Games & Recreation Pointless Trivia

[Dinsdale]

False.

http://www.snopes.com/inboxer/trivia/fivedays.asp

Ahh you edited your post. Must have researched it after you posted

yeah, edited it to make the 2nd line white, to see who I could catch. Childish I know.

 

[Gough]

This Sunday will mark twenty years since the passing of Garcia.

 

[Cruyff14]

this month see a vaery rare event - 5 Fridays, 5 Saturdays, 5 Sundays in the one month. It last happened 823 years ago.

ps this is not rare, and 823 has nothing to do with it, it happens nearly every year

Nope.

 

[Registered User]

I don't think this is pointless at all, but,
since weather records have been kept in Melbourne, it's snowed 3 times in the city, the last time being in 1951.

One occasion included a snowstorm the day before Spring, 1849.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Extreme_weather_events_in_Melbourne

Snow in Burwood, 9th of August, 1951

 

[worbod]

People from the German city of Frankfurt are known as Frankfurters. Likewise, people from the German city of Hamburg are known as Hamburgers.

 

[worbod]

Playing in a county cricket match for Sussex versus Derbyshire at Derby in 1913, Herbert Chaplin was out in the second innings "c Beet b Root".

 

[SugarShane]

Playing in a county cricket match for Sussex versus Derbyshire at Derby in 1913, Herbert Chaplin was out in the second innings "c Beet b Root".

Lillee was once out caught by Willey off Dilley's bowling. Making the scorecard read "Lillee, c Willey b Dilley."

 

[Gough]

http://www.cricketcountry.com/artic...led-rice-the-dismissal-that-was-a-meal-280163

February 16, 1980. Alan Kourie, Western Provinces’ long-standing all-rounder, combined with Allan Lamb and Clive Rice to form a scorecard entry in the 1979-80 Datsun Shield final that has been a part of pub quizzes. Abhishek Mukherjee looks at a culinary delight of a scorecard entry.

This article probably includes some cheating, but the topic has been used so frequently as a quiz question that I presume I can get away with this. While “lamb” and “rice” are proper common nouns, “kourie”, unfortunately, is not. However, one of the two variants of the pronunciation of the word is similar to “curry”, which left South African cricket fans hoping for a dismissal involving the three. http://www.cricketcountry.com/artic...election-before-disappearance-for-good-275622

 

[worbod]

The longest known scorebook entry for a cricket dismissal is this:

V. Chamundeswaranath c Balasubramaniam b Anantapadamanabhan

The batsman was playing for Andhra vs. Kerala in the Ranji Trophy in India in 1990-91. He scored 2.

 

[Illinois Nazi]

I vaguely recall a Shield game where we had Zoehrer c Zadow b Zesers

 

[worbod]

Another good one is from when Zimbabwe played a warm up game versus Canterbury on their tour of New Zealand in 2000-01. In Zimbabwe's first innings
Guy Whittall was dismissed c James b Bond for 4. He should have made three more runs so his score could have been (double O) 7.

 

[worbod]

I wanted to put this into the Philip Hughes thread in the Cricket forum, but that thread has been locked. I read this in Wisden 2015.

Jason Hughes returned to Sydney grade cricket with Mosman three weeks after the death of his younger brother Philip, and was out for 63, the score Philip had reached when he was hit. Jason said he had not known how many runs he had when he was dismissed.

 

[Rustin Cohle]

David Beckham was born at Whipps Cross hospital.

 

[the fly]

Ass far as cricketing dismissals go, having the wicketkeeper Phil Mustard and the seamer Graeme Onions in the same county side is a gift that's kept on giving for 10 years.

 

[kickazz]

There has been only one scoreless quarter in VFL/AFL history.

 

[kickazz]

There was a time when some members of the House of Commons in the UK represented electorates with as few as 7 voters.

 

[Van_Dyke]

There has been only one scoreless quarter in VFL/AFL history.

Surely this must be Ross Lyon's fault.

 

[SugarShane]

The longest known scorebook entry for a cricket dismissal is this:

V. Chamundeswaranath c Balasubramaniam b Anantapadamanabhan

The batsman was playing for Andhra vs. Kerala in the Ranji Trophy in India in 1990-91. He scored 2.

Imagine playing club cricket over there, yelling out "Bowler's name?" when he takes the ball and hearing "Anantapadamanabhan" in response.

 

[kickazz]

At the Haskell Free Library and Opera House, the stage is in Canada and the audience is in USA.

 

[Van_Dyke]

Imagine playing club cricket over there, yelling out "Bowler's name?" when he takes the ball and hearing "Anantapadamanabhan" in response.

Say that again.

 

[worbod]

Say that again.

Are you just being a smart ass or are you doing your Luke Darcy impersonation?

 

[Van_Dyke]

Are you just being a smart ass or are you doing your Luke Darcy impersonation?

Darcy.

 

[The King!]

Since 1978 about 40 people have died from a vending machine falling on them

 

[Handsuper47]

In the series Pokemon, there's four different answers to what could be known as the first Pokemon - Bulbasaur is the first in the Pokedex, Mew is the ancestor of all Pokemon, Rhydon was the first to be programmed and Arceus created the Pokeverse (universe).

 

[Rough_Edges]

accident