Pub Quiz thread

Cheers yorkie...
The World Championships for which sport have been held twelve times since 1980 - the first ten times won by European sides but the last two by the same South American side?

 

Gold winners in the first two championships were Denmark, with Silver going to Germany and Bronze to Sweden.

 

The women's version was introduced in 1991 - and the initial gold medal winners were Sweden.

 

Denmark are very good at volleyball, but I suspect a World Championship goes back further in time for women.

 

Not volleyball - this sport involves more liquid than that.

 

Sweden have won the men's title the most times with five golds - and Germany have won the women's title the most with three golds.

 

I'm guessing from liquid and Sweden that it might be frozen liquid so is it Bandy ?

 

No - it's a very liquid liquid.

To be honest, I thought you'd get it as the game was invented in Cologne.

 

There are some strange sports and events practiced in Cologne BB Amongst them Mermaiding and underwater hockey !

 

Well it's neither of them.
This one must live up to Cologne's reputation - it's so strange that it's name suggests another sport to which it bears no resemblance whatsoever.

 

Invented in Cologne in 1961 as a training game for another sport, the first competitive fixtures didn't take place until 1965 in Mülheim, when six clubs took part in a mini-tournament - Mülheim (eventual winners), Bochum, Dusseldorf, Duisberg, Essen and Ludenscheid.

 

Underwater Rugby ? Developed as a training for divers using a ball filled with salt water.

 

You got it. Why it was called rugby is a complete mystery.

Over to you.

 

Cheers BB. Which writer used as a pseudonym only the name of a city where he once had had a wild love affair.

 

Jack London ?

 

Nope, sorry Bodbo. This writer's most well known pseudonym used only the name of a town with no christian name added. He had many other pseudonyms but the town is the most well known and under which he wrote his most famous works.

 

A few clues - a couple of trains have been named after him including the night train from Paris to Venice. He used many pseudonyms in his life but this one is the only famous one - the town which inspired his name is one which I have been to (my son in law picks us up from the railway station there when we visit him). Getting a bit closer to the writer - thinking of a special kind of ham helps.

 

Stendhal was a French writer who has a train named after him. I believe Stendhal is a German city.

 

All yours Frenchie Marie-Henri Beyle whose most famous pen name was Stendahl, a name which he borrowed from the German city, where he lived between 1807 and 1810. His reason for staying there having to do with a Fraulein named Wilhelmine. The German city is spelled Stendal but he added the H to emphasise a German pronunciation. The town is the closest inter city rail station to where Mrs Cologne's son lives in Wendland (Stendal itself is just on the old East German side of the border). The clue about ham obviously referred to his novel 'The Charterhouse of Parma.'. Take it away !

 

Thanks cologne.

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