Gimme 5

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All you have to do is answer the previous 'Gimme 5' and set a new one.
So if the previous poster asked for 5 types of pizza I would say:

Meat feast
Pepperoni
Ham & Pineapple
Calzone
Margherita

Now, gimme 5 coastal countries

Micheal Phelps

now im stuck

Larisa Latinya forgive my spelling of it.

Jessie Owens I'm sure has a fair few.

Mark Spitz I'm going to go for. At east one is right.

Phelps 18
Latynina 18
Spitz 11

ok... 3 more?
hints: Finish middle distance runner and another US swimmer at London 2012

Without looking them up i dont know , wheres Rava when we need him

Haven't seen him on here lately... he must be busy with work.

Think your going to have to tell us , then set another 5

Ryan Lochte? He has a ton of medals competed in Beijing and maybe Athens.
Carl Lewis

Is Paavo Nurmi the Finnish runner ?

Yes... both correct.

You take it Thomond

come on Thomond

Sorry lads, only appearing in drips and drabs in West Cork on Mobile broadband and the phone.


5 of the 10 Home Run All Time Leaders (I knew a couple but not all, not a fan), that should test you....

i know Billy Bonds is up near the top as i remember him breaking some record and would imagine

Babe Ruth ?
Hank Aaron ?
Mark McGwire ?
A-Rod ?

Yep, you also picked the 3 who were all hopped up on steroids!

Willy Mays?

5 most successful Baseball teams World Series titles

Yankees obviously. I know they went something like 80 years without winning it but think the Red Sox have a fair few. Going to guess the Oakland As and after that I haven't a clue

Chicago Cubs?

St Louis Cardinals won it recently as well I think.

I think the Cubs are shoite and have been for a while. Cardinals is probably a good shout.

The Yankees are way out in front with 27 wins after them theres
St Louis Cardinals with 11
Oakland A's with 9
Boston Red Sox with 7
then a choice of two with 6 wins each

San Francisco Giants and LA Dodgers?

Correct

5 highest South African Test run scorers

Jacques Kallis
Graeme Smith
Greame Pollock ?
Gary Kirsten ?
Herschelle Gibbs ?

4/5 Kenny

Kallis 12524
Smith 8265
G. Kirsten 7289
Gibbs 6167
??? (current player - 5548)

AB De Villiers ?

Yes.

5 Highest Test Innings

Lara
Hayden
Lara
Jayawardene
Sobers

5 all time Leading Wicket takers

Muttiah Muralitharan
Shane Warne
Anil Kumble
Glenn McGrath
Wasim Akram

Top 5 Wicket Keepers ( for dismissals )

Boucher
Gilchrist
Healy
Marsh
Dujon

5 of your favourite Umpires

Dickie Bird
David Shepherd
Rudi Koertzen
Steve Bucknor
Billy Bowden


5 Favourite test matches

1st Test, Australia v England, Brisbane, 2006
2nd Test, Australia v England, Adelaide, 2006
3rd Test, Australia v England, Perth, 2006
4th Test, Australia v England, Melbourne, 2006
5th Test, Australia v England, Sydney, 2007

(probably not my all time but those 5 together were memorable)

OK, what are yours?

England v Australia Headingley 1981
England v Australia Edgbaston 2005
England v Australia Trent Bridge 2005
England v Australia SWALEC stadium 2009
England v Australia The Oval 2009

cant think why i would like those

5 Favourite West Indies cricketers

Joel Garner
Viv Richards
Clive Lloyd
Michael Holding (for one of the most famous lines of commentary ever!)
Malcolm Marshall

5 favourite childhood toys

Eval Kneival wind up motorbike
Stretch Armstrong
Subbuteo
Marbles
Action Man

5 of yours

Spacehopper
Etch A Sketch
Dolls house my grandad made me
Doodle Art (another memory dredge!)
Toy cars, any kind

5 favourite cartoons

Dangermouse
Mighty Mouse
Top Cat
Hong Kong Phooey
Thundercats

5 of yours

Dangermouse (again, it was a classic)
Trap Door
Pingu
Magic Roundabout
Inspector Gadget

5 favourite live gigs

Bon Jovi - Wembley Arena
Def Leppard - Monsters of Rock Donnington
In fact all the Monsters of Rock gigs ive been to
Beautiful South - Leeds Town and Country Club
Neil Diamond - KC Stadium Hull ( couple of years ago he was great )

5 of yours

Doctor and the Medics - Limit Club, Sheffield
Guana Batz - a pub in Sheffield
Prince - Sheffield Arena (I'm not a massive fan but I worked there and he was incredible)
Robert Cray - Lowry, Salford Quays
Richard Hawley - Buxton Opera House

5 favourite beaches

Portrush
Five Fingers (Donegal)
Bondi
Tampa
White Park Bay (Lost my cherry there)

5 Favourite Holiday Destinations

Central Otago/Mid Canterbury
US South West
Devon/Cornwall
Shiga/Lake Biwa, Japan
Rarotonga/Hawaii

5 least favourite holiday destinations (places you didn't enjoy at all)

Which beach in Tampa Rav?


Ennis, Clare
Mayo
Carcassonne
Long Island, New York



Would be hard pushed for another, haven't gone to many other places I've disliked and went to Florida a lot due to having family there so think I only have 4!

Someone can add their 5 and take it up though.

You can take Ulan Bator - in a food shortage except for yak curds and the chewy bread, -10 degrees, bleak, miserable and very little English except for "In-touist!" all day, every day. It was like going back to medieval times... so depressing!

Parts of Long Is. are very nice, others (parts of Brooklyn) can be pretty scary.
They've probably done up a lot of those suburbs since I was there though.

So what's your Gimme 5, Thom?

I think my experience of Long Island was a bit soured as I seemed to encounter every Italian American stereotype possible. Including people in my own family (I have a cousin named Vinny, who runs a company who runs a sanitation company, he came to Ireland with a white van with blacked out windows etc)


5 of your favourite food types (i.e. Italian, Barbecue, Thai, Indian, Chinese, Japanese, Latino etc)

Chinese
Italian
BBQ
Indian
Mexican

5 favourite Sporting Events

Olympics
World Cup
The Ashes
RWC
NRL GF

5 favourite actors/celebrities

John Wayne
David Jason
Sean Connery
Harrison Ford
Micheal Caine

5 of yours

Liam Neeson
Matt Damon
David Jason (me also)
Nicolas Cage
Morgan Freeman

5 Favourite Chicken Dishes