Pinno's even trickier Christmas Quiz 2020

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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,217
    Number 16 posts on the forum I believe
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,196

    2012 Giro started in Herning Denmark and also hosted a road stage.
    Michael Valgren being the Danish connection as he was second to Gaspa in Amstel.

    My other stab would be 1999 for the Angliru.
    I remember Heras winning by a country mile in 2000 and I think they had it in back to back editions when it premiered.

    Right, that's me done.

    Yep, spot on; to all of the above.
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,196
    edited December 2020
    1.
    2. Steven Roche
    3. 50.808 km's
    4.
    1965 San Marino
    1966 (that place normally associated with motor racing Pross)
    1973
    1974 Vatican city
    1996
    1998
    2002
    2006
    2010
    2012 Denmark
    2014 Northern Ireland
    2016
    2018 Isreal

    5. Micheal Valgren
    6.
    7. Hushovd and Bronzini
    8..
    9..
    10..
    11. Chianti
    12..
    13..
    14..
    15..
    16..
    17..
    18..
    19.. 1999. Rider?
    20.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,217
    16. Is De Vlaemink as obscurely referred to above
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,217
    Giro '66 Monaco? thought about that but decided it might be too French. There's been one start in Belgium too but not sure where.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,196
    Pross said:

    Giro '66 Monaco? thought about that but decided it might be too French. There's been one start in Belgium too but not sure where.

    Monaco - correct.
    Like Vatican city, Monaco is not France (and therein lies a clue).
    Belgium, 2006.
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,196
    Pross said:

    16. Is De Vlaemink as obscurely referred to above

    Correct.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,217
    pinno said:

    Pross said:

    Giro '66 Monaco? thought about that but decided it might be too French. There's been one start in Belgium too but not sure where.

    Monaco - correct.
    Like Vatican city, Monaco is not France (and therein lies a clue).
    Belgium, 2006.
    Andorra?

    I think the most wins in a single Classic in Merckx at MSR (6 or 7) assuming we're talking about genuine Classics.

    On the Kelly question are you asking the total wins in Classics or how many of the Classics he has won in?

  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,196
    Andorra, no.

    Kelly: the latter.
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  • seanoconn
    seanoconn Posts: 11,318
    pinno said:

    seanoconn said:

    2. Stephen Roche?

    Yes.

    Did you Google it, you flea bitten motherless goat?
    How dare you besmirch my moral compass. There was only 3 English speaking riders who could possibly podium in that period and I had both Irish kits.
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,217
    Question 9 I'm going for 6 (MSR, GW, LBL, PR, Lombardy and Paris Tours).
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,217
    edited December 2020
    And for 14 I'll nail my colours to the mast with 7 for Merckx at MSR.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,196
    Pross said:

    Question 9 I'm going for 6 (MSR, GW, LBL, PR, Lombardy and Paris Tours).

    It's 7.
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,196
    Pross said:

    And for 14 I'll nail my colours to the mast with 7 for Merckx at MSR.

    That's correct.
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,196
    seanoconn said:

    pinno said:

    seanoconn said:

    2. Stephen Roche?

    Yes.

    Did you Google it, you flea bitten motherless goat?
    How dare you besmirch my moral compass. There was only 3 English speaking riders who could possibly podium in that period and I had both Irish kits.
    Are you seriously expecting me to believe that you have both a moral compass and a brain?!
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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,217
    pinno said:

    Pross said:

    Question 9 I'm going for 6 (MSR, GW, LBL, PR, Lombardy and Paris Tours).

    It's 7.
    What one did I miss?
  • 20: Is it 48 hairpins? Mate of mine has ridden it and posted photos all over his FB page, think that number rings a bell...
    Open One+ BMC TE29 Seven 622SL On One Scandal Cervelo RS
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,196

    20: Is it 48 hairpins? Mate of mine has ridden it and posted photos all over his FB page, think that number rings a bell...

    Yes, that is correct.
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,196
    Pross said:

    pinno said:

    Pross said:

    Question 9 I'm going for 6 (MSR, GW, LBL, PR, Lombardy and Paris Tours).

    It's 7.
    What one did I miss?
    According to Wiki, it's 7 but they don't list all the classics for some inexplicable reason.
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  • seanoconn
    seanoconn Posts: 11,318
    pinno said:

    seanoconn said:

    pinno said:

    seanoconn said:

    2. Stephen Roche?

    Yes.

    Did you Google it, you flea bitten motherless goat?
    How dare you besmirch my moral compass. There was only 3 English speaking riders who could possibly podium in that period and I had both Irish kits.
    Are you seriously expecting me to believe that you have both a moral compass and a brain?!
    Erm yes. It’s Christmas 😃
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  • Dorset_Boy
    Dorset_Boy Posts: 6,877
    Foreign Giro starts - maybe Nice, must be a Swiss one. Corsica?
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,196

    Foreign Giro starts - maybe Nice, must be a Swiss one. Corsica?

    Switzerland - no.
    Corsica - no (TdF)

    France - Nice, yes.
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  • pinno said:

    Pross said:

    Giro '66 Monaco? thought about that but decided it might be too French. There's been one start in Belgium too but not sure where.

    Monaco - correct.
    Like Vatican city, Monaco is not France (and therein lies a clue).
    Belgium, 2006.
    Catching up with this thread and reading the clue: San Marino?

    One recent one that sticks in my mind because of a trip to it's velodrome, when the niece was decked out in the rainbow jersey, is Apeldoorn in NL.
    The actual Grande Partenza was inside said velodrome.

    I see you have asked who won that first ascent of Angry Lou. Think that was Marco's mate Jose Maria Jimenez.

    "Science is a tool for cheaters". An anonymous French PE teacher.
  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,217

    pinno said:

    Pross said:

    Giro '66 Monaco? thought about that but decided it might be too French. There's been one start in Belgium too but not sure where.

    Monaco - correct.
    Like Vatican city, Monaco is not France (and therein lies a clue).
    Belgium, 2006.
    Catching up with this thread and reading the clue: San Marino?

    One recent one that sticks in my mind because of a trip to it's velodrome, when the niece was decked out in the rainbow jersey, is Apeldoorn in NL.
    The actual Grande Partenza was inside said velodrome.

    I see you have asked who won that first ascent of Angry Lou. Think that was Marco's mate Jose Maria Jimenez.

    We'd got San Marino.
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,196


    Catching up with this thread and reading the clue: San Marino?

    The clue was France.

    One recent one that sticks in my mind because of a trip to it's velodrome, when the niece was decked out in the rainbow jersey, is Apeldoorn in NL.

    Yep.

    I see you have asked who won that first ascent of Angry Lou. Think that was Marco's mate Jose Maria Jimenez.

    Correct.

    'The niece'?

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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,217
    pinno said:


    Catching up with this thread and reading the clue: San Marino?

    The clue was France.

    One recent one that sticks in my mind because of a trip to it's velodrome, when the niece was decked out in the rainbow jersey, is Apeldoorn in NL.

    Yep.

    I see you have asked who won that first ascent of Angry Lou. Think that was Marco's mate Jose Maria Jimenez.

    Correct.

    'The niece'?

    Former track World champ and Olympic medallist
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,196
    edited December 2020
    Pross said:

    pinno said:


    Catching up with this thread and reading the clue: San Marino?

    The clue was France.

    One recent one that sticks in my mind because of a trip to it's velodrome, when the niece was decked out in the rainbow jersey, is Apeldoorn in NL.

    Yep.

    I see you have asked who won that first ascent of Angry Lou. Think that was Marco's mate Jose Maria Jimenez.

    Correct.

    'The niece'?

    Former track World champ and Olympic medallist
    Does that make blazing saddles the only one on BR to have any actual street cred. (by proxy)?

    My mother's long term friend and work colleague's grand daughter is married to Chris Froome's brother, Jeremy.

    [The above is true]
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  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,196
    edited December 2020
    1.
    2. Steven Roche
    3. 50.808 km's
    4.
    1965 San Marino
    1966 Monaco
    1973 Belgium - Verviers
    1974 Vatican city
    1996
    1998 France
    2002
    2006
    2010
    2012 Denmark
    2014 Northern Ireland
    2016 NL - Apeldoorn
    2018 Isreal

    5. Micheal Valgren
    6.
    7. Hushovd and Bronzini
    8..
    9.. 7
    10..
    11. Chianti
    12..
    13..
    14.. Merckx, MSR, 7.
    15..
    16..Roger De Vlaeminck
    17..
    18..
    19.. 1999, Jose Maria Jiminez
    20. 48


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  • Pross
    Pross Posts: 40,217
    It's annoying me now that I know the 1996 Giro start but can't say as I looked it up.

    Was there definitely not a Belgian start (possibly the 1973 one)?
  • pinno
    pinno Posts: 51,196
    Yep, nail on head.
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