SZ Trivia Challenge and Sporcle

[Matt the Shrimp]

One must know one's enemies. Hence 23/24 plus two bonuses. Very surprised by the one I didn't get.

Ooh, give me a hint about the two bonuses. One was fairly obvious for students of European political thought since the dawn of time; but what about the other...?

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

One for Europhiles... all 23 got, with 1:14 still on the clock.

http://www.sporcle.com/games/eu_officiallanguages.php

 

[Rusty Shackleford]

A cracker... and, embarrassingly, only 20/24 for me...

http://www.sporcle.com/games/worldcupsquad_england1990.php

Missed one, gutted. With 30 seconds to go, I thought I'd cracked the missing Forest midfielder and typed in 'Nigel Clough'. Alas, not the right one.

 

[Rusty Shackleford]

Ooh, give me a hint about the two bonuses. One was fairly obvious for students of European political thought since the dawn of time; but what about the other...?

Have sent a PM old boy.

 

[Rusty Shackleford]

Another good one for Rusty... I got 38/46, before running out of time...

http://www.sporcle.com/games/ukus_words.php

That was a good one - 40 for me, never heard of a couple of them!

 

[Uncle Leo]

A cracker... and, embarrassingly, only 20/24 for me...

http://www.sporcle.com/games/worldcupsquad_england1990.php

Full marks, but not sure I'd have got one of those Forest players had I not seen a pic of the squad in The Times on Saturday morning.

 

[Rusty Shackleford]

Full marks, but not sure I'd have got one of those Forest players had I not seen a pic of the squad in The Times on Saturday morning.

I wonder if there will ever be another England squad which has four players making their living north of the border.

 

[Uncle Leo]

I wonder if there will ever be another England squad which has four players making their living north of the border.

Not for a while, unless Lee Naylor (Celtic), Danny Cadamarteri (Dundee Utd), Andrew Driver (Hearts) and Stuart Nelson (Aberdeen) all undergo drastic improvement!

 

[number11]

I wonder if there will ever be another England squad which has four players making their living north of the border.

Indeed. Robson commented that what made that team such a good unit was that they were playing for the likes of Derby, QPR, Rangers, Forest, Villa, Wolves etc and therefore their ultimate as a footballer was turning out for England, and the world wide exposure that brings (see David Platt). These days Id guess 2/3rds of the starting are from the big 4 and with their Champions League campaigns playing for England might be seen as a step down for them......

 

[canveyshrimper]

One for Europhiles... all 23 got, with 1:14 still on the clock.

http://www.sporcle.com/games/eu_officiallanguages.php

Beat me by 15 seconds. :clap: I struggled with the George Cross Island for the last one.

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

This is a good one - 21/22... I couldn't for the life of me who had declared independence from the US!

http://www.sporcle.com/games/independence_days.php

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

Good bit of fun - all done with 32s on the clock:

http://www.sporcle.com/games/romannumerals.php

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

Know your beer... although I missed three of them! 21/24:

http://www.sporcle.com/games/beersoftheworld.php

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

Climb ev'ry mountain... all done with 1m 46s on the clock:

http://www.sporcle.com/games/milehighcountries.php

 

[Rusty Shackleford]

This is a good one - 21/22... I couldn't for the life of me who had declared independence from the US!

http://www.sporcle.com/games/independence_days.php

Good one Matt, 20 for me, failed on the US one as well and one really obvious one. This is quite good:

http://www.sporcle.com/games/namethatstate.php

Managed 43 - time sneaks up on you with this one.

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

Good one Matt, 20 for me, failed on the US one as well and one really obvious one. This is quite good:

http://www.sporcle.com/games/namethatstate.php

Managed 43 - time sneaks up on you with this one.

Only 18 for me, sadly - shows my lack of in-depth knowledge of the big ole US of A.

:'(

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

Random, but enjoyable - 28/32:

http://www.sporcle.com/games/northernmost_worldcapitals.php

 

[canveyshrimper]

28 for me also, would have been 29 but I couldn't spell the capital of Slovenia.

 

[Uncle Leo]

Least populated countries

Disappointed with my tally of 17, although there was at least one big surprise (to me) in there

 

[Matt the Shrimp]

Good one, James. 20/25 - not too unhappy with that.