A little half-term challenge for you

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A little half-term challenge for you

Post by boris »

Name as many Conference teams as you can in five minutes.

I got 42 out of 68 before running out of time, although in my defence I was under severe child-related hassle at the time. I got all the Conf National sides (without cheating), so there's your benchmark.
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Post by Roo »

BLOODY HELL BORIS!!!!!!!!!!!!!

give us a break!....we are still busy writing you latest sodding book!
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Re: A little half-term challenge for you

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&quotboris&quot wrote:Name as many Conference teams as you can in five minutes.

I got 42 out of 68 before running out of time, although in my defence I was under severe child-related hassle at the time. I got all the Conf National sides (without cheating), so there's your benchmark.
Beat me. I only got half of them. Junior, beat the both of us. Or so he says.
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Post by slappy »

34 for me too. I struggled with the teams we haven't been to or played recently.
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Re: A little half-term challenge for you

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&quotboris&quot wrote:Name as many Conference teams as you can in five minutes.

I got 42 out of 68 before running out of time, although in my defence I was under severe child-related hassle at the time. I got all the Conf National sides (without cheating), so there's your benchmark.
46. I like quizzes, me.
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[quote=&quotAscension Ox&quot
46. I like quizzes, me.[/quote]

47 for Junior but he's too modest to say so. He was stood over my shoulder laughing as I was struggling with some allegedly obvious ones.
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Post by Mark Sennett »

I got 41 including all BSP sides. I ran out of time. Bu to be honest I would only have got a couple more.
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Did anyone not start with the Mighty Yellows?
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&quotAscension Ox&quot wrote:
&quotboris&quot wrote:Name as many Conference teams as you can in five minutes.

I got 42 out of 68 before running out of time, although in my defence I was under severe child-related hassle at the time. I got all the Conf National sides (without cheating), so there's your benchmark.
46. I like quizzes, me.
Me too!

Try this one and tell me how many you got right.

http://www.sporcle.com/games/pbabowlers.php
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&quotSnake&quot wrote:Try this one and tell me how many you got right.

http://www.sporcle.com/games/pbabowlers.php
I got six by guessing common surnames.
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Post by Boogie »

The one I really liked when played at a really boring cricket match about 3 years ago is name all the 20(?) would be more now(?) British players who have played in Serie A. ROI players excluded (i.e you can't have Liam Brady).

It took 4 of us about 4 hours at the cricket.
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&quotBoogie&quot wrote:The one I really liked when played at a really boring cricket match about 3 years ago is name all the 20(?) would be more now(?) British players who have played in Serie A. ROI players excluded (i.e you can't have Liam Brady).

It took 4 of us about 4 hours at the cricket.
Give us an idea of the earliest. I'll have to start cheating and use google if you go back beyond John Charles.
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Post by Boogie »

I think I remember correctly that John Charles was the earliest on the list we ended up with and the person who set the challenge did not correct us.

A Coli might be old enough to remember an earlier export :wink:
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Post by SmileyMan »

27 on the original quiz - including forgetting poor old R&ampD :D
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&quotBoogie&quot wrote:I think I remember correctly that John Charles was the earliest on the list we ended up with and the person who set the challenge did not correct us.

A Coli might be old enough to remember an earlier export :wink:
Rush, Elliott, Hateley, Francis, Hitchens, Greaves, Law, Bothroyd, Blissett, Gazza, Baker,Charles, Souness, Beckham, Ince, Platt took me about 5 minutes without resorting to Google cheating.

That's 16.
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