Off season trivia quiz

1…89111314…18

Comments

  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,907
    Macaloon wrote:
    To make it up to us, PBo could show how it's done, supplying a classically cryptic clue to which the answer is Zdnek Stybar.


    Cyclo-cross star is Lantern Rouge character - terrible need for unknown pub after King Stage. (6,6)

    Correct spelling - Zdeněk Štybar

    But people will moan about accents then....
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,907
    RichN95 wrote:
    PBo wrote:
    actually the orica greenedge clue isn't fine, because the swallowed bit is an irrelevance.
    No, the swallowed bit it crucial as the 'I' is swallowed by the 'Orca' (the whale)

    You clued it twice with added and swallowed, but ignore me I don't want to assume the pedant role.
  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    Corking Stybar clue, bigbean. Surely no danger of quibbles from the PBo quarter?

    A couple remain undefeated which offends my completitsitis:

    Great Scot, stop the tomb raider! (6,9) - Rich

    Sounds massive right left combination in World of pain? (10)
    ...a rare 100% loyal Pro Race poster. A poster boy for the community.
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,907
    Macaloon wrote:
    Corking Stybar clue, bigbean. Surely no danger of quibbles from the PBo quarter?

    Believe it or not, people would genuinely complain about the accents in the clue.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Macaloon wrote:
    Corking Stybar clue, bigbean. Surely no danger of quibbles from the PBo quarter?

    A couple remain undefeated which offends my completitsitis:

    Great Scot, stop the tomb raider! (6,9) - Rich

    Sounds massive right left combination in World of pain? (10)
    I also had:

    Rider confused to be French is held by old believer (5,5)

    and, to please PBo, I'll revise my other one to:

    Great Scot, stop the tomb raider! It's a tester (6,10) - (It should be 10, not 9 - probably why no-one got it)
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • No_Ta_Doctor
    No_Ta_Doctor Posts: 14,651
    PBo wrote:
    TheBigBean wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:

    More of Rich's stewed dog? (5,6)

    Chris Froome
    now that's a cracker....

    I' so rubbish at these that I only just got it.
    Warning No formatter is installed for the format
  • andytee87
    andytee87 Posts: 414
    RichN95 wrote:

    and, to please PBo, I'll revise my other one to:

    Great Scot, stop the tomb raider! It's a tester (6,10) - (It should be 10, not 9 - probably why no-one got it)

    Fabian cancellara- yeh that makes sense now
  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    I'll stop after this one. A labour of love:

    Rope trick traps daughter by burning glade a little strange backwards sanctuary seeker (5,7)

    Scribe by Pope with Rudyard's hero wresting game (4, 7)
    ...a rare 100% loyal Pro Race poster. A poster boy for the community.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Macaloon wrote:
    I'll stop after this one. A labour of love:

    Rope trick traps daughter by burning glade a little strange backwards sanctuary seeker (5,7)

    Scribe by Pope with Rudyard's hero wresting game (4, 7)
    Pedro Delgado & Paul Kimmage
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    RichN95 wrote:
    Macaloon wrote:
    I'll stop after this one. A labour of love:

    Rope trick traps daughter by burning glade a little strange backwards sanctuary seeker (5,7)

    Scribe by Pope with Rudyard's hero wresting game (4, 7)
    Pedro Delgado & Paul Kimmage
    Winner.
    ...a rare 100% loyal Pro Race poster. A poster boy for the community.
  • tailwindhome
    tailwindhome Posts: 19,434
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Nice work on making and guessing all these...much too hard for me. Nice thread this one.

    +1

    Though I think you need to do a lot of crosswords to 'get your eye in'.
    “New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!
  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,821
    TailWindHome wrote:
    frenchfighter wrote:
    Nice work on making and guessing all these...much too hard for me. Nice thread this one.

    +1

    Though I think you need to do a lot of crosswords to 'get your eye in'.

    I clearly need to do a lot more crosswords, as I only understood the questions once I saw the answer
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    Macaloon wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    Macaloon wrote:
    I'll stop after this one. A labour of love:

    Rope trick traps daughter by burning glade a little strange backwards sanctuary seeker (5,7)

    Scribe by Pope with Rudyard's hero wresting game (4, 7)
    Pedro Delgado & Paul Kimmage
    Winner.
    What's this one then?

    Sounds massive right left combination in World of pain? (10)

    I just can't see it.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    edited January 2014
    RichN95 wrote:
    Macaloon wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    Macaloon wrote:
    I'll stop after this one. A labour of love:

    Rope trick traps daughter by burning glade a little strange backwards sanctuary seeker (5,7)

    Scribe by Pope with Rudyard's hero wresting game (4, 7)
    Pedro Delgado & Paul Kimmage
    Winner.
    What's this one then?

    Sounds massive right left combination in World of pain? (10)

    I just can't see it.

    Hoogerland: "Huge" R L And

    *awaits sh1tstorm of protest from scrutineers :D
    ...a rare 100% loyal Pro Race poster. A poster boy for the community.
  • salsiccia1
    salsiccia1 Posts: 3,725
    In agreement with German internet, Impaler (Spanish not German) meets musteline with extra heat (5,2,9)
    It's only a bit of sport, Mun. Relax and enjoy the racing.
  • PBo
    PBo Posts: 2,493
    TheBigBean wrote:
    Macaloon wrote:
    Corking Stybar clue, bigbean. Surely no danger of quibbles from the PBo quarter?

    Believe it or not, people would genuinely complain about the accents in the clue.
    I wouldn't, I'm not that much of a purist.
  • PBo
    PBo Posts: 2,493
    Macaloon wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    Macaloon wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    Macaloon wrote:
    I'll stop after this one. A labour of love:

    Rope trick traps daughter by burning glade a little strange backwards sanctuary seeker (5,7)

    Scribe by Pope with Rudyard's hero wresting game (4, 7)
    Pedro Delgado & Paul Kimmage
    Winner.
    What's this one then?

    Sounds massive right left combination in World of pain? (10)

    I just can't see it.

    Hoogerland: "Huge" R L And

    *awaits sh1tstorm of protest from scrutineers :D

    I think you know, deep down, how you have let me down....
  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    PBo wrote:
    I think you know, deep down, how you have let me down....

    Nice. Pick on the noob. They were all at it. I only did it once....
    ...a rare 100% loyal Pro Race poster. A poster boy for the community.
  • PBo
    PBo Posts: 2,493
    My French toff and I book race. (8)

    Btw, pedantry aside, I'm enjoying some cracking clues from you lot....
  • ocdupalais
    ocdupalais Posts: 4,317
    Macaloon wrote:
    PBo wrote:
    I think you know, deep down, how you have let me down....

    Nice. Pick on the noob. They were all at it. I only did it once....

    No one likes a grass, Macaloon...
  • PBo
    PBo Posts: 2,493
    OCDuPalais wrote:
    Macaloon wrote:
    PBo wrote:
    I think you know, deep down, how you have let me down....

    Nice. Pick on the noob. They were all at it. I only did it once....

    No one likes a grass, Macaloon...
    Hmmmm, tough one, how many letters?
  • ocdupalais
    ocdupalais Posts: 4,317
    PBo wrote:
    OCDuPalais wrote:
    Macaloon wrote:
    PBo wrote:
    I think you know, deep down, how you have let me down....

    Nice. Pick on the noob. They were all at it. I only did it once....

    No one likes a grass, Macaloon...
    Hmmmm, tough one, how many letters?

    :) I've got a (4,3) for you right here...
  • Macaloon
    Macaloon Posts: 5,545
    Member with personal hygiene crisis following pedantic initiation (3)
    :lol::lol::lol:
    ...a rare 100% loyal Pro Race poster. A poster boy for the community.
  • PBo
    PBo Posts: 2,493
    Macaloon wrote:
    Member with personal hygiene crisis following pedantic initiation (3)
    :lol::lol::lol:

    :D
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,907
    PBo wrote:
    My French toff and I book race. (8)

    Btw, pedantry aside, I'm enjoying some cracking clues from you lot....

    I'd guess at Marmotte, but I can't make it work.
  • PBo
    PBo Posts: 2,493
    No.
  • PBo
    PBo Posts: 2,493
    Are these 2 still outstanding?

    Rider confused to be French is held by old believer (5,5)

    In agreement with German internet, Impaler (Spanish not German) meets musteline with extra heat (5,2,9)
  • PBo
    PBo Posts: 2,493
    PBo wrote:
    Are these 2 still outstanding?

    Rider confused to be French is held by old believer (5,5)

    I'm reaching here...Louis bobet?
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    PBo wrote:
    PBo wrote:
    Are these 2 still outstanding?

    Rider confused to be French is held by old believer (5,5)

    I'm reaching here...Louis bobet?
    No.
    Twitter: @RichN95
  • salsiccia1
    salsiccia1 Posts: 3,725
    RichN95 wrote:
    PBo wrote:
    PBo wrote:
    Are these 2 still outstanding?

    Rider confused to be French is held by old believer (5,5)

    I'm reaching here...Louis bobet?
    No.

    Peter Sagan?
    It's only a bit of sport, Mun. Relax and enjoy the racing.

Categories