It Would've Happened Anyway

One-Liners

These Qs were going to go in the QB in an orgy of single-line questions at the heartstopping climax. However, they didn't. Instead I opted to keep the same format throughout the book (whose content/pages I have now capped - once and for all! - and will be doing the final final draft this week).

Final QB penultimate draft word count is 238, 813 words. No wonder it's taking me so long to finish the thing off, while working so hard at it since I can came back from Norway that yesterday I swear I was entering a mild state of psychosis and writing rough drafts for blog posts, which I am quite glad I did not unveil to the world. You'd give me funny looks.

So. You know. Here they are...

BH159: More with Less
1. Which 1990 novel is subtitled The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch?
2. Which German playwright wrote Frühlings Erwachen / Spring Awakening (1906)?
3. Jenny Bunn is the title character of which 1960 novel by Kingsley Amis?
4. Buchanan Dying (1974) was the only play written by which late US novelist?
5. A 1919 novella, The Curse of Capistrano was the first work to feature which hero?
6. Which Peruvian (b.1928) wrote A Theory of Liberation: History, Politics, Salvation (1971)?
7. “Tascabile” is the Italian name for what common object?
8. Born Robert Lee Maupin, which street criminal wrote Pimp: The Story of My Life (1967)?
9. Who began her “Commissario Guido Brunetti” series with Death at La Fenice (1992)
10. Asterix’s home village is in the northwest of which region of ancient Gaul?
11. Which 1981 Gabriel Garcia Marquez novel tells the story of Santiago Nasar’s murder?
12. The title of which 1934 Evelyn Waugh novel alludes to The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot?
13. Which Nevada festival houses revellers in Black Rock City?
14. Which traditional English folk round has the second line "Lhude sing cuccu!"?
15. Which musical has Christopher Lee, playing villain Mr. Midnight, sing ‘Name Your Poison’?
16. The Turbo-folk singer Ceca is the widow of which Serb warlord, who died in 2000?
17. Which 1816 opera is subtitled ossia L’inutile precauzione / or The Useless Precaution?
18. ‘The Great Charlemagne’ is the national anthem of which country?
19. Which group reached no.2 in the US and UK with its cover of ‘A Groovy Kind of Love’?
20. Which rap mogul, born Percy Miller, founded the talent agency No Limit Sports?
21. Which cricketer recorded the no.2 Indian hit ‘You’re the One for Me’ with Asha Bhosle?
22. The Joropo song ‘Alma Llanera’ is considered which country’s unofficial national anthem?
23. Which Douai-born sculptor produced Samson Slaying a Philistine (1562)?
24. Located off the coast of Tasmania, what is the largest of the Furneaux Islands?
25. Which Icelandic fishing town has The Blue Lagoon for its premiere attraction?
26. The 1912 eruption of which Alaskan volcano was the 2nd largest of the 20th century?
27. With its capital at Potenza, which region is the “instep” of Italy?
28. Which liberal arts college was established in 1780 in Lexington, Kentucky?
29. Which three-letter word means ‘prefecture’ in Japanese?
30. What is the second biggest ethnic group in Afghanistan after the Pashtun (c.42%)?
31. The Mekong River runs through which six countries?
32. The endometrium is the inner membrane of which mammalian organ?
33. Kintaro Hattori founded which watch company in 1881?
34. Which interspecific cultivar of rice is known by the acronym NERICA?
35. Salvadori’s monitor is the largest species of monitor lizard found on which island?
36. Which bird is the only extant member of the genus Dromaius?
37. Which terrier derives its name from the Welsh estate of Captain John Edwardes?
38. What became the last US state to secede from the Union in 1861?
39. Which national leader died when his C-130 Hercules crashed on August 17, 1988?
40. In March 1901, who became the first ex-US president to die in the 20th century?
41. Lanzoni is the surname of which Italian male model (b.1959)?
42. Asda House, headquarters of the supermarket chain, is in which city?
43. Prince William and Prince Harry both belonged to which house at Eton?
44. Held on March 28, 2009, which $5 million horse race is run at Nal al Sheba?
45. Portugal coach Phil Scolari punched which Serb player during the Euro 2008 qualifiers?
46. The siblings Dan, Gee and Rachel Atherton are rising stars in which sport?
47. What is the nickname of South Africa’s female national football team?
48. Which American is the only athlete to have won Olympic gold in sprints and hurdles?
49. Who became the first person to win £1 million on British TV in December 1999?
50. Which rapper plays Odafin “Fin” Tutuola in Law & Order: Special Victims Unit?

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Answers to BH159
1. Good Omens (by Terry Pratchett, who “wrote a bit over two thirds”, and Neil Gaiman)
2. Frank Wedekind (1864-1918). He wrote the “Lulu” plays Erdgeist and Pandora’s Box.
3. Take a Girl Like You. She was played by Sienna Guillory in the 2000 BBC adaptation.
4. John Updike
5. Zorro. Don Diego Vega was the creation of Johnston McCulley.
6. Gustavo Gutiérrez. The Liberation Theology founder is a Dominican priest.
7. A paperback. It means ‘pocket book’.
8. Iceberg Slim (1918-92). Aka Robert Beck, he also wrote Trick Baby and Long White Con.
9. Donna Leon (b.1942). The US crime novelist’s series is set in Venice.
10. Armorica (mostly identical to modern Brittany)
11. Chronicle of a Death Foretold / Crónica de una muerte anu
12. A Handful of Dust (“I will show you fear in a handful of dust”)
13. Burning Man. Held in the Black Rock desert, it starts on the last Monday of August.
14. ‘Sumer is icumen in’. Translated from Middle English it means ‘Loud sings cuckoo!’
15. The Return of Captain Invincible. Alan Arkin plays the titular alcoholic superhero.
16. Arkan (aka Željko Ražnatović). Her birth name is Svetlana Veličković (b.1973).
17. The Barber of Seville (by Rossini, natch)
18. Andorra. It was composed by Juan Benlloch y Vivó, Archbishop of Burgos.
19. The Mindbenders. Diane & Annita first released the Toni Wine-Carole Bayer Sager song.
20. Master P. (b.1969). He is CEO and founder of No Limit Entertainment.
21. Brett Lee. Bhosle is the subject of the Cornershop no.1 ‘Brimful of Asha’.
22. Venezuela
23. Giambologna (born Jean Boulogne; 1529-1608). The piece was for Francesco de’ Medici.
24. Flinders Island
25. Grindavik. It is 3mi/4.8km from the town centre.
26. Novarupta (in Katmai National Park and Preserve)
27. Basilicata
28. Transylvania University. There is a namesake Romanian university in Braşov.
29. Ken (or –ken). The suffix –fu is added to the governing units of Osaka and Kyoto.
30. Tajik (with about 27% of the population)
31. China, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam
32. Uterus. Its Latin name is tunica mucosa uteri.
33. Seiko. Its name is a Japanese word for ‘exquisite’, ‘minute’ or ‘success’.
34. New Rice for Africa (developed by the West Africa Development Association)
35. New Guinea. Up to 244cm/8ft, Varanus salvadorii is also called the crocodile monitor.
36. Emu. Dromaius novaehollandiae is the largest bird native to Australia.
37. Sealyham (in Haverfordwest, the county town of Pembrokeshire)
38. Tennessee
39. Muhammad Zia-ul-Haq. The Pakistani President was succeeded by Ghulam Ishaq Khan.
40. Benjamin Harrison. The 23rd president, he succeeded and preceded Grover Cleveland.
41. Fabio. He appeared on the cover of 100s of romantic novels during the 80s and 90s.
42. Leeds (founded as Association Dairies & Farm Stores Ltd in 1949)
43. Manor House
44. Dubai Sheema Classic
45. Ivica Dragutinović. He joined Sevilla from Standard Liège in the summer of 2005.
46. Mountain biking. Dan and Rachel became world downhill champions in 2008.
47. “Banyana, Banyana” (‘The Girls, the Girls’)
48. Harrison Dillard (100m in 1948 and 110m hurdles in 1952)
49. Ian Woodley (b.1960). A professional poker player, he won it on TFI Friday.
50. Ice-T. Born Tracy Marrow in 1958, his best album - which means it is the only one of his I've ever liked - is O.G. Original Gangster (1991).

Fourth

Can't Believe It's Wed; Where's Tue?

The holiday was great.

Norway is always good.

Yah, I did the Nobels, the Ships, the Munchs, the Glass Cathedral, which is weird because whenever I say/write down/type up the worthwhile, nourishing things I will do in the near future I do something else instead, like watch Shipwrecked again or engage in some other neuron-razing/rotting activity.

So. Report soon. On cultural things. I did.

If, that is, I get over the weird, aching tight-as-a-drumhead pain that comes like harsh sharp dull waves to grip my right leg and right arm at short intervals. It dominates me. And the fact that certain areas have attained the colouration of some rather livid beetroot. Or at least the said areas also feel so taut that they're as good as bulletproof. That's right. Shoot teflon-tipped steel rounds at my red right limbs. They can take it, I swear. My petrified epidermis is the new Kevlar.

You see The Norwegian Mosquitoes Drank My Blood. They DRANK IT UP! Hhsssrruth-hgggrrrhh-ggggahga-hhlueeeee-uhhhh. Mmmm, a tasty me beverage. Haemoglobin delicious! Platelet-tastic!

Damn Those Norwegian Mosquitoes. Damn them and their vampiric ways.

Under cover of darkness, they came in their legions. Leaving their stagnant fetid lairs in the pine forests, the sable invaders slipped like a ghost of the wind through an opportune fissure in the bedroom windowsill; proboscises poised to pierce; ready for the feast of blood. While I was sleeping. Unconsciouszzzz. Defenceless.

So basically, the f****** bit me all the way to f****** hell and back, and then came the f*** back and f****** bit me a bit f****** more. The f******* f*****! I f****** hate those m************!

Now? Off to bed to nurse my sores and hopefully not scratch the living bejesus out of the suppurating bite* on my right calf muscle, which basically feels like a stegosaurus plate, so hard and bronzed it is with infection. I'm thinking I really should see my doctor tomorrow rather than constantly anoint myself with a dodgy pearl cocktail of Voltarol, Sudocream and Afterbite.

*Mmmm mmmm. Isn't the phraseology just the yummiest?

Weg!*

Holiday, hopefully, it will be alright

I'm in Norway for the next week for my first family holiday in, I think, 20 years (well, it's the first one I've ever had with all my siblings since one of them didn't exist at the time).

Therefore, it will be as quiet around here as, um, the last fortnight.

One more thought: what kind of point have you reached in your life when you see a 2009 Whitaker's Almanac in The Works for £9,99, down from £45, and sing songs of hallelujah?

I will leave you with that brain murmur as I contemplate visiting the Nobel Peace Center and seeing one of the versions of The Scream.

Ta ta

* An oblique reference to the fact that I've been reading A Time of Gifts and Between the Wood and the Waters by Patrick Leigh Fermor, two of the greatest travel books ever, and ones which I highly recommend for quiz reading. Brilliantly, beautiful written, they are chronicles of vanished cultures and places that are filled with so much info about Central Europe that I've been not just marking the passages/facts I should look up for later reference, but practically massacring the pages with stars, lines and constant page corner-folding.

Dang

Missed a day

Have a GK on me. I'll extend the preview period a little longer to make it up. If I can remember. TTFN...

General Knowledge
1. Which 1983 single was Rod Stewart’s last UK number one?
2. Derived from an Old French word meaning ‘a small boat’, what name is given to a cover housing - separate from the fuselage - that holds engines, fuel or equipment?
3. Which English businessman was born Robert John Hurst in Stoke-on-Trent in 1941?
4. Adam Kok III (1811-75) led which people of South Africa, who settled in 1861 and gave their name to an eponymous territory that is now part of KwaZulu-Natal province?
5. Which Leningrad-born Polish sprinter, who dominated women’s athletics for nearly 20 years, competed in five Olympic Games (1964-80) and won seven medals, three of them gold?
6. One of the first products to exploit the potential of injection moulding, the Polyprop (as in polypropylene) stacking chair was the work of which British furniture designer (b.1915)?
7. Who set fire to the Temple of Ephesus of Diana in 356BC and proudly claimed credit in order to immortalise his name in history, thus giving his name to a type of notorious “Fame”?
8. The creation of Émile Gaboriau, which detective in service of the French Sûreté appeared in five Gaboriau novels and one short story, including L’Affaire Lerouge (1866) and Le Crime Orcival (1867), and was mentored by the physically inactive, but always helpful, Tabaret?
9. Also called Tipton’s Weed and Klamath weed, the yellow-flowering perennial plant Hypericum perforatum is most widely known as an herbal treatment for major depression and is also a noxious weed poisonous to grazing livestock in large doses. Which herb’s common name comes from its traditional flowering and harvesting on June 24?
10. Stephen and Timothy are the first names of which American-born, London-based identical twins (b. 1947) and stop-motion animators? Their best known work, the 21-minute short Street of Crocodiles (1986), was based on a short story by the Polish author-artist Bruno Schulz and was selected by Terry Gilliam as one of the 10 best animated films of all time.

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A-to-the-GK
1. ‘Baby Jane’ (his others: ‘Maggie May’ (’71), ‘You Wear It Well’ (’72), ‘Sailing’ (75), I Don’t Want to Talk About It’/ ‘First Cut is the Deepest’ (’77), and ‘Do Ya Think I’m Sexy? (’78))
2. Nacelle. In the case of the WW2 P-38 lightning airplane, it housed the cockpit.
3. John Madejski. The Auto Trader founder and Deputy Lieutenant of Berkshire changed his name when his stepfather, a WW2 Polish airman, returned to Britain to marry his mother.
4. Griqua people (as in Griqualand East, which was annexed by the Cape Colony in 1874)
5. Irena Szewińska or Kirszenstein (b.1946). She won the 4x100m (’64), 200m (’68) & 400m (’76) and was the first woman to hold world records at 100m, 200m and 400m at the same time.
6. Robin Day. Husband of textile designer Lucienne Day, he also designed the Forum II Chair.
7. Herostratus (as in “Herostratic fame”). The Ephesean authorities not only executed him, but also forbade mention of his name under penalty of death. However, the late 4th/early 3rd century BC historian Theopompus still recorded the event and its perpetrator in his history.
8. Monsieur Lecoq. A pioneering character of the crime genre, he was a major influence on Sherlock Holmes, who calls him “a miserable bungler” in A Study in Scarlet.
9. St. John’s Wort (St. John’s day being June 24). Hypericum (Greek ‘above-picture’) has been used by Native Americans internally as an abortifacient and externally as an anti-inflammatory and antiseptic. ‘Wort’ is derived from the Old English wyrt, meaning ‘root’ or ‘plant’.
10. The Quay Brothers. Their work is characterised by a lack of meaningful spoken dialogue and dolls, often partially disassembled, in a dark, moody atmosphere. They have made two feature-length live action films: Institute Benjamenta, or This Dream People Call Human Life (1995) and The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes (2006).

Notional Facebook Status

If I still could be bothered to do them

TQG is DISGUSTED that neither Girton College nor (his alma mater ROFLLOLLOL!!!) Nottingham have ever heard of the Peter Cook book he got for Xmas a few years ago and that they couldn't even muster a member of Beyond the Fringe from their young pathetic minds. ABSOLUTELY BLOODY DISGUSTED. Today's youth, eh? Tsk. LOL.

Aujourd'hui L'histoire. Bonny appetites and all that...

History
1. China’s first treaty with a foreign power, which was regarded as an independent state rather than a vassal, was signed in 1689. It settled border disputes and checked Russia’s eastward expansion by removing outposts from the Amur River basin. It was named for which town?
2. In 385, which Bishop of Ávila became the first person in the history of Christianity to be executed for heresy, after founding an ascetic group that eschewed marriage and animal food?
3. Located in the Mekong delta, which state was founded, according to Chinese sources, in the 1st century AD and is therefore the earliest known state in south-east Asia?
4. Which niece of the Byzantine Emperor (c.955-91) married the Holy Roman Emperor Otto II in Rome as a symbol of the Eastern and Western Empire unity and, with mother-in-law Adelaide, secured the throne for Otto III on his father’s death and ruled Italy as her son’s regent?
5. What three-word French phrase described the French-Canadian fur traders who “went Indian”? Their work often meant they made annual trips into the pays d’en haut to deal directly with the natives, which frequently resulted in their deciding not to return to the settlements.
6. What nom de guerre was used by the Russian revolutionary Sergius Mikhailovich (1852-95)?
7. In which country was the nationalist and anti-communist movement, Balli Kombëtar (‘National Front’), established in October 1942 (or 1939, according to other sources)?
8. The most brilliant strategist on the Republican side during the Spanish Civil War, which soldier (1894-1966) organised the defence of Madrid in November 1936, as well as the Jarama and Guadalajara campaigns of 1937? He was made Chief of General Staff in May 1937.
9. Which great 13th century Sienese family of ambassadors and jurists later upped sticks and moved to Rome where they produced Pope Paul V (r:1601-21), and Prince Camillo, who married Napoleon’s sister, Marie Pauline, in 1803?
10. They were musketeers, who were recruited by Ivan the Terrible and disbanded for plotting against Peter the Great. What was Russia’s first regular regiment of soldiers (1550-1698)?

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1. Nerchinsk. A town in Zabaykalsky Krai, Russia, it is situated 644km/400mi east of Lake Baikal.
2. Priscillian. He came from Roman Gallaecia and based his doctrine on dualism.
3. Funan. It became a major international trading centre, but went into decline in the 6th century. Funan evolved a pattern of statecraft from the Indian model.
4. Theophano (or Theophanu). Her other achievements include securing Lotharingia for the empire.
5. Coureur des bois (‘runner of the woods’). It was also the name given to fur traders who worked without permission from the French authorities and operated during the late 17th/early 18th century in eastern North America. Those issued with (rare) permits became voyageurs.
6. Stepnyak (‘Son of the Steppe’). An artillery officer turned apostle of freedom, he left Russia and settled in Geneva in 1876, before ending up in London where he was unfortunately run over by a train. Author of La Russia Sotternea / Underground Russia (1881) and The Career of a Nihilist (1889), he was believed to be the assassin of St. Petersburg police head, General Mesentzieff.
7. Albania (formed by Ali Klissura and Midhat Frasheri). By the end of the war, Enver Hoxha and the Albanian Communist Party had wiped out many of its pro-republican members.
8. Vicente Rojo. He reorganised the Popular Army and planned the offensives of Brunete, Teruel, and the Ebro. Rojo returned from exile in 1957 and spent the rest of his life under house arrest.
9. Borghese. Paul V was born Camillo Borghese in 1552. Prince Camillo Filippo Ludovico Borghese (1775-1832) became Governor-General of Piedmont.
10. Streltsy. Increasingly influential in politics, they became involved in an attempt to keep Peter’s half-sister, Sophia, on the throne. Their fate was sealed when they tried to prevent him from returning from abroad.

Tonight's Installment

Hmm, what to write?

Ah yes, something utterly banal and blog-like! As well as the general sense of unwellness permeating me, my broken filling is making the right side of my mouth gently throb with a pain which is not agonising, but is sure telling me "Hey! I'm here! Pay me some attention, idiot-boy!"

The moral? Never eat Quality Street hard toffees in industrial amounts at Xmas time and post-Xmas time, and a few months after that, just because a colossal box of chocolatey-sugared QS evil happens to be sitting on the hallway cabinet like a multitude of candy sirens calling me on to the rocks of dental hell. Then don't continue consuming them when you notice they are taking out chunks of filling that have resided in your mouth since the late 1980s.

Thus, it is food and drink -yowsers, it aches. Nice segue...

Food & Drink
1. Combining white rice (chalow), meat and stock and topped with fried raisins, slivered carrots and pistachios, Qaboli Palao or Qabili Pilau is the national dish of which country?
2. What company, which is based in an eponymous mansion in Shrewsbury, Massachusetts, introduced white chocolate to America in 1955?
3. Buko pie, which is made with young coconuts, is a popular dish in which country?
4. The West Indian variety produces a namesake edible starch used for thickening stews. What is the common name of Maranta arundinacea, aka the obedience plant?
5. Regarded as a Javanese invention and a local adaptation of soy-based food fermentation and production, it is a staple source of protein on the said island. It is like tofu (which is said to be more versatile), but is a whole soybean product with different nutritional and textural qualities and comes in cake form. Which “Javanese meat” comes in such types as bongkrèk (made with a coconut press cake), gódhóng (made in banana leaves) and bosok (rotten)?
6. What is the Arabic name for Mallow-leaves from the plant Corchorus and is the main ingredient of a popular, namesake Egyptian dish?
7. Joseph F. Steinwand developed which cheese near an eponymous Wisconsin village in 1874?
8. Which Russian cold soup, whose name originates from a word meaning ‘to chop’ or ‘to break into small pieces’, combines raw vegetables, boiled potatoes, eggs and ham with kvass?
9. Which 17th century chef from Modena, who moved to England due to his being a Protestant, wrote Brieve Racconto di Tutte le Radici di Tutte l’Herbe et di Tutti i Frutti?
10. Which 30% by volume Israeli liqueur was developed in 1963 by Edgar S. Bronfman and has a rich chocolate flavour cut with the sweet and sour taste of Jaffa oranges?

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1. Afghanistan. Variations include Yakhni Palao, which adds meat and stock and creates a brown rice, Zamarod Palao, which has Spinach qorma mixed in before the baking process (hence zamarod or emerald), and Shebet Palao, which has fresh dill and raisins added during baking.
2. Hebert Candies (founded in 1917)
3. Philippines. It is made with with young coconuts (buko in Tagalog) and sweetened condensed milk. Macapuno pie uses a special type of thick and sticky coconut.
4. Arrowroot. Napoleon supposedly said the true reason for the British love of arrowroot was to support their colonies.
5. Tempe (or tempeh)
6. Mulukhiyah. Many Egyptians consider it to be the national dish along with Ful medames (mashed brown fava beans) and kushari (rice, lentils, chickpeas, macaroni, tomato sauce).
7. Colby. It is similar to cheddar, but does not undergo the cheddaring process.
8. Okroshka. Most people top if off with a spoonful of sour cream and bittermustard. An alternate version uses light or diluted kefir (fermented milk drink) instead of kvass.
9. Giangiacomo Castelvetro (the book's title means ‘A Brief Account of all Vegetables, Herbs and Fruit’)
10. Sabra liqueur. Sabra is an affectionate term for a native-born Israeli Jew, which is derived from the Hebrew name of a prickly pear cactus that grows in Israel.

Saturday Urghhhh

Just questions. Not in the mood. For. Werds. Wurds. Woooo...

Sport & Games
1. A Super-G silver medallist at the Nagano Olympics , which Swiss skier became the oldest ever alpine skiing world champion at the age of 34 after winning at Val d’Isere in February 2009?
2. Winner of the 2005 Spiel des Jahres, which German-style board game was designed by Thomas Liesching and is played on a hinged board designed to sit atop the game box and represent an eponymous geographical feature as a flap hanging over the box edge?
3. Held annually since 1949, the Jukola Relay is a race in which sport?
4. Which golfer (b.1934) is best known for becoming the first African-American to play in the Masters in 1975 and the first to qualify to play in the Ryder Cup four years later?
5. Which USSR speed skater won all four women’s events at the 1964 Winter Olympics?
6. The American athlete “Mac” Wilkins won gold in which field event at the 1976 Olympics?
7. Famously performed by two schools known as the Ogasawara and the Takeda, what type of Japanese archery is performed while riding a horse?
8. Which Cochabamba-based Bolivian football team and 2008 First Division champions clashed with riot police during a November 2008 game with local rivals Wilstermann that saw their goalkeeper Silvio Dulcich use a corner flag as a weapon?
9. Which 6ft-tall Denver Nuggets guard (b.1975) was traded to the Detroit Pistons for Chauncey Billups, Antonio McDyess and Cheikh Samb in November 2008; and has a (at the time of writing) career game scoring average of 27.7 points, making him third all-time behind Michael Jordan and Wilt Chamberlain?
10. Invented during the 1960s at Texas Southmost College by Werner Steinbach, which sport is very similar to badminton, but uses wooden paddles instead of cord rackets to hit the birdie?

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1. Didier Cuche. He mastered a treacherous course on the Bellevarde mountain and surpassed Austria’s Stephen Eberharter who was 33 when he won the same event at St. Moritz in 2003.
2. Niagara. Published by Zoch zum Spielen and Rio Grande Games, the river is represented using clear plastic discs in a grooved surface, while players collect gems along it.
3. Orienteering. Taking place on the 3rd Saturday of June in different sites around Finland, it gets its name from the first important novel written in Finnish, Seven Brothers / Seitsemän veljestä (1870), the first and only novel by Aleksis Kivi. The women’s race is called the Venla Relay.
4. Lee Elder. At the 1968 Monsanto Open in Pensacola, the same tournament he claimed the first of four PGA Tour wins, he and other black players were forced to change in the car park.
5. Lidiya Skoblikova (b.1939). She is the most successful Olympic speed skater of all time in terms of gold medals (6), having won the 1500m and 3000m at Squaw Valley four years before.
6. Discus. He also won silver at Los Angeles after missing out in 1980 due to the US boycott.
7. Yabusame. The mounted archer shoots a special “turnip-headed” arrow at a wooden target. Nowadays, it is peformed at Kamakura’s most important shrine, the Tsurugaoka Hachiman-gū.
8. Club Aurora
9. Allen Ezail Iverson. The first pick in the 1996 NBA Draft for the Philadelphia 76ers, he was the 2000-01 NBA MVP.
10. Pington. The sport lacked a textbook until Kinesiology Department faculty members Jim Lemons and Judy Walton sat down and formalised the rules of the game in print.