Quiz Game ( It's back but with a difference)

[Occasional Fan]

Complete guess here: originally there were two. But being nine inches apart, there was a ruddy great hole in the middle through which the ball could pass. They filled in the gap so that a bowler who was bang on target had a chance of bowling the batsman out. Would have been potty otherwise.

[Robb]

OF is right. I think it was changed after the ball was actually going throught the ruddy great hole - can't remember if that was after the first time it happened or when people got fed up with it keeping on happening.

BTW - is one of the rules of this quiz that the person who sets the quiz has to misunderstand their own question, and get the wrong answer themselves?

[Occasional Fan]

Oh, no! How can that be? Well, if you're sure then here comes the only cricket related question I can ever remember. I may never post here again.

Who played football for Northern Ireland, rugby union for Wales and cricket for England?

[Teatime FatCat]

Oh OF - this is indeed the case.


In 1737 (guessy guess) The Mighty Chertsey had playing for them one 'Lumpy' Stevens, acknowledged as one of the finest and straightest bowlers in the land. As many of the games in those days were played for serious money, teams and their sponsors were very keen to exploit any chance to win.

In those days there were two stumps and one bail resting on the top, Lumpy was so accurate, he kept sending the ball through the middle and therefore failing to dismiss the batter. Chertsey claimed this was unfair, and began using a middle stump, somehow this got passed as law, and hey presto, the middle stump!

Our club is very proud of this piece of history and to this day our badge is a golden middle stump. If you don't believe me, look up the Chertsey Cricket Club Website and check out the history section (there's also a picture of me ordering a kebab at our local refreshment centre - but that's another story!)

Well done OF

[Zainub]

Link please (just gotta see that picture of yours ) (and sorry for being so lazy)

[Occasional Fan]

Originally Posted by Occasional Fan

Who played football for Northern Ireland, rugby union for Wales and cricket for England?

Right, I can see we have five or six people looking at this one, so I'll put you all out of your misery, not least because I have to be elsewhere.

The answer is Pat Jennings, JPR Williams and Geoffrey Boycott.

Who wants to ask the next one?

[Lemming]

Well, very clever Occassional Fan, very clever!!!

Do you know how much google searching i've done to no avail? Haha.

I'm not going to ask the next one, I prefer the excitment of the chase!

[Zainub]

Wasn't one of the rules was that the questions were going to be relatively easy?

[Teatime FatCat]

Originally Posted by Zainub Razvi

Link please (just gotta see that picture of yours ) (and sorry for being so lazy)

http://www.chertseycc.org.uk/ccc/bound.html for a possible sighting of me

http://www.chertseycc.org.uk/ccc/hist.html for the story of the middle stump

http://www.chertseycc.org.uk/ccc/man.html for those students of the game who wish to brush up on their technique

[Lemming]

Originally Posted by Zainub Razvi

Wasn't one of the rules was that the questions were going to be relatively easy?

Yeah! That's what I thought!

Here you are then:

Against whom did Michael Vauhgan get his first century?

(This is easy, the person to give the first correct answer can give a slightly more difficult one!)