Pinno's even trickier Christmas Quiz 2020

Pross

Number 16 posts on the forum I believe

pinno

blazing_saddles said:

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.

pinno

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.

Pross

16. Is De Vlaemink as obscurely referred to above

Pross

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

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.

pinno

Pross said:

16. Is De Vlaemink as obscurely referred to above

Correct.

Pross

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

Andorra, no.

Kelly: the latter.

seanoconn

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.

Pross

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

Pross

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

pinno

Pross said:

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

It's 7.

pinno

Pross said:

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

That's correct.

pinno

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?!

Pross

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?

Wheelspinner

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...

pinno

Wheelspinner said:

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.

pinno

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.

seanoconn

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 😃

Dorset_Boy

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

pinno

Dorset_Boy said:

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

Switzerland - no.
Corsica - no (TdF)

France - Nice, yes.

blazing_saddles

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.

Pross

blazing_saddles said:

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

blazing_saddles said:

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

The clue was France.

blazing_saddles said:

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.

blazing_saddles said:

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'?

Pross

pinno said:

blazing_saddles said:

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

The clue was France.

blazing_saddles said:

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.

blazing_saddles said:

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

Pross said:

pinno said:

blazing_saddles said:

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

The clue was France.

blazing_saddles said:

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.

blazing_saddles said:

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]

pinno

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

Pross

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

Yep, nail on head.