General Knowledge Quiz

[OhNoAPacer]

Teams to only have eleven players of the field of play.

Corner kicks?

Neither of those

 

[DaleCooper]

DAR (Daguerreotype assistant referee)

 

[OhNoAPacer]

DAR (Daguerreotype assistant referee)

Not even Calotype Assistant Referee

 

[Peterthegreat]

Throw in?

 

[DaleCooper]

You'll Never Walk Alone

 

[EbbwJunction1]

The referee's whistle?

 

[MotCO]

Offside?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Time played in each half of a football match?

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Throw in?

You'll Never Walk Alone

The referee's whistle?

Offside?

Time played in each half of a football match?

None of those I am afraid

 

[Mcr Warrior]

What was introduced to Association Football in 1865?

Definitely 1865? If we are talking about a length of tape being required, as a prototype-crossbar, and affixed to the goalposts some eight feet from the ground, wasn't this law change only adopted by the FA in February 1866?

 

[Strat-tastic]

DAR (Daguerreotype assistant referee)

I like that!

Studded boots.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

I like that!

Studded boots.

Not those

Definitely 1865? If we are talking about a length of tape being required, as a prototype-crossbar, and affixed to the goalposts some eight feet from the ground, wasn't this law change only adopted by the FA in February 1866?

The date I saw was 1865, but you have clearly got the correct answer with crossbar.

The pass the question setting to you

 

[Mcr Warrior]

Noted, thanks. Obviously had to be trialled first. In a similar vein, the crossbar, in due course, replaced the use of a length of tape. In what year did crossbars first become mandatory in association football, having been experimented with only a few years earlier?

 

[AndyPJG]

1868?

 

[Mcr Warrior]

1868?

Sorry, no. Was actually a little later than that!

 

[OhNoAPacer]

1882

 

[Mcr Warrior]

1882

That's essentially the correct answer. Proposed at a meeting of the International Football Conference in Manchester in December 1882, and ratified at a General Meeting of the FA held in London in February 1883. Effective start of 1883-84 season. Having first been trialled in or around 1875. Your turn to set the next question.

 

[OhNoAPacer]

What did Thomas Sutton invent in 1861?

 

[SuspectUsual]

He invented the SLR camera

 

[OhNoAPacer]

He invented the SLR camera

He did indeed.

You may enter the pentaprism and send us another question.

 

[SuspectUsual]

What has been celebrated on September 19 each year since it was first proclaimed in 1995?

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

Glastonbury festival?

 

[SuspectUsual]

Glastonbury has been going a lot longer than that, and it’s always at a weekend so the date varies each year

 

[Strat-tastic]

Talk like a pirate day.

 

[SuspectUsual]

Indeed it is, or international talk like a pirate day to give it its full title

Your turn at the helm of the Black Pig

 

[Strat-tastic]

Ooh are me hearty.
Or something

What is celebrated on November 25th by fans of a certain sitcom?

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Red Dwarf is the show Gazpacho Soup Day is celebrated.

 

[Xenophon PCDGS]

I am wondering if "Family Guy" is the referred sitcom.

 

[Strat-tastic]

Red Dwarf is the show Gazpacho Soup Day is celebrated.

Yes indeedy Mr. OhNoAPacer, sir!

 

[OhNoAPacer]

Personally I am with Rimmer, soup should be hot.

Toxophilist, Weapon, Church, French Dialect.

What is the connection?