Pinno's Christmas quiz 2016

pinno

Answer the following questions and use the first letter of each answer to form a cycling related anagram. Not as tough as last year (which no-one got).

1. Collective noun for a type of fast herbivore usually found on the plains in Africa and Asia.
2. Handy item when it's raining but often giving up the ghost because of Barbara's.
3. Dutch term for going around in a circle.
4. Mr. "You pancaked my van! I'm gonna kill you, fool!"
5. Not a Tomtom.
6. If you are useless at fettling, you go here.
7. Getting high, courtesy of the Shamen.
8. Slap of a particular colour?
9. Cyclist or swirling fluid.
10. Froome swears by the equation x2/a2 + y2/b2 = 1, where 2a and 2b are the lengths of the major and minor axes.
11. Hair raising descent whipped up leaves successfully and salvaged season for this man.
12. Laid back cyclist preferred rig.
13. Synthetic polymer resembling rubber, resistant to oil, heat, and weathering may keep extremities warm.
14. Damn squeaking BB30's may benefit from installation with this.
15. Boingy stuff used in a saddle for example?

crumbschief

Hey hey good to see Pinno

2. U Umbrella
7. E Ebeneezer Goode

orraloon

4 T Mr
5 G Garmin

Stevo_666

8. T Tangoed

pinno

@ Crumbschief and Orraloon. Yep.
@ Stevo. Nope.

Stevo_666

Pinno wrote:

@ Crumbschief and Orraloon. Yep.
@ Stevo. Nope.

I'm out. TFD - CBA.

pinno

Stevo 666 wrote:

Pinno wrote:

@ Crumbschief and Orraloon. Yep.
@ Stevo. Nope.

I'm out. TFD - CBA.

:roll: My 4 year old lost at Snakes and Ladders today. She flounced too (in similar style).

Stevo_666

Just can't answer any other questions apart from ones that have already been got.

crumbschief

Pinno wrote:

Stevo 666 wrote:

Pinno wrote:

@ Crumbschief and Orraloon. Yep.
@ Stevo. Nope.

I'm out. TFD - CBA.

:roll: My 4 year old lost at Snakes and Ladders today. She flounced too (in similar style).

lol Skynet knows nuffin,take that machine.

veronese68

12 - Recumbent.
Too tired to think, going to bed.

pinno

Veronese68 wrote:

12 - Recumbent.
Too tired to think, going to bed.

Yep. Spot on.

You can come back tomorrow.

Wheelspinner

6: L - LBS?
9: E - Eddy (Merckx)
11: C - Chaves at Lombardy?
13: N - Neoprene
15: G - Gel

Wheelspinner

14: L - Loctite

orraloon

3 R Ronde (as in van Vlaanderen)?

orraloon

1 H Herd? Going for the obvious, 1st question is always easy, right?

Lookyhere

1: A Antelope

orraloon

10 O Osymetric

pinno

Wheelspinner wrote:

6: L - LBS?
9: E - Eddy (Merckx)
11: C - Chaves at Lombardy?
13: N - Neoprene
15: G - Gel

6. Yes
9. Yes
11. No
13. Yes
15 No

pinno

Lookyhere: Correct

1. A, Correct

Orraloon:

3. Close but no cigar.

WS:

14. L, correct.

Garry H

15 - Spring

bendertherobot

14 Prayer

pinno

bendertherobot wrote:

14 Prayer

Divine intervention seldom works.

veronese68

Pinno wrote:

Answer the following questions and use the first letter of each answer to form a cycling related anagram. Not as tough as last year (which no-one got).

1. Collective noun for a type of fast herbivore usually found on the plains in Africa and Asia.
2. Handy item when it's raining but often giving up the ghost because of Barbara's.
3. Dutch term for going around in a circle.
4. Mr. "You pancaked my van! I'm gonna kill you, fool!"
5. Not a Tomtom.
6. If you are useless at fettling, you go here.
7. Getting high, courtesy of the Shamen.
8. Slap of a particular colour?
9. Cyclist or swirling fluid.
10. Froome swears by the equation x2/a2 + y2/b2 = 1, where 2a and 2b are the lengths of the major and minor axes.
11. Hair raising descent whipped up leaves successfully and salvaged season for this man.
12. Laid back cyclist preferred rig.
13. Synthetic polymer resembling rubber, resistant to oil, heat, and weathering may keep extremities warm.
14. Damn squeaking BB30's may benefit from installation with this.
15. Boingy stuff used in a saddle for example?

Quotes to save going back a page.
8 - rouge

pinno

8. Rouge. Well done that man. You have hidden talents VN.

veronese68

Pinno wrote:

You have hidden talents VN.

Very hidden.

pinno

Garry H wrote:

15 - Spring

INope, soz mate.

We have:

1.A
2. U
3. Dutch term for going around in a circle.
4. T
5. G
6. L
7. E
8. R
9. E
10. Froome swears by the equation x2/a2 + y2/b2 = 1, where 2a and 2b are the lengths of the major and minor axes.
11. Hair raising descent whipped up leaves successfully and salvaged season for this man.
12. R
13. N
14. L
15. Boingy stuff used in a saddle for example?

pinno

Veronese68 wrote:

Pinno wrote:

You have hidden talents VN.

Very hidden.

My hidden talents are so well hidden, I can't even find them.

orraloon

orraloon wrote:

10 O Osymetric

Ahem

FocusZing

15 foam.

FocusZing

10 Watts

pinno

orraloon wrote:

orraloon wrote:

10 O Osymetric

Ahem

Nope.