a bit like Michael Portillo!


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Gary Neville told the BBC that he will be "taking Spanish lessons every day."

What's the flaw in his stated intention?

Could it be that most people in Valencia speak Valencian (which is very similar to Catalan)? Or could it be that hardly any of the players are Spanish?

Quite so, Ivan. My experience is that many soi-disant foreigners speak grammatical English better than we do.

Gary Neville will do just fine with his native Lancashire Speyk.

Who are these three...?

This close to Christmas, We three kings of orient are would seem to be a possible choice, Phil, but none of them are wearing a Leyton strip so I'll wait for the final whistle, particularly as I don't always believe what you find in the Daily Wail.

If you can't be accurate, be amusing!  

The geezer on the left looks a bit like Roy Keane, but I wouldn't put any money on it!

The style of the uniforms places it firmly in the 1960s

That helps..... the referee might be Ken Aston?

The referee is indeed Ken Aston.

What we see in the picture is the prelude to the 1963 Cup Final. The captains of Manchester United and Leicester City shake hands - respectively, Noel Cantwell ( left) and Colin Appleton. United won 3-1.

Ah, my misspent youth...

Given a choice, I'd just as soon look at photos of Jennifer Aston.



though of course it was the other one who introduced the Red Card.

Is that the next Extremely difficult quiz question, Phil?

Do you want to tell us first how you stumbled across www.bapwatch.com whilst idly surfing the net for that clip, Phil?

Just askin'

A random google selection in search of the Golden Shot girl , Anne Aston.

To the pure , all things are pure.
 

And anyway, the football on telly was over...   

Whose gravestone reminds us that 'time is sovereign over all things' ?

Arthur Daley kept on talking about Sovs in "Minder".

As I imagine you really already know, ow, we are talking about somebody far less reliable than an honest spiv - this was a politician...

Not Harry Potter either then.

Someone has pushed a note under the door of my study, suggesting that the Deceased may be none other than Chalky White, sadly-missed former Hon. Sec. of the National Union of Tory Teachers, Educationalists and Related Staff ( NUTTERS), and founder-member of the Pease Pottage Irregulars Model Railway Club.

Never knowingly uttered a word of sense throughout his life, so the gnomic headstone may be entirely appropriate.

IDS

So close - but not quite.

Another clue which will allow you to produce the answer and avoid your having to further exercise your over-vivid imagination  - and thereby save you from a Saturday morning detention :

the epitaph appears in Latin - tempus imperator rerum

What inspired you to post such a question? Have you been to the Scilly Isles recently?


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The nearest I have ever been is Penzance, Ivan.

But you were talking about Wilson's son recently and I was reminded about various matters Wilsonian...

The last surviving remnants of a feudal system are to be found in the Channel Island of Sark, and in the Scillies, where everyone knows their place. In each case, the mediaeval economy was based on shipwrecks.

Moving quickly on, while brains are still in gear, the next Extremely difficult quiz question is, like the last one, not at all difficult if you know the answer (and doesn't even require a smatterin' o' Latin).  So here it is, Playmates:

Just over two hundred years ago, there were no passenger railway trains in England (or indeed anywhere else) so a gentleman in a hurry to reach London from the West Country could only choose horse-drawn conveyance. Inevitably, he made 21 stops to change horses on the way from Falmouth to London and his “account of expenses” shows his route, where he changed horses and his costs.

Falmouth to Truro, £ 1 : 2 : 6 .
To the Blue Anchor £ 2 : 17 :
To Bodmin £ 1 : 19 :
To Launceston £ 3 : 6 : 6
To Oakhampton £ 3 : 4 :
To Overton £ 1 : 13 :
To Crockernwell £ 1 : 16 : 6
To Exeter £ 1 : 17 : 6  
To Hertford-bridge £ 1 : 15 : 6
To Honiton £ 2 : 14 :
To Axminster £ 1 : 11 : 7
To Bridport £ 1 : 16 : 6
To Dorchester £ 2 : 14 : 6
continued To Blandford £ 2 : 10 : 6
To Woodyates £ 2 : 5 :
To Salisbury £ 1 : 17 : 6
To Andover £ 2 : 15 :
To Basingstoke £ 1 : 14 :
To Bagshot £ 1 : 12 :
To Staines £ 1 : 17 : 6
To Hounslow £ 1 : 14 : 6
Finally £ 2 : 5 :
  Total £46  : 19 : 1  which was a pretty penny in those days, but his expenses were repaid without argument.

Why was that gentleman in such a hurry to get to London?

One could get into a Pickle on such a journey - or, indeed, get out of one.

But delivering such good - and bad -news was surely worth the trip and the cost.

Yes indeed, HM Sloop "Pickle" brought the news of Trafalgar from Admiral Collingwood to their Lordships of the Admiralty, but faced with a headwind up the English Channel her Captain put in to Falmouth to finish his journey on dry land. The full story reads like a yarn in Boys' Own Paper.

The statement which follows this introduction is absolutely true. It means what it says, and says what it means. There's no trick wording.

"The highest mountain in Spain is not the highest Spanish mountain".

What's the explanation?

Much too easy! It has to mean that the highest Spanish mountain is on one of the Spanish islands. I nominate Mount Teide in Tenerife.

¡Demonios, un sapiente habla! Well it's an old chestnut, but was worth a try. Impressionable people believed that the volcanic Mount Teide was a remnant of Atlantis, and for quite a long time it was on nautical charts as the International meridian until replaced by Greenwich.

This is probably too easy as well, but here goes....... who is this?

Born in Norfolk, now lives in Chelsea. Married three times, divorced twice, has one daughter. Was unconscious for 28 days after being hit by a bus when riding a bicycle. Worked for a merchant bank for three years. Once made a 46-day long road trip from London to Bombay in a vintage Rolls Royce.  Holds very right-wing political views.

My dear old thing - that's a bit of a googly if ever I saw one.

And he's seen a few...