Pub Quiz thread

No, your contention we played… :/

 

We did - badly.

 

Depends if running across the white line constitutes ‘playing’.

 

Being there does - something that doesn't happen for the sport in question.

 

I am not sure on this, but do teams in county cricket get points when a game is abandoned due to bad weather?

 

That I can't answer - but the teams I'm thinking of never start regardless of the weather & the they actually don't even have to turn up.

It's not cricket - it's a type of football. Doesn't happen all the time - but has this season for a specific reason.

 

Shot in the dark here - is it walking football ? I know the first World Cup is being held in Derby this year.

 

No - wrong sort of football.

In this particular game it's to do with numbers.

 

It only happens in Australia, but used to happen in England where the sport was invented.

 

Australia has won 12 of the 16 World Championships held in the sport to date.

 

Ok - final clue.

The sport in question is Rugby League - and below is the current NRL table, showing 5 teams at the top, all on 18 points. No draws have happened, and teams are awarded 2 points for a win - so it's not unreasonable to think that each of the top 5 have won 9 games. Yet only one team (Brisbane) has done so - so why have the other 4 each got 18 points as well?

 

Well this seems to have died a natural death, so I'll have one more go.
There are 17 teams in the NRL - meaning only 8 games are played each week.

 

So, if there are 17 teams then one team must get a bye each round - I guess they get points for when it's their turn not to play?

 

Yes - it was that simple.

Over to you...

 

Cheers BB. As is generally known after the Brexit fiasco a lot of british ex pats in European countries were looking at the possibility of naturalizing in the country they happened to be - I was one of them and took German nationality in addition to British. At the time I was in contact with other ex pats in other European countries and it emerged that the conditions for naturalization, and the processes were not standardized throughout the EU. Becoming 'German' was a different thing to becoming 'Spanish' etc. Here is a list of quirks or differences from different countries - can anybody identify them.

Country A. Standard procedures with one important difference - the required language test is much harder than anywhere else - set between B2 and C1 level (the same as other countries require for University entrance).

Country B. If all else fails and you perform an act of public heroism (like wrestling a terrorist to the ground) the they give you their nationality as a reward. There is also a quick route to naturalization for the adventurous and foolhardy.

Country C. Joining the local choir is an advantage because after all conditions have been met your application will be voted on by your local community.

Country D. The residence requirement is the longest in the EU. (12 years) - you will also have to give up your British nationality (this last thing is also the case in 2 other western European states).

Country E. One of the easiest to get - if you are married to someone from this country then you get it automatically without having to live there (fortunately their women are amongst the sexiest in Europe).

Country F. In this country you have to have paid into their tax system (and other insurances) as an employee for 5 years continuously - any break in that means going back to zero again. Despite this they have a very high naturalization rate.

Country G. A very strange quirk here - after satisfying all the conditions they also want a hand written CV (possibly sent to a hand writing specialist).

Country H. Along with E, dual nationality is not possible for Brits though it is for some other nationalities.

Can anyone identify the countries - or some of them ?

 

Brilliant question!!

 

France has given nationality to some who have been involved in acts of heroism, so my guess is that is B.

 

Agreed!

baffling too!

 

That's one down and seven to go Frenchie The French have indeed awarded citizenship for this - the shortcut for the adventurous and foolhardy (or mad) is to join the French Foreign Legion and subsequently get badly wounded in action ! In which case if you have given blood for France then you qualify as French. Clues on some of the other ones - if your name is Lionel then it's ok. but Brits have to give it up ! Who votes on just about everything ? And why is it good that I have a legible script ?

 

Well the Swiss vote on just about everything going, so I guess that could be the clue to C.