Trivia

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I go first (easy one)...

Name 3 golfers who finished in the top 3 in the 2011 Order of Merit on more than one tour...

4000000 tonnes every second by the way.

So if we plug that into E=MC^2, it turns out the sun uses 360000000000000000000000000 jouls a second. Or in other words about 4285714286 mid sized nulcear weapon explosions a second.

Im not going there then if thats the case.
Anyone see the prog about Apollo13(film)last night?

Re My 16th birthday.
My wife Fallon bought me a personalised bottle of whisky with my own label.
It was described as 'Mellow but not yet Mature'

How are you meant to drink whisky or what is the proper technique for tasting it?

Single malts are generally distinctive in thier regions especially the Islay ones which tend to be smokey/peaty.
If it is a good single malt you just sniff then sip it to start with and roll it round your tongue to get the different flavours or finish. You then get an aftertaste which can be very different to the original taste.
You can also put a drop on your hands and rub them briskly together, you then smell the vapour of the whisky on your hands.
You can add water to the whisky. Nothing else just bottled spring water. Glass does not matter although the industry try to sell you a 'whisky' glass which is like a small narrow brandy balloon. This is inclined to make you sip rather than gulp!
I like to add just less than half the measure with water which then brings out additional flavours.
You can buy some cheaper blends which are quite good. Black Bottle is probably the best value for money and is slightly peated. Crawfords and Jonnie Walker are also pretty good.
Popular brands such as Grouse vary quite a lot. you can get good and bad batches.
The really cheap whiskys should be avoided as they are generally just over 3 years mature.
The really old expensive ones are best left to make money and not drunk.
After 35 to 40 years the start to deterioate.
A 12 year old whisky will always be a 12 year old whisky even if it was bottled 50 years ago. It is the time maturing in the cask that ages the whisky.
Whisky can be matured in mant different casks. Sherry and bourbon are the most popular.

single malts for me only.

glenmorange is my fav whisky tipple- one ice cube!

i know its not classic- however smooth as slik!

dont mind abit of talisker mind and i tried a japanese whisky that was out of this world Nanjatta or something!! spicy

Misti
The Japanese whiskys are very good.
I would definately avoid the Welsh one and no one has had the courage to offer me the English one yet. Both are very expensive for what they are as they are chasing the novelty market.
I like Talisker one of my favourites. Currently sipping a Aberlour Abundh which is cask bottled 57%. Strong sherry flavours but rather nice. A Jura 10 year old and a 12 year old Talisker.
The Asda's own Malts are good value and it is quite good fun trying to work out who made them. A 10 year old single malt from Islay means it is one of six distilleriers who generally sell thier 10 year olds around the £30 mark.
The Asda one sells about £18. Make sure you get the 'single malt' ones and not the 'blended malts'.

I will try some more whiskys out!, They sell glenmorange in costco for a great price i think about 21 quid(12 year old) - gone through a few bottles, but the only thing worth going into costo for

Mines is Old Parr, but expensive and hard to get in England, so now just settle for Bells 12year old. Two tots at night and you can sleep like a baby (that's my excuse to stop the wife moaning about my drinking)

When making a feathery ball what was the customary volume of boiled feathers to use?

A top hat full of goose down.
Used to be a right bogger forcing the feathers in and then stitching them.
I used to sell mine at a guinea a time [£1.05p]

Name the first all seated football stadium in the UK ?

I wonder if this "stadium" is still a League venue?

Doon

As if you needed me to confirm you are correct, but for the others. Yes it was a top hat full of feathers.

Kwinni
Very much so.

I was going to say Clydebank . . . .

Right idea but sadly wrong.
The thing that amazed me was that this was in the early 1960's.

kwinni
Just double checked my facts and it was the second all seater in the UK, pre dateing the Taylor report. Don't know who was the first.
Sorry aboot that it was Pittodrie home of Aberdeen FC

Ah, I'm stumped, which leads me to think my friend from Coventry on the "cricket" board would suggest Jimmy Hill's experiment at Highfield Road but of course that's now been replaced.

Back to the drawing board.

Duelling messages here! I knew that Aberdeen had gone to all seats early but didn't know it was that early!

Kwinni
You were right it was Clydebank then Pittodrie then Coventry.
Error in Eddie Turnbull's book!!

Glorious sunshine and snow hear.

Just snow here, glorious sunshine in the long-range forecast. For July.

Canny spell here....oh deer.

Who is currently the player ranked second in the list of US players with highest career earnings not to play in a ryder cup?

John Daly

Doon the Water wrote:Kwinni
You were right it was Clydebank then Pittodrie then Coventry.
Error in Eddie Turnbull's book!!

Is that right? Im from Aberdeen and thats my team and always thought it was Aberdeen with the first all seated stadium?

Edit: it appears so. Clydesbank first uncovered all seater and Aberdeen first covered all seater. You learn something new everyday

To be fair to the Dons. Clydebank just put plank seats on the open terraces.
I would imagine most folk stood on them!!

Not John Daly.

The person in question may now be very close to taking the munber one spot if he finished well yesterday.

rocco mediate

Nope.

bob estes

stuart cink!!

actually he has played!

Nope.

Try guessing the number one as well if you want?

looking through the players who made the cut

kenny perry

Maybe someone else should have a shot?

lol is that a nice way of saying - stop guessing

anyway i know who it is - both of em, but i will leave it for someone else

Charles Howell, just behind Jerry Kelly.

ralphjohn, you are correct and I hope that was a non internet aided guess?

what do you reakon lol

I guessed them the other way round, internet confirmed that I had the right 2 names but in the wrong order!

Good stuff ralph. Charles Howell certainly seems to have had an odd career.

I posted a similar trivia a year or so ago, players with most money who've played neither Ryder or Pres Cups.
Interesting answers to both . . . . . Then we got into "International" player with most career loot who's never Pres Cup'ped.

ok I will start this back up again!

Tiger has done this 14 consecutive times, faldo 19 and Jack nicklaus 33!!

What am i referring to above?

Pure guess is it number of consecutive years in worlds top 10! But I really have no idea how long the rankings been in place so I'm probably wrong!

My only other guess consecutive top10s in majors!

Cheated on his wife?
Played the Masters?

fader close with your second guess!!!

Top 5's or 3's perhaps?

nope! getting colder

Consecutive major top 20s?