A Christmas quiz with 40 questions… and now for the answers.
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Christmas Quiz
A Christmas quiz with 40 questions. Some are obvious, some odd, most can’t be Googled and a few are fiendish. By all means have a go and there’s a token prize for the winner but most will probably find fun in the answers that will appear here next week.
The Christmas Holiday Quiz Answers
The Christmas quiz was meant to be hard but also to raise a few points about the sport such as weird race names, vanishing events and more. Here are all the answers and some points to discuss too.
The Christmas Holiday Quiz
A Christmas quiz with 40 questions. Some are obvious, some are odd, many can’t be Googled and a few are fiendish.
By all means have a go and there’s a token prize for the winner but some of the questions are posed because the answers should set up some interesting discussion points.
The Christmas Quiz Answers
1. He’s dressed in red and makes his way through the snow but it’s not Santa. Can you name the rider pictured above?
Andy Hampsten of the 7-Eleven team in the Giro. The American won the race outright in 1988 but the photo looks like it’s from 1989. Among other things today he runs a successful travel company in Italy. The after-dinner tales must be good
The Christmas Quiz
Here’s a selection of questions to test your memory and knowledge of pro cycling, ranging from geography to history, family to money, tech to trivia.
Some are easy, some just can’t be googled and for one or two maybe there’s just no correct answer.
Luis Ocaña vs. Eddy Merckx
Here’s a video documentary from last night’s Informe Robinson show in Spain about Luis Ocaña, the 1973 Tour de France winner. It’s a Spanish production but with a lot of French audio thanks to interviews with Eddy Merckx, Johny Schleck and Ocaña’s French widow. Without subtitles it’s obviously not for everyone but if you’re patient you’ll find rich archive of video, photo and more in a slick package.
It’s also the chance for a book giveaway, with a free copy of Daniel Friebe’s excellent Eddy Merckx, The Cannibal book.
Cycling Anthology and Calendar Giveaway Competition
Recent memory can displace the past but I think the first volume of Cycling Anthology should stand as one of the better cycling books of 2012. Here’s a quick competition to win a copy of the first edition, plus a Mémoires du Peloton photo calendar for 2013.
To win, just leave a comment below with your guess for the word count of The Cycling Anthology and we’ll see if the wisdom of crowds can do the rest.
IG Cycling Pub Quiz – The Answers
Having put the questions online last week I had a go myself and found it a tough challenge, a hors catégorie quiz. Without delay, here are the answers.
IG Cycling Pub Quiz
How much do you know about cycling? How much do those who write about cycling know? Well here’s a pub quiz to test your knowledge that was put to British-based cycling journalists and others in teams and the trade a couple of days ago.
IG is one of the biggest supporters of cycling in the UK, sponsoring Team Sky, Team IG-Sigma Sport, the Tour of Britain and the IG London Nocturne race. IG is a world-leading provider of financial spread betting and CFDs. They’re also useful index compilers and with data and results in mind, IG host an annual pub quiz for British cycling writers.
Here are the questions, some are British-specific but things soon open up. Be warned, you will be scratching your head.