Off season trivia quiz

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  • dougzz
    dougzz Posts: 1,833
    My main memory of John-Lee Augustyn is that disappearance down the side of the Bonette, I think he was still leading at the time, 08 maybe?
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    Here's another question for you:

    What do the following have in common: Jesper Skibby, Nico Mattan, Mario Cipollini, Dag-Otto Lauritzen and Michael Rasmussen?
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  • joelsim
    joelsim Posts: 7,552
    None of them were born in Wolverhampton.
  • salsiccia1
    salsiccia1 Posts: 3,725
    RichN95 wrote:
    Here's another question for you:

    What do the following have in common: Jesper Skibby, Nico Mattan, Mario Cipollini, Dag-Otto Lauritzen and Michael Rasmussen?

    Dancing with the Stars?
    It's only a bit of sport, Mun. Relax and enjoy the racing.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    Salsiccia1 wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    Here's another question for you:

    What do the following have in common: Jesper Skibby, Nico Mattan, Mario Cipollini, Dag-Otto Lauritzen and Michael Rasmussen?

    Dancing with the Stars?
    You're too quick.
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  • disquieting_museeuws
    disquieting_museeuws Posts: 601
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    disquieting_museeuws wrote:
    I've definitely heard this trumpet tune - playing sort of underneath Dutch radio commentary (at Het Volk), I reckon.

    Very close.

    They play this song in the last kilometres (possibly just the last km) on Dutch "radio tour" coverage which is where Dutch radio one turns into radio Tour de France for the race, playing French classics interspersed with race commentary / updates.

    They often jump quickly between the chap on the Moto following and the commentator when this is on. Always exciting.

    Yeah, that's what I remember exactly, though as I say my memory is of a spring classic in about 1989. Thought it was very strange, and how strange life is to be thinking about it again!
  • salsiccia1
    salsiccia1 Posts: 3,725
    RichN95 wrote:
    Salsiccia1 wrote:
    RichN95 wrote:
    Here's another question for you:

    What do the following have in common: Jesper Skibby, Nico Mattan, Mario Cipollini, Dag-Otto Lauritzen and Michael Rasmussen?

    Dancing with the Stars?
    You're too quick.

    It was Dag-Otto what did it

    OK then:
    What have Dag-Otto, Laurent Jalabert and Laudelino Cubino got in common?
    It's only a bit of sport, Mun. Relax and enjoy the racing.
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    All have won on Bastille day in the Tour??
    _
  • salsiccia1
    salsiccia1 Posts: 3,725
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    All have won on Bastille day in the Tour??

    No

    edit: well they might have, but that's not what I was thinking of!
    It's only a bit of sport, Mun. Relax and enjoy the racing.
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    Salsiccia1 wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    All have won on Bastille day in the Tour??

    No

    edit: well they might have, but that's not what I was thinking of!
    All I remember about Lauritzen was that he was a policeman and he won a Tour stage to Luz Ardiden. Cubino probably won there too. I can't remember Jalabert winning there - maybe in the Vuelta he won.
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  • salsiccia1
    salsiccia1 Posts: 3,725
    RichN95 wrote:
    Salsiccia1 wrote:
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    All have won on Bastille day in the Tour??

    No

    edit: well they might have, but that's not what I was thinking of!
    All I remember about Lauritzen was that he was a policeman and he won a Tour stage to Luz Ardiden. Cubino probably won there too. I can't remember Jalabert winning there - maybe in the Vuelta he won.

    Well done! All have won on Luz Ardiden in a GT - Lauritzen in 87 TDF, Cubino in 88 TDF and 92 Vuelta, Jalabert in 95 Vuelta.
    It's only a bit of sport, Mun. Relax and enjoy the racing.
  • takethehighroad
    takethehighroad Posts: 6,810
    Edited until new post is created
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,541
    Without googling can anyone answer the following:

    Which three riders have won all five monuments?
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    TheBigBean wrote:
    Without googling can anyone answer the following:

    Which three riders have won all five monuments?
    Merckx, De Vlaeminck & van Looy
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  • salsiccia1
    salsiccia1 Posts: 3,725
    Merckx

    erm.... :oops:

    edit: Damn, looks even worse now someone's got the right answer!
    It's only a bit of sport, Mun. Relax and enjoy the racing.
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,541
    I need to make my questions harder....

    Which British riders have won monuments since 1960. Name and monument.

    ...and if that is too easy, which Russians?
  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    Tom Simpson won Milan San Remo, Tour of Flanders and the Tour of Lombardy. Mark Cavendish has won Milan San Remo. That's it, isn't it?

    Haven't got a clue about the second question though...
  • TheBigBean
    TheBigBean Posts: 21,541
    greasedscotsman wrote:
    Tom Simpson won Milan San Remo, Tour of Flanders and the Tour of Lombardy. Mark Cavendish has won Milan San Remo. That's it, isn't it?

    Yes
  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    Although some might add Dan Martin to that list! :wink:
  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    TheBigBean wrote:
    I need to make my questions harder....

    Which British riders have won monuments since 1960. Name and monument.

    ...and if that is too easy, which Russians?
    Tchmil won Flanders and Roubaix. But didnt he become Belgian at some point?
    Berzin won LBL

    Can't be many, as they didnt ride pro until the 90s
  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    Tchmil also won Milan San Remo.
  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    Another one:

    What's the connection between the event below and Maarten Tjalingii?
    greve-du-tour-de-france-a-pau-le-18-juillet-1991_1266859_1200x600.jpg
  • greasedscotsman
    greasedscotsman Posts: 6,962
    Is it something to do with helmets?

    And what's the answer to the Russians winning monuments question?
  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    greasedscotsman wrote:
    Is it something to do with helmets?
    Nope.
  • above_the_cows
    above_the_cows Posts: 11,406
    His dad took the picture?

    I have absolutely no idea.
    Correlation is not causation.
  • Crampeur
    Crampeur Posts: 1,065
    FJS wrote:
    Another one:

    What's the connection between the event below and Maarten Tjalingii?
    greve-du-tour-de-france-a-pau-le-18-juillet-1991_1266859_1200x600.jpg
    Is that the protest against Zimmerman's DQ? Something to do with fear of flying?
  • rick_chasey
    rick_chasey Posts: 75,661
    Main thing I know about Tjalingi is that he's Friesian and vegetarian.
    _
  • FJS
    FJS Posts: 4,820
    Crampeur wrote:
    FJS wrote:
    Another one:

    What's the connection between the event below and Maarten Tjalingii?
    greve-du-tour-de-france-a-pau-le-18-juillet-1991_1266859_1200x600.jpg
    Is that the protest against Zimmerman's DQ? Something to do with fear of flying?
    Excellent. So, to complete the connection?
  • Crampeur
    Crampeur Posts: 1,065
    Rick Chasey wrote:
    ...he's Friesian...
    Should turn the heating up then...
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,241
    FJS wrote:
    Crampeur wrote:
    Is that the protest against Zimmerman's DQ? Something to do with fear of flying?
    Excellent. So, to complete the connection?
    Tjallingii's parents are some sort of hypnotherapists. Maybe they cured Zimmermann's fear of flying.
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