Pinno's slightly tricky Christmas quiz 2019

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  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,227
    edited December 2019
    16: Alaphilippe
    (missed that one)

    18: Laura Trott / Kenny? 4 track golds, not sure about the rest of the clue
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    2. Chavanel?
    8. Gerrans winning Sanremo ahead of Cancellara & Nibali
    12. Someone said Purito Rodriguez and you said no, but it must be because...
    ...13. Delio Rodriguez
    26. Galibier?
    35. Luca Paolini
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  • awavey
    awavey Posts: 2,368
    orraloon said:

    16: Alaphilippe
    (missed that one)

    18: Laura Trott / Kenny? 4 track golds, not sure about the rest of the clue

    not done the hour though. Dame Sarah Storey would fit but she didnt take the world hour record, she broke the national record and set a new paralympic one, and I dont get the "longs" bit of the clue
  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    edited December 2019
    awavey said:

    orraloon said:

    16: Alaphilippe
    (missed that one)

    18: Laura Trott / Kenny? 4 track golds, not sure about the rest of the clue

    not done the hour though. Dame Sarah Storey would fit but she didnt take the world hour record, she broke the national record and set a new paralympic one, and I dont get the "longs" bit of the clue

    I was thinking of the Dutch women from about 20 years ago. Van Mosel?
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,312
    orraloon said:

    16: Alaphilippe
    (missed that one)

    18: Laura Trott / Kenny? 4 track golds, not sure about the rest of the clue

    16. Yes.
    18. As RichN said.
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,312
    RichN95. said:

    2. Chavanel?
    8. Gerrans winning Sanremo ahead of Cancellara & Nibali
    12. Someone said Purito Rodriguez and you said no, but it must be because...
    ...13. Delio Rodriguez
    26. Galibier?
    35. Luca Paolini

    Chavanel - no.

    18. Well, the answer is Cancellara - 'Simon owe's thanks to...'
    12. Yes J Purito Rodriguez - my mistake. Dorset boy called it.
    13. Correct
    26. No. Seldom a MTF this climb but even less the Galibier - once surprisingly: Schlek's epic long solo bid and a gap that plummeted with about 1k to go?
    35. Yes.
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,312
    RichN95. said:

    awavey said:

    orraloon said:

    16: Alaphilippe
    (missed that one)

    18: Laura Trott / Kenny? 4 track golds, not sure about the rest of the clue

    not done the hour though. Dame Sarah Storey would fit but she didnt take the world hour record, she broke the national record and set a new paralympic one, and I dont get the "longs" bit of the clue
    I was thinking of the Dutch women from about 20 years ago. Van Mosel?
    You meant: Leontin Van Moorsel.
    Correct. Had a good couple of scraps with Jeannie Longo, hence the clue in the question.
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  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,227
    26: Col d'Izoard? Stage finish once? recently rather than 5, so...prob no then.

    Back to chin scratching, takes the mind off the snots, throat, earache et al.
  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,227
    Got one!

    24: Pascal Ackermann
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,312
    orraloon said:

    24. Yes.
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  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,227
    Gonna need some more clues, Quizmaster. Or permission to Google, sah?
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,312
    Err, no Googling but i'll give you some clues...
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,312
    edited December 2019
    2. French national championship, (sort of) won in both forms by only this man.
    First event is the Criterium International.

    5. Chicken pox didn’t prevent stage win.
    Road for Gan and was a track and road rider.

    6. Big event (now shortened) at the sports palace.
    It's the 4 days of Grenoble.

    7. Prolific Italian, strings of firsts, few overalls started at Ariostea, finished at Mapei.
    Initials: AB. He joined Luxembourg team Leopard Trek as a sporting director in 2011

    9. Only Dutch rider to win this event 6 times.. The event is Tirreno Adriatico.

    21, The third missing Belgian hour holder was Bracke.

    19. Bunch of French cyclists in 1980’s supported by white goods.
    Who produced white goods and sponsored a team that were mainly French... in the 1980's?

    20. Inventors of the slant-parallelogram to aide shifting (but click didn’t catch on!).
    Think of a cycle components manufacturer. Invented an index system in the 1930's but this didn't catch on!

    23. East of African continent go chasing Roo’s.
    Small Conti team.

    26. 11 (ish) miles up only finished here 5 times in TdF.
    Begins with H.

    30. Talent from Castille la mancha wins national roads, pitches up for money lending French but fails to fulfil early promise.
    [Very tricky one] Spanish, rides for Cofidis.

    33. Vital sprinter who also likes to go around and around. Kept close eye on dunes for allied invaders that proved victorious.
    He was a silver medalist at the 2012 Summer Olympics in the Omnium,

    34. Energetic Alsatian takes direct route but cuddles kerbs ambition.
    ('Cuddles' - Cadel Evans)

    36. R e l n g t o i p e d m o e I (anag.)
    Don't need a clue.

    37. Link the clues: A genesis discovery, 9 nationals (in 2 disciplines), Bucks. and a Madison.
    I'm not giving any more away on this one.

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  • 7: Alessandro Ballan then?
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  • 26: Hautecam or whatever its called?
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,312

    7: Alessandro Ballan then?

    Nope.
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,312

    26: Hautecam or whatever its called?

    Hautacam, yes.
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  • 5: Boardman?
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,312

    5: Boardman?

    Waaaay off. Frenchman.
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  • RichN95.
    RichN95. Posts: 27,253
    edited December 2019
    pinno said:

    7: Alessandro Ballan then?

    Nope.

    Baffi I think

    9. Jan Raas? I know De Vlaeminck has the record but he's not Dutch.
    30. Navarro?
    33. I think someone has already said Coquard.
    34. Voeckler?
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  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 7,557
    Yes, I'd already got Coquard for No 33!
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,312
    RichN95. said:

    pinno said:

    7: Alessandro Ballan then?

    Nope.

    Baffi I think

    9. Jan Raas? I know De Vlaeminck has the record but he's not Dutch.
    30. Navarro?
    33. I think someone has already said Coquard.
    34. Voeckler?
    Baffi, yes.
    9. De Vlaeminck it is - of course he's not Dutch :blush:
    30. No
    34. Voeckler, Yes.

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  • Stevo_666
    Stevo_666 Posts: 61,383
    Looks like youve stumped them :smile: Might want to make next year's a bit easier...
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  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,227
    Wtf is a 80s sponsor manufacturer of white goods?

    Join the chant: we want Google, we want Google... Power to the people, fight these authoritarian rulemakers 😉
  • awavey
    awavey Posts: 2,368
    orraloon said:

    Wtf is a 80s sponsor manufacturer of white goods?

    Join the chant: we want Google, we want Google... Power to the people, fight these authoritarian rulemakers 😉

    well its fridges/cookers/washing machines type stuff because they only used to come painted white for some reason:)

    so did Zanussi,Hotpoint,Candy,Creda or Ariston and on and on and on and oh god Ive got that advert tune as an earworm now... ever sponsor a cycling team ?
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,312
    edited January 2020
    orraloon said:

    Wtf is a 80s sponsor manufacturer of white goods?

    Join the chant: we want Google, we want Google... Power to the people, fight these authoritarian rulemakers 😉

    I'll tell you but in that, there is cruelty - when you kick yourself - Fagor.
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  • orraloon
    orraloon Posts: 13,227
    Fagor eh? That meant nothing to me, oh Fagor. Until I used that there google: Robert Millar, Stephen Roche, Sean Yates... That team name did not make its mark with me obvs.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,312
    edited January 2020
    ...
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 52,312
    Full list of answers here, seen as it has ran it's course. Bar RichN, it's a poor show from the Pro Race boys and girls.

    1. Kelly
    2. Hinault
    3. Zoetemelk
    4. Hincapie
    5. Colotti
    6. 4 Days of Grenoble
    7. Baffi
    8. Cancellara
    9. De Vlaeminck, Tirreno Adriatico
    10. Kwiatkowski
    11. Philippe gilbert
    12. J Rodriguez
    13. Rodriguez Barros
    14. Igan Bernal
    15. Gert Jan Theunisse
    16. Julian Alaphilippe
    17. La Flèche Wallonne.
    18. Leontin Van Moorsel
    19. Fagor
    20. Suntour
    21. Merckx Campanaerts Bracke
    22. M Scarponi
    23. Kenyan riders down under
    24. P a s c a l A c k e r m a n n
    25. Tom Pidcock
    26. Hautacam
    27. Strada Bianchi/L Armitsead
    28. Il Lombardia
    29. Van Summeren
    30. Jesus Herrada
    31. Fuglsang
    32. Rui Costa
    33. Bryan Coquard
    34. Thomas Voeckler
    35. Luca Paolini
    36. Giro del Piemonte
    37. Roger Hammond
    38. Qatar
    39. Tony Martin
    40. Bordeaux Paris


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