General Knowledge Quiz

[SuspectUsual]

9 barouder sounds like a sort of rider, could it be one who helps others up hill, or attacks to divert attention or for five minutes of fame?

Not the first part, but the second is on the right tracks

 

[Gloster]

Baroudeur. Someone who contributes nothing to a breakaway and just hangs in others’ slipstream, but then sprints past the others to gain the stage win or points?

 

[SuspectUsual]

Baroudeur. Someone who contributes nothing to a breakaway and just hangs in others’ slipstream, but then sprints past the others to gain the stage win or points?

No not that

 

[xotGD]

2 - parcours - the route of that day's stage



9 - baroudeur - a rider who is sent up the road so that he is available for his team leader to use later in the stage if he breaks from the bunch?

 

[341o2]

no 1 echapee is a ballet term meaning to escape by jumping or leaping. does this mean someone who breaks away from the leading riders and gets out in front

 

[SuspectUsual]

2 - parcours - the route of that day's stage



9 - baroudeur - a rider who is sent up the road so that he is available for his team leader to use later in the stage if he breaks from the bunch?

2 - spot on

9 - not quite

no 1 echapee is a ballet term meaning to escape by jumping or leaping. does this mean someone who breaks away from the leading riders and gets out in front

1 - yes, a breakaway rider

All sorted apart from baroudeur, which a couple have come close to but nobody has quite right yet

 

[Loppylugs]

Baroudeur. Is this the rider who wins the combativity award at the end of the race for the longest time in front?

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

Barouder: most aggressive rider?

 

[SuspectUsual]

A lot of you have got quite close to baroudeur without quite nailing it. As I can’t really think of a clue without giving it away, here’s what the Grauniad had to say:

The French have a word for them, and that word is baroudeur. It comes from the Arabic, where its meaning is “dynamite”. The French use it to mean “adventurer” and in bike racing it's all about the riders who like to put a bomb under the race and go off on the attack

So basically someone who is super aggressive and jumps off the front pretty much from the flag drop

I’ll tot up the scores in the morning as my crib sheet is downstairs, but I’ve a feeling we’ll need a tiebreaker

 

[SuspectUsual]

So, we have a three way tie on 2 points:

@Mcr Warrior
@LSWR Cavalier
@341o2

Tiebreaker question - how many different nationalities have won the Tour de France?

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

I could think of 13, but it must be more, 20?

 

[Mcr Warrior]

No idea, but will guess 21.

 

[SuspectUsual]

If @341o2 doesn’t have a guess by lunchtime I’ll declare a winner and we can keep things moving

 

[SuspectUsual]

Right, time’s up.

There have been 15 different nationalities win the Tour, so I declare that @LSWR Cavalier has won the maillot jaune (he’d have been even closer if he’d stick to his original number too).

For info, the 15 are, in descending order:

France
Belgium
Spain
Italy
Great Britian
Luxembourg
USA
Switzerland
Netherlands
Slovenia
Ireland
Denmark
Germany
Australia
Colombia

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

Thanks very much

1 Sempe wrote a book, "the cycle shop owners secret"
What was the secret?

2 Wim Vansevenant holds an unusual Tour de France record, what has he 'won' three times?

3 What is unusual about the 'hill climb' on the Cat + Fiddle near Buxton?

4 What rare feat did Stephen Roche (Eire) achieve?

5 By some measures another Irish cyclist was more successful than Roche in the 1980s, what was his name?

 

[Gloster]

5 Sean Kelly?

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

5 Sean Kelly?

Correct. He won Paris-Nice seven times in a row!

 

[SuspectUsual]

2 Trois lanternes rouge?

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

2 Trois lanternes rouge?

Mais oui, but yes!

 

[341o2]

If @341o2 doesn’t have a guess by lunchtime I’ll declare a winner and we can keep things moving

A combination of internet access problems + busy day have meant inability to reply within the time frame.
Ironically, my ISP has just sent me a survey regarding my satisfaction with the service provided

 

[xotGD]

1. He couldn't ride a bike?

3. The summit is at lower altitude than the start of the climb?

4. Won all three Grand Tours in the same season?

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

1. He couldn't ride a bike?

3. The summit is at lower altitude than the start of the climb?

4. Won all three Grand Tours in the same season?

1. Is correct, he was very good at fixing cycles but could not ride a two-wheeler.
3+4 are both wrong but fairly 'warm'.

 

[xotGD]

3. There is more descending than climbing, distance-wise?

4. He won the TdF and World Championship in the same season?

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

3. There is more descending than climbing, distance-wise?

4. He won the TdF and World Championship in the same season?

3. No, the finish is above the start, but it would be hard to ride without multiple gears.
4. Partly correct, he won a third big race, which?

 

[xotGD]

3. No, the finish is above the start, but it would be hard to ride without multiple gears.
4. Partly correct, he won a third big race, which?

4. Criterion?

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

4. Criterion?

No, a criterium is a small race. The 'third' race won by Roche goes on for weeks, the leader/winner wears a pink jersey.

 

[Loppylugs]

The 'third' race won by Roche goes on for weeks, the leader/winner wears a pink jersey.

Giro d'Italia and the maglia rosa ?

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

Giro d'Italia and the maglia rosa ?

Yes, Roche won the Tour de France, Giro d'Italia, world championship all in one year, 1987. Merckx was the only other who managed that.

Only 3. is still unanswered. Clue: a single fixed gear is suitable on many hill-climb courses, but not on the Cat & Fiddle, one really needs 'derailment' gears there!

 

[SuspectUsual]

Only 3. is still unanswered. Clue: a single fixed gear is suitable on many hill-climb courses, but not on the Cat & Fiddle, one really needs 'derailment' gears there!

Something to do with the variation between the steepest uphill part of the climb and the steepest descent?

 

[LSWR Cavalier]

Something to do with the variation between the steepest uphill part of the climb and the steepest descent?

Not quite. There is a significant downhill stretch on the way up, so one can use a 105" gear and reach 40 mph "going up". Traditional hill-climb courses like The Rake go uphill 'only' so can be won on a single fixed gear. The Rake takes under 3 minutes, the Cat & Fiddle nearly 20.
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@xotGD guessed the Secret, and part of the answer about Roche, so may set the next question/s.